Unofficial Tex Murphy

Just saw the british science fiction film Sunshine. It's not due out in the States for quite some time I believe, but if you're a sci-fi buff, it's well worth the watch. One of the better science fiction movies I have seen in way, way too long a time.

I actually had goosebumps a couple of times

-Fred

Trailer:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/sunshine/

Thanks for the heads up. Sunshine came across as yet another disaster movie to me, but your words made me look a bit closer and now I'm quite eager to see it. Well made sci-fi of the spaceship kind is hard to come by.

It's not a disaster movie, thankfully. I don't endorse disaster movies anyway They're too much like romantic comedies, with a minor twist.

Allow me to show you the basic formula for the romantic comedy:

Scene - College-environment

1: Boy meets girl.
2: Boy and girl falls in love.
3: Boy does something stupid and girl does not like boy anymore.
4: Boy makes everything right and everyone live happily ever after.

Now for the disaster movie:

Scene- - Huge disaster in progress

1: Boy meets girl.
2: Boy and girl falls in love.
3: Boy does something stupid and girl does not like boy anymore.
4: Boy makes everything right and everyone live happily ever after.

Which is why I prefer sci-fi movies. It's open-ended, you can do whatever you want with the medium, and you can *never* guess what's gonna happen. You make your own formula.

Which is also why I'm writing my first space opera these days

-Fred