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"Sunshine is a great film from nearly every angle, but for me, it's all about a handful of shots of Rose Byrne's character dealing with ... the stuff they're all dealing with on that spacecraft. For the record, pretty much the same is true of Rose Byrne in 28 Weeks Later. "
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"Money makes the world go round, and it also drives the plot most of the films of Danny Boyle. Slumdog Millionaire, as you can guess by the title, is no different. It greases the wheels of Boyle’s plots, and forces characters to do things they wouldn’t otherwise even consider. Unfortunately cash doesn’t really play a part in 28 Days Later or Sunshine, probably because zombies don’t really shop that often, and the Sun doesn’t take credit cards, but every one of his other films has a pile of money at the heart of the story.
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"It’s been just over a year since Danny Boyle’s sci fi film Sunshine came out, and it would be hard to imagine a more different film than Slumdog Millionaire, which has just premiered at both the Telluride and Toronto film festivals (and won the People’s Choice award at the latter). It’s an extremely touching love story set amidst the slums of Mumbai, and uses the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” as a catalytic backdrop. Boyle definitely continues to mature as a filmmaker, and has somehow learned to be an excellent director of children––the performances he gets out of the young kids in both this movie and
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Sunshine: A Review
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"Cross-Posted from Giraffe Versus Unicorn. Danny Boyle's Sunshine is a gorgeous psychological thriller set in the confines of the Icarus II space station, as it makes it's way towards the sun to deliver a bomb that will reignite the dieing star.The eight-strong crew of the Icarus II are instructed to carry out their goal as follows: the ship will fly within reach of the sun and fire it's payload of nuclear material, 'equal in mass to Manhattan Island', into it's very heart, while propelling themselves away within a four minute deadline. Only, they're met with a myriad of problems along the way.When they receive a distress beacon from the crew of the Icarus I, the first attempt at such a huge mission, the decision to chance docking with the other ship or continuing with the task at hand is left to Cillian Murphy's Capa, the ship's physics expert and the only person capable of delivering the payload.Events take a turn for the worse and the movie broadens it's outlook as it enters it's ... "
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The best and the rest in 2008 m ...
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"Make no mistake, 2008 was the year of the woman. From politics to multiplex, they were the most newsworthy. At the box office, week after week brought about stories about how, mother of all shockers, women enjoy going to the movies too. From summer “event movies” (usually an exclusive boys tree house where "No Gurlz Allowd"), to record-breaking such as best opening for a female director, women were the new black at the box office. In 2008: Twilight was the highest-grossing film opening by a female director (at $70 million); It received the second-largest advanced ticket sales, trailing only The Dark Knight; Sex and the City was the best opening ever for an R-rated comedy; The SATC gals also debuted as the fifth best R-rated film of all time; The film also bested Mission Impossible as the best debut of a film based on a TV show. Now, perhaps next year we can do the same with good movies. Sex in the City was the female equivalent of Iron Man, replacing magical gad ... "
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"Sunshine is such an impressive throwback to the almost lost thinking man’s genre of Science Fiction that you can almost forgive it’s final act. The combination of director Danny Boyle and Cillian Murphy is as potent as it was in 28 Days Later. The lives of six billion people rest in the hands of eight, fraying crewmembers. Taking place in the near future when the sun is rapidly cooling due to an unexplained phenomenon; the movie starts with the spaceship, the Icarus II, hauling a bomb the size of Manhattan to the sun in an effort to restart the star. This is the second and final attempt. The first ship that was sent seven years ago never completed the mission. All of the remaining fissionable material on Earth was mined to make this last bomb. The crew is beginning to come apart as the movie starts. They are about to enter the dead zone where radiation from the sun will cause too much interference for messages to be sent to home and they won’t receive any either. ... "
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"An intense sci-fi film that isn't restricted by its genre, Sunshine proves to be a very satisfying film that delves into humanity and its conflicts, passions, and dreams. By adding a slice of horror and fantasy into the mix, Sunshine definitely breaks out of the mold. The story is a great one, and the actors play their roles perfectly within it. With varying combinations of emotions and attributes, such as desperation, dedication, and selflessness, the characters seem very believable and intriguing to viewers. This and the plot, which revolves around the mission the characters undertake: to rejuvenate the dying sun to save Earth, keep the audience wondering what will happen next. In addition, the stunning special effects really add to the movie with exciting shots that leave the audience in awe. The screenplay and cinematography are top notch too. All in all, a truly excellent movie that should have garnered much more attention and acclaim than it did. "
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"Sunshine is the rare science fiction film that's science is more interesting than its fiction. Plotwise, it's a by-the-numbers space opera, but in terms of its visuals, I was reminded of such classics as Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The truly impressive special effects was what kept me interested in what would otherwise be so forgettable it would go straight to a 2:00 AM movie on The Sci-Fi Channel. The story is loaded with ancient science fiction cliches. At some point in the future, the sun will begin to die (apparently, in a scientifically plausible way) and a mission plant a bomb which should rekindle the sun is launched. It's named Icarus-2, because Icarus-1 never came back. The ship has an ethnically diverse crew of boring and forgettable characters, each who serve a standard sci-fi function. There's the everyman, the selfless captain, the whiny guy, the jerk, the tomboy, the wise sage, and the working class guy whose good under pressure. I always wondered why people li ... "
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Sunshine (2007)
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"Director: Danny Boyle Released: July 1, 2007 (Los Angeles Film Festival) ***** Part 2001, part Alien, part Armageddon, Danny Boyle's Sunshine desperately tries to reinvent the science fiction genre with a plot centering on real science instead of fake gooble-de-gook. And, in most respects, it succeeds. With the sun dying within 50 short years, a second team of international astronauts are sent to revive the sun when the first group does not complete its mission. Just as physicist Capa (Cillian Murphy) can pinpoint where the Icarus II's payload needs to hit the sun for the dark spot to reignite, it's likewise easy enough to figure out where Sunshine goes astray. Up until this point, the story kills off characters, though not in a sensational or conventionally horrifying way. They simply get offed as they could in a real life space flight. It's aboard the Icarus I, at the airlock, where the script simply falls apart, not trusting the audience to stay on board with the mission to ... "
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Should have been brilliant
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"Overall, I'm a fan of Danny Boyle's work. "Shallow Grave" was an excellent genre film, with strong performances by both Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston, both of whom returned on "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later" respectively. Those two films are also, arguably, cultural touchstones in the world of film. Sure, he also made "The Beach"...a brutally awful Hollywood-style adaptation of a good book by Alex Garland. But, at least, he made up for it by working with Alex on the significantly improved "28 Days Later".The two teamed up on "Sunshine" which, according to the trailers, looked to be an intelligent and exciting sci-fi film about a team of scientists and astronauts on a journey to reignite the dying sun. And, for two-thirds of the movie, it was. I loved it. Then Act 3 took a giant crap on the rest of the story, throwing out coherance for standard genre-thrills. The movie takes a hard-left turn th ... "
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