Continuing on with my Summer’s End post, the movie Blindness caught my eye (oh the jokes just keep on coming at Dead Robot Heavy Industries).
I have to admit that Julianne Moore has been on my “oh my god I hope her career is tremendous and full of really great work!” radar since I first saw her in Safe, but in the last 5 years she’s made some questionable decisions (koff koff Next koff koff The Forgotten koff Laws of Attraction keff kuff hek) only to be replaced with amazing parts, like The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (god who thought of that memorable title?) or like Julia in Children of Men (blink during the really fake ping pong ball trick just before her death – such a crappy cgi gimmick should not have been in there to distract from her death).
Curiously enough, the screenplay is by Canadian Don McKellar, mostly know for hipster projects like Road Kill, Childstar, and the Tony award winning The Drowsy Chaperone . I’m curious to see how he’s handled José Saramago’s novel since he’s been in apocalyptic territory before with his 1998 Sandra Oh sci-drama Last Night. Oh and he was in TV’s Robocop for an episode, but so was my brother so I won’t mention that one, but it’s nice to know he’s dabbled in respected science fiction, so there’s some promise there.
Combine all that with the director, Fernando Meirelles (City of Men, The Constant Gardener), I have a feeling it’s going to be a smart movie. Like Gattica, but without the nice clothes.
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Josh read the book that this is based on and let out a gay gasp when the trailer started at our screening of The Dark Knight in Buffalo. It looks AMAZING.
Oh…and I’m BACK, BABY! 😀
bsir, I feel the same way about Scarlett Johansson. A 2×4 plank with a face drawn in crayon could act better.
Good writer and director…if only I could believe Julianne Moore’s performances. Her voice is expressionless (so are her eyes, which I suppose may be a benefit here?)
I am too, but The Shape of Things To Come was a Canadian Sci Fi movie too, lest we forget. They tried to bill it as the sequel to Things to Come by HG Wells. All it turns out to be is a drug money tax write-off movie in the 80s with a robot on the poster to cash in on Star Wars.
What this has to do with Blindness, I have no idea. I’m bored at work.
I’m really looking forward to this movie. I love sci-fi horror movies and this is a Canadian Sci-Fi Horror movie!