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Parker

#21 November 07, 2007, 06:34:21 am

more cowbell!
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I hate to bump this after so many months, but I just got the opportunity to see this film.

And loved it. It was FANTASTIC. Everything about it. The special effects were stunning, the acting was great, but one thing REALLY stood out to me. The musical score. Whoever did this music is brilliant. He knows EXACTLY how to craft music to make you feel what you are supposed to be feeling.

But a LOT of it reminded me of Event Horizon.

8/10

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local_dunce

#22 November 07, 2007, 02:46:02 pm

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Whoa. Megabump?

I'll let you off though because the post you were making was not really new topic material. I agree, this is one of my favourite films of the year (or was it last year?) Either way it has a great mood and all the characters are great, but I feel the film starts to lose the plot when it suddenly becomes survival horror and that other guy turns up. And a LOT of people I know agree that the film loses it there.

Anyway the film is fantastically put together, it has excellent production/editing. Probably some of the best I have seen in a film in a long time. And yeah the score is fantastic.

The soundtrack was composed by Karl Hyde and John Murphy Apparently. John Murphy who also did Lock Stock, Snatch, and 28 Days/Weeks Later. I think Sunshine is his best so far though (although 28 Weeks had an awesome soundtrack.) The TRAILER for the film however used Clint Mansell's "Lux Aeterna" from the Requiem for a dream soundtrack.

There you go. ITNERESTING STUFF.

now is the winter of our discontent

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Lars

#23 November 07, 2007, 02:54:38 pm

Fuck off!
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yeah the film was great until survival horror

the best scene was when they entered the other ship

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RPG

#24 November 07, 2007, 03:07:16 pm

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I liked the feeling of isolation and tension the film creates, it felt more representative of the stress generated by prolonged periods of space travel than most other space movies. The music was really good, and so were the special effects. They really didn't need the villain though, or they could've at least done it better. I liked the suspense associated with the fate of the other ship but I was greatly disappointed with the explanation given. I also didn't like how they killed the better characters first, Kappa was annoying at best.

Overall, it's pretty neat, but could've been much better without the bad guy. Should've been more about how long space travel makes you insane, and the tension amongst team members. Maybe a traitor among the team (like that suicidal guy) instead of generic disfigured religious fanatic that doesn't appear enough for you to care.

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Parker

#25 November 08, 2007, 07:33:32 am

more cowbell!
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Yeah, I agree with all of you there. He was kind of cool for a while, but they handled him a bit poorly. And come to think of it, that last little LEAP from the second spaceship to the other one was ridiculous.

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Kaempfer

#26 November 08, 2007, 07:08:34 pm

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I didn't think the villain was that bad an idea, to be honest. I think they should have focused more on the failure of the other ship to make him a more important character; show video transmissions and stuff they received before they lost contact, something like that. Maybe they could have had one character who was obsessed with it and was watching them all the time, or something. He was introduced a bit late and a bit speedily, but he was a pretty scary chap. It did kind of start to fall apart with a lot of quick scenes near the end that weren't really fleshed out like the rest of the movie, but overall it was pretty good.

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headphonics

#27 November 09, 2007, 05:07:33 am

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i watched it and liked it. but uh, i thought the BADGUY was pretty gay and so vague as to make me think they didn't put any serious thought into his character, how he was still alive, or how he would even pose a threat in such a state. is it supposed to be supernatural, or what? so yeah, i thought that aspect of it was pretty poorly conceived. but the rest of the movie (like lars said, the parts that were not SURVIVAL HORROR) was pretty cool. i liked the cinematography or camerawork or whatever. everything was mad vivid and i dig that, usually.

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