I'm so intrigued about Sunshine. I don't know what to expect from it.

I rented The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill the other night. I can recommend it, not necessarily as a documentary, but a very sweet portrait. It's also interesting to hear someone describe the personalities of wild animals they've observed for a while. The DVD is really welcome because it wraps up some loose ends from the movie satisfyingly.

I just saw Sunshine and I didn't like it at all. The latter 20 or so minutes is absolutely disastrous. I'm not sure what the writer and director were thinking. Beau and I put on the commentary because we wanted some explanation and his commentary was so bad that we turned it off in disgust.

The director also chuckled at the extreme physical discomfort his actors experienced during certain scenes, and that didn't sit right with me. I'm hoping he intended his chuckles without malice, but I didn't like it.

It was very enlightening about Chris Evans, a nice glimpse of the mostly wasted Michelle Yeoh, and lovely face time with Cillian Murphy.

Yeoh was criminally wasted. I mean really. Why bother to cast her?

Hahaha! There is going to be a movie about Margaret Keane - or the painter of those big-eyed children.

There's already a movie about Thomas Kinkade coming out - - what other schlocky artist's life will be next?

Now I'm curious what it was that drove Matt TBF from the theater when he saw it.

I'm sure it factored in that I didn't feel good that day. But the prospect of listening to Cillian Murphy hyperventilate in a spacesuit for another 20 minutes was just too much for me to take, and I decided that I'd rather drive home and read for the rest of the afternoon.

The director also chuckled at the extreme physical discomfort his actors experienced during certain scenes, and that didn't sit right with me. I'm hoping he intended his chuckles without malice, but I didn't like it.

Directors giggling about putting actors through physical discomfort isn't anything unusual, and most everyone means and takes it in good fun (though there's certainly exceptions). You should hear Sam Raimi giggle about the joys of abusing Bruce Campbell some time.

That being said, nothing about it pinged me as being malicious at all, and in the web diaries you can watch Chris Evans talk about being abused for those scenes mostly fondly, so I don't think Boyle was being mean or abusive about it.

Serial:

But yes, the under use of Michelle Yeoh was criminal.

what other schlocky artist's life will be next?

Me, I'm hoping for the torments and nameless horrors that inspired the creator of Precious Moments.