What to say about Blind­ness? I went and saw it with Theresa when It came out in Canada (Octo­ber 3rd, if anyone is won­der­ing). We had seen pre­views for it months ago, and the idea intregued us both. At that point it fell off the map to anyone who wasn’t actively trying to follow it.

Appar­ently it was shown at the Cannes film fes­ti­val to mixed recep­tion. Read­ing reviews online does little to ease ones trep­i­da­tion towards the film. It seems that Blind­ness is a movie that has those who love it, and others that feel that it was “like look­ing into the sky and having sand poured into your eyes.” I’ve had to think long and hard about what I really felt about it.

It had all the mak­ings for a great film: a good premise, a fairly strong cast call­ing, some impres­sive cin­e­matog­ra­phy, an excel­lent musi­cal score, and a fair amount of detail. So what happened?

Where the hell do I start with Dr. Horrible’s Sing-​Along Blog?

Lets start with “watch this now.” It’s just that good. Joss Whedon once again proves that he’s a god at story-​telling. He man­ages to put such a spin on the “Bad Guy” con­cept and actu­ally gets you to root for the evil dude in this one. It’s funny, it’s seri­ous, it’s witty, it’s cute, it’s heart-​breaking, it’s totally out there.

It’s also one of the great­est thing’s I’ve seen in a very, very long time.

The more I watch Ryan Gosling, the more I like him. He started off as Sean Hanlon from Breaker High, and that was a hard image for me to break. Thank­fully he’s gone on to do a wide vari­ety of films, and pulling them off with impres­sive results. Lars and the Real Girl is just such an exam­ple. Not an award-​winning movie or per­for­mance, but con­sid­er­ing his “girlfriend from the internet” is a Real Doll, I’m impressed he didn’t break down laugh­ing in almost every scene.

I don’t know what to say about The Nines. I’m not even sure whether I liked it or not. Theresa and I watched it this after­noon, and It was going well right up until the end. Then I didn’t know what the hell was going on.

I apol­o­gize in advance, but in order to review this movie, there are going to be spoilers.

Everyone’s done it. We get lazy, we’re pressed for time, or we oth­er­wise don’t care enough to stan­dard­ize our stuff. I can note this most preva­lently in code, but it easily extends into design and every day life.

I cannot claim to be inno­cent of this crime, nor would I. It takes effort, expe­ri­ence, and an iron will not to cut cor­ners in every­thing you do.

Over the Christ­mas hol­i­days, Theresa and I went to our local inde­pen­dent movie the­ater, and watched Juno. I have to say that it’s easily one of the best films I watched in 2007. It was sweet, funny, and potent in all the right spots.

The movie Juno is about one Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) and Paulie Bleeker (the ever master of awk­ward pauses, Michael Cera) and their joint child-​making. The movie takes place during the nine months of Juno’s won­der­ful adven­ture through preg­nancy, and her inter­ac­tion with the adop­tive couple Vanessa and Mark Loring (Jen­nifer Garner and Jason Bate­man).

Last night I had the for­tune to watch I Am Legend star­ing Will Smith. The premise of the movie is that Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last man alive, after a deadly super-​virus lays waste to 90% of the worlds pop­u­la­tion. 1% of man kind had a nat­ural immu­nity to it, and 9%… well that’s some­thing else.