Been fooked with the flu the last few days so my sickbed viewing has consisted of..
Daybreakers: Another vampire movie i thought but ended up quite liking it,the premise is that vampires have taken over but there is a chronic lack of human blood as the greedy b*****ds are rattling through it. Ethan Hawke is a vampire blood doctor whos trying to find a breakthrough in synthetic blood. After a few twists and turns he ends up with Elvis quoting Willem Defoe who was a vampire but is now cured. All in all it was pretty enjoyable hokum but the ending as with many vampire movies is a bit shite. 6/10
Kick Ass: What can i say this film really cheered me up.Nicholas Cage is rarely this good and Chloe Moritz really makes the film as Hit Girl. Really is a good fun movie and the main actor is perfect as Kick Ass,who wouldnt want to be a Super Hero for a day. I marked it down for Mark Strong,im sick of him he pops up as the same shady,brooding bad guy in a few films now (Body of Lies,Rock n Rolla,Robin Hood)and for some reason i cant stick the guy. 8.5/10
District 9: I really liked this film even though i thought i wouldnt hence the reason it took me so long to see it. I think its a really black comedy shot in parts like a documentary it revolves around Aliens beeing stuck in a kind of township style camp in South Africa and Sharlto Copley is an official working for the goverment who keeps tabs on them.
After a bungled eviction attempt he ends up with Alien fluid sprayed on him and starts to mutate into an alien himself. Theres obviously apartheid undertones and im sure theres similiraties in alot of the stuff the aliens are blamed for,crime,overpopulation,infectious diseases that Black Africans were blamed for in apartheid ruled South Africa. I'd recommend it as Sharlto Copley is pretty funny throughout even when turning into an alien.8.5/10