'Beneath You'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I'm watching Sunshine and because of tuner commitment, I'm not going to watch beyond the first hour. I remember being impressed by the cast, pleasurably surprised by Chris Evans, and then the movie going completely batshit in the final act.
I'm scared to go to Wikipedia and look, lest it tarnish the fuzzy feelings I'm getting right now...
You are correct on all counts.
Because The Last Days of Disco is coming up on my Netflix queue in a couple weeks, I watched Metropolitan, which I didn't like as much as Barcelona. The latter was about two guys in another country who had to deal with being foreigners. The former is about rich, white people who are not happy with being rich, white people. Even though Stillman is clearly mocking them a lot, it was hard to really like them as characters. But it was still a good movie, and it had its fair share of laugh-out-loud moments. Tom's explanation for why he didn't read novels, just good literary criticism, killed me.
In my opinion The Last Days of Disco is far and away the best of the three. Of course, even a movie that didn't have Kate Beckinsale, Mackenzie Astin, Jennifer Beals, Matt Keslar, and Robert Sean Leonard probably would have been enjoyable for the soundtrack alone.
I love Sunshine and find the director's commentary to be one of the very best, plus, they have a very interesting commentary with an actual physicist. The fact that I saw it in the theatre with a science writer may have opened my mind to it more in the beginning, but subsequent viewings have been just as enjoyable. Big physics holes? Yep. But I love it anyway, crazy ending and all.
I'd have problems with the crazy ending anyway (they had to turn it into a monster movie?), but my biggest problem was I couldn't figure out what the hell was happening for the most part. Maybe it was intended to simulate the experience of those involved, but it mostly just aggravated me. For whatever reason, I didn't have problems with similar stylistic effects in 28 Days Later.
I recall going to an existential place with the 'monster' aspect and just riding with it.
I guess I was hoping they'd go in a more outre (e.g. 2001) direction and Boyle & co. went with the more convential/commercial ending, but then tried to turn it into an outre ending anyway with the style.
Granted, it's arguable that 2001 turns into a monster movie for part of the second half (with Hal as the monster).
I love the rhythm and visuals of the start of Sunshine. I may only ever watch the first 2/3 again.
Also, Chris Evans.
Cracked being a party pooper:
Might as well put this in here. 20 greatest movies Hollywood never made [link]
#5 pisses me off the mostest.