November 7: Nano Haiku (Political)

Bombings? Torture? War?
Not low points of Bush's time.
"He called me a name!"

Former president Bush said the low point of his eight years in office was not starting a war, not ruining the economy, not torture, but when Kanye West implied he was racist.

"George Bush said Kanye West's comments were the low point of his presidency which ended after eight years in 2008."

November 7: Nano Haiku (Political)

Bombings? Torture? War?
Not low points of Bush's time.
"He called me a name!"

Former president Bush said the low point of his eight years in office was not starting a war, not ruining the economy, not torture, but when Kanye West implied he was racist.

"George Bush said Kanye West's comments were the low point of his presidency which ended after eight years in 2008."

Sunshine: Worth the cost of Netflix

Not that Netflix is all that expensive! But wow, Sunshine is the best movie I've seen in a long time, and that it's a SciFi movie? Even better. A wonderfully dark scifi story.

This seems to be the weekend for end of the world movies. Yesterday was 2012, today Sunshine. Sunshine is about the somewhat distant future, when the sun is nearly burnt out. A small crew is flying what's basically just a bomb to the center of the sun to "restart" it. No one's ever successfully gotten close to the sun before, so this is a very dangerous, very hard, likely one-way mission.

The crew is just eight people -- for the whole of the movie, we're with only these eight. They're interesting people both character-wise and physically to look at, so the small cast is no hardship at all.

The whole thing is just so believable -- they're human, flawed, and no humans have done this before. The challenges they face seem really realistic, surprising, and interesting.

If you like bright, happy, perky, light movies, this is not the movie for you. It's dark, dangerous, and at times it has horror movie elements (realistic ones though -- what's a guy in a hockey mask and knife compared to the danger of the sun?).

I strongly, strongly recommend it. (I had to fudge a couple small facts for this review to prevent spoilers, so if you do watch it and have a "Hey, but Thistle said..." moment, that's why!)

Edit: Here, have one of the bits of music from the movie. I originally encountered this on a Russian LJ, it's what made me want to see it!

Beautiful, huh? :D

Edit: Warning, spoilers in some comments!

Sunshine: Worth the cost of Netflix

Not that Netflix is all that expensive! But wow, Sunshine is the best movie I've seen in a long time, and that it's a SciFi movie? Even better. A wonderfully dark scifi story.

This seems to be the weekend for end of the world movies. Yesterday was 2012, today Sunshine. Sunshine is about the somewhat distant future, when the sun is nearly burnt out. A small crew is flying what's basically just a bomb to the center of the sun to "restart" it. No one's ever successfully gotten close to the sun before, so this is a very dangerous, very hard, likely one-way mission.

The crew is just eight people -- for the whole of the movie, we're with only these eight. They're interesting people both character-wise and physically to look at, so the small cast is no hardship at all.

The whole thing is just so believable -- they're human, flawed, and no humans have done this before. The challenges they face seem really realistic, surprising, and interesting.

If you like bright, happy, perky, light movies, this is not the movie for you. It's dark, dangerous, and at times it has horror movie elements (realistic ones though -- what's a guy in a hockey mask and knife compared to the danger of the sun?).

I strongly, strongly recommend it. (I had to fudge a couple small facts for this review to prevent spoilers, so if you do watch it and have a "Hey, but Thistle said..." moment, that's why!)

Edit: Here, have one of the bits of music from the movie. I originally encountered this on a Russian LJ, it's what made me want to see it!

Beautiful, huh? :D

Edit: Warning, spoilers in some comments!