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If You Didn't See 'Sunshine', Here's Your Chance To Become A Worthwhile Member Of The Human Race Once More |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 9:05 pm |
| Tags: danny boyle, movies, rose byrne, using our power for good instead of evil |
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We're not usually prone to fits of the 'do yourself a favours', but we were bitterly disappointed at how few people managed to see Danny Boyle's splendiferous Sunshine, starring Cillian Murphy and Our Rose Byrne, earlier this year. The US critics didn't "get it" and neither did most local audiences, but we truly thought (and it wasn't the post-mix talking) that it was one of the finest sci-fi/psychological thriller/"space peril" films of recent memory - even with its slightly Event Horizon twist towards the final reel - and, if nothing else, the film looks beautiful. It was loosely inspired by one of our favourite books, Moondust by Andrew Smith, thus looking less at the end-of-the-world scenario the whole "sun going out" theme suggests, and more at just what might happen to people's minds on deep space journeys (but without the cheesiness of Armageddon's "My god... He's got... space dementia!" moment). Also, the score by Underworld and John Murphy, and the sound design by Glenn [ Full article ] |
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