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There are those times when you thought you’ve seen the best movies of the year and then a film comes along and throws them all out of the competition. One of those times came when I saw Avatar. I have never seen a film that exceeded all my expectations. Welcome back James Cameron, where the hell have you been during these sad days of Michael Bay and Rob Cohen?

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Telling the truth is really hard to do especially when it comes to matters of the heart.  Some people when speaking of love and devotion tend to think too much about the fantastical terms like “soulmate” or “destiny” and if you ever choose to tell them that both things don’t exist, it’s like telling a 5 year old boy that there is no Santa Claus.

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Holy Smokes Batman! For the first time in so many years, someone has finally made a decent game that involves you and your huge roster of villains. Not only that, it’s a game that actually works!

Batman games of the last decade have either been good at best and unplayable at worst. The last game that came out which was based on the Batman Begins film was actually good but ended up underwhelming and extremely simple. Eversince, Batman was off the radar and it seems that people have forgotten about the Dark Knight in the gaming industry even with the extreme critical and blockbuster success of the latest film of the franchise.

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Would you live your life in a world where everyone isn’t real?

Much like the Matrix films, Surrogates has that philosophical theme of whether people can be satisfied with what’s not real for the comfort of their own satisfaction. As Matrix was all about a virtual world created by Artificial Intelligence, Surrogates’ environment centers more on android robots that can replicate and even enhance anything a human being can do. All the people have to do is plug-in to their device and they are connected to their “Surrogate”, the android robot, which they can control and actually go around the world in and also look like whatever they want it to look like. Life then becomes easier because feeling rejected or being in danger is now just an after thought.

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Pixar is getting better every year. After Toy Story 2, I’ve managed to lose interest in almost every Pixar film that has come out since none have come close to the amazing direction, pacing and humor of Toy Story 2. Finding Nemo, Incredibles, and Cars were mostly good but not great in my opinion so I decided to skip Ratatouille. I’ve seen Ratataouille on DVD, it was good but not as good as Pixar’s return to greatness which was Wall-E.

As much as I loved Wall-E, “Up” had more emotion and reality in it but actually still feels like a fantasy. Obviously, a bunch of balloons can never lift a house off the ground, but the whole situation that Carl is in has some heavy reality in it. The film touches on the whole idea of being lonely and thinking too much and not doing anything at all. By the time you actually do something, you tend to have forgotten all the other things in life worth living for.

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Human beings are naturally selfish, greedy and deceitful when the need to survive comes. This is what District 9 seems to portray in such a unique style that feels so fresh and disturbing at the same time.

Dubbed as the Cloverfield rip-off or the “should-have-been-halo” film, District 9 is the most unique piece of cinema that I have seen for quite a long time. This makes the film the biggest surprise among all the summer blockbusters to come out this year. Directed by newcomer Neill Blomkamp and presented by Peter Jackson of LOTR fame, D-9 is a film that once again proves that you don’t need famous actors in order to produce a great film.

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