Sunshine

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Plot:
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The film opens with an expository narrative by physicist Robert Capa (Cillian Murphy). In the year 2057, the Sun is failing, and the Icarus project has been formed with the intent of traveling to the sun and detonating a massive thermonuclear payload to re-ignite it. Seven years before the events of the film, the spacecraft Icarus I was launched but failed for reasons unknown; its successor, the Icarus II, with a crew of eight, is en route to the star. Since all of the Earth's fissile material has been mined for the two Icarus ships, the future of life on Earth is doomed if the mission fails.
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Trailer:


Interview:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/main...o/aod/fivelive_aod.shtml?fivelive/danny_boyle

I highly recommend the interview. It's audio only from BBC Radio, and it's little long. His little comment about Michael Bay(director) is so dead on, it was scary.

This is so not fair. This film's been shown just about everywhere, except here. :( Danny Boyle is one of my favorite people from film industry, and this film looks nothing short of his other classics such as Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later. When is it coming to Portland?
 
I thought this movie was coming out in November or December?
 
I liked the idea of that movie, and they did some very nice things, The way it walks towards the end however didn't really suit me, which kind of blew the whole thing for me. Not a bad movie, but could have been better. I could tell more details, but I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it.
 
November or December, eh? When they announced release in select market, I think in mid August, I was hoping it would've been out by now. Darn! :grumpy:
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I liked the idea of that movie, and they did some very nice things, The way it walks towards the end however didn't really suit me, which kind of blew the whole thing for me. Not a bad movie, but could have been better. I could tell more details, but I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it.
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In the BBC Radio interview(link in the OP), I think Boyle mentioned kind of a quiet ending of this film. I mentioned Michael Bay before, Boyle actually calls the ending of Bay films, (something along lines of) "Amazing sense of triumph, but in reality, it's quite empty.", which is SO money. Oh, well. Now, I'll remember not to expect a homerun at the end of this film, when I do get to see it. :D
 
Michael Bay does tend to put more "Boom" than "brains" into his movies... :lol:

I'm still unsure about watching this, as I would most likely cringe at the science... but if it's a semi-serious film, I could possibly overlook it.
 
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In the BBC Radio interview(link in the OP), I think Boyle mentioned kind of a quiet ending of this film.
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I wouldn't specify it as "quiet". The problem I had was that the ending somewhat takes the movie away from the theme it had before. It may be a nice ending, but it kind of didn't suit what I had seen the hour prior to it. Therefor, it killed the idea of a nice movie for me, because I liked what I had seen before and, obviously, disliked what I saw when the movie suddenly went another way. You'll know what I mean when you've seen it.
 
I really enjoyed the film, but as said above it was a little low key ending, especially with the visual feat of the ship, it could have been better, it really reminded me of sifi films like Gattaca, Code 46 & Solaris very solum and even paced film but with some really nice touches and very nice acting.
 
I got to see this film today(don't ask me how ;) ), and I loved it. I was thinking Event Horizon meets 2001: A Space Odyssey, after finishing the film. And now, I can understand some of the comments in this thread regarding it.

From the setting, plot, cast, I really liked everything, except for the length of the film. I thought it was too short. My only major beef with this film might be that I didn't get to know the crew a little more. Even some of the incidents and events seemed to have been cut short.

I would like to see this film again, when it does make it to the theaters around here.
 
I just bought this movie on blu-ray and watched it again yesterday. Now I can grasp the problem I see in it a bit better.

Actually, I like everything about "Sunshine" except one thing: the captain of the "Icarus One". I've got nothing against the general idea of him appearing, nor against his obvious insanity. The problem is that I don't understand whether he is a normal human being or in some kind of higher form of existence. The fact that they never clearly show him and his superhuman abilities in some scenes make me believe he is the latter. That however I would find pretty weak, as the rest of the movie is nicely down-to-earth, scientifically orientated cinema, which did in no way need such a character.

Opinions?
 
agreed, silly endings and weird characters could have been bypassed and the terror and suspense could have been done by just having the crew to loose their minds and think he was there but really isnt. but its still a nice bit of sifi. Infact I still need to get it on blu-ray.
 
I think I'm going to have to watch it again. I don't own it yet, but this one, I am getting on Blu-ray.

From what I remember, that "turn" was very unexpected. It was like epic-SF-drama, starting out. Then it turned into a horror flick, and it wasn't (even)a good one. But I really have to watch it again before I can comment further.
 

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