Sweet and Sour
I watched Sunshine and The Simpsons Movie this weekend. Fear not, I shall warn of spoilers.
SWEET
I pretty much have nothing but child-like glee for The Simpsons Movie. From Ralph atop the FOX monolith before the film even starts, the “spider-pig song”, the goofy shit at the end in the credits and ALL the stuff in between, it was perfect.
The film itself is like a 90 minute walk through nearly two decades of TV shows at Warp speed. I found the mental associations I have with the show being recalled as I watched. One in particular being taking breaks from playing Civilization 2 with an old roomate of mine to watch reruns late at night.
I really do hope they make another film.
Enough happy fun time.
SOUR
I’ll say up front that I liked Sunshine. That could be because I’m a sucker for sci-fi, but most of the film was good. Danny Boyle talked about trying to do hard core sci-fi with this film, sort of a return to the Space Odessy 2001 feel. I think he pulled it off for the most part. Along with that, he admitted there were some bullshit things in the film, like the device that was going to fix the dying Sun and ridiculous a part at the end (which everyone has seen in the trailer) where the guy touches the Sun. I can deal with that.
I should have known.
(here come the spoilers)
SPACE ZOMBIE EATZ YO FACE!! NOM NOM NOM 
Near the end of the film, the whole feel is shattered by the introduction of what is basically a space zombie. I’m recalling it all in my head while I type this and even I have trouble believing it.
I knew he had directed 28 Days Later (which as far as zombie movies go is awesome), but come on! Maybe he couldn’t resist? I dunno. It fucking ruined the end of the movie.
To make matters worse, once this monster shows up, he uses all the same blurred/twitchy/shaky camera moves from 28 Days Later. The film, up until this point, felt nothing like that. It was like someone cut a zombie movie into the middle of a really good sci-fi film.
Even with all that, I’d go watch it again in IMAX. The external visuals of the ship and the sun and all that are incredible. Well worth it on that level alone.
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I totally agree with ya about Sunshine. I got a chance to see it yesterday and was really enjoying it up until the ending junk.
It was like my Tootsie Pop had dog poo at the center.
3rd to last paragraph needs an -ed on “direct”. Otherwise, thanks for spoiling the movies. I don’t care if you warned of spoilers, YOU DON’T SPOIL MOVIES!!!
That is one nasty ass Tootsie Pop, gah!
Bryce, your welcome.
Hey, did you watch 300? If you read some history, it’d been spoiled. (Grammar King I am). So, all history books should be destroyed, so we can’t spoil movies based on history. Ohh, wait, then how do we know the history to make a movie based on it? Spoiling means something to food, not to content. Your mind still forms it’s own perceptions based on what you see, and if you can’t suspend the concious part that’s just waiting to see the part you know about, then maybe you should get high
I want to see these both, but like most movies this summer, I probably wont.