The Sun is freaking dying
In my head, I’m still trying to digest and make sense of the movie Sunshine (2007). From the trailer it looked like an over the top movie that I would generally avoid. Large scale disaster movies have never been very appealing to me. This has started back as far as the crappy 70′s versions such as Earthquake (1974) and The Towering Inferno (1974). I generally mark up these movies to be about hundreds of stupid people running into glass doors because they are either too stupid or panic too much to open them. Seriously, check them out. It’s a reoccurring theme.
Anyway back to horrible disaster movies. Contemporary disaster imaginings have reached theaters as competing studio efforts at asteroid movies, all the rage in 1998, with such offerings as Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998). These movies also do very very much suck. It’s basically what you are forced to watch on TV when you are stuck at home with nothing to do and you are between The Price is Right episodes (w/ Bob Barker that is).