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Written by Sian Rafferty
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 23:34 |
The world can generally be divided up into two types of travellers. The first type (in which I happily fit into), are the cheap-o travellers. We are the ones who take a 52 hour flight to the UK with stopovers in Melbourne, Singapore, Dubai, Hamburg and the Netherlands - just because it’s $500 cheaper. We go on standby and are inevitably squished into the middle seat between a guy with toxic B.O., and another guy with a weeping wound on his head, who spends the whole time watching ‘American Chopper’ and telling stories about his week in Thailand (- true story)...
However! The second type of travellers, like my dad, are the crème de la crème of airline travel. These are the ones who may not be wealthy, but have worked out every trick to the system. They always get upgraded, no matter what - and spend their flight cushioned on chairs I can only imagine must be made of pure cloud, drinking rosy pink French champagne with diamonds at the bottom. They get their bags all personally delivered, and instantly get all the best rooms at hotels. These are not privileges you can be born into, you have to earn them - and ‘UP IN THE AIR’, the new film by ‘Thank You For Smoking’ Director Jason Reitman, is a witty comedy looking at these millionaires of air point travel.
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Written by Sian Rafferty
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 12:47 |
Fifteen years is a long time. Pretty much your entire Primary, Intermediate and High School years, rolled into one. Indeed, since 1994 we have had the Spice Girls, furbys, 'American Idol', Lindsay Lohan’s entire career... and more. To put it completely into context, every one of the 'Lord Of The Rings' films have been developed, produced and universally loved since 1994. Yet fifteen years is also the exact amount of time that James Cameron has spent developing ‘AVATAR', his first film since 'Titanic'. Thankfully, he is finally ready to show it off.
Set in the future, this is a time ruled by greedy corporations hell-bent on milking every last dollar from the Universe. Here we learn of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paralysed Marine who has been inducted into the Avatar program on the moon Pandora. Offered with a chance to get his legs back, Sully must pilot an 8ft. tall Avatar, a body created to look like the very disgruntled natives of Pandora. As he tries to reconcile the two people, those who want to save the land and those who want to mine it, he becomes ever intertwined with his adopted people - so much so, that he no longer know where he fits in the world.
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