Last night I spent the whole night doing the video editing for the my course video and I've made significant progress, it's my first time using the Ulead Videostudio Pro 11 and I must say it's really easy to use, I am avoiding using the Windows Movie Maker because it makes the videos really amateurish, and Adobe Aftereffects seemed a little too complicated to use and learn in such a short time. I've already finished 4 minutes of the video and making good progress after 10 hours of work.
Later I watched "Sunshine" with dad. Synopsis, Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven years earlier. Soon the crew is fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.
I liked the show, but i couldn't give it 4/5 because the movie ended poorly, if the ending was better developed, and if the characters didn't die in such a cliched manner it would have been better. Special Effects were top-notch, standard Hollywood stuff.
This movie is not for nitpickers or physicist. The plot outline (i.e. detonating a "stellar bomb" inside the sun) sounds ludicrous at first - but if you're able to ignore this and some other scientific nonsense, you get one great movie.
Apparently Sunshine can't deny the influences from 2001 or Event Horizon, nevertheless it should be treated as an independent film. The movie reminded me alot from Event Horizon, another psychological-horror thriller in space about another sci-fi (black-hole engine). And in the case of "sunshine", the sun is dying and the crew are going to detonate a "stellar" bomb the size of Manhatten to "restart" the sun. Reminds you of "The Core" ?
The actors weren't too bad themselves, plot development could have been better. I particularly liked the accurate representations of the spacecraft, Oxygen room, a sensory room, gold-shields to shield from the sun. Accurate spacesuits with gold-foil... But several other scientific inaccuracies, otherwise great entertainment!
3.5/5
