Sunshine

[Doppelgofer]

just been to see this. absolutley MINT IMPERIAL

go and see it now

 

[Zannovere]

Did you mean: Little Miss Sunshine?













...a movie I have yet to see.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

no he means sunshine (by danny boyle)

 

[CyberPitz]

Oh shit, it's out?! I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING THIS WEEKEND!

 

[brink's]

Only in England....the Yanks will have to wait a few more months.

 

[Dekstar]

Sounds alright, but not something I'd actively go out and see.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

I'm going to see it at the weekend

 

[Doppelgofer]

i was just sat there watching it and i felt a large shit escape my asshole its that good

a lot of people have been moaning about it but don't listen to them because they're shit and wrong and i'm brilliant so listen to me

great film...very tight thriller

Did you mean: Little Miss Sunshine?

:frown:

 

[lePobz]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=2224381&postcount=3137

 

[Doppelgofer]

its been annoying me how people have been going 'LOL! SUN DYING AND TECHNOLOGY LIKE THAT TO FIX IT IN 50 YEEEEEARS? LMAO GIVE ME A BREAK DUUUUUDE. THIS PLOT IS UNREALISTIC'

yeah **** off its a FILM and when you go to see a FILM you suspend your disbelief. if not, then harry potter is real and hes going to kill us all by using his glasses to magnify the sun on our balls

 

[lePobz]

Calm down, that's what I said. Pretty much.

 

[Doppelgofer]

well then yooooou siiiiiiiiir

 

[Zannovere]

The sun is full of deceit.

 

[Remus]

The sun is full of deceit.

The sun is full of theshit

 

[CyberPitz]

Only in England....the Yanks will have to wait a few more months.

Oh well, screener here I come I guess.

 

[jimbo118]

then harry potter is real and hes going to kill us all by using his glasses to magnify the sun on our balls

rofflecakes!

 

[TheHamster22]

its been annoying me how people have been going 'LOL! SUN DYING AND TECHNOLOGY LIKE THAT TO FIX IT IN 50 YEEEEEARS? LMAO GIVE ME A BREAK DUUUUUDE. THIS PLOT IS UNREALISTIC'

yeah **** off its a FILM and when you go to see a FILM you suspend your disbelief. if not, then harry potter is real and hes going to kill us all by using his glasses to magnify the sun on our balls

But this is brought across as a film that is factually correct, I mean they did have a top physicist advising them on it afterall, so they must have wanted to the public to think its believable. Of which it isn't, and so suspending disbelief becomes rediculous.

Harry Potter had all the magic jazz didn't he, so we wouldn't even know about it all so that explains his predicament. Belief suspended.

 

[StardogChampion]

Who do we believe? Someone on an HL2 forum who works in Mcdonalds, or the 2 or 3 professional advisors they had on the film set?

 

[Asknoone]

I'm leaning towards the McDonalds worker.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

I just got back from seeing it and I have to say one of the best movies I have seen so far in 2007.

 

[Doppelgofer]

But this is brought across as a film that is factually correct, I mean they did have a top physicist advising them on it afterall, so they must have wanted to the public to think its believable. Of which it isn't, and so suspending disbelief becomes rediculous.

Harry Potter had all the magic jazz didn't he, so we wouldn't even know about it all so that explains his predicament. Belief suspended.

shut up. i hate you and your family

 

[theotherguy]

Who do we believe? Someone on an HL2 forum who works in Mcdonalds, or the 2 or 3 professional advisors they had on the film set?

The experts they used probably only told them things like the heat of the sun at various levels, and what a theoretical spaceship would have to look like if it entered the sun.

The writers probably said, "hey, physicists, here's the story line: the sun 'burns out' in 50 years, and we want to send a little spaceship out to save it! How do we make it look realistic?"

And the physicists then told them exactley how a star dies, and exactley what would be needed to make it suddenly die in 50 years (which is possible, although increibly unlikely. You'd need something like another star colliding with it) and then exactley what would need to be done to save it. (which requires even more suspension of disbeleif.)

The writers then wrote out their sensationalized drama and somewhat conformed to the ideas presented by the physicists to at least make the sun environment seem beleiveable. They also probably had futurists to tell them what technologies might be available in 50 years and what a theoretical ship might look like.

 

[knut]

Saw it earlier. Good film, nice visuals, very tense/gripping at points, good atmosphere but... [spoilers]





... what the hell was up the Captain Crispy towards the end of the movie? Why is there suddenly this walking fireball stalking around the ship? It was a cool element but it kinda ruined the feel to the film. I heard there was going to be a physco from Icarus I but I wasn't expecting someone like him. :|

 

[Doppelgofer]

spoooooiler




it reminded me very much of doctor weir from event horizon but cooooooler

 

[swiss]

I thought Sunshine was really good, loved the atmosphere, sound effects, characters, very much 'Alien' like.

SPOILER
I agree about that physco being a bit weird, for instance why should he be extra strong when he has been totally burnt by the sun?
But still enjoyed the film and the ending.

 

[Doppelgofer]

SPOILER
I agree about that physco being a bit weird, for instance why should he be extra strong when he has been totally burnt by the sun?
But still enjoyed the film and the ending.

SPOILERish
its just a film...he was made like that so he was actually something to fear, a force to be reckoned with, a villain of villains and a good bad guy he was aswell

if he was just some burnt crisp guy that would've gone down in one punch everyone would've been saying what a cop out

 

[knut]

I'm all for some alien being on board, or something but... a burnt guy? What the hell?

 

[Jintor]

Did they pull an Ignus?

 

[jimbo118]

saw it lastnight, really enjoyed it, the first two thirds were excellent, the last third was still very enjoyable but just a little confusing and the whole burnt dude thing...

some amazing scenes, i loved the one where capa and the captain were repairing the shields for example, the climax of that scene was awesome with the music inparticular, love it..

 

[gick]

Wow. Amazing film. Stunning visually, very tense, great performances all round.



SPOILERS


The first part was very very good. When they found Captain Crispy I was worried things would go from 2001/Alien to a slasher movie in space, but then things were cranked up to an epic, emotional finale. It was weird as hell, but I still think it was a great ending.

 

[Sulkdodds]

That was a very good film, though I thought the pacing was a bit uneven which was a shame because the tense bits and the visual-spectacle-emotional bits were all done very, very well. And Captain Crispy was...a little silly?

 

[CyberPitz]

Do we know when this is released in the US?

 

[NeptuneUK]

Highly reccomended film, if anyone's going to bitch about it not being realistic surely they could use better examples anyway.
Why weren't they crushed by the suns IMMENSE GRAVITATIONAL FORCES?!?!!?!?
If I could be arsed I would calculate this shit rather than speculate.
Meh.

 

[Sulkdodds]

(Vague spoilers below)

Good points:
- You got a wonderful sense of what space travel is really like - these poor people wrapped up in a paper-thin shell of metal and tinfoil with a hair's breadth between fully functional life and frozen death.
- Very tense, damn scary, nail-biting, breath-taking, exciting, etc. Boyle really paid attention while watching Alien. Every damn moment you expect something to jump out even though you know this isn't the kind of movie where things jump out. The film really excelled at creating a feeling of unease, and when it got actiony it did it very very well.
- The soujourn aboard the other ship was wonderfully atmospheric and disturbing
- Super effects: check. Good music: check. Beautiful: check. Set design: awesome. etc.
- Acting good.
- Sound design = whoah! Although it does make you question why anybody would equip a spaceship with such a distressing distress signal - surely a simple SOS would have been far less unnerving?

Bad points:
- Underwritten characters, though to Garland's credit they aren't stereotypes, and are actually a plausible crew (ie. not oil drillers).
- Failure to really delve into the psychological dimension of the journey; I expected a focus on encroaching madness, especially when it became clear (or seemed to become clear) what killed the other crew.
- Saint Crispin - well, he wasn't done all that badly, but the core concept seemed so hokey and out-of-place that it was hard to really appreciate his admittedly disturbing/jarring presence
- Slightly repetetive, often contrived narrative and not paced all that well - compare the plot arc of Sunshine with that of Apollo 13 and see what I mean.
- Puffed up like it has a helluva subtext but seemed a bit...slim? More could have been made of the tremendous possibilities. Either that or I missed some of it.

Overall, worth the money.

 

[knut]

I'm pretty much in agreement with the above points.

Like all space films, it even still had the typical ''something has gone wrong, we must journey to the most dangerous part of the ship to fix it!'' - which whilst cool to watch (man setting on fire amidst a blindingly ARGH MY EYES visual scene = awesome) I could tell was going to happen at some point.

 

[Kadayi]

Looking forward to the DVD release, though they better not pull a ****ing Train spotting with the special features.