movie review...

[dancingleaf]

the movie Blindness...with Julianna Moore...

SUCKS.

do not waste your time watching it.   It was so not worth it. 

I picked it up from the library so ...... even though I did watch it in bits over the course of a week - I will never get that 2 hrs back.

Comments

[faedreamer.livejournal.com]

Oh god, agreed. I couldn't even finish it. I was so bored about the time when she went out to ask for the shovel from the guards and flipped them off that I just stopped watching before I passed out. Did anything remotely interesting happen at the end? It was so lame I never got that far.

I was sad, cause I love Julianna Moore.

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

...lets see...

-the guys in Ward 3 took all the food, they had a gun.
-they demanded valuables in exchange for food
-when the valuables ran out they demanded women/sex
Julianna (Ward 1) went with it the first time. Cue scenes of nudity/violence layered with either too white/too black screen to actually see what was happening. One of the women died.
Then when she could hear the same thing happening with the Ward 2 women She took the surgical scissors & stabbed & killed the main bad guy.
After that back in Ward 1 they were debating whether or not they should give up the 'killer' rather than have war between the wards when someone snuck away and set fire to Ward 3 - resulting in most of the people escaping & the bad guys from Ward 3 dying.
- then they found out they were no longer locked in the compound. So everybody leaves.
- Julianna takes a small group back to her house in the city- She finds food hidden in a grocery store because only she can see/find the keys for the storeroom - She gets attacked but gets away with some of the food.
- It rains, everybody rejoices in showering outdoors (more female nudity)
- They have a big celebratory meal - yeah welcome to the commune.
- Next day they wake up & the first guy that went blind can see...

the end.

It had potential... it just never really gelled.

[faedreamer.livejournal.com]

Blah! So they never say what caused the blindness nor why she's the only one who can still see??

Dear Move scriptwriters: Unless there is some greater meaning behind your movie, you cannot just make shit happen without some sort of nod to WHY it's happening!

Ugh. So glad I stopped watching, I only lost an hour of my life, not two.

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

there was a really really brief scene where Julianna wanders into a church where all the statues and all the paintings/stained glass have blindfolds tied on/painted on... and someone is talking/giving a sermon about St. Paul being stricken blind for punishing the Christians but no - other than that... they never go into the cause.

[artstardumb.livejournal.com]

I really like her. That's too bad. :(