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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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 Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:57 am Post subject: Decent Quality Science Fiction has returned - Sunshine |
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Sunshine is one terrific new science fiction movie I watched last night after downloading it on www.mininova.org . It's not cheesy, cheap, or poorly done like most modern science fiction movies are.
This is classic style, but high quality space mission material. In a nutshell, the movie is about our sun dying out and a mission is sent to detonate a special bomb in the sun that will fix the sun. Allot more than that happens, but I don't want to spoil it. |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, Sunshine was great. Saw it a few months ago.
My favourite thing about it is how it pays homage to all the Science Fiction greats like 2001, or even Das Boot, but at the same time it adds something new in terms of flavour. The climax was a little lacking, true, but altogether it was a pretty solid for film for lovers of under-the-radar films and Science Fiction films.
Not quite as memorable as Serenity was, though, while we're on the subject of new Sci-Fi. |
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bellum99
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: |
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Yup, it is great and I got it on www.isohunt.com  .
I thought the part about the superhuman crazy religious guy was a little stupid. Like a burned terminator... |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| I was impressed by it, although it was a little too close to a recent Doctor Who episode (not anyone's fault I'm sure). |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:39 am Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
Yeah, Sunshine was great. Saw it a few months ago.
My favourite thing about it is how it pays homage to all the Science Fiction greats like 2001, or even Das Boot, but at the same time it adds something new in terms of flavour. The climax was a little lacking, true, but altogether it was a pretty solid for film for lovers of under-the-radar films and Science Fiction films.
Not quite as memorable as Serenity was, though, while we're on the subject of new Sci-Fi. |
This film was okay but nothing that memorable. I'd say Event Horizon was more eerie and sci-fi than Sunshine. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
Yeah, Sunshine was great. Saw it a few months ago.
My favourite thing about it is how it pays homage to all the Science Fiction greats like 2001, or even Das Boot, but at the same time it adds something new in terms of flavour. The climax was a little lacking, true, but altogether it was a pretty solid for film for lovers of under-the-radar films and Science Fiction films.
Not quite as memorable as Serenity was, though, while we're on the subject of new Sci-Fi. |
This film was okay but nothing that memorable. I'd say Event Horizon was more eerie and sci-fi than Sunshine. |
Ha! Far from being creeped out by that suckfest, I laughed my way through that movie. I'm surprised the actors could keep straight faces during filming. To each his own, I guess. |
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ra-ting
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah did we watch the same movie here? i thought it was awful. And it was two hours worth of awfulness too. Still, i can see how people would like it, it has a lot of sentimentality and philosophical gobbledeegook. |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| Event Horizon - Ouch, I felt embarrased to seen in the theater. |
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excitinghead
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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There's a good review of it the short SF and fantasy-story podcast Escape Pod here:
http://escapepod.org/2007/08/03/ep-review-sunshine/
I haven't seen the movie yet, but the review said that the movie was brilliant, and would have been a classic comparable to 2001, but for the abysmal final half hour. |
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applesandshanana
Joined: 09 May 2007
Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| and would have been a classic comparable to 2001, but for the abysmal final half hour. |
My thoughts exactly. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Only an average movie in my opinion, but...
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General Discussion Forum
Forum for general discussion on issues related to *living* in South Korea. No off-topic posts here either! |
I think this needs to be moved. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: |
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Oops, movies are not general discussion material. For future reference, if not Korea related, I will go to off topic area. Mods will probably take care of it soon if so.
Yea, the end of Sunshine could had been better, but it was one of the few fairly decent science fiction movies in years. Science fiction has been lacking for many years, because it requires much more effort, time, and money to produce than for drama, romance, and thriller movies.
They learned with Waterworld that making a good science fiction is not the way to make money and that sci-fi is the highest risk genre due to time, effort, and astronomical costs required to produce a good movie. This is why so many movies in the past 10 years are only mediocre real life style dramas of people in everyday places being filmed while they talk. Most things today outside of filming people talk are low budget cost effective computer animations sequences. Hollywood is selling itself short just as the corporate business world is by being too cheap and cutting corners to make a quick profit or to raise a share of stock temporarily with a plan to sell during it's short lived peak. It scares me to think that Hollywood is on it's last leg of being top dog icon in the movie business. What schiesse...
Bring on more good movies rather than resting on laurels!!! |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:55 am Post subject: |
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ea, the end of Sunshine could had been better, but it was one of the few fairly decent science fiction movies in years. Science fiction has been lacking for many years, because it requires much more effort, time, and money to produce than for drama, romance, and thriller movies.
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The apex for sci-fi in the USA was the first season Outer Limits and then some of the second. When I was kid, I saw it on reruns and I liked the monsters. The more I read about it, the more I've learned how really sophisticated it was and how good sci fi is hard to make. The lighting was film noir, some of the writing techniques is beyond my grasp to describe. I've had to rely on reviewers to tell me why it was good although I sensed it was good. The producers actually had to hide from the studio execs as the production was so uncommon it really angered them.
The opening was scary because it was a civil defense drill aka nuke attack or tornado or civil disturbance. It just wasn't trippy looking for sci fi sake.
We were also in philisophical awe over the power of the bomb and that helped make the audience receptive. That situation might not be reproducable today.
The later shows dealt with philisophical issues as the earlier show did but again it was just stock production like the second season.
TV and modern film have obsolesced the character actor and replaced them young firm handsom yuppie actors. You can't have a real Twilight Zone ep with people like that.
I saw Sunshine but my street corner copy DVD was so bad it removed too much quality of the experience. The film got good reviews and I liked what I saw so I'll watch it again. I thought the last half hour got too busy. |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| Oh yeah, if you watch the fire in the growroom scene, you'll see LG aircon units. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| excitinghead wrote: |
There's a good review of it the short SF and fantasy-story podcast Escape Pod here:
http://escapepod.org/2007/08/03/ep-review-sunshine/
I haven't seen the movie yet, but the review said that the movie was brilliant, and would have been a classic comparable to 2001, but for the abysmal final half hour. |
woohoo..another podcast to listen to...I love finding out about new ones.
I thought the movie was great until the last half hour also. I loved the overall concept and didn;t need the change of pace. |
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