Sunshine

[Tick]

best Sci-Fi movie since Serenity imho I just watched it.
The guy from 28 days later did a kick ass job.

 

[lePobz]

I thought it started out OK but lost the plot entirely at the end. They should add a more realistic ending, then i'll be happy.

 

[knut]

Whilst the whole Captain Crispy thing was way out of line, it sure as hell was nerve-wracking, so I liked it. Best part for me was when they went on board the other ship and all those stills of the photograph were flashing on the screen. Scary stuff. Reminded me of the tension in Aliens when the marines are searching the complex for a solid 10 minutes with no action.

 

[soulslicer]

dam, i wanna watch

 

[VictimOfScience]

I will be seeing this and the Simpsons movie this week. Awesome week for the cinema!!!

 

[Icarusintel]

I will be seeing this and the Simpsons movie this week. Awesome week for the cinema!!!

Good on you.

I've seen it thrice now (Fri, Sat, Sun) and I want to go see it yet again.

 

[AntiAnto]

Is it me or the trailers give absolutely no information about the plot and what the movie is all about?

 

[Tick]

you have to watch it...it's a mixof 2001 and Event Horizon but 20x better then Event horizon though.

 

[jimbo118]

Best part for me was when they went on board the other ship and all those stills of the photograph were flashing on the screen. Scary stuff.

yeah that part was great, i was like 'was i the only 1 who saw that?' but my friend looked towards me aswell and was like 'wtf was that?'

 

[knut]

yeah that part was great, i was like 'was i the only 1 who saw that?' but my friend looked towards me aswell and was like 'wtf was that?'

I watched Fight Club the night before (when he's putting the porno clips into the film scenes), so I honestly did think someone was ****ing with the audience by putting in random stills into the film reel. I caught on but it became really unsettling to watch, and damn did that make it all the more tense. Awesome awesome awesome.

 

[xcellerate]

I just saw it and it was AWESOME. Probably one of my favorite films now, and it may just be the second film that I'll ever pay to see more than once. I really liked it...but the people I was with didn't seem as excited about it as me.

 

[xcellerate]

There were two things that kinda made me funny on the inside:

Spoiler

1.) When the icarus 1 captain dropped them both off the side of the wall inside the bomb, and they started to slide against the side of the wall..which turned into a floor. I get that they're messing with the gravity while inside the sun, but it seems weird that gravity messes up, then returns to normal when he's inside the detonation chamber.

2.) At the very end when you're on earth and see the sun gets brighter. It doesn't get brighter in a flash (like it should) but rather it gets brighter like a sunrise...creeping across the land, which doesn't make sense.

edit: I really really liked the movie, the characters were all acting CORRECTLY. It was none of the hollywood b.s. where they're like, "we don't have enough oxygen for all 5 of us, somebody has to die." Then they cry about it and finally somebody goes, "omg, we could just re-route power to the subsystems in sector 4 and have the water purification systems evaporate water into oxygen! We're all saved!"

It was straight up, g-unit, hardcore, I'm not ****ing around, "somebody has to die" and "alright, I'm gonna kill him." The plot just worked so well, and maybe it was just me, but they didn't seem to introduce anything unecessary, I mean you could say certain things could have been left out, but then you would have to change the whole story line. It was sort of like they say in the matrix, everything that happened...happened for a reason.

 

[Link]

Yeah, stick your arm through the energy barrier thing into the center of the sun. That won't hurt.

I was expecting armagedon, got 28 days later except it wasn't scary.

 

[Ennui]

you have to watch it...it's a mixof 2001 and Event Horizon but 20x better then Event horizon though.

The best thing about Event Horizon is the name.

 

[Icarusintel]

Yeah, stick your arm through the energy barrier thing into the center of the sun. That won't hurt.

He's dead no matter what, might as well give it a shot.

Besides, how awesome of a story would that be in the afterlife?

 

[Link]

Sorry, give what a shot? Sticking his arm into the sun? "You never know, it might not hurt". I know it was meant to be a deep and meaningful moment, but frankly, it just sucked.

Possibly not helped by the fact that he looks so muchs like hes Ashton Kutchers twin brother. I kept waiting for Seann William Scott to come on and say "Wheres my sun dude?" "Dude, wheres your sun?"

 

[PoeticRocker]

I thought it was good. The main thing I love about movies like this is the incredible amount of atmosphere they have. It just sucks you completely in, away from reality. Thought I do feel it was a bit of a mixture between 2001: Space Odyssey and Event Horizon, it was still very entertaining.

7/10

 

[brink's]

Yeah, stick your arm through the energy barrier thing into the center of the sun. That won't hurt.

I was expecting armagedon, got 28 days later except it wasn't scary.

You were expecting one of the worst movies ever made...srry you were disappointed.

Yea, what an asshole for looking similar to another actor..totally ruined the movie imo. and that brown guy looked a lot like Fez too, i kept expecting him to make ignorant statements about halloween and our western way of life...how could i enjoy a movie like that.

 

[Link]

Ok, so I could say "actually, I really liked armagedon" and you could say "No way, it sucked" and we could continue arguing untill one film or the other actually happened. But I have no interest in that, so I will instead clarify: I was expecting a film in the style of armagedon. Mankind versus a natural event, with obstacles that must be overcome.

Sunshine was in the style of 28 days later, I.E, humans vs ****ed up humans. Now don't get me wrong, 28 days later was a good film, mostly because its one of the few horror/thriller films that attempts to make your pulse raise by tension, rather than just trying to make you jump every so often. However, instead of sitting and enjoying the thrill, I sat there and though "Stop poncing about like a ****ing girl, go and find the knife that guy slit his wrists with" and stick it in the bad guys eye, you pathetic excuse for a hero."

So, no, I was expecting, what is to me, a good, enjoyable film, from a genre I like. What I got was a sub par example of a genre that few examples of have ever impressed me.

Fair enough if you think the guys an arsehole for looking like ashton kutcher. I only pointed out that he reminded me of him, and was attempting to lighten the tone.

 

[xcellerate]

Sunshine was in the style of 28 days later, I.E, humans vs ****ed up humans.

No it wasn't. The captain was in the movie for like 20 minutes, he wasn't even scary, and his character pushed the story line along.

People always seem to focus on the captain and treat it like a horror film. Even the people I saw it with. The captain was an important character, he did all that stuff I wont spoil for people reading this.

If they didn't have the captain they'd have to rewrite the rest of the movie.
If they had the captain but made him a normal guy then that would be unbelievable. Plus they would have to rewrite the first part of the movie to make sense.

It works.

 

[knut]

Sunshine was similar to 28 Days Later in everything but it being 'monsters vs humans', as even that wasn't what 28 Days was about. They both focus heavily around atmosphere, tension and a bleak outlook on situations. And aswell as that, characters and how they respond with each other in bleak and doomed situations. I consider the more action parts of 28 Days more of a backdrop for the best parts of the film to be honest, and all those things involved are what made Sunshine a great film for me. I'd consider 28 Days as the Half-Life 2 of the zombie genre, if you follow. (I know, I know, they weren't zombies)

And I know I would want to go looking around a dark and self-destructing ship with a knife against some unseen foe who (after suriving alone, for a few years, in space) is quite obviously mad. These guys were only scientists and astronauts, afterall.

 

[Link]

No it wasn't. The captain was in the movie for like 20 minutes, he wasn't even scary, and his character pushed the story line along.

Thats my point, half the film is them versus mechanical problems type stuff, then suddenly, theres a man running around killing people. It started fine, with real problems they might face if it was real, then took a turn for the ****ing surreal. Its like 2 films in one. Its a schizophrenic film. Thats fine, but the "horror/thriller" bit sucks utter arse.

I guess more than anything I disliked it because I spent the entire end portion of the film thinking "Go and find a weapon, and kill the ****er", rather than running around like a headless chicken and getting butt raped. I imagine that people who wern't sat there thinking that would have liked the film more than me.

But either way, as I say, the start was fine, the "scary" bit was cack.

 

[clarky003]

The best thing about Event Horizon is the name.

The best thing about Event Horizon was it was more like Doom than the actual Doom movie.