Sanctum (and a few other random thoughts)

I saw Sanctum last night in the AMC IMAX theatre at Yonge and Dundas in Toronto (which is nowhere near the size of the Scotiabank IMAX, but whatever). This is a pretty easy review to write; everything is terrible except the cinematography. The acting is terrible, highlighted by Ioan Gruffudd who seems completely incapable of an honest emotion. In his defense, he was given absolutely no help from the script (and presumably the director). The music sounded like it was a derivative of Avatar and there wasn't a character to be cared about.

The reason to see this movie is the cinematography and the 3D. This should be a lesson to studios everywhere; FILMING A MOVIE IN 3D IS BETTER THAN POST CONVERSION. That's enough on Sanctum. If there is an IMAX theatre around, see it if you're bored, but otherwise don't bother...and based on the numbers, you aren't!

Earlier in the day, I was walking through the Eaton Centre and I saw a young man wearing a baseball cap sitting back on his head cocked to the side and rotated 20 or 25 degrees. My immediate thought is that I hate that guy. I know it's a snap judgement but I feel confident that the guy is a douche. This is the type of thing people do who have no actual personality so they create one with an idiotic fashion statement - much like the 40 year old losers who wear Ed Hardy T-Shirts.

This brings me to another point: Every once in a while, some celebrity will wax all philosophical about how 'it takes too much energy to hate someone'. That's complete bullshit. It took me all of 20 seconds to come to that conclusion and I didn't think about it again until I posted this blog (this was a topic I planned to cover). During my typing it, it occurred to me that 'yep, definitely hated that guy'. Guess what! I probably won't even think about the guy again in my entire life - that is until I see him entering a tattoo shop looking to work on his personality.