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?

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.

Beowulf is the newest adap­ta­tion do the epic poem of yore. It’s rather lib­eral with its inter­pre­ta­tion, and as near as I can tell, also adds new and unre­lated sec­tions to the plot.

I tried to watch this movie, and take it seri­ously. Hon­estly I did, and I am sorry to every­one who was around me who was also trying to watch the movie seri­ously. I didn’t mean to laugh at it so much, I really didn’t! But when a man is naked for over half of the film, has ques­tion­able (at best) dialog, and so much over the top fight­ing that a Die Hard fan would squeel with joy… well it’s just too much for me to try and take seriously.

I recently watched “Across the Universe,” a musi­cal that takes place in the 1960s involv­ing Jude (Jim Sturgess) as a dock worker who sets off from Liv­er­pool to find his father. Upon the sad and simple meet­ing of his estranged father, Jude befriends Max (Joe Ander­son) wherein he meets Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood).

The three migrate to New York to see where life takes them. Jude and Lucy hook up and are painfully in love. A lot of the movie is based entirely around their evolv­ing love; through their dizzy­ing highs (lit­er­ally in some cases) and depress­ing lows.

I had the chance to watch this movie at about 3 in the morn­ing after Theresa suf­fered a hor­ri­ble cough­ing fit (she devel­oped a cough while at school). She decided to put a movie on since she has this amaz­ing habit to fall asleep to any movie she sets her mind to. I sadly do not have the same abil­ity. In fact I could go so far as to say that if a movie is being played, I’ll be drawn to it like a moth to the flame, regard­less of the qual­ity of the movie. All it takes is one hook and it’s over.

On the week­end I went out with Theresa and four others (sister, roomie, and the boyfriends) to one of the only things to do in North Bay. You really only get four options: Drink, have sex, go to the mall, or go to the movies. Well you can mix and match those, but that’s basi­cally it. Regard­less, we went to the movies.

This is where I saw Good Luck Chuck.