The Saga Continues

Thought you'd all like an update:

Yeah, if those other toes are still black tomorrow I'm going to the doctors.

Film review: Sunshine

Sunshine @ IMDB

First off all, rather than going to my usual rubbish cinema I went to the one in the next town over which is the same chain but much much better.

Well, hobbled there all thanks to my smashed up toe.

Myself and my friends got there about 40 minutues before it started and being that the cinema is so close to the town centre we thought we'd go grab a burger. Now, the time for the film was 1645 and the guy at the counter said it would start at five past five. We roll back in at the cinema just before 5, go to our screen and the damn film had already started.

Son of a bitch.

So, unless something really cool/rubbish happened in the first few minutes, take my review with a pinch of salt. Basically, I loved it. Loved the concept, loved the look of the film, liked the performemces. Even Chris Evans who was such a plank in Fantastic Four came out of the film with some kudos.

Yes, you can argue that the film does borrow heavily from other films in similar genres; you've got the setting of Alien, mix that with a bit of Event Horizon but much much much better and finally season with 2001. But in the same way that Shaun of The Dead borrowed from films in it's genres, Sunshine is it's own film that can stand proudly on it's own two feet.

Will be getting the DVD. As for a weapon, one of those three sectioned nunchukas.

And finally, as promised earlier:



Oh, my lord, did wearing shoes and trying to walk hurt. Hurt real, real bad.

A few things

1) Thinking back to when I saw 300 last week, I am now of the opinion that the guy playing King Leonidas is channeling the spirit of British actor Brian Blessed. Observe:

Gerard Butler in 300

Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon

2) I cracked my little toe against a box last night and my God does it hurt. I looked down and my toe was sticking out away from my foot and I thought "do my feet always look like that or have I proper broken my toe?" Luckily, after extensive wiggling, it appears that the bone is okay there is just a massive lump and bruise which has turned half of my toe black and the top of my foot looks bruised as well.

I may post a picture of it later.

3) When I saw 300 the first time I saw the last Spider-Man 3 trailer which pretty heavily features Venom. But my thought was: what the Hell happened to Sandman? Wasn't he supposed to be the main guy in this film? How is this going to work with these two plus the new Green Goblin? I have faith in Raimi, I do but I do wonder if too much is being thrown at this film, like in X-Men 3 which had about 3 films smooshed into one.