Spoilers ahead for Juno and Sweeney Todd.

I haven't been to the movies much, lately. There just hasn't been much out that has been appealing to me, which kind of sucks because I can look out my window and see the local theatre.

Today, I went to see Juno and Sweeney Todd, which may be the strangest double-feature I've experienced. While I was watching them, though, I realized that technology has changed the way I'm watching movies.

Not digital projection--though that's had an impact, too--but the ongoing struggle for supremacy between Blu-ray and HD DVD.

About mid-way through Juno, I realized I was probably going to want to buy the disc when it was released. Since I have a PS3, I try to buy exclusively Blu-ray stuff right now. So right in the middle of the movie, I'm trying to remember which studio released it so that I'll know if I'll be able to get it. Answer: Fox Searchlight, Blu-ray, yes.

(And don't ask me why I remembered the studio midway through the film. That seems strange even to me.)

Here's a mini review of Juno:

It's what I wanted Knocked Up to be: Knocked Up was about an unexpected pregnancy forcing two people to grow up. Juno is about an unexpected pregnancy making at least one person realize that they weren't at all ready to grow up.

It was much more credible to me to see a character back away from the challenges of having children than to see a perpetual underachiever suddenly wake up and grow up simply because the point of the story required it.

But what really amazed me about Juno was that it was so much about broken people. Everyone in it is in some respects a patchwork person who is just trying to get by. Even the movie's "bad guy" was just someone who didn't realize until he was pressed that the direction his life was going in was not what he wanted.

Very funny, very profane, and altogether very human. Well worth seeing.

After Juno ended, I went to Sweeney Todd, which was in the auditorium next door.

Another film worth seeing, but if you don't realize it's a musical going in, you may find yourself--like the people who were sitting next to me--walking out before 20 minutes are up.

Yes, this is an adaptation of the most violent and bloody musical ever produced on Broadway, as handled by the director with the imagination to suit it.

And it actually worked as a movie. For something so dependent on stagecraft and stage presence, it at once felt very alien and very intimate. I'm sure people who really know the stage play probably feel that this didn't come up to the classic performances of Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury, but I liked it.

Enough to think about getting it when the disc is released. Wait...what studio released it? Dreamworks? HD DVD. Grr.

So apparently until the format war ends, this is going to be part of my experience any time I see a movie, which is making the movie experience feel kind of empty, after the fact. I don't like having commercial concerns while I'm trying to enjoy a movie.