Poor Time Traveler

I felt so bad for him. Working so hard to develop a time machine, feeling like a genius when it finally works, only to find out that the first people he meets in the year 800,000 is are stupid. The whole society has degraded in intelligence and he cannot communicate with them. They think he's weird and that he came from the sun in a lightning storm. Poor Time traveler. I just want to give him a hug, and tell him that not all people are stupid. On top of going insane from the lack of intelligent people to talk to, he also loses his time machine. With the possibility that he could be stuck in a society where everyone is stupid and only eat fruit...that's a nightmare. I was happy knowing that because he was telling the story to his friends, i knew he had returned, but the things that he went through weren't fair. And they were eye opening. Seeing that we only improve through struggle is a very valid point, one that i wasn't aware of before reading the Time Machine. Now that i see the point, however, i see it everywhere. From studying to playing videogames, people improve through struggle and failure. You maximize efficiency and develop new ways of solving problems. I really liked reading the novel/short story, or whatever it's classified as, and i think i might check out more of Well's literature in the future.

District 9

I really liked the movie. It was very different from the conventional alien flick. Evil humans. Aliens you sympathize with. It was a nice change of pace. Its fun to root for the underdog, all the more when the underdog is very different. I wanted Christopher to succeed, saving his kid and making it off planet to save his race, all the while hoping that the bald soldier gets what's coming for him, and he did. Regarding that, the violence was slightly over the top. People getting vaporized with lightning guns and heads getting blown up with tazers was fun and all, but it made me question the aliens. If Christopher does come back, he's gonna be pissed, and he'll want to kill us all, especially what he saw in that EMU lab. Hopefully he'll be merciful, maybe enslaving us instead of killing us. I'd give the movie a 4.5/5, the only reason it not being perfect is the overuse of swearing, it impairs the otherwise well written script. Here's to hoping the sequal is better, and that it comes out sometime soon. Until then, i have plenty of silly alien movies to watch, like war of the worlds and Paul. Let's hope i can get a laugh out of those instead of thinking i've been wasting my time.