Comments on: Wow. People Are Crap

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:58:14 +0000

These ugly comments were *all* coming from American IPs?? The latter commenter (‘This lawyer crap is a bunch of…’) clearly forgot to take his/her olanzapine/Prozac/Valium that day.

By: giagia

giagia — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:57:39 +0000

I’ve still been getting shitty comments. One person had their name as ‘FuckingLiars’ and their email address was a combination of ‘you fucking liar’ and the message was about me lying about the soundtrack… Here’s another one which isn’t directed at me specifically, but is still filled with ‘violence’ “This lawyer crap is a bunch of b.s. Release the damn soundtrack before I lose it and punch somebody in the face.”

I mean…

By: giagia

giagia — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:56:05 +0000

Thanks, Michael. You know, I guess it’s all cos I didn’t work on the US release so have no idea about what they are doing (or not doing) at any given moment. And whether or not thy decide to show videos FILLED with spoilers before the film is out, has nothing to do with me. And if the lawyers keep going on and on and on w the soundtrack has nothing to do with me… but I’m the only person even vaguely connected with the film who is ‘available’ to shout at…so I get it all. I know, I should just let it roll off.

And I’m American, too… :)

By: michael

michael — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:19:29 +0000

I think you need to understand that Americans might be pissed at you because you seem to avoid giving any sunshine news or info for the US release. We’re dying to hear about such a great film, and you come off as indifferent to Americans’ interest. Im sure you explained why that is, but you cant expect people to know where that tidbit of reasoning is posted. Yeah, people can be jerks when they know they dont have to answer for their comments, but just delete the bad stuff. Dont blame all “Americans” for those comments, there are plenty of us reading your blog and dna site that enjoy it, but simply dont post back to you that often. let it roll off.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:55:58 +0000

I remember first coming across you on facebook and finding the group there, I posted a question and you answered, which meant at a lot at the time – that you found the time to pop me a few words, since then I’ve been reading your blog and keeping an eye on the facebook group. I just wanted to say thank-you, I really appreciated all your efforts promoting the film and helping to form a community – it’s great to have a forum for other Sunshine fans to share there love of the film. So sorry to hear that you’ve been receiving hate comments, and interesting that none of it was a problem before the US release.

By: H

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:44:03 +0000

Missed Sunshine in the cinema (just moved to London and friendless, sob – still pretty much friendless, double sob) so looking forward to the DVD.

I suppose the anger could be a sign of their anticipation but there’s better ways of showing it (much like the wait for Helvetica to come to London; only thirty times geekier and seventy times less mainstream).

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:54:36 +0000

Gia,
She said there were a lot of famous, or at least famous enough that she recognized them, people in both the party at the end and in the classroom in the beginning. She also pointed out a part that was filmed in St. Petersburg rather then Moscow, and that apparently at one point Yegor was drinking a juice called Evil in Russian.
I just checked on line and the wikipedia article does mention and clarify some of these, as well as mention others. I just felt it was kind of delightful that my friend enjoyed that aspect of the movie so much! She is the same friend that I took to 28 Weeks Later, and she liked it enough that she was going to rent 28 days. My girlfriend refers to her as my “scary movie” date!

By: giagia

giagia — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:13:24 +0000

Nicholas – Well, Sunshine comes out on DVD next Monday – the 27th- after that there’s nothing else to do on it. It will officially be finished (boo :-(… I was asked about 6 months ago to work on Daywatch and as I really loved Nightwatch so I was happy to work on it. I’m also doing stuff for the 28 Weeks Later DVD release, too… :)

Do you remember any of the inside jokes in Daywatch? I suspected that in both Day and Night Watch there was an element of culturally specific stuff that was passing me by…

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:31:35 +0000

I figured that out (Daywatch) just a few days ago. I saw the movie with a Russian friend of mine and she loved it! I guess there are scenes and people in that movie that are something like inside jokes or references for Russians that I totally didn’t get until she explained them to me.
But why did you switch from Sunshine to Daywatch, and why did you pick Daywatch?

By: vince

vince — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:43:41 +0000

oh bummer I’ll have to get you some D&G bling then.. >;-)