tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20885622.post4239750646066701647..comments2023-04-28T09:34:02.241+00:00Comments on Jones Is Dying: Weekend views and self referential rubbishChris Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02108337196370083674noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20885622.post-55461566708738116482009-01-10T02:48:00.000+00:002009-01-10T02:48:00.000+00:00Finally got round to seeing Sunshine, solely for t...Finally got round to seeing Sunshine, solely for the last 3 seconds of Sydney Opera House under snow. But quite enjoyed a lot of it - mainly for the reasons you described. Claustrophobic space operas always have a certain charm - I can imagine stories trapped deep in the bulk of an 18th century prison hulk would have the same effect, a bit like Strindberg's Dance of Death does. But it is ridiculously cut-and-paste.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20885622.post-57140091480271281112007-04-20T11:03:00.000+00:002007-04-20T11:03:00.000+00:00Your rock Garuda! I wanted to see El Topo, but hav...Your rock Garuda! I wanted to see El Topo, but haven't had a chance to. But have seen the other two. <BR/><BR/>I loved 300 - I think it will be a cult movie for years to come. People will learn the lines and dress as the characters - half of the cinemea dressed in the austre uniforms of the Spartans, the other of the multi-sexual Persian superfreeks (I think Rick James was in the empreor/giant/ sodomites' houseband)! Special competitions will be held to see who has the best hunchback/traitor homemade prosthetics.<BR/><BR/>Sunshine - mmmm...I quite liked the first 2/3rds, tense, conceptual, atmospheric (loved the feel that without the shield they would be toast - inherently dramatic and stressful. Liked the colour scheme and the slightly 'asexual' feel to the characters), then that plot device happened and started to bore me - I don't mind silliness, but that just felt tagged on to me.'Oooo, let's do that' - maybe they'd been bonging the Purple Haze when they came up with that one, or maybe the studio wanted to make a bit more action and a bit less atmoshphere.<BR/><BR/>But mark my words - the cult of 300 will only grow!<BR/><BR/>falldownquickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com