Since this go zero media attention I had no clue about this film and thought it was a direct-to-video deal.

I will be picking this up tomorrow and watching it in DTS-HD.

Which is sad, too.
I think it just wasn't distributed well in America because there were too many American "blockbusters" in the theaters already.
The studio releasing it in the US probably figured it wasn't going to make much many because it was sci-fi or something stupid like that.

It's like what they did with Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men, two fantastic films that more people should have been made aware of and had the opportunity to see in the theater. But because they weren't made in the US then they were just pushed aside and placed in limited release until they came out on DVD.

I managed to see this in theaters and absolutely LOVED it. I'm hoping to pick it up on DVD once I find some funds to scrape together.

Yeah, I bought it on blu-ray Tuesday and thought that it was incredible. The only real negative about the film was

But that is kind of a minor complaint considering how well done the rest of the movie is.

Maybe I am the only person who didn't enjoy this movie.

I think it started out really well. I was interested, I was intrigued, I cared. But as soon as they boarded the first Icarus ship, I got flashbacks from Alien for some reason. And then a raving lunatic boarded THEIR ship, and low and behold, we was a madman.

It was predictable. It had potential I guess, but I really didn't enjoy it AT ALL.

I guess I am too used to space films of this nature having a really grandiose, underlying theme. I think I was expecting that from Sunshine, but I didn't find anything too profound in it. =/

No, I too loathed this movie. It'd be a compliment to call Danny Boyle the witless Kubrick. "Pretentious" is often bestowed upon pics like The Assassination of Jesse James but I haven't seen anything as philosophically blank and heavy-handed since Crash (ok fine, In The Valley of Elah). That Boyle strives for greatness makes it all the more embarrassing.

I enjoyed 28 Days Later but recently saw 28 Weeks Later and thought it was some of the most mindless trash I've ever witnessed. So, no wonder that I really didn't see the point of Sunshine. I spent a lot of the movie just trying to see the lead character as non-creepy, since I've only seen the actor play villians. It was jarring to me to try to emphathize with him.

I think there was a lot of so-called "art" for art's-sake in this film, that was in the end pointless. For example, the spiritual side of the light. What was the point, if they didn't in the end take that idea anywhere? I did not fell that theme was tied back into the characters, or into the ending of the film.

In the end, what could have been a highly philosophical sci-fi film derailed into a completely standard "madman tries to murder the whole crew" plot. Heck, that plot's been around since there's been sailing ships on the high seas let alone science fiction. :rolleyes:

I think the reason that there is such a split opinion over this film is that though all of its metaphors fall completely flat, it's an excellent film from a technical standpoint. I enjoyed it, but I didn't think it was anything special.

One positive point of the movie was the whole technologic side of it and the spiritual side of the sun. The sun represents God in some way and the humanity sets out in space to save God.

The only thing I didn't think was necessary was the whole other plot including the Icarus I. Although this was told to balance the fact that a human wants to play God.

I still think it,s worth renting.

Sunshine
 

Gist of it: it's 2057, sun's going dark and the crew of the Icarus II has to deliver a payload of all of Earth's remaining nuclear-capable material into the core of the sun to re-ignite it. Everything else is major spoilers, so I won't tell you even if they are obvious, the twists are one of the best parts of the movie.


Wow this movie has left me speechless. I was told ahead of time that the science in this movie is iffy if not outright bogus, so I focused exclusively on the cast side of things.

The acting blew my mind, unlike 28 Days/Weeks later it was humans not fighting for their own survival, but that of all humanity. Seeing how they act almost all altruistically was a refreshing change and seeing Chris Evans (Mace) in this movie makes up for Fantastic Four (maybe). The idea of giving all the cast a near equal emphasis was brilliant and helped make it feel more human, a team effort.

It's like an inverse of Alien, you know what's going to happen in the end, but you have an opposite feeling about it.

Must've missed this: http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/me...ne-2007-a.html

However, seeing as how it's a severely under-watched movie, I'm not complaining. Indeed, the movie was a spectacle if not for the well-rounded cast and the exhilarating sequences were a sight to behold.

Although definitely not the best sci-fi movie, it's one of the top for me. Cillian Murphy was great, Chris Evans was surprisingly decent, as was Rose Byrne and the rest of the cast. As for:



Great movie, and one that needs to be watched by more people.

Oh that's right! Chris Evans! Man, that guy did a powerhouse performance in Fantastic 4. Oscar material, that guy.

What?
There's already a thread?

...
:shock:

Wait one second! I did a search for "sunshine" (http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/se...archid=1232916) and the closest thing I came up to it was the promo soundtrack.

But I digress, now I don't have anything left to say that already hasn't been said.

:psyduck:

Oh, it's quite alright, boyo. He did say that the science was, you know, "iffy".

The movie isn't about the science, it is about the triumph of the human spirit, exception being the captain of the Icarus I.

The best part is after reading a few articles about Sunshine, it was stated that Cilian Murphy converted to atheism after finishing the film.

Was the captain of Icarus I that much of a fundamentalist douche have him arrive at that decision?

Not that I thought Cillian Murphy was the best actor of our generation, but if ACTING A PART is all it took for him to make a life-changing decision like, oh, throwing his soul into the depths of hell, then he's kind of a prat. Isn't he?

Maybe all the bad science broke his brain.

That was an awfully easy brain to break. If only they were all like that. :/

I was just playing with psyduck. I had seen the film and the whole "science" line is a non-issue when it comes to rousing, popcorn entertainment. The film is very good dramatically, the visual concepts are engaging and always interesting, and the only real hitch is when Boyle tries to convey the "mood and force of madness" towards film's end, achieving something closer to hilarity than tension with the demented cap'n and his camera effects. (The cast is very good, but I personally would've enjoyed a more wizened or older crew for such a mission of human survival. I suppose the youngish demographic won out in representation, as there's no one in it with quite the stature of a Hiroyuki Sanada -- who feels like a grandfather compared to the rest of the characters.)

Nope because hell doesn't exist. :forscience: