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District 9 (read my District 9 review) is set in Johannesburg, South Africa which since it release has earned a cult following. This local movie (although it was produced by New Zealand’s Lord of the Rings director, Peter Jackson) did amazingly well internationally and was a big trend on Twitter.

D9’s main character, Wikus vd Merwe, has become a bit of a local hero. There is a hilarious new website dedicated to Wikus.

Fans can upload picture featuring Wikus. They are usually movies posters spoofs and will have either “Wikus”, “prawn”, “swietie” or “fok” substituting one of the original words in the title.  Go check out the fokken site (www.wikus.co.za).  It’s some funny stuff.

If you haven’t watched the movie yet, go see it on the big screen to enjoy the full effect of the visual spectacle. It would be lekker fokken stupid to just watch some bad copy of the movie on your computer.

You will probably want to buy the  DVD too, because it would be lekker to watch it again.

Pictures from The Swietie Man

He directed as well as wrote the screenplays for six of his films. His feature directorial debut was the indie hit Say Anything (1989), which was well received by critics. Say Anything starred John Cusack.

His next film was Singles (1992) which feautured the then not yet famous band Pearl Jam.

His most famous film is Jerry Maguire (1996) – about a sports agent who decides to leave his job and go it alone – and starred Tom Cruise. Cruise later starred in his film Vanilla Sky (2001).

In his semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous (2000) a teenage boy hangs out with a band and writes articles for Rolling Stone Magazine. Almost Famous earned Crowe the Best Original Screen play Academy Award. The film starred Kate Hudson, Billy Cudrup and Jason Lee. Jason Lee also had a supporting role in Vanilla Sky.

His 2005 film Elizabeth Town, about a failing designer who’s on the brink of committing suicide but then receives a phone call that he has to go to his father’s funeral, received mixed reviews and starred Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom.

Cameron Crowe is a great writer/ director that still manages to make character-driven offbeat yet popular films. I have not seen a film of his that I didn’t like. He is probably my favourite filmmaker and I would definitely add more of his movies to my collection next time I buy DVDs.