Let the Sunshine
Sunshine is an amazing movie. Judging from a few of the reviews I scanned afterwards, mine is not a universal opinion. Some reviewers thought the plot was conventional, others didn’t like the twists toward the end.
Under normal circumstances, I would probably join the throng of nay-sayers, as I have before, nitpicking bad science or absurd dialogue. Hitchcock called people like myself the “plausibles,” people who take the fun out of a movie by pointing out how “that would never happen.”
But, for my tastes, a movie only has to be as plausible as it tells you it will be, and the important thing is that it follows the rules it has set out for itself. Considering Sunshine is about a space ship with a multi-cultural crew of 30-somethings whose mission is to re-start the Sun by dropping a nuke onto its surface, I’d say the bar is pretty low.
That being the case, director Billy Boyle basically just asks you to sit back and enjoy this beautiful, intense, and lyrical fable that he’s spun out of the science fiction genre. Some people aren’t really able to do this.
But for those of you who are, I strongly suggest you go see Sunshine on the largest possible screen available to you, and just let yourself be enthralled for 107 minutes.
Zach wrote:
Danny Boyle. I was underwhelmed, but it was still a pretty neat movie. It’s hard to live up to Trainspotting and 28 Days Later.
Posted on 27-Aug-07 at 6:37 am | Permalink
pjk wrote:
There I go chasing alliteration again.
Posted on 27-Aug-07 at 7:27 pm | Permalink
daniel silliman wrote:
Maybe you watched some secret twin movie, and Billy Boyle’s Sunshine was really really great, while Danny Boyle’s Sunshine looked like it had lost sections in editing, making weird, disconnected jumps, and promised but never delivered an insight into God, light, humanity and our survivial, fundamentalism, obsession, but instead turned out to be about how sunburns can really drive you nuts.
It should have been Icharus: 2001 Space Odyssey.
Danny Boyle’s movie did have some great set pieces though.
Posted on 28-Aug-07 at 6:29 am | Permalink
Fr. Gugg wrote:
Krupa,
Huh?
I mean to say, What the Hell?!?!
Posted on 21-Oct-07 at 12:57 pm | Permalink
Fr. Gugg wrote:
Let me clarify. I took your advice, with the exception of the big screen.
I was very disappointed. The plot was hard to follow, and there wasn’t much of one anyway.
Could have been cool, but wasn’t.
I wish you’d posted whatever else you were doing while watching it that allowed you to enjoy it, so that I could have reproduced the circumstances of your enthrallment for myself and those who suffered through the movie with me.
As it was, by halfway through we were playing Mystery Science Theatre.
Which brings me back to my original point:
What the hell??
Posted on 23-Oct-07 at 8:23 pm | Permalink