Opening Day For District 9 - Grauman's Chinese Theater

From August 14, 2009. The opening day of District 9. This is Hollywood Boulevard, looking north towards Graumann's Chinese Theater.

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District 9 -- The View From Hollywood

Here is The Hollywood Rounder's ticket to District 9. I have some exterior shots of the Chinese Theater, too and will post them soon enough. I was at the opening day show in Hollywood. There was an earlier, 11:00 a.m., viewing, but that's too early for your Rounder to be up and about. If you don't live near Los Angeles, you can expect to pay less than $9.00 for a ticket. The DLP designation means that the film was shown using Texas Instruments Digital Light Processing system.

I did not actually have or receive a "Chinese Complex". I neither got nor gave anyone the "flu". That means that this theater is a multi-plex. I believe they have 6 screens not including the auditorium I sat in. The interior of the Chinese is quite gaudy, yet spectacularly pretty.

Overall I liked this film. I do have one cavil, however, I had a difficult time making out some of the dialog. Maybe it was just me that day, maybe the sound system pumps out too much bass, but I could not understand what was being said some of the time. Maybe the South African accented English is inaccessable to me.

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Wanted Poster "Christopher"

The folks at Sony Pictures have plastered the town with Wanted Posters of Christopher, an illegal alien, escaped from District 9. The Hollywood Rounder does not support the wholesale deportation of illegals, but is considering it this one time. Given the stakes. There are enough ex-hippies, weirdo-s, 'characters' and assorted humbugs in Hollywood for most of the otherwise normal denizens of H'wd., already. Ah! the poster becomes easily readable, by clicking it.








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Alien Alert! Alien Alert!

If you did not see the first bus stop bench photo, here is another.

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