Sunshine - Movie Review

[Blue-ninja]

I'm not sure how I can put what I've seen in this movie into words, but here goes.

Sunshine isn't a movie about the sun, not a happy, smiling, shiny sort of movie usually reserved for toddlers. No. At first glance, it's obviously is not going to be that kind of movie.

Summary: Eight astronauts go straight to the sun with a nuke the size of Manhattan Island in an attempt to reignite their dying sun, in order to save humanity, which is slowly freezing to death on cold Earth.

Now, you'd think, it's pretty simple right? For one thing, at the start of the movie, they made sure that it's harder than you thought. The uncertainities of space, and one slight miscalculation can either send everyone on board careening to a sure death, or be literally burnt to stardust, supplies the neccessary tension and suspense. And to add to that, everyone on board is extremely prone to becoming insane after a indefinite period of time on board the space shuttle for over 16 months.

Like most generic sci-fi movies, someone has to die. The sun is the main point of the story, but there isn't much background behind each of the characters, only that they all specialize in their own field of expertise. But the underlying tones of the entire movie clearly defines the faults in humanity, and the more veraciousness of that race defines the hero in all of the cast members of the crew.

One other thing I'd like to put in is that their space shuttle is called the Icarus II, and that they weren't the first ones to try to move towards the sun in an attempt to revive the sun. Icarus I had tried, but Earth lost them almost seven years ago. This movie, mostly by it's advanced technology on board, is set 50 years ahead of now.

And one last thing is the visual proportions, mainly the viewing of Mercury against the sun. It's surprisingly big against such a massive star, but that could signify how much the sun itself has died. My thoughts...

If you want a slight breakaway from the generic sci-fi movies, and want something that could have the potential to be emotionally gripping, then you should watch this movie. Just only once.

[KorrupT MerC]

I've never heard of this movie... how old is it?

[Blue-ninja]

I've never heard of this movie... how old is it?

Released in 2007....damn...I just found out.

Still, the movie itself must be pretty low-key if you hadn't heard of it. Besides, I give reviews on movies I've seen along with the chance that the majority of the forumers hadn't seen it.

Wiki = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_%282007_film%29

[Mangled*]

So it's basically Armageddon but with the Sun instead of an asteroid.

When I saw the trailers for it when it came out I thought to myself... "that looks watchable" despite its name.

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against Sci-Fi, but only so long as it isn't Sci-BS. Come on? A nuke the size of New York? That would take hundreds of years to produce, not to mention it wouldn't do the job anyway.

[Fluffy]

Not to mention that there is nothing that can stop the sun.

Well, except Hollywood.

[Amblin]

Saw it on the big screen last year. It starts out pretty good but towards the end it becomes a boring horror sci-fi horror mess.

Was worth it though, looked great in the cinema and I liked the score.

[Blue-ninja]

They wanted a movie idea on the sun, and they came up with this. It's set 50 years ahead of this year, and the sun's dying.

In real life though, it could take the sun a billion years to actually burn itself out.

[Fluffy]

Actually the sun will remain at its current state for about four or five billion years. Then it's gonna get pretty angry and turn us into a hot ball of lava. Then it's gonna swallow us. And that's when we die.

And the reason why Mercury appeared large against the sun was because it's located 58 million kilometres away from the sun. Imagine holding a... nevermind, I can't think of any examples. And the sun is not a massive star, in fact it is small when it comes to stars.

[Espadon]

Last time I checked Astronomy [or was it Sky & Telescope?], the Sun will turn into a red giant in 11 billion years. And stars don't 'shrink' when they start dying; they balloon big and throw off all their material... so Earth would become like frickin' Mercury now and Mercury would pretty much be liquefied inside the outer hydrogen shell. Really stupid and inauspicious to name a spaceship the Icarus, much less Icarus II. I mean, comon, that's just asking for it.

Buncha weird scifi mumbo jumbo. If you want scifi, either go like... all out sciFI or keep it in the realm of science. Those half-breeds always either have genetic faults or are sterile, both in biology and metaphorically. >.>

[Blue-ninja]

In terms of yellow stars, where our sun fall into that category, yeah, it's pretty measly, compared to some of the red 'supergiants', which really have the power to swallow up the whole solar system that we are in. Easily. And then we have the dwarf stars, which are smaller than the yellow stars, so our sun is medium-sized. It's still pretty massive, when we put ourselves against a sun of that size.

It's also no surprise that some super-massive stars will invariably collapse under their own great weight and either form black holes, infinitely dense matter, or a super-dense nebula, whereas only a teaspoon of that stuff would weigh a trillion tons.

So, yeah, the 'science' in that movie really leaves much to be desired for. But the positive parts of the movie is when it focuses on the actions and the consequences of deep space.

[Espadon]

Sun's a main-stage yellow dwarf, yep. Most average-Joe star there is, and damn the best kind to live near. Not too cold and not too much freakin radiation [I mean, the solar wind Earth gets blasted by are little measly spitballs compared to the kinda crap, say, Rigel would throw off].

super-dense nebula, whereas only a teaspoon of that stuff would weigh a trillion tons.

Nominating that for "Paradox of the Year." Do you know what a nebula is? There is no such thing as a super-dense nebula. Okay, well there is, and it's called a star. The only things a blown star can form are white dwarfs which cool to brown dwarfs, or if it's a bit bigger, a neutron star [or it's spin-off -no pun intended- the pulsar], and if it really is a supermassive star, a black hole. Nebula are the cloud-like hydrogen castoffs of dying stars [I must also say that they later turn into star-forming regions, in preparation for the one asshole that wants to try to be smart and point out all the various forms of nebulae and their exact functions] and... let's just say it's like trying to say there's such thing as a 'solid raincloud.' Maybe you were thinking neutron star?

[Blue-ninja]

I forget what was the name for that quoted description in your post.

Yeah, neutron star.

[Hundkeex]

Sunshine sucks ass. It's a boring movie with none action and long dialogues.

[Espadon]

sucks ass.

You know what else does that? ^

[Cookie.]

Saw it on the big screen last year. It starts out pretty good but towards the end it becomes a boring horror sci-fi horror mess.

Was worth it though, looked great in the cinema and I liked the score.

This with the addition of sucks ass.

[Mangled*]

The Sun wasn't "dying"

Part of the film's back-story included the Sun's death being caused by a Q-Ball caught in the solar body, but realistically, the Sun would not be dense enough to trap a Q-Ball.