What are your expectations of this film? If you've seen it, did it live up to, surpass or fall short of those expectations? The last combination of director [size=-1]Danny Boyle and actor Cillian Murphy, '28 Days Later' is one of my favourite ever films. But I can't help thinking I've seen Sunshine before without ever having watched it. Unlike 28 Days, which turned the zombie genre on its head by not actually being a zombie film at its core, I feel Sunshine is just another film combining two concepts that have been done to death. I have a feeling it's going to be a rehash of every other disaster + heroes save the world film (The Core, Deep Impact, Armaggeddon) combined with a poor Alien/Event Horizon....[/size]
i think it looks interesting. wouldn't spend money to see it in the cinema but i'd at least download it and check it out (once it's on DVD).
I went to see it, it was never going to be Danny Boyle's best film, but it's alright. I thought it was going to be an entirely naturalistic space sci-fi film, without any monsters or pseudo-mystical crap, which would've been a nice change (why are there no naturalistic scifi films?) and it kind of was, but in the end it wasn't entirely or entirely clearly so. The trouble is it's a crowded and rather tired genre and I don't think Boyle adds much to it, but it's a good example of that type of film, in fact one of the best. I suspect he just wanted to do something different from his last film, "Millions" (which is brilliant!) and this couldn't be further away from that. Given the chance to make a big budget space movie I can see why he would've chosen it, but I feel it could've been much better, from one of our best directors. Ultimately it's not all that much more than its plot and effects.
