Posted: 8/27/2008 7:33:05 PM EDT
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Just watched this movie in high def. Pretty good sci -fi with a little horror mixed in. Miles and miles better than Event Horizon (spit). The gold space suits were designed to look like Kenny from South Park. 
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Funny you should mention it - Just watched it again last night. The first 80 percent of the film is very good - Some great acting, an interesting space ship, and a nice feel for the extreme environment of near-sun space. The last 20 percent pretty much ruins the film. For some reason, Danny Boyle just can't resist the temptation to tack a really stupid plot twist on the end of an otherwise worthwhile story...  
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I'm thinking that the writer actually wrote it that way. Did you notice how the guy on the second ship got addicted to the sun like the first ship captain did? Then again, the crispy guy at the end was just completely crazy after 7 years. It was a bit of a stretch but I have seen much much worse. Event Horizon and their dimension of pure evil was just so F'ing stupid... |
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It could have been so much better - maybe even a cult classic. **************SPOILER ALERT!***************** The simple human error that damaged their spacecraft's mirrors and destroyed their life support system was enough to make the story interesting - and then discovering the original Icarus (and realizing that it might be their salvation) introduced all kinds of possibilities for interesting, believable plot lines. However, the idea that someone on the original ship goes crazy, sabotages the mission, presumably overwhelms and kills the rest of the crew, survives 7 years until the second ship finds him, and then sneaks aboard to stalk everyone on the second ship is WAY beyond lame. 2010: Odyssey Two meets Freddy Kruger. Bleh! 
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In my opinion, while obviously some here disagreed with it, there really did need to be a human antagonist. While the crew of course had some "battles" amongst each other, the entry of an outside character was an important and necessary part. |
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saw it in the theater, and liked it. i read that there wasn't any cgi in the movie. after watching it again on skinamax, some of the physics in the movie don't hold up. like why put a window in the oxygen garden. when the mirror's were damaged, and they shifted the sheild, it didn't cover the spinning radio towers, and caused them to burn up, but if you notice when they seperate the ship the smaller sheild wouldn't have covered the towers anyway. and i'm pretty sure we couldn't make anything that would last a few seconds that close to the sun wheither it's the mirrors or the payload. i agree the blurry crispy captian from the other ship was the weak point in the plot. i think it would have been better to see them try and struggle to get back alive from the mission. |
The antagonist in Odyssey was a computer and an alien force (ie humanesque,) Deep Impact and Armageddon both had human antagonists trying to sabotague the mission, and Apollo 13 wasn't Sci-fi last I checked. |
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He wasn't just a human antagonist - he was a superhuman villain that could survive extreme radiation, survive not having his skin, and could hold up a man by the neck with an outstretched arm. That's why I thought it was silly. The rest of the movie was simply stunning. I loved the scene where what's-his-name misses the jump between airlocks. The camera pans back as his body carwheels through space in the shadow of the sunshield, freezes, gets a piece shattered off by a collision with the station, then disappears instantly in a puff of fire as he drifts past the shadow and into the solar radiation.I never want to go out in space. 
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The ship was shielded against the radiation, the crew of the Icarus II stated as much, he also had enough food/water/air. His skin was charred, but still there, as shown by its removal later. While I agree, it was a sharp change of pace, I understand why. |
The movie had a lot of plot holes (Capa puts his hand in fire at the end, literally in a ball of fire) but this isn't one of them. Remember it was just at a higher intensity. Capa cranks the sunlight up using the dial as he's running out and the bad guy screams in pain. |
Yeah, and remember how the crew of the first ship committed suicide? They sat in the viewing room and took the sun at full intensity, iirc. |
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I thought this movie was going to suck, so I avoided it like the plague when it was in theaters. Saw it on DVD yesterday and I have to say some of the visuals where awesome. The shots of the sun where simple stunning. So cool to look at. Yeah, the one lone guy on the abandoned spaceship was very very lame, but I thought it was very entertaining in the end. Glad I watched it. |
That was the inside of the bomb after he jumped across, not the ship. |
Ah! OK I get it.
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