Just came back from watching this movie with my cousin. He mentioned something. Why do the movies he watches with me sux so bad?! This movie does sux really bad.
This is a sci-fi movie with an impressive cast, with the likes of Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Chris Evans (Fantastic Four), Cillian Murphy (Red Eye, Batman Begins) and what I would imagine an impressive budget. The end result however is not much to be desired.
I won’t even go into technical details like, the acting or the cinematography or even the science behind restarting the sun. Like many other sci-fi flicks, there are things which most people will take as given. Such as, if the lightsaber is a laser sword why doesn’t it have a endless blade, instead of just stopping at a certain length. Its a lightsaber, it just works that way. So, can humans re-start the Sun with a bomb? Its given, it just works.
Now the killer thing is, in the movie, they were trying to dock one spaceship with another spaceship (to retrieve life-giving oxygen, as usual) while being very close to the Sun. The ships are protected from the sun by a huge mirror, shield kinda dish mounted on the front of the ships. So if one of the ships comes up behind the other one, won’t the light reflected off the shield, fry the other ship from behind where there is no shield?
I would imagine something like this would be common sense. It does not take a rocket scientist to see this and have great bouts of laughter. From the Sunshine Website, I found out they had a science advisor which gave them advice regarding the science behind re-starting the sun and they missed this?
The viewing public of science fiction movies don’t usually ask for very much. We do not ask for everything in the movie to be backed up or proved by scientific theory. A little common sense will do.
There you go over-analysing things again. Sigh, let it be….
Hahaha, I think you would have hated the movie more than I did.
You made some errors. and this is coming from a nerd/movie buff so here me out. i absorb information so im glad i could finally put some to use. First ill touch on your lightsaber comment.
First up, a lightsaber is not a “laser-sword” nor never was claimed as such. it doesnt emit a laser beam of light, but rather, it emits energy in the form of plamsa in a continuous loop. it starts in the handle, comes out the handle, runs to a particular length (which can be adjusted via a knob on the handle if you knew your star wars stuff) and then loops a 180 back down and into the handle make a continuius loop/beam of energy. this energy can be adjusted both in strength and length. (not that this applys in reality but in star wars world, it makes sense) And also, just incase you thought lightsabers were completly bs. they have made and can make a “lightsaber” type beam from plasma. the problem is it takes big machine to do it and the beam would be only like 12 inches long or so. so it would never fit into a nice convient handle.
But good call on the sunshine ship, i understand your logic. BUT HOLD ON! if you were paying attention in the movie, you will remember that the ships reflectors were very meticulous and had to always move and realign so that it reflected all the light directly back to its source, in this case, the sun. what this means is all the light would be bouncing back into the sun and not traveling stray or at angles like shown by the arrow in your picture. no light would bounce anywhere except straight ahead back to the sun if thats what the mirrors were designed to do. so technically if they came up to the first ship while staying to the side of them, then moved over, they would never risk reflecting the sunlight into it. make sense?
IF you say the movie sucks only based on that “gap”…
What about:
– the artificial gravity
– people freezing while leaving the airlock into outer space – space is a vaccum therefore there is no air nor any kind of matter to absorve energy
– people actually surviving a full instant decompression with only a mild cold burn