Sunshine

[grobelaar]

Saw this at the weekend and thought it was stunning, best sci-fi movie in ages. Looks awesome, totally exhilarating, might even have been well-acted but I'm rubbish at whether acting is good.

Anyone else seen it? Definitely worth it on the big screen.

[Spandex]

gonna go see tomorra i reckon.

[soulcheck]

One thing that bothers me is that they used Clint Mansell's + kronos quartet tunes as soundtrack (at least in the trailer).

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Does it have a good ending? (without telling us)

[kams]

Bet it hasn't - sci-fi is like wanking on speed - not a lot of reward for a lot of effort

[nempsey]

not bad...very enjoyable sci fi - beautifully shot - good acting - but i felt the metaphysics/ideas stuff was a bit shallow - a wee bit of a missed opportunity. and where did they get the gravity from?

lots of obvious theft from other movies too. and too much relying on countdowns to generate tension.

overall good tho

[grobelaar]

One thing that bothers me is that they used Clint Mansell's + kronos quartet tunes as soundtrack (at least in the trailer).

Movie trailers often use other film soundtracks in them - according to this wiki page the trailer is indeed Clint Mansell, but the filmscore is collaboration between John Murphy and Underworld.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(soundtrack)

[don___quixote]

Bet it hasn't - sci-fi is like wanking on speed - not a lot of reward for a lot of effort

lol will be re-using this analagy..

[grobelaar]

Does it have a good ending? (without telling us)


Without spoiling it - hmmm, hard to say - a lot of comments I've seen on-line alternate between saying what an amazing film, and the detractors getting hung up in the science - Sunshine isn't a hard sci-fi film - there's bits in it, like the physics which are pure bunkum, plus some of the mission procedures are whack too, but if you put all that aside and understand that these things are just devices for telling a story then it's a good movie.

I wasn't disappointed by the ending or the whole film.

[Tec]

Ending is pretty weak.

Wished i was a patient chap and didn't watch it on via a cam torrent, too many dark scenes that left me thinking "WTF is going on now then?"

Great film though, Event Horizon vibes.

[grobelaar]

Ending is pretty weak.

Wished i was a patient chap and didn't watch it on via a cam torrent, too many dark scenes that left me thinking "WTF is going on now then?"

Great film though, Event Horizon vibes.

Can't really say too much, but honestly how else did you think the film would end - is it weak because it's predictable? I don't think so.

Weak would be, the end of Armageddon and the annoying mission control voice over man - just hammering home the fucking obvious and everyone else whooping and hollering and breaking out the little stars-n-stripes they'd kept in their desk just in case they went to work one day and were involved in a planet saving operation.

[Tec]

everyone should've died.

Simple as that.

[nempsey]

they woke up and it was all a dream

[jukka]

i just saw the ad on telly and thought it has to be super shit from what i saw.

[grobelaar]

i just saw the ad on telly and thought it has to be super shit from what i saw.


there's fishing in it? - no really there is.

[marcel]

Bet it hasn't - sci-fi is like wanking on speed - not a lot of reward for a lot of effort
lol that is brilliant.

[jukka]

there's fishing in it? - no really there is.

hrhrhr........i might give it a go when its in the video library then.

and be awared if the fishing scenes are not worth renting it lol

[penciLneck]

Bet it's naff compared to Soylent Green.

I've been really disappointed with all the crap sci-fi recently. I thought The Fountain was pish and same goes for Children of Men.

[Paddy]

One thing that bothers me is that they used Clint Mansell's + kronos quartet tunes as soundtrack (at least in the trailer).

that bothers me too, one of the most over used pieces of music in film history i reckon.

[nempsey]

children of men was really disappointing

[Daddys Girl]

I really enjoyed it - Ian knew that it may not have been my type of film, and I thought I wasn't going to like it that much, but I did.

Was totally different to what I has expecting (or programmed myself to think it was...) - & Mark Stong was wicked in it.

[thembuzz]

it looks alright. i'll probably wait for the dvd, though

[Loz]

I unashamedly love Children of Men. Really really enjoyed it.

[Spandex]

Just saw Sunshine. It was really good until the last bit (from where he goes to see who's on the observation deck) when it went so bob that it retrospectively changed my opinion of the good stuff that had gone before. It was as if someone said "so.. how are we going to end this? i know.. how about, for no reason whatsoever, we add [the thing they added]".

Sound was a bit lazy too. Every time something big came on the screen it went "RUUUUUUMBLE MILLENIUMVERB LOW PASS FILTER SUB BASS".

But if the last bit had been better I wouldn't have noticed the sound. Or been annoyed by the Underworld tune in the credits.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I watched children of men expecting it to be absolute pish and found it to actually be just mildly boring. Some very nice sound, but so what.

I'm pretty sure I'll find sunshine annoying.

[Spandex]

It's a shame.. cos it's actually really good.. until they totally bugger it up.

[grobelaar]

I've been wondering with the 'thing at the end' if there was a bit of running out of budget involved - which has pushed that 'thing at the end' in a certain direction. I still enjoyed it.

I think that possibly without that thing at the end it would be a bit moody - like the original Solaris and obviously with the scale of the project there would be a need to make it more appealing to the 'mass market'.

[kams]

they dont makes fillums chronologically though do they? I mean - they dont get 80% through and think "oooh shit... there's only £4 left... we'll have to wing the last ten mins"

[nempsey]

it's written by alex garland tho...the thing at the end is just a result of him being a bit of a cheesy writer

[Spandex]

Yeah prolly. It was probably fourth draft of the script.. they realised there were some good ideas left in Alien, 2001 and Event Horizon that they hadn't ripped off yet. So they jammed them all in.