Post by Picap on Mar 8, 2017 15:49:10 GMT
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10+ Years Later: SUNSHINE Is Still Waiting For The Light
Kurt Halfyard
With Danny Boyle's forthcoming revisit of the world of Edinburgh junkies, lowlifes and dropouts twenty years on, it would seem fitting that we have a look at Trainspotting (1996) and where it stands in the culture 20 years on.
But we are not going to do that. Too easy, perhaps? Or too obvious.
No fault to Boyle's stylish mega-hit, but it has had its share of ink and digital space over the years, and rightfuly so. The success of Trainspotting, along with his Oscar winning melodrama Slumdog Millionaire, (not to mention a complete re-invention/ressurection of the entire zombie subgenre with 28 Days Later...) overshadowed his exceptionally smart, and gorgeously rendered space epic Sunshine. A thinking persons science fiction adventure, the film hit its decade mark this year, and yet, somehow seems to be unrecognized in the cinematic converstation. For a complet work of such artistry of in design, ideas, and genre-execution, there have to be some significant reasons for its almost footnote status on the directors C.V. and in the genre as a whole, right?
Sunshine was released in the spring of 2007 if you lived pretty much anywhere in the world except for the USA and Canada, where it was marketed and released as a summer blockbuster (which is somewhat is and somewhat is not). The remainder of the year would prove out to be one of the great years of cinema in a young century (perhaps the best we have seen since the pre-millenial mind-fuck year of 1999). There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Zodiac, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Inland Empire, Paprika, The Assissination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, and other dark films dominated the cinema conversation as, inexplicably, a host of 'threequels' occupied the box office. Sunshine was an original concept (even by space travel standers, people usually go to other planets, not the Sun) with blockbuster pitch along the lines of Armageddon or The Core.
[*Spoilers* for Sunshine from here on.]
10+ Years Later: SUNSHINE Is Still Waiting For The Light
Kurt Halfyard
With Danny Boyle's forthcoming revisit of the world of Edinburgh junkies, lowlifes and dropouts twenty years on, it would seem fitting that we have a look at Trainspotting (1996) and where it stands in the culture 20 years on.
But we are not going to do that. Too easy, perhaps? Or too obvious.
No fault to Boyle's stylish mega-hit, but it has had its share of ink and digital space over the years, and rightfuly so. The success of Trainspotting, along with his Oscar winning melodrama Slumdog Millionaire, (not to mention a complete re-invention/ressurection of the entire zombie subgenre with 28 Days Later...) overshadowed his exceptionally smart, and gorgeously rendered space epic Sunshine. A thinking persons science fiction adventure, the film hit its decade mark this year, and yet, somehow seems to be unrecognized in the cinematic converstation. For a complet work of such artistry of in design, ideas, and genre-execution, there have to be some significant reasons for its almost footnote status on the directors C.V. and in the genre as a whole, right?
Sunshine was released in the spring of 2007 if you lived pretty much anywhere in the world except for the USA and Canada, where it was marketed and released as a summer blockbuster (which is somewhat is and somewhat is not). The remainder of the year would prove out to be one of the great years of cinema in a young century (perhaps the best we have seen since the pre-millenial mind-fuck year of 1999). There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Zodiac, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Inland Empire, Paprika, The Assissination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, and other dark films dominated the cinema conversation as, inexplicably, a host of 'threequels' occupied the box office. Sunshine was an original concept (even by space travel standers, people usually go to other planets, not the Sun) with blockbuster pitch along the lines of Armageddon or The Core.
[*Spoilers* for Sunshine from here on.]