A FEW MOVIES AND THE CURRENT STATE OF TELEVISION!

Hey, how is it going out there? I have started to catch up on my movie watching since TIFF.
I always need to go through a detox after TIFF to scrape all the images, thoughts, reflections and random lines out of my brain.

Recently, I have seen:

In The Loop- Awesome satire of the British Parliament's back door activities.

AntiChrist- Artistic, disturbing, self serving (on the director's part) and choppy. I saw the film as a commentary on female sexuality but many have countered that interpretation with their view that it was about misogyny. If you decide to see it, I had nothing to do with it.

Away we go- Awesome, go see it. Leaves you knowing that there is beauty in the flawed. May be hard to find it at first, but it is there.

Up in the Air- More of a downer if you ask me. I got it. I just didn't care all that much. It was an story about a guy that fires people for a living and the parallels that come out of the stories between him, those he fires and the firm he works for. There is more to the movie, but I really don't want to waste your time.

Terminator- Salvation- Holy awesome Batman. The newest addition to the Blockbuster shelves does not disappoint. It is everything it should be and more. Find a friend with a killer entertainment system and hijack it for the day.


New Moon- People reviewing this film need to LOWER their expectations to that of a 13 year of girl. Every young teen entering the new world of sexuality and love needs something to reflect their delusional, unrealistic and unhealthy romantic ideals onto. Just sayin.

The Blindside- True story about Michael Oher who went from extreme poverty to an NFL Ravens left tackle player with the help of a family of strangers. He is black and from the hood, they are white and own a big house and some fast food chains. The Blindside was not given much love from the critics, and one reviewer said that it was a shame they didn't talk to the racial tension that MUST have existed between the family and Michael. Who is to say that there was any. The reviewer assumed there must have been some and they kept it out of the movie. For me, its not a racial thing so much as a rich and poor thing. I grew up around poverty and numerous ethnicities. There were divides in high school between races to some degree, but the thing that really created a divide was money. Kids without it got into trouble and did bad things. Kids with it were taught to stay in school, take up extra curricular activities and to get a job at Starbucks. I never felt out of place until I was with the rich kids. Throughout my youth I realized that money doesn't solve problems and people with or without it are all equal. But I grew up in Toronto, not Mississippi, so I may need to suck it up and realize there are racial tensions around the world and there may have been some in the Tuohy household.


During my movie catch up I decided to give TV a try again. I don't have cable. The last time I moved, I decided to get the cable connected. It had been a while and I thought maybe the cycle of suck TV had come to an end. It didn't, and two months later I disconnected it. This last attempt was at a friends and I can tell you right now, I have NO intention of reconnecting my cable anytime soon. I will preface this with I know there is SOME good TV out there. I am judging from channel 2 to lets say 40. Anything above 40 and on specialty is in a different category. The Category that I can purchase in full series format or episode by episode either in the store or online. All I have to say is I can't believe someone paid someone to follow Tori Spelling around. It actually gives me a stress rash..Not going to lie. Go online...Broadcasters are adapting and making it possible for us to consume what we really want, not what's been programmed for our ideal enjoyment. It is exciting to think about how my kids will live and consumer their entertainment and stories. The world is moving quickly and the further from traditional format TV we get, the happier I will be! Ciao for now...