{"id":4459,"date":"2017-06-12T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:34:54","slug":"re-movie-sunshine-beautiful-movie-scifimovies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-movie-sunshine-beautiful-movie-scifimovies\/","title":{"rendered":"RE MOVIE: “Sunshine” is such a beautiful movie #scifimovies"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s something about the science fiction movie “Sunshine<\/strong>” that makes me watch it every time it comes on TV.<\/p>\n

I own a copy of the DVD.<\/p>\n

It’s just such a great science fiction movie that I can’t resist the allure of watching it when it appears.<\/p>\n

You have to see it from the beginning, so you can understand the story and be sucked into the madness.<\/p>\n

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The basic premise is that there’s been a catastrophic solar event and our sun is dying.<\/p>\n

It has already reached the point where most of the world is covered in ice and the human race is fast approaching extinction.<\/p>\n

Seven years before the events in “Sunshine<\/strong>” 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The bombs are massive. The sunshield is fascinating. And the pathos is striking.<\/p>\n

5\/5 for casting, possibilities, and smallfandom gold.<\/p>\n

Cillian Murphy’s Capa
\nChis Evans Mace
\nRose Byrne Cassie
\nMichelle Yeoh Corazon
\nHiroyuki Sanada Kaneda
\nCliff Curtis Searle<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

I’ve set my DVR to record “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Movie<\/strong>” at 8:00 a.m. PST on June 17th. It’s playing on POP.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> RE MOVIE: “Sunshine” is such a beautiful movie #scifimovies<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,58,60],"tags":[207,210,213,376,378,488,504,610,621,631,632],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","has-more-link","post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-movie-reviews","category-recsmovies","category-science-fiction","tag-chris-evans","tag-cillian-murphy","tag-cliff-curtis","tag-hiroyuki-sanada","tag-hkrecs","tag-michelle-yeoh","tag-movies","tag-recsmovie","tag-rose-byrne","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-19V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movies-to-watch\/","url_meta":{"origin":4459,"position":0},"title":"Movies To Watch","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"November 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a general list of movies to watch. 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