Overrated light fluffy comedy for the masses

Rating: 3/10 (27 March 2007)

Okay, I'll admit it the first time I sat through this in the theater I had a good time. The sun was out, the seasons were changing, I was in the mood for something like this. Perhaps the theater experience of a film like this is what matters - everybody having a good, light laugh together. But then I forgot about it. Quickly. While the rest of the world didn't. And I was sitting there minding my own business when this film kind of took over, and I couldn't help but be reminded of what a great little indie film this was! I shrugged. It didn't go away. So, okay, I watched it again, to humor my little sister. But this time my grin was crooked and bent into a kind of snarl. I started to feel the darkness rising... Sunny? Sunny? What the &%$# is this garbage? I looked around me. I was the only one who was feeling the darkness during this showing of Sunshine. When it was over, I went to go be by myself. I felt alienated. Am I a bad person? I thought over and over. Everybody else seems to be having such a good time... Why can't I just.. join the party? The movie still didn't disappear. Next thing you know it's up for a bunch of Oscars, while I'm still sitting in dark disbelief in the corner, feeling alienated. The next time, I was forced to watch it. "C'mon!" They said. "Everybody loves it!" I was beginning to resent humanity at this point. I was shaking so badly by the end of this last viewing that I wanted to shout at the screen, "did you really ever read Marcel Proust? Why are you defecating on his name like this?!" I was flabbergasted. Nobody I was with had even heard of Marcel Proust before this film. I guess that's what I'm trying to say. This film is for most ordinary people. And most ordinary people haven't read Marcel Proust. Yeah, the kid is cute. Did she deserve an Oscar nomination? No. Did Alan Arkin deserve the Oscar? No. Did Michael Arndt deserve the Oscar above the Queen, Pan's Labyrinth, or Letters From Iwo Jima? ABSOLUTELY NOT! AM I REALLY THE CRAZY ONE HERE OR IS EVERYBODY ELSE JUST CRAZY?