'Sunshine', did ya like it?

[Mong0ose]

i enjoyed it, was a good film, nice to see something different for once. Great effects and score too

[iOSYS]

Originally Posted by Shadowman99

1) Computer science problems:

Anyone else wonder why the computer didn't tell the guy he forgot to angle the shield when he first broke the ship? Seemed a teeny bit odd that it has no fail safes, especially for something as simple as angling all the mirrors towards the sun.

I thought it was pretty Ok. Kind of a flimsy premise for an entire movie, it almost felt like a short film stretched out actually. For me the weird storytelling style reflects that.

I don't even mind some of the scientific... flaws. whats inside the film (not the explanation) is not outside the realm of possibility. I only mind things that actually start to violate the laws of physics directly. The nonspecific nature of the bomb, and the problem in the sun mean that there isn't too much stuff for me to be like "THAT COULD NEVER WORK!" about. You just assume some scenario has got these events moving.

One part that I wonder about: What era does the film take place in? The sets are all like... Modern spacecrafty, yet they're advanced enough to have artificial gravity, and it's obviously far enough in the future for this problem in the sun to have been developing for awhile.

This could mean up to millions of years in the future, and yet they still don't have anything better than a Manhattan sized nuclear pile. It shall be called the Manhattan project!

[Ozylot]

Originally Posted by iOSYS

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One part that I wonder about: What era does the film take place in? The sets are all like... Modern spacecrafty, yet they're advanced enough to have artificial gravity, and it's obviously far enough in the future for this problem in the sun to have been developing for awhile.

This could mean up to millions of years in the future, and yet they still don't have anything better than a Manhattan sized nuclear pile. It shall be called the Manhattan project!

I was under the impression that it was the near future, all the tech seems fairly plausible now. And about the gravity, that was a hollywood blunder, the only part of the ship that should have had gravity was those spinning pods on the outside of the ship. (otherwise, why the heck where they spinning?!)

The only other source of gravity might be the bomb itself, something that size would likley have some sort of very minor gravitational pull. Which, I think they may have been trying to depict when that crazy mutant guy dropped him over the side of the bomb.

[JeffrySG]

Yes, that is true about the gravity field of the bomb itself.

There is a pretty good commentary on the DVD from the actual science adviser a physicist from England I believe where they talk about many of these topics. The director commentary is pretty good as well.