DVD Review: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer -- The Power Cosmic Edition

Like most comic book loving guys my age, growing up the Silver Surfer was one of my favorite fictional characters. He was a stoic creature who traveled the cosmos on and with nothing but a board, had cosmic powers, and looked cool as fuck. And even though his task was to endlessly seek out inhabited planets for his master Galactus to raze into non-existence, he was strangely benevolent. For me, the Silver Surfer shared top honors with Thor, Hulk, Blackbolt, and Machine Man.

I've always dreamed about seeing the Silver Surfer up on the big screen. What Doug Jones (the actor behind the Surfer body) and the Weta Digital effects crew did in crafting the herald of Galactus in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was quite actually the fulfillment of one of my childhood dreams. It's not often that you can say something like that without being facetious. And not only does the Surfer looks amazing in this movie, thanks to Laurence Fishburne -- who provided the Surfer's voice -- he sounds great, too... BUT ...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

Movie Review: Sunshine

"It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!" -- Detective Robert Thorn from Soylent Green

"They don't know what they've got there." -- Dr. Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark

"Look how they massacred my boy. " -- Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather

I go in with the highest of hopes and sometimes I come out in ruins. The promise of suburban bliss slashed by studio MBA greed mixed with misunderstood Louis B. Mayer wisdom. For Danny Boyle's Sunshine, I am not going down like that. Not in this lifetime, no way. Children of Men and The Fountain got lost in the shuffle. I championed those films very hard. True, they left a lasting an impact on me. Films not for everyone, but I felt like they were for me. Let me say this, if Danny Boyle and Alex Garland want to continue exploring the science fiction genre, they have my blessing. Like Darren Aronofsky, I would gladly see to it they would always get the financing for their visions...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

'Sunshine' Extended Trailer

Apple Trailers has the extended trailer as well as a shorter one labeled Trailer A for Danny Boyle's upcoming scifi thriller Sunshine.

The film takes place 50 years from now where our Sun is dying. A spaceship with a crew of eight carrying a device that will breath life back into the star is mankind's last hope. But deep into the crew's voyage when they're out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel.

Sunshine, which stars Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, and Michelle Yeoh, hits theaters July 20, 2007.

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