I saw "Doubt" last night, how precious!Here I come to do something honourable with Reality, like now, local and global pressures mounting. I can do this because the six-seven bridging MementoMinistries are in place here in Canada, but I am only one man so it's going slowly. Just think of the relationship between Nitrogen and Oxygen for now.LandShard is the local "silly-cone valley" venture that shall not be mentioned again. For the thing there is InstaForest, truly a wonder of evil I have made with our crisis and some children. UltraStar: technological singularity I command, suggest Collapsing with HTML6.0.God damnit I am not asking for money (imdb: hold me to this), but I do not have a home let alone a credit card to make this connection. I have pages about August the film and physics, quite cool I think.

The good reviews of "August" just show how truly deprived Americans have been of good films over the last 30 years, or it shows the truly awful taste in films of most Americans - or both. It is absolutely unbelievable that anyone gave this pathetic film good reviews. The characters were clichéd and predictable - the t-shirts contrasted to the suits; the "f--k me in the a---e" language; the Richard Gere-type mannerisms from Josh Hartnett;the predictable sequence of awkward meeting to torrid sex between Tom and Sarrah (even the name is pretentious...). The "edgy" music was hackneyed; the trendy office interior was hackneyed; the bottle of Armagnac behind Tom's desk was hackneyed. The "dot.com" staccato speech was hackneyed. In fact it is even boring writing about this film. Come on Americans - be a bit demanding about your films and don't get seduced by this sort of pretentious, one-dimensional tripe!

August is a very finite and pointed film. It's a low-flying indie sleeper that has its points to make and it makes them quite effectively. Above all it really manages to nail a small moment in time, that of the dot-com implosion.I, along with many others I'm sure, was part of a dot com start-up similar in some respects to Landshark. It was very common in those days of over-hyped speculation to bet tons of VC generated start-up capital on IDEAS that looked promising, when in reality much needed to happen before they could be realized. This didn't hold true for all start-ups, but a fair majority.It's very easy to get caught up in the delusion that you're a "real" company when your stock is shooting up the charts and quite a glass of ice water to the face to realize all that speculated valuation can disappear overnight, which it did slowly over the course of late 2000 and 2001...it was never really there to begin with.August grabs that bursting bubble in a number of effective ways. As the film progresses, it becomes apparent that for all of Tom's boasting and bluster, he's nothing more than a hyped-up spin doctor. Watching this revelation sink his ego is entertaining if not more than a bit sad. Hartnett does an adequate job with the role.The most true-to-life scene for me was the mass of staffers flocking around F**kedCompany.com, which was a popular barometer for the sink-age rate of companies about to go belly-up, instead of lounging at their Ikea desks playing solitaire...they're not lazy, they just have nothing to do...no customers, no product.As a film, this is a tough one to sell to an audience who doesn't have first-hand experience in the story's premise. There is a lot of business/financial terminology/slang thrown around that to those not knowledgeable or interested in it will seem very boring.It does what Indies do best...present a slice of life, with no pat clichés or feel-good endings. And for that, I liked it.

When "reviewing a movie" keep your feelings out of it. I'm not your friend.Facts on "August": Product placement in this movie is so smart I bet it was written into the script purposely because it pushed the plot: When the lead male in this film is asking his brother (supporting) to come with him on a nearly impossible business venture; there is a "FedEx" truck in the background. The writer is obviously thinking. The actors are all full. Rip Torn as the fiery father (uh yea) and David Bowie even say's to someone in this movie "I don't like your style" and at another point David says to the same character "You fool people."Okay perhaps it best suits Men in their 20's. But that doesn't change the fact that smart and sweet people made this film come to life and that as the credits rolled a got a text from by little bro.Hartnett your the man at playing the man. I gotta find someone to pay me to be your little bro in a movie, so if I'm taller than you I'll just crouch."BET Black"