Sunshine - what a pile of rubbish

i completely agree with you - people are (unsurprisingly) missing the point. they could have set the film in a sub or on a runaway train and the main themes would have stayed. it was excellent.

hollywood should take note - THIS is how to make a good looking film that doesnt cost over $100m
 
It's just sci-fi made by an excellent film-maker who isn't a sci-fi fan. Shame really to spend so much effort on lavish special effects with plot points that are rather too reminiscent of Alien and 2001.

It's one of those strange contradictions - sci-fi is expensive to make, and yet it so often has a contrived plot and an unimaginative script.

Did make me laugh though, when they were struggling with the fire in the Oxygen garden, but they had water and an unlimited source of solar power out front!
 
I thought it was a decent sci-fi thriller with a few good ideas, and a few recycled ones, right up until the last third when it chucked it all away...

Surely Danny Boyle and Alex Garland have made enough high-brow slasher flicks by now to have got it out of their system. For a tense psychological thriller to end up as nothing more than a Freddy Kreuger rip-off is just, well, sad. And stupid. And a waste of everyone's time.
 
we went to see it last night and would agree that the last half hour wasn't as good as the first part of the film but overall it was really enjoyable - to me it was more reminiscent of Event Horizon than anything else though
 
The characters played by Cillian Murphy and Rose Byrne do. Everybody else is already dead by then. If it wasn't for the last scene which showed that humanity had been saved, it would a pretty downbeat ending IMO

Saw is yesterday and must be in the minority as I thought it was brilliant. 4.5 out of 5.
 
I enjoy going to the movies but this film was sooooooooooooo bad that I've decided to give the cinema a miss for a while. It was just one too many disappointing films I have seen lately.
 
didnt understand most of it - why was the burnt guy raving on about God and killing everyone? why did evryone die that was just stupid? and the last 30 mins were all nonsense!


englandrocks.
 
My missus fell asleep during this.

There were some nice ideas in it and several good performances but the pace dragged at times and by the end I was looking at my watch.

It'll be interesting to see whether there's a re-edit for the DVD.
 
I think I woulld have fallen asleep too, if it hadn't been so goddam loud.

However, I spent the first half of the film crying with laughter at the ridiculous plot, appalling acting and second rate special effects. The gold lame suit had me in hysterics and Chris Evans's acting was laughable.

I'm sorry for those who enjoyed it - but it really was a bad film. I went with my husband and he was really looking forward to it, but seeing me laughing uncontrollably set him off too. The man in front of us turned to his wife and said, "This film is sh*t."
 
One of my frienRAB dragged me to see this as i was not to keen on it. It was better than i thought it would be. Did not have an amazing storyline but it was visually good and very artistic. So overall not bad. Worth atleast one watch.
 
I agree with the yay-sayers having seen this last night. Give it 7/10 (marks off mainly for the slightly confused ending and the non-explanation of Mark Strong's character).

Anyone also get the idea that the sun was somehow hypnotising people into suicide?

I think many will have been disappointed at the pointed lack of sex and flesh and traditional Hollywood style action. But being a Danny Boyle film I wasn't really expecting that - it always seemed a slow, intelligent project rather than a flash-bang one.

There's also very little 'language' or gore so I'm intrigued why it got a 15 really.

And MacAttack it's not wrong to find Chris Evans (or Cillian Murphy) tasty ;)

Interestingly I heard Cillian Murphy became a full-on atheist after researching for this film.

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Really enjoyed it, up until the final act which was a bit poor.

To be honest the "feel" of the movie was the best part, the claustrophobia and isolation was really good, best film for that since Alien, but the plot itself was a bit of a let down, at least in terms of where it ended up.

And Danny Boyle did those themes of Man v God and the choice between an individual and society much better in 28 Days Later.
 
probably the same reason Alien got a high rating back in the day...just the general mood and tension is enough to unsettle people a bit
 
I really enjoyed it. Yes, it stole a lot of ideas from other films (Alien, Event Horizon), but it pulled all those ideas together and made a really enjoyable film. I thought that the descent into the Sun at the end was simply amazing in terms of special effects.
 
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