http://ambival.net/movies/sunshine-2007 Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:50:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/sunshine-2007#comment-19568 Doug Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:18:56 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/sunshine-2007#comment-19568 I didn't go with it. Please don't compare dilettante Boyle to Kubrick. It's like comparing a wading pool to Lake Superior. You got fooled by the "pretty-pretty" in "Sunshine"; the script is shallow, derivative, and thoroughly reliant on stupidity and implausibility for its drama, and Boyle pulls out every cheap camera trick at his disposal to cover the weaknesses in the story he's trying to tell. If he'd had a decent screenplay from which to work, things might have turned out okay, but Alex Garland is too busy concentrating on big, lofty ideas to provide a logical narrative or sympathetic characters. I didn’t go with it. Please don’t compare dilettante Boyle to Kubrick. It’s like comparing a wading pool to Lake Superior. You got fooled by the “pretty-pretty” in “Sunshine”; the script is shallow, derivative, and thoroughly reliant on stupidity and implausibility for its drama, and Boyle pulls out every cheap camera trick at his disposal to cover the weaknesses in the story he’s trying to tell. If he’d had a decent screenplay from which to work, things might have turned out okay, but Alex Garland is too busy concentrating on big, lofty ideas to provide a logical narrative or sympathetic characters.

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