bedlamboy was upset that yesterday's video post didn't actually feature Transformers, so this post is for him.
I'm not going to talk about the Transformers movie, because I have no faith in Michael Bay. There'll be fast cuts and loud explosions and bad rock music and that's about it. What I am hesitantly excited about, though, is the Halo movie. Getting the screenwriter of 28 Days Later and being produced by Peter Jackson were good enough, but I'm very intrigued by them tapping Neill Blomkamp to be the director.

At first I hadn't heard of him, other than that he'd mostly done commercials and music videos. Sometimes that can be good (Michel Gondry, David Fincher), but all too often that description fills me with fear-filled tremors because of hacks like McG. But then I read that he was responsible for that awesome documentary-style sci-fi short, Alive in Joburg. And that Citroen commercial with the dancing robot car. There's your transformer!

YouTube has a bunch of his films. Here's a short called Tetra Vaal; it's more a concept than anything, but I love his documentary style. He's almost like a sci-fi Spike Lee. I'm also impressed with how he manages to take fantastic technology place it in a real-world, dirty environment without having it look out of place. I don't want to be too optimistic, but Blomkamp so far falls more into the Gondry and Fincher camps than the McG hobo village. I eagerly look forward to seeing what he can do with a feature-length film.



Also check out: Yellow, that looks like what I Robot should have been like.