Speaking of Mediocrity...
I saw Danny Boyle’s Sunshine tonight.
Here is my brief review:
It’s like 2001: A Space Odyessey and Armageddon got married and had a beautiful, but slightly retarded son.
Here is my slightly less brief review:
Fifty years in the future, scientists are a lot cooler than they are now. They look like football players at the peak of their game. They are rash, emotionally unstable, and generally foolish. Unfortunately during this lull in scientific prowess, the sun decides it’s time to die. The people of earth hold a beauty contest to choose six people to be astronauts. The other two are chosen in a random lottery. These eight mediocre people are shipped off on a super high tech spacecraft (that none of them seems quite capable of operating) to detonate a stellar bomb to reignite the sun.
The sophomorically shallow characters aside, there are a few absolutely spine tingling scenes and a timely moral lesson to be learned.
3 comments:
As you age (I am now almost 60) you will find that the more things you have seen, heard or eaten, the less any one thing will stand out. It is not that things are more average, but you have a basis of comparison that is just so much bigger. If you went back and compared the difference between travel in auto's that had no air conditioning and today's travel you would be blown away. I won't even talk about the days of radio and today's 4X6 HD TV's. Do you ever read the blog from eva who is teaching there in Korea? StrangerinSwouon-Daily Her pictures are great and she makes me miss Korea and I've never been there.
I never knew your car was named otto. Clever, clever. My car doesn't really have a name. We sometimes remember to refer to him as the bunny, as we had planned before I got him, but most of the time I forget.
Did seeing the old kitchen at the digs make you homesick? haha...
bummer, i was looking forward to it, but now i'm not so sure. how did you see it so soon? and, is that a still from the film? because that would be pretty funny.
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