I decided to spend a day at the movies and saw two new realeases to my theatre: Moon and The Hurt Locker and boy was one bad and one good.

First, Moon. I went in thinking it was going to be really original and very twisty-turny and left really dissapointed. Rockwell was great and the score was brilliant but the story took from Solaris and 2001 so much it was hard for me to really enjoy it. It never really delved into Rockwell's psyche and I never got that emotionally attached to him at all. The whole story was SO Solaris I thought for a while I wasted seven bucks. And overall I did. I wish I waited for DVD because there really isnt that much originality or special directing in this one. **/*****

Next up was The Hurt Locker and made my stay in that theatre so much better. It really is the best Iraq movie made so far and so suspenseful and action-packed I needed a shower after it. There is also no political agenda in it and makes the film so much more enjoyable. Jeremy Renner is amazing and since Ive only seen him in The Unusuals it was suprising to see him be so commanding on screen. The score is also top notch and Baol's screenplay felt very real. A great realistic feel made it feel so un-Hollywood, and made it feel all the more real. Worth every penny, if a tad too long. ****1/2/*****

Has anyone else seen these or have any thoughts?

I have not yet been able to see Moon, so I cannot comment on it, but as I have stated many times I think The Hurt Locker is very overrated I think that The Kingdom and Body of Lies were better Iraq War movies then it I was not that impressed with it at all, I don't understand how some are raving about the look of the film because it is a very straight forward handheld docudrama look which I don;t find original in any sense, I actually thought that Guy Pearce would have been a more interesting lead as the entire film I was thinking SPOILER alert for the opening scene for those insane people "Man I wish they'd switched places and Renner had died in the opening scene and Pearce was the main character" I loved the opening and thought the desert sniper scene were fantastic as well as the shower scene with Renner but the rest of the film I felt was sort of meh, I think it was sort of a less effective version of Jarhead in terms of how it feels to be over there and war is a drug in Jarhead we see that war is so much of a drug that not being in it is still so addictive, and Green Zone(which I saw a screening of) I think is a much mroe effective film in terms of a IED thriller even though the film is more conspiracy driven I feel that Hurt Locker was sort of a not as good mash up of Jarhead and Green Zone.