[ApporpSothe]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
It also seemed better than any crew-in-space film I'd seen since Aliens, though I'm not sure that's saying much.

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Anybody else have an opinion to share? You are hard to please?

[KukkoDrukko]

I saw the trailer and it's apparant disregard for solar dynamics was worrisome.

[majestictwelve]

I think the trailer is selling it that way, but it's actually a kind of weird cross between 2001 and Alien. The "save the world" stuff is just a backdrop.

[kanchouska]

I still haven't quite forgiven Danny Boyle for the shakey cam garbage that was 28 Days Later. And after being absolutely appalled by another supposed sci-fi film, The Fountain, I don't know if I have the nerve to see Sunshine, lest my faith in sci-fi cinema is destroyed for all time.

[piramirra]

56 days later? [/obvious]

[AlexanderPalamayr]

Of course not, I'm a CS major.

[spineeupsenry]

Danny Boyle is a great puck-moving defenseman.

[DesautocaD]

and I thought this would be about eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Excellent movie.

This seems interesting. Could you describe more of the plot without spoiling it?

28 days later was kind of interesting. Can't beat gratuitous male frontal nudity. . I know it was supposed to focus on local events, but made very little reference to what was going on in the rest of the world. Was the island quarantined? That was my impression with the jets flying over.

[Sironimoll]

Originally posted by Sn00py
Sunshine is decent to watch, you probably won't walk out of the theatre disappointed, just satisified.

As for Fountain, that was a good movie, especially the music. Hmmm. So if you think The Fountain was good, and Sunshine merely 'decent', I shall avoid Sunshine like the plague. Thanks for the heads-up.

Edit: Oh, hang on, what am I thinking? If you think Sunshine merely decent, yet thought The Fountain good, then that means I will probably think Sunshine is above average and walk out of the cinema extremely satisfied.

Okay, I'll go and see it.

[first_pr]

Bkeela, I'm curious what about The Fountain you dislike so much?

[cbUDaNFRu]

It's certainly no more ludicrous that the science behind other great scifi films.

Only if your list of great sci-fi films goes as follows:

1) The Core

that is all

[cenRealliat]

Originally posted by Dis
and I thought this would be about eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Excellent movie.

This seems interesting. Could you describe more of the plot without spoiling it?

28 days later was kind of interesting. Can't beat gratuitous male frontal nudity. . I know it was supposed to focus on local events, but made very little reference to what was going on in the rest of the world. Was the island quarantined? That was my impression with the jets flying over. Like a Zombie movie in the US would refer to the rest of the world

[SkeniaInhilla]

I wasted my money on this film last week. It had potential, but Danny Boyle botched it (no great surprise really).

Suffice to say that what follows could spoil your viewing experience, but it might also save your money...

Okay, the Icarus II is on its way to Sol to save the world and all that. They soon discover that Icarus I, the first, failed attempt to reignite the sun, is still intact and sending out a mayday. So it is decided to rendezvous with the craft, giving them potentially double the chance to save Earth.

Readjusting course is a tricky proposition though. If it wasn't for solar distortion making communication with Earth impossible, you could well imagine an entire building full of NASA nerds sweating bullets over the maneuver. At the very least you would assume that every person on Icarus II would be involved in the task. But this is a Danny Boyle film, so while the crew is distributed at all quarters of the spaceship, one lone crewman performs the necessary adjustments. He calculates and re-calculates the coordinates, but oops - he forgets just one important thing: to also adjust the sun shield!

All hell breaks lose, and with it all believability gets sucked out into the vacuum of space. Which is a great shame, for the film had established an interesting dynamic between the crew members, Hiroyuki Sanada as the captain was enigmatic, and the lovely Australian girl Rose Byrne was a pleasure to look at. There was almost an Alpha Centauri like vibe amongst the diverse members of the crew, and it reminded me what a great film that material could produce. If only Peter Jackson was into SMAC...

The visuals were also good, with cool blue interior shots contrasting nicely with the hot and orange exterior shots. The cinematography was also blessedly free from shakey cam.

In the end the film degenerates into an Event Horizon pile of fecal matter, which is climaxed with an ending so preposterous and unintelligible, it doesn't even make good comedy. Danny Boyle must be a very charismatic man, because I can't explain otherwise how he became a film maker.

Sunshine might have been good if the end of the world senario was entirely eliminated, and instead a more subtle story was put in its place. Why not just have the craft on a mission of exploration? There would be more time to get to know the crew and become attached to them. Their relationships and conflicts could be fully fleshed out. And when a bit of drama, perhaps a stray meteor or something, was introduced, the audience would actually care what happened. Unfortunately subtlety is a quality in which Danny Boyle is totally deficient. He instead attempts something that only a Kubrick, a Ridley Scott, or a James Cameron could successfully achieve - and he utterly fails.

[Japakefrope]

Originally posted by Gibsie
Well, the whole, "if we fail our entire species dies" concept does add to the tension part a teeny bit, don't you think? As a passionate misanthropist and subscribed member of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, the only tension it excited in me was the risk the mission might actually succeed...

Seriously though, an abstract notion like an entire planet in peril is not as immediate or exciting as characters you are concerned about getting into danger. I don't think I've watched one disaster film where I have actually feared that Superman or whoever would actually fail in saving the world.