Sunshine

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

The time has come for us to board the Icarus II (awful name for a spaceship) and stare directly into the sun. First mentioned as a movie that rules way back when we were only a podcast about the Star Wars Prequels, Griffin and David finally get to cover Danny Boyle’s 2007 Science Fiction flop SUNSHINE. We’re getting into everything - the iconic score, the brilliantly restrictive use of colors, the hot scientist named Brian Cox (not Logan Roy) who served as a model for Cillian Murphy’s character, and the film’s very controversial third act. Staring into the sun? Bad idea. Taking the time to re-appraise this forgotten gem? A GREAT ONE.

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0:00.0	At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains.
0:27.9	And the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here. But podcasts.
0:35.9	Why is he doing as far as I can tell, South African accent?
0:39.9	I don't know.
0:40.9	Because I'm pretty sure that's the accent he's selected.
0:43.9	I think so too. I had forgotten the accent.
0:45.9	Yeah.
0:46.9	Because this was when I saw this movie, Mark Strung was not a guy on my radar yet.
0:50.9	No, he was not an old radar.
0:52.9	No, in the times I rewatched it, I was like, oh, Mark Strung, that guy is starting to pop up.
0:56.9	I will talk about all of this. I don't think I'd seen this movie in a decade.
1:01.9	What?
1:02.9	It has been 15 years since this movie came out.
1:04.9	It's fucked up.
1:05.9	I probably watched it five or six times within those first five years.
1:09.9	And then just hadn't seen it in a decade.
1:11.9	Yeah.
1:12.9	And obviously Mark Strung became like omnipresent for a couple of years.
1:16.9	He became a real renta villain.
1:18.9	Yes.
1:19.9	Not, I don't say that negatively. The man does good work.
1:21.9	He's a good actor, but he played a lot of villains very quickly.
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