Sunshine

[Caprice]

Whats the status quo? is it coming out in march or december?

[big screen satellite]

Whats the status quo? is it coming out in march or december?

April Europe & the Rest of the world - November in the USofA

apparently... if the imdb's release dates are still correct.

[GoatSucker]

Apart from a few comments in the Underworld subforum about this, which mainly relate to the soundtrack, I haven't seen any comments about this film yet. Surely there must be more of us in the UK that have seen it?

Saw this last night, and would give it 7/10. Comments in spoiler section below - highlight text to read...


Likes:
Awesome CGI - Was very impressed how they got the feel of flying straight into the Sun and all the heat FX on the outside of the ship.
Soundtrack - Of course! Underworld's music fits so well with the film. Will definitey be buying the OST. Dunno why Peggy Sussed was tacked onto the credits, but hearing it loud on the cinema soundsystem is no bad thing :)
Acting - Great cast all round, especially the main physics geezer

Dislikes:
The last 3rd of the film - What the fuck went wrong? Gets all mystical and goes into Event Horizon terrirory. Absolutely terrible camerawork with so many subliminal, jump-cut, freeze frame techniques that you can't actually tell what is going on. I couldn't actually tell what happened to two of the main characters.
Major plot holes - Like, why is the computer overriding their decisions at the start of the movie, because it might screw the mission, then allows itself to be completely disabled later on in the film.

Overall, an enjoyable summer flick, and I would have seen it anyway without Underworld's involvement. Just could have been a little better...

[undarrenworld]

Spoiler: (Highlight to read)

Good: I like the 3 rd prt of the movie, when it goes mysthical.
Music perfectly fit to the scenes with the flying to the sun.
Awesome final scene.
Acting was ok.

Bad: In some cases you can see what will happen, when the
astronauts flying in the space near the ship...
Minor plot holes, you lost contact with some characters, which
could be good, cos it on the other hand improvethe final scene...

I give it 75 percent, I enjoyed the movie and Peggy Sussed rocks;)

[grady]

Anyone stateside see this yet? It's been out for two weeks now and finally hit the Portland market. I caught the film last night and enjoyed about two thirds or three-fourths of the film. As other people have mentioned the story takes a detour near the end that seems to either make or break the film for people. I can't say I particularly liked the way the story went. Everything up until that point was enjoyable.

It was nice to hear underworld's music and I would've still seen the film regardless though Peggy Sussed tacked on over the credits, while cool to hear loud, seemed a bit perplexing.

[monkeygra]

Sunshine came out July 20 in the USA, but was only playing in about five cities the first week. In the Chicago area, it was only playing in two theatres total. This week, it seems to have a slightly larger release, and is playing at the major local theatre near me. Now I just need to figure out when to go...

[third.toughest]

Saw this yesterday and all I can say is...WOW!!!!!! What a great film. The music was amazing. It was haunting and beautiful. Complemented a brilliant movie perfectly. Hats off to Danny Boyle and the boys if Underworld for the best film I've seen in a theater in a while!!!!

[Chris M]

got around too seeing it this past weekend with a couple of mates. needless to say they were bummed out by the effectiveness of its dark emotional tone... a departure from most commercial flicks (thank god) which goes without saying and i loved it!

i most notably enjoyed the dynamic/cerebral and sometimes techy shot compositions, especially usage of dark negative spaces for blocking out subjects. good stuff dood!

[Scott Warner]

I give it a mild thumbs down overall.

It's beautiful, well-acted, has an interesting enough high concept to make you see past the absurdity of it and has a good hard sci-fi feel to it most of the time... but it just never comes together properly.

The biggest problem from my perspective was that given the magnitude of the problem the crew acts like they're solving something far less severe. The whole thing is very detached. Sure we hear about how the Earth is going to end if they're not successful but the crew sure doesn't act like it. And, we never meet anyone back on Earth, never really see the scope of the problem until the problem is already solved, so who cares if the Earth dies? If cute little Zoey Everygirl was back on Planet Earth, I'd heard her talk innocently and naively about her dreams of when she grows up and all the while I saw her tears freezing up, THEN I'd care about this mission!

[joethelion]

while I thought that the movie was very good... it does fall a bit short of "great"

I basically had two problems with the film - one being, as Scott said; you never see Earth. Like, it didn't even need to be much ... maybe a flashback/dream sequence... or even like a 'news bulletin' showing what happened after the first ship went missing. I'd imagine that the Earth would've fallen into almost total chaos after no one heard from the first ship

my second problem was with the [spoiler?] 'sun guy' who was on the first ship... Not whether or not he could've survived for that six year period of time... but actually - his neccessity. I really don't think he needed to be in the movie whatsoever. It would've been just as effective to just have the 'suspicion' that someone is sabotaging the ship(s) and to have the crew sort of turn on each other - "to save the mission", than for it to be as easy as - 'oh it's larry the sun guy, keep away from him'.

know what I mean?

[patrick]

i agree with you fully joe about the sun guy.... it could have been done a lot nicer...

but i don't think that the earth was necessary... maybe they could have shown some blips at the start in news casts and stuff, but i likely how isolated they felt from the world, and us too.

however, like scott mentioned, although they were quite tense, i believe it could have been done better, and people would be more erratic

[Chris M]

but it just never comes together properly.
couldn't quite put my finger on it, but i felt the pacing might have had a part to play in this. it seemed to all unfold a bit quick and choppy for making certain sequences relative, although in the film's defense i still stand by its ability to draw out a sense of "feeling" in comparsion to the desensitization of themes found in most of the summer's flicks.

[GforGroove]

mmm.. saw it last night. Is like 28 days later, that you know is shit but you like it. This is shitty too but i like it.

Music so nice yes. Fx so nice yes. Cast is super odd. Story is really waeak
but don't aske me how but works for me. Is like.. too catchy.

Why "payload"?!! Why not "sparker of life" haha.. or something more poetic? It was weird.. you know, just running an errand to the sun.

It's odd movie. I think is bad overall but.. i enjoyed it, you must love technodrama no?
[spoiler]
why the guy from Icarus that vandalize Icarus 2 is a "monster"? Woudl be much better if were a crazy normal human being.. There is no way someone that burn can live 6 years no?.. i think this was retarded[.spoiler]

[Jan]

I've just watched it the third time and it gets better every time. Most questions I thought were left unanswered are a lot clearer now. This is especially true for the last third which I now can enjoy like the rest of the film.
I've also watched 2001 after many comparisons between the two movies were made. And I didn't enjoy it that much. Many people said that Sunshine is visuals over substance but I think this is more true for 2001.
And I still have to cry during the scene (spoiler...) where Kaneda dies and during the last scene. (end spoiler)

[Dirty0900]

For a film made on $40,000,000 the visuals are stunning and just as good as anything i've ever seen. Not a classic, but a good solid all round film.

Boyles next project is a Bollywood flick, like to hear UW soundtrack that.

[patrick]

i think the movie is quite great for the reason that it is very well grounded in sound science, instead of the normal hocus-pocus that we seem to get now a days in most sci fi flicks... this is obviously with exception the the end guy, (which i thought was unecessary)