@Ryan: well as long as I'm married I'm still trying it for the first time, so I'm covered. @Roshan: Thanks, I think little bloggers are aways off yet. I mean that's not even counting the time it takes to train them to type.

You must have hit it on a bad day, because I love Toshi's. I love it so much sometimes I get confused and call it Yoshi's, which is actually on Denman and Georgia. Anyway, yeah Toshi's is really good. The wait is a pain, but if you get there early that shouldn't be an issue. My review of it from awhile ago: http://vancouver.metblogs.com/tag/toshi-sushi/

You were? That's excellent, which one did you vote for or is that a secret?

I've had a bad day and I'm itching to have an argument, but I'm going to step back from this one. I think it's a crap film, the part that annoyed me most was the ending but I could pick it apart on a whole host of levels. The defense that I missed the point of it by expecting a neat and tidy ending misses that I point out that I've liked movies like The Blair Witch Project, which this film influenced, and they lack the fully explained ending. Had the movie managed to create that sense of atmosphere for me that you've referenced then maybe I'd have been okay with it. I don't need to know why the world is ending in Last Night to enjoy it, I can enjoy it for what it is. You can say there's social commentary in it, but it's so vauge and ill-defined that really it could be about anything. Natural Australia versus modern British ways of life. Women's sexuality. Women's lib. The brief Canucks career of Mark Messier. It's about everything because it's a blank slate, and thus it's also about nothing. The film is pre-dated by Hithcock who does mood and suspense so much better. For me it fell flat, out of touch and out of step. Far more old fashioned than even something like Birds, a film where there is no neat and tidy explanation either. Really for me it felt like the time period it was set in. It remninded me of all the staid and dull English comedies of manners that I had to endure through various literature classes where the characters were very concerned with things that had stopped concerning anyone around the time when the cotton gin came into use. This isn't really about people's reactions to the events, as you suggest, because nobody at any point in this movie acts as a living person has ever acted. Blindness was a movie, and a book, about people's reaction to the event because we saw people react like people. Here people reacted as if they were, at the very least, under heavy sedation even when not magically hypnotized by a mountain and lured into a tear in space time. This is of course all subjective. Perhaps you know people who would act like this, in which case I'd hide my perscription drugs if I were you. Again that's just my opinion. And I realize that I totally failed at trying to avoid continuing the debate on this.