There’s something about the science fiction movie “Sunshine” that makes me watch it every time it comes on TV.
I own a copy of the DVD.
It’s just such a great science fiction movie that I can’t resist the allure of watching it when it appears.
You have to see it from the beginning, so you can understand the story and be sucked into the madness.
The basic premise is that there’s been a catastrophic solar event and our sun is dying.
It has already reached the point where most of the world is covered in ice and the human race is fast approaching extinction.
Seven years before the events in “Sunshine” take place, the Icarus I was launched toward the sun carrying a bomb loaded with half the world’s fissionable material. Her mission was to pass out of communication range of Earth and approach close enough to the sun to launch her payload — birthing a new sun out of a dying star.
The Icarus I disappeared; the sun’s unchanging smolder proof that the mission was unsuccessful. Thus the Icarus II was launched toward the sun, loaded with the other half of Earth’s fissionable material.
The bombs are massive. The sunshield is fascinating. And the pathos is striking.
5/5 for casting, possibilities, and smallfandom gold.
Cillian Murphy’s Capa
Chis Evans Mace
Rose Byrne Cassie
Michelle Yeoh Corazon
Hiroyuki Sanada Kaneda
Cliff Curtis Searle
Blurb: On a mission to revive Earth’s dying sun, a spaceship crew encounters a distress beacon from a ship that disappeared seven years earlier.
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I’ve set my DVR to record “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Movie” at 8:00 a.m. PST on June 17th. It’s playing on POP.
Anyways, that will be our Saturday groan-cringe-laugh movie sometime later that night. So if you follow me on Twitter, I’ll be babbling about old-timey original Buffy.
