Just got back from a double-header movie feature of Rescue Dawn starring Christian Bale (BATMAN!) and Sunshine starring Cillian Murphy (Scarecrow in Batman Begins)... both come highly recommended!!!
Rescue Dawn was an incredibly immersive movie about a pilot who becomes a POW, and his subsequent escape and rescue. Let me tell you... Bale is a master of his craft (acting)... there's NOTHING this man won't do to make a movie he stars in to become better. Physically, he goes from this in the beginning of the movie:
to this by the end of the movie:
He *physically* lost weight/gained weight DURING the shoot of this movie to make it that much more convincing. Unbelievable. Or how about this... 1-2 months before the filming of Batman Begins, he finished up doing a movie called "The Machinist", in which he lost some 60 pounds and looked like this:
and in roughly a SINGLE month, bulked up to look like this for Batman Begins:
The man's a god, 'nuff said.
Sunshine was a very intense, extremely well-made SCI-FI movie. I use caps on SCI-FI, because this is truly sci-fi, and not fantasy set in the future or space operas (which many people confuse for sci-fi), a la Star Wars. And I ate it up. The cast did an incredible job... I was extremely impressed with Chris "Human Torch" Evans' performance, and of course, Cillian Murphy, who is fast becoming one of the more impressive "young" actors today. They did an amazing job of capturing the "largeness" of space, and of the spaceship "Icarus II" that was carrying the salvation of mankind. The intensity of the sun was so well-done I almost began to sweat in spots!! The effects were also top-notch, and the last half hour is extremely intense, the kind of intense that keeps you at the edge of your seat. This was a really really GOOD movie, and a great SCI-FI. See it.
Rescue Dawn was an incredibly immersive movie about a pilot who becomes a POW, and his subsequent escape and rescue. Let me tell you... Bale is a master of his craft (acting)... there's NOTHING this man won't do to make a movie he stars in to become better. Physically, he goes from this in the beginning of the movie:
to this by the end of the movie:
He *physically* lost weight/gained weight DURING the shoot of this movie to make it that much more convincing. Unbelievable. Or how about this... 1-2 months before the filming of Batman Begins, he finished up doing a movie called "The Machinist", in which he lost some 60 pounds and looked like this:
and in roughly a SINGLE month, bulked up to look like this for Batman Begins:
The man's a god, 'nuff said.
Sunshine was a very intense, extremely well-made SCI-FI movie. I use caps on SCI-FI, because this is truly sci-fi, and not fantasy set in the future or space operas (which many people confuse for sci-fi), a la Star Wars. And I ate it up. The cast did an incredible job... I was extremely impressed with Chris "Human Torch" Evans' performance, and of course, Cillian Murphy, who is fast becoming one of the more impressive "young" actors today. They did an amazing job of capturing the "largeness" of space, and of the spaceship "Icarus II" that was carrying the salvation of mankind. The intensity of the sun was so well-done I almost began to sweat in spots!! The effects were also top-notch, and the last half hour is extremely intense, the kind of intense that keeps you at the edge of your seat. This was a really really GOOD movie, and a great SCI-FI. See it.
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