It seems as if I've been to a lot of movies lately. Since the last update I've also seen I, Robot, (the one with Will Smith), Arthur, and Bourne Supremacy.

I Robot was seemingly the best of the three. It had a good story with an interesting idea and plenty of action. The idea was taken from Isaac Asimov's short stories.

Bourne Supremacy was the sequel to Bourne Identity, which was about the assassin with amnesia. Most of the movie was done fairly well except for the car chase scene which seemed a bit shaky at times so it was hard to follow everything. Afterwards we received courtesy coupons offering a free admission because apparently there were scratches in the film. I'm not sure who noticed them, the projectionist (the dude (tte) that runs the projector that shows the movie) or someone in the audience. There was a pretty full crowd there. I had to go there after my dentist appt., which was right after work so I didn't really get home until a little after 9pm.

Arthur was the medieval movie about well...Arthur before he became king and built Camelot. I'm not too sure about Arthurian Legend but it seems to conflict with certain tales of it. Nonetheless it was a good movie that I'm partial to because I really enjoy medieval movies.

I should start playing/practicing the piano more. Haven't played it for a while. And this seems to be the only part I do seem to update of my website, which I probably haven't updated in a year.

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Since my last blog Craig came down too. A very good friend from high school, he was going to move to see if he could come to an Ontario university but due to timing complications was unable to and so is going to Univ of Calgary i think.

This past weeked I went camping in a campsite just outside of cornwall. It was called Long Sault Parkway, on Mclaren Island. It was ok; the camping part was fun at least. I got bitten many times and it was very very cold the first night and morning...

Last night I saw Fahrenheit (sp) 9/11. Yep. It's yet another movie made by Michael Moore, who wrote such books as "Stupid White Men" & "Dude, Where's My Country" and produced such movies as "Roger and Me", and "Bowling for Columbine". He's apparently done more but these are the ones i remember. In Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore turns the crowd's attention towards violence in the United States; the title alludes to the school shootings that happened in Columbine. In Fahrenheit 911 (f911) Moore focuses more on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when two planes hit the Twin Towers and one hit the Pentagon, and how the Bush adminstration dealt with it.
I went to see it with my Dad and when the movie started there were quite a bit of people there. And at the end of the movie (I'm not going to spoil it for anyone who might have seen it) the audience did something I haven't seen since I saw Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones. The audience clapped. And not just a few people. Enough to count it as an ovation.
This is one of those movies that you might see just out of sheer curiousity. If you do decide to see it keep in mind that many of the ideas if not all came from Michael Moore so you need to be aware that some things could be taken out of context or that they are presented in a subjective way. I recommend you take a read of Fifty Nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911, by Dave Kopel. Like f911 i'm not sure how accurate either document is but it is a detailed analysis of the movie at the very least. The movie itself has been dubbed a mockumentary (made with the tone of a documentary but may border on fiction). Whether it is or not is up to you. I left the theatre wondering how much of the crowd took what Michael said at face value rather than decided to verify the facts. Kopel's analysis may be just as biased as Moore's I haven't check his sources either. But it helps me to stay objective about it.


I also saw mystic River too. slow movie...but apparently we weren't supposed to worry about the plot. It was the character development that was the main focus; the plot was just a stage. I think the best movie i've seen thsi summer was Spiderman 2. It was a little cheesy but had less cheese than the first one. The CG was great and there seemed to be a good story. I wonder what the third (yes there's a third one coming up) will be like.