ourchair
Well-Known Member
I'm really surprised that given the interest in 28 Weeks Later, none of us who live outside of the United States has brought up Sunshine.
I am a big fan of the idea of mixing science fiction with suspense/horror, so I had been really looking forward to it when I saw it on opening night. Anyone who has liked Event Horizon would probably like it.
Interestingly, there're elements about the first 3/4 of the movie that made me think, "This is how Fantastic Four should be done". Or at least the creepily tense Grant Morrison incarnation of the Four in FF: 1234.
They make a big deal about how the human condition fundamentally changes in outer space, and I thought that was an apt way of looking at the post-human condition of the Fantastic Four.
Moreso if you think about the fact that the film hints towards a reverse-Nietzschean idea. Where instead of "gazing into the abyss makes the abyss gaze into you", we get "stare too long into the sun and the sun stares back, burning into your humanity."
I know Bass has been particularly attentive about Sunshine, otherwise he wouldn't have made fun of the line, "If the sun dies, we all die." business. Anyway, this showed in the Philippines (and the UK) last month and I was wondering if anyone else has seen out and what their thoughts are.
I am a big fan of the idea of mixing science fiction with suspense/horror, so I had been really looking forward to it when I saw it on opening night. Anyone who has liked Event Horizon would probably like it.
Interestingly, there're elements about the first 3/4 of the movie that made me think, "This is how Fantastic Four should be done". Or at least the creepily tense Grant Morrison incarnation of the Four in FF: 1234.
They make a big deal about how the human condition fundamentally changes in outer space, and I thought that was an apt way of looking at the post-human condition of the Fantastic Four.
Moreso if you think about the fact that the film hints towards a reverse-Nietzschean idea. Where instead of "gazing into the abyss makes the abyss gaze into you", we get "stare too long into the sun and the sun stares back, burning into your humanity."
I know Bass has been particularly attentive about Sunshine, otherwise he wouldn't have made fun of the line, "If the sun dies, we all die." business. Anyway, this showed in the Philippines (and the UK) last month and I was wondering if anyone else has seen out and what their thoughts are.