I just don't get it

[vedesca]

I went with my friend Chris to see District 9 tonight. I just don't see how so many people are calling it "brilliant" and "expect the unexpected" and other such high praise. For one, this was the first film I've seen in the shaky-cam style that made me feel nauseated (even Blair Witch didn't make me feel so ill---I must be getting old). The other

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[megancrewe]

I agree. The effects were well done and it kept up a good pace and all, but after we left the theater and my Chris (hee) asked what I'd thought about it, I said as much and then, "But it just felt like it didn't do anything new. I could have predicted everything that happened."

But then, I haven't seen many rave reviews for it--they've been pretty mixed--so I didn't expect to be blown away.

[chrisjaun]

I don't know if it was movie related or not, but about 45 minutes after I got home I developed a pounding headache. We should have gone to something much safer and stabler like Julie & Julia! :-) Oh well.

Looking forward to hiking on Sunday! Hopefully you will no longer be dizzy by then.

This is the trail I propose we go on...

East Esker Trail

"This is a challenging 4.7 mile trail with numerous hills. You will pass through woods of spruce, pine, black walnut, oak, quaking aspen, maple, shagbark hickory, sassafras and black cherry trees making this a great fall foliage hike. There are also fields with wildflowers; a variety of ferns and several observation points offer magnificent views to the South of hills miles away. During this hike you will be hiking kames
and an esker, and pass a kettle hole pond, all glacial formations left behind by the Wisconsin Ice Sheet that left this area 11,000 years ago. At marker #23 you will be on top of a kame and the highest point in the park (820 feet)."