Movies

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I was kind of bored by this. I think I might have even fallen asleep by the end. I would have to believe that the book was better. Maybe what I needed was someone with me to give me the cliff notes version of what I missed like when I have seen all of the others, except number 3, which I have not seen.

Sunshine
After watching a slight fuzzy copy, all I can think of is the Scarecrow vs. the Human Torch. It reminded me of 2001 but not so much going to Jupiter to study the monolith and more like flying toward the sun to create a new sun inside. This is the second mission to do so which lends itself from 2010 for those who are keep track. It was a pretty decent movie but my not appeal to a large audience, hence the limited release.

Resident Evil Extinction
The movie did not really do it for me like the previous ones. There was some ok action scenes but not enough story to balance the movie. They take a lot of inspiration from zombie films of the past. On a whim they decide they are going to drive to Alaska because somehow that was not affected by the virus. Well had they managed to see 30 Days of Night they would clearly know that there are vampires there.

Flight of the Living Dead
An interesting idea, zombie on a plane, yeah I wonder where they got that idea *ahem* Snakes on a Plane. Basically they are transporting Tori Amos in a cooler, she gets out and people are chased like the Scooby gang around the planewhile the passengers fall to the Dark Side. One particular scene might make you a little leery of using the airplane bathroom from now on. What I can’t understand is how hard is it to stay away from the zombie hole? I mean really.

Death Race 2000
I did not really know what to expect from this one. A trans-continental race where the racers score points for running people over. It had that hypnotic allure that dystopian movies from the 70s seem to have for me. America is united by a violent race whose star racer goes by the name Frankenstein. It did not end the way I thought, not that I could even try to predict were such a movie was going.