Hi to everybody...as there was nothing else to watch, I decided to watch 'Sunshine' directed by Danny Boyle of Trainspotting fame with, among others most relatively unknown, Cillian Murphy.
Here's a quote from Capa played by Murphy...Our sun is dying. Mankind faces extinction. Seven years ago the Icarus project sent a mission to restart the sun but that mission was lost before it reached the star. Sixteen months ago, I, Robert Capa, and a crew of seven left earth frozen in a solar winter. Our payload a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan Island. Our purpose to create a star within a star....
This gives you some idea of the purpose of the film, but, before too long, this starts to go wrong as they do in all these type of films...and why is there always somebody on board going around sabotaging everything?...surely, the crew would have been vetted to the point where absolutely nothing wouldn't be known about their stability of temperament and ability to stay sane under extreme stress...seems not...okay, somebody makes a massive mistake...one man is left alone to work out some vitally important changes of course and nobody double checks he's got them all right and hey presto, everything gets completely screwed up...
Then they discover the previous mission's space ship floating only fifteen thousand miles away so after disaster after disaster has happened due to this one man's error on their ship, which could have been deliberate, they decide to veer off course and check it out...
Okay, fair enough...everything goes wrong over there too...by now I had the feeling that somebody in the script room had taken a ladle and decided to throw in everything but the kitchen sink...I was wrong...the kitchen sink did go in...in the form of the insane Captain of the doomed ship who hitched a lift with them when three of them were forced to do a high speed space trip from one ship to the other with only Murphy in a space suit??? - the saboteur decided to jettison the old space ship, so before it drifted too far away, the men on board it had to get back to their ship. Nobody explained how a naked burned and totally insane man was missed when they arrived back in their ship minus one of the men because he'd missed the ship and was floating off into space. Anyway, he decided he was going to sabotage this ship too and set off on a killing spree.
Here it got damned confusing because Murphy survived and one other woman, still being chased by this insane Captain who declared that he had been speaking to God for seven years??? Oh, yes, nobody thought to ask him what God said...but there we go...and finally to complete what had now become all but a farce, Murphy along with the girl who somehow gets on to the bomb and the insane Captain too, and it has to be detonated to save the world...pan in to massive explosion and Murphy stretching out his hand for at least a minute or two to touch the burning fiery conflagration...what!
Then back to earth and it's frozen and his two children and his wife are playing on the frozen landscape when suddenly the sun glows and sunlight spreads across the scene....the end!
Damn it...I love a good sci-fi film but this was so full of holes you could use it as a sieve...hmmm...I would only recommend it if you had absolutely nothing else to do and wanted to waste an hour and three quarters...great big hugs to one and all...
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- Monday, Jun. 02, 2008 @ 22:34:53
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- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- Monday, Jun. 02, 2008 @ 22:36:01
Oh, good somebody else who thought it was ace crap....HLOL...great big hugs...
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- http://the-real-linda.blog.co.uk
- Monday, Jun. 02, 2008 @ 22:37:47
i loved it but my mum agrees with you, she hated it soooo much and now if i suggest a film to her she wont believe me because i harped on about how good i thought sunshine was
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- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- Monday, Jun. 02, 2008 @ 22:56:07
Ah, good for your Mum...HLOL...great big hugs...
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- http://the-real-linda.blog.co.uk
- Monday, Jun. 02, 2008 @ 23:18:04
haha i know right, and she hardly ever likes films but she was so passionately against sunshine. she thought i was being sarcastic about how much i liked it, i still trust her opinion on films tho since she hardly ever really loves anything, shame she doesn't trust mine anymore, oh well
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- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- Monday, Jun. 02, 2008 @ 23:21:23
Sorry, I'm in complete agreement with your Mum in this case...LOL...our son tells me to watch a film occasionally that I don't like at all, so it's just something that doesn't click with one film for one person...I'm sure you'll find a film you do both like in the end...

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- http://the-real-linda.blog.co.uk
- Monday, Jun. 02, 2008 @ 23:56:22
its taken a while to think but we both really like the goonies, lol
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- http://www.gilraen.blog.co.uk
- Monday, Jun. 02, 2008 @ 23:57:14
I didn't think this was an awful film, but it had been done to death before in Event Horizon.
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- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- Tuesday, Jun. 03, 2008 @ 10:23:13
The theme of a saboteur in a space ship has been churned out so many times, now you expect one to be on every journey, and hey presto, they are! Space films have to have some semblance of possibility in them, and the introduction of the insane captain of the first vessel was so way over the top as to render the entire film absurd...and the pulling off of his skin of his arm at the end by the surviving woman was completely inexplicable... sorry, Gilraen, but it's intensely irritating to spend an hour and three quarters on a film only to discover it was full of massive black holes...which reminds me...The Black Hole with Maximillian Schell was a much better film...HLOL...Don't know whether you remember the end of Dr Strangelove...there, Slim Pickens sits astride the nuke and rides it down to its target...similar idea pinched in Sunshine when Murphy rides the bomb into the sun, but not half as effective...
And I found Event Horizon far more acceptable than this film, mostly because of a more restrained script and storyline...-
- http://www.gilraen.blog.co.uk
- Tuesday, Jun. 03, 2008 @ 18:41:13
Yes, I agree with you there. It did all go a bit weird. It all started with Hal on Space Odyssey - something new please!
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- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- Tuesday, Jun. 03, 2008 @ 19:17:48
Oh, it ripped off loads of films...LOL.. and made a hash of most of the rip offs...Maybe Danny Boyle bit off more than he could chew...28 Days Later and Trainspotting were earthbound and relatively low budget movies, but neither film thrilled me...and I couldn't finish Trainspotting and found 28 Days Later boring and again hardly original...so I should have realised I might not like Sunshine...still, gave him the benefit of the doubt and knew at the end it was a mistake...
The problem today is finding a story that hasn't been done before or a formulaic storyline that hasn't been done a hundred times or more...very difficult...we're rapidly running out of new ideas especially for sci-fi films...knitting a patchwork quilt like Sunshine just didn't work at all...at least for me anyway...
kevinwilson
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thanks jen - i did waste all that time watching it and was left wishing i'd deloused the cat instead!
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