Sunshine Had the pleasure of watching this at work on Tuesday night and I totally loved it. It could possibly rank as one of the top 10 sci-fi films of all time in my opinion, it's definitely up there. Liked everything about it, the premise, the characterisation, the production design, the peformances, the special effects - all top notch. It was really edge-of-your seat at times. Space travel is canny dangerous as it is and this crew are flying towards the sun for fucks sake. It keeps cutting to outside the ship which is being battered by ridiculously hot solar rays, your just constantly aware that the ship could just burn up at any minute, which makes it even more tense. Danny Boyle - what a man. I'd give it a strong 9/10 like, check it out. (Literally)
What a crock of shit. Can anyone please tell me what the fuck was going on with that Captain Pinbacker? Apparently I'm missing a rather large part of the plot. Why did he look distorted?
SPOILERS: Read an interview with Danny Boyle and apparently his molecules had become unstable because of him spending x amount of years too close to the Sun. Also he was originally going to be completely CG but they had to abandon that idea at the last minute as they had ran out of money. I think the distorted effect was added to give a sense of disorientation, as they were on collision course with the sun and it was all kicking off. Just bought the DVD so hopefully they'll go into more details on the Directors commentary. PS: Don't agree with you're "crock of shit" review, I thought it was class personally like.
yeah, bit dissapointed really. Effect and everything were spot on - really impressed for a brit flick, but story was a bit thin and it missed out on the tension - could of been very 'alien' with the spooky "ooo who did that" type suspence
