Blind & Dangerous

Oh, my gosh. I can't believe it's been four whole days since I posted last. Wow. So, technically I need to make up for not posting on Monday, 'cause I had something special planned for last night. But then I forgot it was Family Day here in Canada (happy family day to all of you) so my parents wanted to spend the day together. Very unproductive. Anyway, I completely forgot that I needed to make this post until it was too late.



We were all watching the Bachelor from 11-1:00 a.m. And then, during the Rose Ceremony, it dawns on me and I'm like "Oh, no!" and my parents are like "what?" and I said "I forgot to post a blog entry. And tonight I was going to talk about the movies we saw on the weekend." And then we started talking about the movies we saw on the weekend until the tv caught our eye again and my mom and I were like "Yes! Jason didn't give Jillian a rose!" and "Melissa is so going to win this. There's no way he'll pick Molly." So, yeah ..... I didn't give my entry another thought until now. So sorry!!!

I've decided to combine my Monday and Tuesday rituals for today. So, we rented a bunch of movies over the weekend, only two I which I watched. The first was Blindness with Julianne Moore. For those of you who don't know, Blindness is about a city (I think it was New York) where all the inhabitants start going blind. First it was a guy driving his car in the middle of traffic, then it was the doctor his wife took him to see. Slowly but surely, everyone the man came in contact with after going blind, began to go blind as well. Even the guy that drove him home and then stole his car! But then, when the government throws them all into this abandoned building for quarantine, more people keep coming in. Julianne Moore, the wife of the eye doctor, pretends to be blind so she can go with him. But for some reason, she never becomes blind herself.

Spoilers! I didn't appreciate the nudity, violence, and overall stupidity of the movie. I don't think there was a need for most of it. And I think this could have been a much better movie without it. It also would have been better if they'd come up with a reason why everyone was going blind, except Julianne. If you've seen the movie then you must know what I'm talking about. I mean, they never even came up with a guess of why people were blind. It was just happening, and then a few months later everyone's getting better. So what was the point? And why the hell didn't Julianne's character have a name if she was the lead character? That's just stupid.

Moving on, I'm a big Nicolas Cage fan. I loved him in The Rock, Con Air, the National Treasure series, The Ant Bully, and Ghost Rider. But I was a little skeptical when it came time to watch Bangkok Dangerous. And for good reason - I'm not into action movies. So, as my parents watched the movie, I sat on the other couch doing some work for the character I play for my friend's site, not paying attention to the movie. But I must say, I was pleasantly surprised when I put away my papers for most of the film. The action scenes were fantastic. There was humor throughout the whole thing. Even his scenes with the unnamed deaf girl were great. The sucky part though - the scene that ruined the whole movie - was the ending. Now why did that have to happen?? -sigh-

Two movies, both terrible. I'm afraid for the films of the future. Be back in a little bit with Tuesday's post.

xoxo

Lizzy