ercles on 27/4/2007 at 01:15
Firstly I'm pretty sure that is the pig from the cover of animals or is supposed to be. I was going to ask if the art gallery with the smoke stacks may have actually been one and the same as the power station (the name escapes me right now)
In other news I watched this movie yesterday and I have to say it was one of the most powerful pieces of film I have seen in a couple of years. The cinematography was absolutely amazing, and was completely successful in absorbing me in the atmosphere of the world. Fuck it was a horrible film, it was incredibly violent by the end.
As far as the lack of detail goes, I quite enjoyed it, as it really made you feel like you were standing on the world, not hovering above it like the all seeing all knowing narrator that is present in most films.
Fafhrd on 27/4/2007 at 01:38
Quote Posted by ercles
In other news I watched this movie yesterday and I have to say it was one of the most powerful pieces of film I have seen in a couple of years...Fuck it was a horrible film...
Wha-a...? These things, they do not go together.
Scots Taffer on 27/4/2007 at 03:44
To be fair, Faf, he more or less qualifies it by stating how violent it was. I'm guessing he means it's terrible in the sense that it's quite a bleak and grim view of the future, which some people can find hard to watch in a film - usually means they're doing something very well if it provokes emotional reaction like that.
Anyway, thought I'd mention that I caught Sunshine in the cinema just the other day. It's like a modern-day Aliens in the sense that it aspires to the claustrophobic tension and it is well acted with an interesting enough premise, however it is a bit by the numbers and at the end it all becomes a little too predictable. Still, a worthy effort, probably one of the better deep-space sci-fi films of any recent years.
Aerothorn on 27/4/2007 at 05:00
It's good, it's fun, but it's a bit....empty. It takes a very interesting premise that has all sorts of philosophical connotations, and just sort of turns it into a thriller - the entire second half of the film is people running around shooting each other. Plus, it was kind of lamely melodramatic/soapy/unbelievable at the end. Don't get me wrong, I liked it (which is more than I can say for my viewing companion), it's good fun, but probably not something I'd watch a second time and certainly not the cinematic revolution some people told me it was.
Scots Taffer on 27/4/2007 at 08:56
Yeah, it got touted as the next big SF hit to me. Vastly overrated in that regard, for sure.
Muzman on 27/4/2007 at 09:33
Don't spoil me on Sunshine if you can, I still want to see it. Danny Boyle cannot fail to be interesting even when he falters, plus the visuals look amazing from the previews. A combination of epic technology from 2001-ish stuff and the nighmarish claustrophobia and naturalism of Alien. It still says to me that sort of someone-on-the-ship-tries-to-scuttle-the-mission for crazy yet chin-strokingly philosophical reasons ('Beach' guy can't help himself), but oh well.
Anyway, the Ark of the Arts in Children of Men has as a sort of London in-joke. The building is, of course, (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_powerstation) Battersea powerstation, but he drives across the what looks like a sort of wider (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge_%28London%29) millenium bridge. In reality the millenium bridge goes to the (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Modern) Tate Modern, an art gallery in a former powerstation. (the close exteriors and interiors of the Ark are apparently a mixture of both, and bugger knows how they did the roof stuff)
Scots Taffer on 27/4/2007 at 13:37
Yeah, I remember reading about how they did weird composite shootings for that segment of the movie to incorporate two totally different landmarks in a unique and subtly odd way.
Don't read Aerothorn's post for Sunshine if you want to avoid spoilers, but you're more or less on the mark with your prior assessment of the situation.
Aerothorn on 28/4/2007 at 01:36
I don't think I posted anything about Sunshine :confused:
Scots Taffer on 28/4/2007 at 02:46
That's pretty hilarious then, since your post really covers the way I felt about Sunshine... and is completely opposite to how I feel about Children of Men!
Aerothorn on 29/4/2007 at 23:59
Oh, I see the confusion - didn't read your post on Sunshine before I posted. Hahaha.
