Sunshine is for most of its running time a decent science fiction film that distinguishes itself by creating some amazing visuals. The much talked about final act, which is indeed completely out of tune with the rest of the film, isn't what brings this film down in the end. It is the forced intellectualism that is inserted into the plot that is both unnecessary and poorly done.

Boyle's film looks stunning. I loved the design of the ship and the shots of outer space. I also liked how he handled most of the action and the use of subliminal images to enhance tension was an inspired choice. Boyle has the ability to bring a certain frenetic quality to action sequences…

"Just remember it takes eight minutes for light to travel from sun to Earth, which means you'll know we succeeded about eight minutes after we deliver the payload. All you have to is look out for a little extra brightness in the sky. So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it." - Capa

This is surely one of the most under-rated films of recent years. In the year where such masterpieces like There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men took all the credit, we must not forget Danny Boyle's first and only foray to date into sci-fi territory. And in typical Boyle style, he manages to make…

Hearing that a certain film is 'one of the best *insert genre* films of the 21st Century/all time' before you actually watch it can often have very negative effects on your viewing experience. Rather than watching and enjoying the film for what it is, you tend to spend a lot of the duration thinking 'Is this good? Am I enjoying this? Is this changing my life?' and other such silly questions. I definitely found with Children of Men (another film that shares the 'defining sci-fi film of the 21st century' moniker that this does) that I didn't enjoy it as much as I felt that I should have done, because of the unanimous praise it has been given.

That being…

I was kinda disapointed the first time I saw this. It starts out as a great hard-scifi film but then towards the end it becomes a straight up horror film. This bothered me a lot on first viewing because up until the the point where the film changes, I thought it was one of the best recent sci fi films I had seen. For it to change into something else really bothered me.

But now that I rewatch this and go into it knowing and accepting the genre switch, this is a really fantastic film. The horror works just as well as the scifi does in the early parts of the film. The CGI work holds up extremely well for…

Installment in my Actor Arc Challenge

Whoa, I wasn't expecting that.

I feel like I've seen positive reviews of this from folks on here but I can't be too sure. For some reason I kinda sorta always mix this up with that awful movie about putting a drill into the sun, but then I found out this was Danny Boyle and I knew that it couldn't be garbage like that.

Going into this watch I had literally no knowledge of this film's premise. I enjoyed that; it has been quite some time since I have known virtually nothing about a film before watching it. It seems like it helped.

Following my completion of this I feel like Boyle messed up…