 Originally Posted by MinionZombie
In a film where a spaceship is strapped to a bomb - a second bomb as well - that is the size of Manhattan, you've gotta suspend your reality.
Event Horizon had a guy dangling out in space, sans blanket, and he was brought back inside.
Artificial gravity - how else are you gonna film something like Sunshine? You can't be fitting all the sets into pokey little planes and keep going up and down up and down to get them weightless for a few minutes. Yes I know Apollo 13 did that, but the entire film wasn't set in space, and what was set in space was set in a pokey little space craft, not a massive space station.
The bomb bay would have to left with air - because as we saw people had to access it, and quite possibly quickly.
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I liked the 'guy gone nuts' thing, because it's all about the power of the sun - someone who's been possessed by the power of it essentially, like that guy on the second ship...kinda like a version of him further down the line.
It was beautifully shot, the acting was good, the music was excellent. I felt it was a really powerful film to view, it had me gripped to the point where I could hardly breathe at some points (e.g. the shields scene when they're on there to fix some broken panels). I still get shivers down my spine watching that scene, but when I first saw it I could hardly breathe I was so wrapped up in it all.
Suspend reality doesn't equate to lazy writing... The hole premis that they were going to run out of air was just utter nonsense! They had like a million cubic feet of air in the bomb area alone!
Gravity? Either (a) you explain it - they had rotating parts of the ship, yet these played no part in the gravity on the vessel(s). (b) - You make weightlessness more a part of the story, (c) you simply design a craft which would have gravity, eg: a bit rotating/spinning doghnut/tube down it somewhere.
I'm not saying it was a bad film, and some parts of it - particularly in the first half - were very good. It's just - somewhat like 28 days later - I felt the second half just got lazy and lowered the quality of the film for me...
Anyway, tonights film is... DRUM ROLL... Shoot Em Up...
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