Sunshine

spokomptonjdub · Post by **spokomptonjdub** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:10 am

It came out in 2007, Danny Boyle's last movie before that one about Indians.

It completely passed me by a couple years ago, I hadn't even heard of it. Just watched it, and its worth a look, I enjoyed it quite a bit. It reminds me of those good 70's and 80's space/sci-fi movies that seemed to have a consistent quality that's sorely lacking these days, or maybe I'm just blinded by nostalgia.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/

Post by **King of Creation** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:55 am

This was a great movie...it should have gotten a lot more attention than it did.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:44 am

Fucking awesome movie except for the OMG BIG SCARY MAN a la Horrigan at the end. Well worth a watch imo.

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:24 pm

Agreed on the overuse of the boogey man. The idea of the world ending because of some asshole fundamentalist was relevant and all, it just could have been a lot better done. Then again the film maintained a pretty amazing level of suspense with more small scale catastrophes up until that point, so it felt like a cop out when it wrapped everything up with a fairly one-dimensional villain.

MadBill · Post by **MadBill** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:01 pm

Yes, good movie. Puts so many others instantly to shame.

FsEtNrDaEtR92 · Post by **FsEtNrDaEtR92** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:00 am

Indeed, it was surprisingly well made and original for a "straight-to-DVD" film. Certainly better than most of this years summer movies that's for sure.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:49 am

Ordered it through Netflix.

Also found this: Blue Sunshine.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:04 pm

jetbaby wrote:Fucking awesome movie except for the OMG BIG SCARY MAN a la Horrigan at the end. Well worth a watch imo.

that
and great atmospheric visual space scenes

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:02 pm

FsEtNrDaEtR92 wrote:"straight-to-DVD"

gtfo nub

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:31 pm

Yeah I remember seeing it in theaters.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:50 pm

I saw it in a cinema.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:28 am

I completely missed it in theaters as I never knew it existed until someone in #fallout recommended it. It's a pretty good movie and I liked the parts where that guy fucked up the calculations and the space jump thing were pretty cool. I didn't really like that boogeyman thing at the end and that kumar guy masturbating to the sun. It was an interesting concept of a movie overall.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:44 am

masturbating to the sun was pretty bueno to me. The concept of the overwhelming power of the sun is what made this film.

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:30 am

I felt horrible after watching this film.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:32 am

Strange. I thought it was boring garbage. Maybe some finer point evaded me at the time of watching, but I seriously wanted my time back at the end of it.

MadBill · Post by **MadBill** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:40 am

The only movie I ever watched that dragged those feelings from me was the worthless tripe Gummo.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:55 am

I could watch Sunshine only for those shots of the space and the sun.
As for Gummo I vaguely remember watching it about 11 years ago and some creepy feelings it evoked I really liked and thought they were unique. I think it wouldn't work the same way these days though.

Post by **Manoil** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:14 am

St. Toxic wrote:Strange. I thought it was boring garbage. Maybe some finer point evaded me at the time of watching, but I seriously wanted my time back at the end of it.

You think you feel horrible now? Wait till you see this.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:30 am

St. Toxic wrote:Strange. I thought it was boring garbage. Maybe some finer point evaded me at the time of watching, but I seriously wanted my time back at the end of it.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:04 am

Stainless wrote:
St. Toxic wrote:Strange. I thought it was boring garbage. Maybe some finer point evaded me at the time of watching, but I seriously wanted my time back at the end of it.

It's a reality show, in space.

That's the key to understanding Sunshine.

The characters had some of the smartness/etc. that is required by the storyline/ostensible training of characters, but they seemed more like emo kids playing at being grim astronauts.

It's phoney.
That's what pisses me off about it.

Then I wonder about the intended audience.

I want rock-ribbed, ice-cold, Competent Men with slide-rules doing everything right regardless of the sideways twists that are thrown at them.
They would be talking to each other like Joe Friday.

jawohl!

The psycho plot was ok, though.