Oh, see, that's interesting. I loved the first two thirds of this movie but when it descended into Monster Movie in Space, it completely lost me. I still saw it twice in theaters because its rare for a space/astronaut movie to be so smart and pretty (and I love astronaut movies... don't know why), but both times, by the end I had completely and utterly checked out. Rampant monster-man killing people one-by-one? Boring!
But I'm glad someone likes it, because it's totally smarter than your average bear.
Rampant monster-man killing people one-by-one? Boring!
This is the universal complaint against the movie, one that even fans like myself share in. The ending of the movie is definitely botched. No discussion about Sunshine seems to be complete without this debate
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Oh, what he represented I loved. His character and its psychological-descent/Nietzschean-ascent from humanity into something else is wonderful. And yeah, the fact that others are falling into the same trap makes the film for me.
I don't even mind his physical appearance (and the film geek in me is totally enthralled by all the wonky film effects to prevent us from seeing him directly for most of the end). I just couldn't abide the plot elements where he goes through the story hiding in shadows and killing people one by one in dramatically uninteresting, horror-tropey ways. I felt it was a waste of such a fine, fine villain.
I just couldn't abide the plot elements where he goes through the story hiding in shadows and killing people one by one in dramatically uninteresting, horror-tropey ways. I felt it was a waste of such a fine, fine villain.
That we can agree on. Even now, I wonder what Boyle was thinking, and it's sad that such a great film is marred by that sequence. If I'm watching it, I tend to skip that portion and jump to the payload delivery sequence.
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But I'm glad someone likes it, because it's totally smarter than your average bear.
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This is the universal complaint against the movie, one that even fans like myself share in. The ending of the movie is definitely botched. No discussion about Sunshine seems to be complete without this debate ( ... )
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I don't even mind his physical appearance (and the film geek in me is totally enthralled by all the wonky film effects to prevent us from seeing him directly for most of the end). I just couldn't abide the plot elements where he goes through the story hiding in shadows and killing people one by one in dramatically uninteresting, horror-tropey ways. I felt it was a waste of such a fine, fine villain.
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That we can agree on. Even now, I wonder what Boyle was thinking, and it's sad that such a great film is marred by that sequence. If I'm watching it, I tend to skip that portion and jump to the payload delivery sequence.
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