Sunshine

[crustine]

that means you don't like Happy-Go-Lucky, which I love. It is about Poppy's optimistic outlook and a slice of her life. but I like quirky movies.

The latest was Son of Rambow, funny and heart warming.

then again i can't handle violence so most of the big action movies are out for me.

i completely agree with laurel other than liking movies about nothing

[nikki4982]

You guys are toooootally missing my point. Suspension of belief = good, but has to occur in a situation where it's somewhat believable. If it's happening on earth in the very near future and it's something completely impossible, I'm not gonna buy it.

Sort of like how ALL the crime shows on TV have RIDICULOUS, impossible technology. Gets on my very last nerve (but I still love crime dramas and watch them anyway because that's not the main plot point).

I obviously like fantasy type movies, my favorite movies ever are the Pirates trilogy.





... though I've never seen "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", and yes, the whole "fitting everyone" thing bugs me just from the ads and trailers. :happycry:

[Johnny]

ridiculous technology? such as?

[nikki4982]

Well, the worst culprits by far are the CSIs, though I only watch the original anyway because the other two expect me to drop my IQ point by like a thousand before watching. But Law & Order and any others are getting pretty bad with their "can you zoom in on that picture?" "OKAY!!!! *zooms in and reads the fine print on the bad guy's teeny tiny name badge*", too.

[Random Name]

Or like how they preform lab work in the dark?

[Lando]

You guys are toooootally missing my point. Suspension of belief = good, but has to occur in a situation where it's somewhat believable. If it's happening on earth in the very near future and it's something completely impossible, I'm not gonna buy it.

Sort of like how ALL the crime shows on TV have RIDICULOUS, impossible technology. Gets on my very last nerve (but I still love crime dramas and watch them anyway because that's not the main plot point).

I obviously like fantasy type movies, my favorite movies ever are the Pirates trilogy.

Well, the worst culprits by far are the CSIs, though I only watch the original anyway because the other two expect me to drop my IQ point by like a thousand before watching. But Law & Order and any others are getting pretty bad with their "can you zoom in on that picture?" "OKAY!!!! *zooms in and reads the fine print on the bad guy's teeny tiny name badge*", too.

I think you're missing the point actually, we're talking about SCI-FI. Not something like CSI which is supposed to take place or have us believe that's something that's currently available for today's investigators. SCI-FI includes fantasy, horror and other genres... Anyone who watches something like Star Wars and says, oh this is bullshit and I can't watch it because there's no such thing as an X-Wing fighter or a giant Death Star shouldn't be watching movies. Science fiction may not be something they're into, but their reasoning can't be that it's not applicable/plausible in the real world. It has nothing to do with suspension of belief or if it even has to be remotely believable. It doesn't.

Now something like Law and Order or CSI, that's a different genre altogether and if I saw them using laser guns, hell if anyone saw them using laser guns, the show would've been off the air by now.

[Johnny]

"Hey baby, wanna have a gander at some Adam West penis?"

[nikki4982]

From Johnny's description, though, it takes place here on earth in a mere 50 years. That's not sci-fi enough for me to believe.

What's it matter anyway? You guys can enjoy it all you want, little me thinking the plotline seems silly isn't gonna change anything.




... and Sarah, YES. Good god. Also gotta love how they NEVER turn lights on, always use flashlights. Ridiculous.

[Joe Cooler]

The one thing Johnny and Lando have forgot to point out though is that Sunshine is able to suspend your belief. Yes it's only 50 years into the future, and yes from a scientific perspective, the concept of the film would be all but impossible. When I first heard of the movie, I thought it sounded absurd. But somehow, it all seems perfectly feasible when the movie actually starts. Sunshine is "high science fiction." More like Solaris than Armageddon.

28 Days Later may be a zombie movie, but from an artistic level, it runs far deeper than any other movie of a similar theme. The same goes for Sunshine to some extent.

The point is that Sunshine is an amazing, and dare I say, original science fiction movie for the first 2/3rds of the movie. Then it kind of digresses into typical science fiction fare.

[Lando]

this is true, the ending is where it loses it's believability.