Where did my sweater go?

Ed Wood

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Tim Burton makes a damn fine film. There arent any of his movies that I can say I hate. In fact, I love almost all of them. Even his remake of Planet of the Apes.

I recently watched Burton's Ed Wood only to find out that, yes, Tim Burton had made a wonderful film about the "worst director of all time." I loved the fact that the movie was more of a biopic than a retelling about the making of Plan 9 from Outer Space. I found the movie very funny and refreshing. Ed Wood was a very interesting character. Having only seen a couple of interviews with him and a few pictures, I thought Johnny Depp did a great job of capturing Wood's essence. Which is remarkably a lot like John Waters' appearance and mannerisms.

The entire cast was perfect, especially Martin Landau, who`s role of Bela Lugosi was stand-out. The script was amazing too. I loved that the whole movie, knowing how awful a director Wood was, he really thought of his movies as little masterpieces and always strived to be like his idol, Orsen Welles.

I thought it was funny that I`d never seen this movie before. I love Ed Wood`s movies, but had never seen the movie about Ed Wood. Ironic. Or something like that.

I highly recommend this one to everyone who hasn`t seen it. And I also quarantee that you`ll want to see Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space once this movie is done too.

Another good one! See it.

I only wish there were more current directors like Ed Wood.... although, Uwe Boll is making a play for it!!

Bring your SPF 9,000,000,000,000,000,000

Sunshine

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Have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? That is one creepy-ass movie. When HAL goes all beserk. But the thing with 2001 is that it takes SO long to get moving, I find anyways. I like it, but I like Sunshine a lot more.

Sunshine jumps you right into the whole madness. Right from the get-go, you keep getting this eerie feeling that things are going to go pear-shaped and right fuck-a-row. Which it does.

The plot is that the sun has died, and a team of astronauts are sent with a gigantic atomic bomb the size of Manhatten to shoot into the sun with the hopes of reigniting it. This is the second mission of the aptly named space shuttle, Icarus. Icarus I went missing within a close range of the sun, never completing its mission. Icarus II follows the same course, with hopes of carrying out thier mission, and maybe finding out what happened to the other crew. Of course, madness ensues, and all of the shit hits the fan.

I love this movie. I've recently recommended it to a lot of friends. I found it very creepy. It did an amazing job of building tension and pulling it off. The premise alone is frightening. Plus, Cillian Murphy is in it. The man could just stare into the camera and give you the creeps.

If you love sci-fi, and amazing tension-building movies, you have to see Sunshine. Nothing bad to say about it at all. See it.

The only complaint from the MovieGuy's desk is the lack of awful movies I've been seeing lately. I need some shit people. Fuck these good movie fuckers.