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    Sunshine.

    I just watched Danny Boyle's Sunshine on Blu-Ray. I really enjoyed it.

    Reminds me a lot of 2001.

    Thoughts?

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    I posted about it on here a while back, quite a while back in fact I think, when I saw it in the cinema.

    I personally loved it ... Neil on the other hand just bitches and moans about it all the time.

    *waits for Neil to unfurl his list of complaints about the film*

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    Sunshine is brill, excellent movie and very beautiful
    Innocent victims of merciless crimes, fall prey to some madman's impulsive designs.

    Step after step we try controlling our fate. When we finally start living, it's become too late.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    I posted about it on here a while back, quite a while back in fact I think, when I saw it in the cinema.

    I personally loved it ... Neil on the other hand just bitches and moans about it all the time.

    *waits for Neil to unfurl his list of complaints about the film*
    I don't bitch about it all the time... Just whenever I get the opportunity

    Come on, it does have some very daft moments It's by no means a bad film though!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    It's by no means a bad film though!
    Then quit your bitchin' ...
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    Loved this film. Can't wait for Slumdog Millionaire.

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    Never seen the movie, Maybe I will in the near future.

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    Yeah, Sunshine is wonderful. A beauty to look at and a 'save-the-earth' disaster movie with brains...till Pinbaker made his appearance, then the movie suffered a fair bit. A very poorly handled antagonist, IMO.

    A nice discussion was also had about the movie a little while ago here.

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany

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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    Yeah, Sunshine is wonderful. A beauty to look at and a 'save-the-earth' disaster movie with brains...till Pinbaker made his appearance, then the movie suffered a fair bit. A very poorly handled antagonist, IMO.
    I agree completely!

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    Aces - cheers dude, I was trying to search out that thread, but couldn't find it.

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    i just watched this right after 28 weeks later as my latest blockbuster acquisitions and its a beautiful film but really a homage to 2001 by the end, i was expecting to see the irish bloke at age 90 in a bed with slash playing the solo from november rain off to the side. itsa great flick but something bugs me, if penbroker or whatever his name was survived, whats stopping the other guy? why commit suicide in the sun room when theres plants for food and air? id at least have given a week to try and see if i could jerry rig a way home yknow?

    but thats just nit picking it was a great flick, though i cant help but feel it was meant to have some undertone in the same vein as the stand for some reason.


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    Quote Originally Posted by hellsing View Post
    i just watched this right after 28 weeks later as my latest blockbuster acquisitions and its a beautiful film but really a homage to 2001 by the end, i was expecting to see the irish bloke at age 90 in a bed with slash playing the solo from november rain off to the side. itsa great flick but something bugs me, if penbroker or whatever his name was survived, whats stopping the other guy? why commit suicide in the sun room when theres plants for food and air? id at least have given a week to try and see if i could jerry rig a way home yknow?

    but thats just nit picking it was a great flick, though i cant help but feel it was meant to have some undertone in the same vein as the stand for some reason.
    Erm ... all the plants were toasted, there wasn't enough air already, and certainly not going to be any from all the plants being burned up. Plus, everything went to hell in a hand basket and he had to manually sever the payload in order to get it into position to kick start the sun ... also, he was trapped in the airlock, and had to blast open the outer door to open the inner door (which he burnt a small hole through with a welding torch), so there was actually no air whatsoever in the ship.

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    I agree with, MZ. The guy was also a bit of a fatalist, which--at that point--can be totally expected. I mean, the Earth is freezing into an ice block, everyone you love is facing a cold death, your species is staring extinction in the face, you've been shot-off on a probable one-way mission of the diciest order and now you're basically marooned on a fizzled hulk facing a slow death.

    Go out in style, some might say. And what better way than turning the burner up to 11?

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany

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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    Go out in style, some might say. And what better way than turning the burner up to 11?
    Why don't you just make ten hotter and make ten be the top number?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    Why don't you just make ten hotter and make ten be the top number?
    ...But...it's the sun...it goes up to 11...

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany

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