"Nothing" and "Get Down"

David Hewlett Movies: Nothing and Get Down

OK, these movies are Canadian, and are both available at Amazon.com. David is Canadian! Stargate is filmed in Canada with mostly Canadian people involved! (Just in case people don’t know all this.) Anyway, I really enjoyed both movies. They were so refreshing because I’m finding American movies really drab. But aside from that, the movies were excellent and interesting and really got my attention from start to end. In fact, I wanted to see more! The acting was very good. Story lines surprising. The music for both movies was very good setting the pace and the emotions. David Hewlett was the lead in both and was brilliant. These guys were both smart guys so I wonder if there is McKay in David (and vice versa?). Both movies have really interesting plot ideas and surprising and good executions of the ideas. I thoroughly enjoyed them.


Nothing

Dave reassuring Andrew: “We’re not dead, we’ve got cable!”

Two guys, Dave and Andrew, are idiots, if not retards, with bad luck and the troubles of the world bearing down on them. They have good reason to hate the world. One day, while they are trying to figure out how to fix their lives in Andrew’s house, the world’s chaos reaches its climax in their lives and they are cornered and then suddenly, wham, a bright light appears. They explore what has happened and find that the only things existing in the world are themselves, the turtle, Stan, the house and everything in the house. Oh yeah, and the garden. What surrounds them is just a whiteness, which is bouncy like a trampoline. This nothingness is everywhere. This story is about the consequences of living in this nothingness and the consequences of the two guys living together and how this tests their friendship! It’s very clever and even funny in parts. David Hewlett plays Dave, the brightest of the two dim bulbs. Stan, the turtle is a character all by himself.

It’s interesting and the special effects are really top notch. I even liked the idea of what the real world is like. It does have bit of a Matrix feel to it.


Get Down (also known as Treed Murray)

David plays a very smart advertising exec that defends himself from robbery in a park. When the rest of the gang appears, he runs for his life. When he is surrounded he climbs up a huge tree and fights for survival in a very cunning way. Now, remember, this is a Canadian movie. If this was a film from the USA or SA, he’d be shot dead out of that tree, if not while running away, and there would be no story. This story will totally surprise you; this is not your typical gang. I did like the way the story ended but I really wanted to know more!