Reviews

I watched this movie sheerly because it appeared to be the only possibly worth while film on my Video On Demand service. (What does THAT tell you about the other movies available on the service?? 2010 was clearly a bad year for films).

That being said, I will admit that this is not the type of genre I watch, but I love to travel and thought it might pique my interest as a travelogue.

Boy was I wrong.

The first 45 minutes of the film, prior to the main character travelling to Italy was painfully bad. I found there was little if any valid excuses for Liz to suddenly feel massive dissatisfaction with her marriage, and similarly with her rebound boyfriend played by James Franco.

While I can understand Liz's need to travel before reaching a certain age, she seemed to find little satisfaction in any of her journeys through the entire film. I am not certain if the book was written this way intentionally or if this was just a miss on the director's part.

The worst part of the main character, Liz, is her constant obsession with men and relationships. In each location she travels to, her emotional unbalance or general unhappiness seems to stem from watching others in love, or refusing to let go emotionally of the men she so carelessly tossed away. The movie created a character who was so man- crazed that she required intensive psychotherapy, and it was hard to see her as anything other than a one dimensional character throughout the whole 2 1/2 hours of the film.

Truly, there were only two saving graces about this film; the director did a wonderful job of featuring Italian cuisine to the point where it would encourage anyone to travel abroad simply to get dinner. The other was Javier Bardem, who did a great job in the film, and came across as the only multi-dimensional person in the entire film.

In short, the movie misses on so many levels and is much longer than it needs to be. If you are going to watch it, keep the fast forward button handy.

What a shame that abc pulled the plug on this show.

It has a great ensemble cast of Phil & Lem, the quirky Lab Technicians, Ted, the well balanced but easily swayed middle manager, Veronica, the remorseless corporate crony, and Linda, the Corporate product tester and moral compass.

The writing is witty and fast. There is no laugh track in this show, and while some jokes really smack you in the face, others are more subtle and can easily be overlooked until you've seen the episode a second time.

This show was so well done, and being set in the heart of a global corporation that only cares about money led to a potentially endless supply of fun.

I highly recommend this show. If only abc had given Better off Ted a consistent time slot and some advertising, this could have easily become one of the most popular shows on television.

I had actually never heard of this movie until it was shown on Movie Central. I started watching the show blind of what the premise was, but found it entertaining enough to keep watching.

The subject matter was not what I expected, as I figured it would be a stereotypical film about a gay man who falls in love with his best friend. However, the writing is not clever enough to disguise the true direction of the film for very long. Its somewhat predictable, but the ending played out quite well.

I was surprised with the cavalier attitudes to the situation by some of the characters, but the acting was well done, especially Thea Gill who can really turn a performance. I found it odd that I don't recall seeing Dan Payne in any of his other work before, as he came across as a solid actor. I would say the only character that could have been played better by someone else was the role of Chase. He seemed incapable of honest emotion through a lot of the movie with the exception of the beach scene where he tries to talk to his best friend.

The cinematography was beautiful and well done, and definitely does not look like a low budget film.

All in all definitely worth seeing.

Blindness was a shocking, somewhat disturbing movie, yet a surprisingly accurate depiction of humanity.

Sure, the movie has some minor plot holes, but its based on a novel, and there is only so much time to tell the adventure, as well as depict humanity in all its facets.

Without trying to give too much of the plot line away, the movie is really more about the message of society, and finding the lowest common denominator of people, rather than being 2 hours of mindless entertainment.

In all cases, with the sometime-exception of Mark Ruffalo, the acting was believable and engaging. Julianne Moore's performance as the only sighted person in a world gone blind was Oscar-worthy.

As the movie goes on, and society degenerates, some of the scenes become disturbing and difficult to watch, but not in a graphic way.

I found this was the first film I had watched in a long time where I found myself mulling it over in my head days later.

This film is thought provoking and captivating. It's long, but it never lost my interest. This film should be used in college psychology classes! Bravo!