Posted on 07/28/2007 12:32:42 PM PDT by EveningStar
It is 2057, and the Sun is failing, causing the Earth to enter an ice age. A spacecraft, the Icarus II, with a crew of eight, is launched as a last hope, carrying a massive bomb with a thermonuclear payload equivalent to the mass of Manhattan in order to re-ignite the Sun... (Wikipedia)
No, I'm not reviewing the movie here. I haven't seen it and don't plan to see it. However, it seems to be getting some buzz so I thought I'd see if anyone else here wanted to comment on it.
The movie was originally released in Europe, including the UK, a few months ago. It had a limited North American release on July 20 and a full North American release on July 27.
Craig Outhier of the Orange County Register gave it a good review. So did Ebert, Turan (LA Times), and the NY Times. Several other reviewers weren't so charitable. You can find all those reviews at Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, and IMDb. The IMDb user comments may also be of interest.
You can find a list of cast and crew at IMDb, of course. You can also find a good article at Wikipedia along with a spoiler laden plot synopsis.
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Didn’t Ian Anderson already write about this?
The poet and the wise man stand
behind the gun
and signal for the crack of dawn.
Light the sun.
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Is Michelle Moron in on this? Glob Al Warming?
We’ve still got 50,000,000 years before the sun is due to go supernova. I think most of us will have gone on to far better things by then...;o]
From IMDb: “The Sun is being destroyed from inside out by a type of highly stable form of matter that renders nuclear fusion impossible...”
Right?
Right??
I'm still waiting for the country to turn into an icecle in 8 hours like that other movie warned us about.
That would be so cool!
Just saw it. Pretty entertaining. The effects were really good, visually stylish. Entertaining as a thriller if not predictable. Surprising amount of gore and graphic deaths. I give it a 7.5 out of 10.
I saw it. Didn’t it occur to the people involved with the film that calling the ship ‘Icarus’ gives away the ending?
What did you think of the movie?
Intriguing but the 3rd act is a horrific slog. They had a lot of ideas and at the end they all blow up in their face.
In fact the sun is believed to be too small to go supernova. It will instead bloat into a red giant, swallowing or frying earth, and then gently puff away the outer layers and become a white dwarf.
This is all scheduled for a couple billions of years in the future. So mark you calendar.
Kind of like Michael Moore.
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