My first day off from work in a while and I have a cold. It is sunny outside so what better way to spend the day than to watch a movie called Sunshine. This is a movie by director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland. I had heard a lot of nice things about this movie on two separate movie podcasts in the last week.
My god this is a beautiful movie! This one will definatily be one of the movie in my Good Looking Movies category.
However, I would have liked it even more if they had decided to leave the supernatural or existentialitial questions out of this movie. Another small problem I have with this movie is that the entire cast feels kind of young. I would imagine that if you send your best people to the sun to save earth and human kind some of them would be a little older and more experienced. Why not put one or two older greyhaired characters in the crew, an astronaut or professor?
But it is quite an achievement with very impressive sets and space sequences, just the way I like it. I can sit and watch panning shots of space ships , planets and space for long time. This movie also has a soft and nice soundtrack by John Murphy and Underworld.
I really would have enjoyed seeing this in the theaters.
I would love to watch this in theatres too. I agree, but if I may say, it’s incredible how so many people go crazy over a god…But anyway, I think that the only reason there weren’t so many old folks, was because they were very difficult tasks with much physical labour in it. Imagine if an old man took the role of Murphy, he would have died with the sun blast(panel repair), the jumping from one ship to another, the slicing of the crazy man, and so on…so i think that the age level is fine.
Thanks for your comments and you have a good point there on the age issue.
It has now been a while since I saw the movie but did not these young, strong people die like flies anyway? Maybe some older more experienced people would have made different decisions and therefore not walked in to these situations? But maybe my memory is off a little here… can not remember all the causes and event to tell you the truth.
Great that you took some time to comment!!
I think the age of the general cast is perfect. Age does not necessarily equal experience or intelligence in their field – especially not these days when so much technology is available and the learning standards so much higher than years past. As for the deaths, remember part of it was simple unpredictability (or human error – as in Trey’s case with his math), as there is no way to prepare for every single eventuality. The other part was Pinbacker, who was picking off the others, and I think he factors into the “unpredictability” equation as well.
Anyway, I LOVED this movie and wished I could have seen it in theaters but was not able to. Finally got it on DVD, but will soon be upgrading to Blu-Ray, because really, is there any other way to watch this movie?
Also, I have a question of my own: there’s a lot of debate on whether or not Pinbacker was a hallucination or a manifestation. I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on that? I found a good explanation on IMDb that might help you figure it out. Sorry if the link doesn’t work, I’m not very good at things like this…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/board/thread/149811120
Thank You Corenna for your comments!
You raise a lot of good points there, the age-factor being one of them.
Thanks for the link and enjoy the movie on Blu-ray when you get it. Maybe drop us a line on how good it looks?
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