Sunshine

[vtaenz]

I just picked up this movie today after hearing about it while getting lost of the world of wikipedia. Director is Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) with actors Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Red Eye) Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later) and Hiroyuki Sanada (Last Samurai) just to name a few.

The premise doesn't seem to bad and the cast line up is a lot of people that know how to act pretty well. I liked what Boyle has done for his movies thus far so I'm looking forward to this. Anyone else seen this movie that could throw in an opinion?

 

[Red Five]

I liked a lot of it... but to tell you what I didn't like would spoil the **** out of it.

 

[mia1994]

Overall, I enjoyed it. They made a decision mid-way through the movie which amped up the action but had zero upside for the story, and I found that to be a bit distracting. Their grip on the effects of gravity were a bit weak, but that was a problem I expect few to notice or in fact care about.

Ultimately, a fairly decent movie.

 

[vtaenz]

Well after watching it I have to agree with the point on upping the action. I feel they could have accomplished the same thing through other means. I wasn't a fan of the blur effect Boyle used, I think I understand his choice for it like how he used it for 28 Days Later but I don't think it fit very well for this type of movie.

I was blown away with the cast. Not one of them acted outside their roles, there was no superhuman Captain Hero in this film. They played their roles marvelously. Overall not a bad movie but these special features on the DVD are kind of weak.

 

[Nivek]

Agree with all the above, I saw it in at one of those Hi-def theaters and it looked spectacular.

 

[LCHorn]

I have the hots for Rose Byrne.

 

[MizzouSnives]

i was really enjoying it until it all went to hell in the last 30 minutes. Once the movie couldn't figure out what it wanted to be, it started sucking.

 

[mia1994]

Highlight below to read spoilers:
Mr. Crazy-With-The-Heat was just a bad idea. The crew was already doomed because of the O2 situation, so their individual "murders" seemed to lack a certain punch. While he did put the ultimate mission in danger, he also distracted from that mission so much that it was easy to forget about it. Despite all of this, they did such a poor job of laying out the ship and how the bomb worked, that Cillian Murphy's trip to cube-town was unnecessarily confusing. The last 30 minutes of this movie were a mess, which kind of soured it a little.

Pardon my science but if I don't vent this a part of me will die inside...
Towards the end of the movie, Mr. Crazy Pants dangled our hero over the side of the cube and lets him go, we assume to fall to his death. Instead the hero falls about halfway down the wall and comes to a rest. This confused me at first until I realized that they were having the gravity of the cube itself stop his fall. This seems like a clever use of physics to get you out of a jam, because if the cube was massive enough (which they claim it was) then it would have its own substantial gravity.

First off, I applaud the writer/director for attempting to use physics, but if you are going to do it, then you have to do it consistantly. Mr. Crazy couldn't have held him over the ledge, because gravitationally he would be pulled to the center of the cube, not parallel to its face. Instead of falling down a cliff, he would have leasurely tumbled down an incline.

Second off, if the cube has this much gravity then it would explain the apparent gravity on the ship (again, kudos to the writer/director for trying), but then all of the sets are oriented incorrectly. The inside of the ship should have felt tall and skinny (down oriented to the cube) instead of horizontal and broad... which is to say, we should have seen more ladders.

Finally, and this is a little nit-picky I know, but when they got near the older cube-bomb, the center of gravity would no longer have been towards the center of either cube, but instead in the center of their combined mass... which is to say, everything should have been oriented towards the empty space between the ships.

 

[rage-a-holic]

The music really makes the film. Download the soundtrack.

 

[GatorHorn]

The "twist" was unnecessary and forged, IMO. Knocked the movie down a few pegs after a good start. In fact, the twist was so unnecessary that it made the last 15 minutes close to unwatchable for me.

Overall, 5.5 out of 10. If you take out the "twist" and the following 20 or so minutes, 7.0 out of 10.