Despite a number of oddities, Sunshine is the best Science-Fiction movie in many years. Visually stunning, excellent music, and a story with a lot of personality despite being essentially a mish-mash of sci-fi topics already used in previous movies.
The commercial success of this movie is doomed due to the strange way in which distributors have handled it, with late and staggered releases and a marketing campaign that tells too much. People will love it, hate it, or be ambivalent, but I hope it will become a cult classic.
Para mí, una de las mayores decepciones de esta temporada. La primera mitad me pareció bastante buena pero el final… francamente no era lo que me esperaba.
Ademas el efectillo de imagen distorsionada unido al cámara con parkison agudo me sentó fatal.
Gus.
I still have to watch it. I didn’t understood why they user Requiem for a Dream OST for the Trailer tho… Anyway, give a try to these ones for good british stuff:
Dead Man Shoes, This is England, Cashback.
And Venus.
Those four movies sound interesting… thanks for the recommendations! As for the trailer music, it’s a distracting thing that happens so often I don’t care anymore. One of the trailers before Sunshine used that amazing 28 Days Later track, go figure.
And yeah Gus, I know what you mean with that 3rd act in Sunshine, but it is not completely out of place in a movie that was already a "remix" of other "trouble in space" movies (2001, Apollo XIII, Silent Running, etc). I would have preferred a more "hard sci-fi" resolution, but Boyle’s theme is that man is its most dangerous enemy. It was a very unique way to film that situation, somewhat focusing more on the characters than on the danger itself. Style over substance? Quite possible.
Yep, nice movie, watched it for the first time some days ago and enjoyed it. It was "believable" and very good ambient. Too bad the ending, I couldn’t believe the explanation for what happened with the first ship…