Patent Law

Pawns & Prawns

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Two films about alien relocation reveal a stark difference in maturity - of their respective creators. James Cameron created cinema's most expensive cliché with Avatar, a juvenile cartoon sketch that won't go down as a science fiction classic. But what will, just released on DVD, is District 9. First-time director Neill Blomkamp portrays cartoonish characters that feel real, as does the film itself. All too real - in expressing human nature, something Cameron lampoons while aiming for the same mark. The two films overlap in many ways, making it easy to observe that District 9 puts Avatar to shame where it counts.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).