Previously on JohnnyLollerskates, Frank posted that Sunshine was going to suck, listed several reasons why, and then then proceed to make several racist comments. Well I thought it was pretty good. This is about a crew of astronauts that have to fly into the sun and drop a magical fusion catalyst device in order to make the sun shine brighter. If they fail, the Earth turns into an ice ball and everybody dies.
This movie does a good job of creating a scene compelling enough that it's like actually being in deep space. Placement is created for you by bearing witness to the gruesome death of the characters. You can be frozen solid by the absence of temperature and pressure, and if you survive that, you'll get a lethal dose of frostbite anyway. Get caught on the wrong side of the solar shield and you'll be incinerated. Sunshine is a constant struggle to avoid extreme temperatures that you will never experience, unless you get stuck in a primary blast zone or something.
Although Frank was right about one thing. The flaws in this movie happen to be the personal ones. The captain of the ship is Japanese, and surprise, he kills himself in a space age seppuku.
The next character is a Chinese, and he commits suicide when he makes a mathematical error. How typical.
Two down, Michelle Yeoh plays a Chinese woman that is obsessed with farming her hydroponics garden.
And then we have the pretty white kid and prodigal physicist that spends the entire movie staring at the corona of the sun. The fire of romance erupts here, releasing a bright solar flare of suck.
After setting up what I thought to be an effective story and putting high stakes on the ending, the movie becomes a sequence of symbolic imagery. Gayyy.
Rating:50%
1 comment:
50% is "pretty good?" I have a feeling nothing in the universe exceeds your 65% mark except Naruto and SpaceBat.
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