Sunshine

[Tyguy]

Saw this a couple days ago and thought it was great. I think John Murphy had a lot to do with it as his music fits the movie so well. Besides that I just ****ing love the concept, however far fetched and scientifically absurd it may be.

Anyone else see this? Your thoughts?

 

[Lucid]

I enjoyed the look and style of the movie along with the music but that was it.
I personally thought it was incredibly boring, probably doesn't help that I wasn't expecting it to be so heavy on the scientific aspects of their operation... I was expecting a horror movie on the lines of something like Event Horizon but less tongue in cheek.

 

[Kadayi]

Its a visually stunning film, but the plot unravels towards the end. The saving grace is it did introduce me to Rose Byrne:-

Who has a wonderful face

 

[knut]

Love this film. Even the parts where the movie takes a drastic turn for the what the **** I can't help but like that as well. Great on all levels, even if those levels are seperated apart in such strange ways.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Its a visually stunning film, but the plot unravels towards the end. The saving grace is it did introduce me to Rose Byrne:-

Who has a wonderful face

Completely agree

 

[Ennui]

This is my favorite recent science fiction movie. I agree the plot gets wonky towards the end, but the atmospheric and visual work in the entire movie are incredible, and the first half of the movie is wonderfully done. The movie's dark psychological aspects concurrent with the whole idea that a few isolated people are tasked with being the sole hope for mankind's survival works masterfully.

Mostly though it's the visual aesthetic of the movie that gets me though. And Rose Byrne.

 

[Tyguy]

This movie prompted me to watch 2001 for the first time. I hate that they don't explain the monolith any further but I guess that is the point.

 

[Warbie]

Good movie.

 

[stemot]

Always loved this movie, even on release when everybody else seemed to be putting it down.

 

[Shift]

One of the best sci-fi films I've seen, but thats mainly down to the fact that Cillian Murphy is it who is one of my favorite actors, Rose Byrne is it obviously, its directed by my favorite director and the soundtrack is absolutely incredible, I'm a sucker for a good soundtrack.

I think the entire idea is brilliantly well crafted and very intelligently written, the only thing I didn't agree with is the Russian guy who somehow stayed alive for 6 years despite being almost burnt to a crisp. Kampa's jump to the stellar bomb is visually and musically one of the best scenes I have ever seen.

 

[jverne]

this movie sucks balls. it's just bad

 

[Viperidae]

Tyguy: Analysis.
Lucid: Analysis.
Antipop: Analysis.
Ennui: Analysis.
Shift: Analysis.
jverne: it sucks lol

Guess who I'm going with.

 

[Sulkdodds]

When I first saw this film I was struck, but not in love. It was beautiful and atmospheric and like all Danny Boyle films it was brilliantly produced. Sure, everyone's justifiably wowed by the sequences that involve the power of the sun - like that shield repair/"what do you see" scene. Buit what I remember most clearly is the investigation of the ruined ship. At that time it scared me as a film hadn't done for a long while, really terriefied me with its beats expertly lifted from Alien and the like (sometimes people criticise Boyle for being an inveterate magpie but by damn he's a good one).

Nevertheless, I was expecting the film to go far deeper into the characters, their relationships and the psychological conditions associated with their mission. It never really seemed to enter that territory except shallowly. And when the plot went all silly at the end I was very disappointed. So I liked it, but because I didn't find meaning and substance in the places I had expected to it seemed cold, muted, and by the end rather broken.

Since then, without actually seeing it again, I think I've become a bit smitten. I would still stand by most of the above analysis if asked to offer as cold a criticism as I could. But the good bits have exercised a real power on my memory and I will savour it when I get to see it again. Probably this is the essence of a 'cult film': real tangible flaws, but they don't stop the great stuff from carrying you away.

Plus, how can you not like a film whose storyline I heard described like this?

humanity struggles against the contingent cruelty of the universe so a bunch of people set out in a ship and get delayed when a religious nutso claims the angels told him to kill them all but the science officer says NUH UH and saves the world by BLOWING UP GOD.

 

[bryanf445]

Yea I TRIED to watch this on netflix, however, they sent me this instead

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145503/

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[Tyguy]

Yea I TRIED to watch this on netflix, however, they sent me this instead

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145503/

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that's absolutely : |

:|

 

[Shift]

Yea I TRIED to watch this on netflix, however, they sent me this instead

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145503/

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LOOL.

 

[jverne]

Tyguy: Analysis.
Lucid: Analysis.
Antipop: Analysis.
Ennui: Analysis.
Shift: Analysis.
jverne: it sucks lol

Guess who I'm going with.

oh, i should have seen that coming.

1. story is, maybe acceptable
2. plot is god awful, just so many rolleyes moments. "oh let's get that ship because my calculations that i made in 5 minutes show me it would work better", "oh dear another guy has destroyed everything because of religious beliefs", the falling into the sun was awesomely stupid
3. characters were just annoyingly stupid and amateurish for being the saviors of earth
4. physics were inconsistently presented

sorry if i can't give a detailed analysis since it was a long time ago since i saw it, can't remember every part that annoyed me. but i remember being very disappointed at the end.

 

[Krynn72]

I watched it again recently, and i was so bored. It probably would have been better if it was some kind of tv show or miniseries where they could actually make me care about any of the characters, or anything at all..

 

[Sulkdodds]

b-b-b-but

BLOWING UP GOD !!

 

[Shift]

calculations that i made in 5 minutes show me it would work better",
3. characters were just annoyingly stupid and amateurish for being the saviors of earth

It doesn't actually show how long it took for the calculation to be made, it certainly wouldn't have been 5 minutes. And of course they were, it was just a group of scientists, just normal people, they weren't meant to be presented as a bunch of super heroes or something.

Your points are daft because you forget its a film at the end of the day, not to mention a fictional film, so realism doesn't exactly take the front seat. I mean they are flying a ship to the sun, that contains a bomb that is capable of re-igniting the sun, thats just crazy in itself, but thats why its a film. Stop being overly picky.

 

[Unfocused]

I quite enjoyed the movie, but was surprised at how a lot of hl2.netters loved it. Usually movies like this get bashed here.

 

[CyberPitz]

I enjoyed it. Was it a cinema masterpiece? Nah, but I was entertained. Although, the whole 'crazy guy' part of the movie had me facepalming the entire time.

 

[Ennui]

My favorite scene is probably the very end. Since we've been spoilering in this thread I won't put it in tags, but warning: spoilers ahead!

It's all wrapped together so well - once Pinbacker is out of the picture, there's nothing but Cillian Murphy on a supermassive bomb hurtling at breakneck speed into the surface of the sun. Everything works together - the intensity of the plot climaxing, the flashes to the exterior shot of the bomb (which you know to be huge) as a tiny speck racing straight into the molten plane of the sun's surface, the music which stalls and hangs until he activates the bomb, etc. I love the final moments of the film. And when he reaches out to touch the surface of the new sun/god... yeesh.

Not necessarily my favorite scene though. I also like the scene someone mentioned (I think Sulk) where they are exploring the Icarus I and the photographs of the old crew's smiling faces flash intermittently as their flashlight beams sweep the dark, dusty interior. Excellent tension.

And the jump through space. Whew.

 

[xcellerate]

it reminded me a lot of event horizon, but the thing that really stuck with me in sunshine was how realistic all the crew members were. One of my favorite scenes was when they were giving the spacesuit to the physicists and the comms officers is protesting:

comms: why does he get the suit?!
other guy: because everyone else is low priority!
comms: I'm not low priority!
other guy: you're a comms officer on a ship with no means of communication!

or when they find out they don't have enough oxygen for everyone on board, they don't talk about rerouting auxiliary power through the CO2 scrubber matrix; they know that somebody has to die.

 

[Tyguy]

Check out my awesome new avatar. yaaaaay.

I'm on the same boat as ennui, the last few minutes of the movie were epic. The music along with the bomb hurling towards the sun with the giant sunspots in the background gave me chills.

 

[Zephos]

I loved most of the film. I actually quite liked the character of Pinbecker but they could've handled him a lot better I must admit. I however, agree that the exploration of the derelict ship was incredibly creepy, and I loved the scene when they actually discover him on board.

Capa: Trey is dead. There are only four crew members; Cassie, Mace, Corazon and me.
Icarus: Negative. Five crew members.