[Windrunner]

Just watched the trailer for this movie and it  looks very intresting.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/sunshine/

[Turambar]

man, why cant they find any other piece to use in trailers.

its just getting rediculous now.

[Wild Fragaria]

50 years seems a bit too soon for the sun to die

[Ashrak]

we cant even go to mars ..... 50 years from now the SUN? have you any idea how hot that thing is once you got past mercury ?



imo its silly, even for a sci fi movie that tryes to portray reality (unlike Stargate / trek, atleast they gave a nice few hundred years margin of error)

[Herra Tohtori]

Not that re-igniting a star would be in any ways bound to this reality. That's more like something the Shivans would be doing, except that they tend to go to extremities, silly arachnids.


Or for that point, sun getting colder is not going to be a problem... anyway. Scientific accuracy as far as main plotline is considered seems to be at the same levels with the infamous Core movie; but I'll reserve further judgement until it actually comes out.

And yeah, that track from Requiem is way too often used. Even worse is that it's usually used in fan trailers, not official ones... like the Hobbit trailer that circulates the net somewhere. Couldn't they get something original to play in the background? Or is the soundtrack going to be composed of old stuff?

[Nuclear1]

It looks like a good mindless action movie, and I don't mind a break from the Casino Royale/Letters From Iwo Jima/Munich binge that I've been having recently.

[Ford Prefect]

Seems like an odd switch for Danny Boyle. 28 Days Later and Trainspotting were both somewhat thoughtful movies. I wonder if the trailer is radically misrepresenting the film.

[Nuclear1]

Well, the trailer's site did mention that as they approach the sun, "their real mission begins to unravel", so I guess there must be more to it than just jumpstarting the sun.

[Herra Tohtori]

Haven't I heard that somewhere... a spaceship, sent into a mission with a hidden purpose that the crew (or most of it anyway) does not know about... where was that plotline used?

Was it in Alien - 8th passenger? Or perhaps 2001 Space Odyssey? Hey, this is a nice game. How many others can you think of?

[Ford Prefect]

Familiar circumstances do not an unoriginal movie make.

[Herra Tohtori]

Yeah, a good plot can take several different utilizations before getting old. Like the one where a guy meets a girl, something happens and they lived happily ever after.


Didn't mean to say that it would automatically make a movie bad, but you gotta admit that it is quite generic scifi-plot twist. But as I said I'll reserve the judgement until it's out and preferably until I've seen it myself.

[Ulala]

The requiem LOTR trailer song pissed me off.. now it's going to have to be a good movie if it wants forgiveness.

[Mr. Vega]

Well, the shots from the trailer looked unusally beautiful, and 28 days later is one my favorite movies, so it's worth a look.

[Herra Tohtori]

The music has no affiliation to LOTR whatsoever - IF you don't count being as a template music in a particular pseudo-trailer for "Hobbit" movie. It comes from Requiem for a Dream and it is not in LOTR soundtracks.

Clint Mansell is the composer, and most complete version of the theme is called Winter Overture I believe.

[Ulala]

My mistake. Either way, I've heard it far too often. Same goes for the Dragonheart theme song.

[Mefustae]

Complete lack of scientific accuracy aside, that's one damn sexy-looking spaceship.

[aldo_14]

The music has no affiliation to LOTR whatsoever - IF you don't count being as a template music in a particular pseudo-trailer for "Hobbit" movie. It comes from Requiem for a Dream and it is not in LOTR soundtracks.

Clint Mansell is the composer, and most complete version of the theme is called Winter Overture I believe.

It is, however, now horribly cliche-ed; like the music that seemed to pop up in every Bruckheimer film, ever (it went dum-dum-de-dum-dum-dum; I remember it from bad boys and The Rock in particular - the latter which also shared a sort of twangy 'hero tune' with Broken Arrow, IIRC).

[Herra Tohtori]

Yeah. Same with Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Grieg's [In the Hall of a Mountain King[/i], Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie and various other classical, flamboyant compositions used in way, way too many places.

Also, movie soundtrack composers tend to use same kind of methods in almost every soundtrack they make. Take John Williams, Hans Zimmermann and Danny Elfman for example. Bruckheimer movies use a lot of Zimmermann stuff, and you can tell it. You can also tell that the same guy wrote the score for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of Black Pearl, and Babylon 5 to lesser extent 'cause of scifi tones, but just listen to Season 5 theme and ending music and compare it with The Medallion Calls or the theme from The Rock.

Same thing with Batman and Spiderman compositions of Elfman. Fledermausmarch and Spiderman themes, very similar in many ways. And obviously, John Williams' exellent music is very recognizable... Take any Star Wars score and compare with many pieces from Harry Potter or Indian Jones soundtracks.

It's mostly generic stuff in movie sountracks - it's just some themes are way overused and those become the ones that everyone becomes fed up with.

[Col. Fishguts]

The music has no affiliation to LOTR whatsoever - IF you don't count being as a template music in a particular pseudo-trailer for "Hobbit" movie. It comes from Requiem for a Dream and it is not in LOTR soundtracks.

Clint Mansell is the composer, and most complete version of the theme is called Winter Overture I believe.

Actually, a remixed version of the reqiuem was used in one of the numerous teasers for "LotR: Fellowship of the ring"

And to add to the composers who recycle their own stuff: James Horner's soundtracks are sometimes interchangeable from movie to movie without any notable difference.

[Rictor]

I wonder if the trailer is radically misrepresenting the film.

I would say the probability is high. Because I looked at the site for this movie about a month ago, before the trailer, and the impression I got was radically different - kind of like a Sphere meets 2001 groove.

I'm not too worried because they do this for a ton of movies: make the trailer seem like standard action-adventure crap to sell it to a wider audience, when if fact the film itself is not that.

Here's the website with about a dozen video clips, backstories and whatnot
http://www.sunshinedna.com/videos