Sunshine (Page 1 of 4)

Pick up Sunshine at the Down in Front store

Sunshine on IMDB

Everything rips off Surragates

Icarus

Prometheus

Prometheus and Bob

Cliff Curtis, as Searle

Neutral density (ND) filter

Rose Byrne, enjoy!

The Rage in Placid Lake

One piece of magic

Ark trailer

More Rose Byrne, cause why not?

Matt's ringtone

Angry Beavers

ALF, and 6 other Soul-Crushing Series Finales

Cause of death?

The fourth wall

Tilt shift

Vibro-blade

I really like this movie. The visual details are just incredible. Look foward to this one

Yeah, you can see Brian playing with his iPad in this video.

Back to the commentary:

How did you guys remember the indie movie Rose Byrne was in called Rage With Placid Lake, but forgot the indie movie Rose Byrne was in called Star Wars Episode II Attack Of The Clones?

You know, it's interesting. I don't remember seeing this kind of vitriol for the first-generation iPhone ($599 baseline -- $100 more than iPad), or for each new rev of the MacBooks ($999 baseline) or MacBook Pro ($1199). People were happy to pay $699 (and up) for the Playstation 3, for which games cost $60 on average and some top-selling games like Rock Band retailing for $140 for a set of instrument-shaped plastic controllers that are really only useful for a very narrow selection of games, and another $60-100 for branded alternatives (e.g. the Beatles). A Game Boy or other handheld is gonna run you $150-$200 just for the device. A decent HDTV will run you at least a grand and go from there, tickets to a sports game, concert, or other one-time live event generally start at $80 a pop if you're willing to sit across the street, and the sky's the limit the closer you get.

And yet someone pays their money for any of those things, nobody bats an eye or dismisses them as having more money than sense. Most people decide they'd like to spend their money on the same thing. But the iPad -- more useful screen real estate than a phone, cheaper and more portable than a laptop, more versatile than an HDTV, more productive than a dedicated gaming system -- is dismissed as the "fuck you I've got money" purchase?

I'm all in agreement that the marketing for the iPad is a circle-jerk of the highest order. There's nothing "magical" about it (there might have been if the iPad had preceded the iPhone, but it didn't), and "revolutionary" remains to be seen; could turn out to be true if it successfully creates a new market and paradigm in consumer computing, but even so it's kind of douchey for Apple to be the ones to say it about their own product the moment it releases (although I guess it's not that different from that 1984 ad everyone venerates, so whatever).

But to dismiss it as a "fuck you, I've got money" device implies that it has no practical use. Maybe for you. But for my part:

1) I read a lot. With scripts, the larger screen makes the iPad better for that task than a phone; the form factor makes it more convenient for the task when I'm on-the-go than a laptop (as does the battery life); the digital nature makes it cheaper in the long run than printing on paper and easier to carry around more than one. With books, the same preferences for a digital reader apply; also, eBooks are generally cheaper than their printed counterparts, I save myself a trip to the bookstore when possible, I can get older or out-of-print books cheaply or even free, and read PDFs. Even reading the Web is much more convenient than a phone, laptop, or desktop computer, because it's handheld but doesn't make me strain my eyes to read tiny type, or zoom in to the point where I can only read a handful of words at once.

2) I write a lot. And while the current writing apps on the iPad almost represent a step backward in some ways (you have to email yourself your latest files in iWork instead of having them sync to/from the "cloud" a la Dropbox), there's still a lot to be said for how little space an iPad + bluetooth keyboard takes up, both in a carrying bag and out of one, vs. a laptop. As it is, I was considering getting a MacBook Air to do writing with, and reserving the MBP solely for production-related work that requires more powerful processing. Now I won't need to, and I spent half of what I would have. Once Final Draft comes out with their iPad app -- assuming it's not a poorly-implemented turd -- I'll have very little reason to carry my laptop around day-to-day.

3) I watch a lot of media. I consider it part of my job as a filmmaker, which is why I enjoy my job. Movies, television, documentaries, interviews, training. Between Netflix, Air Video, the ABC player and YouTube, I've got access to all of it, in a lightweight handheld form factor, anywhere there's an active wifi hotspot -- which, thanks to the Spirit jailbreak and MyWi, is pretty much everywhere I go. Not to mention the iPad's internal storage capacity.

It's totally understandable if you can't think of anything you would use an iPad for, and/or think that the value of what you'd use it for is less than what you'd pay for it. But to dismiss anyone who does see value there as necessarily and solely pretentious, as though it can be nothing more than bourgeois bling, has more to do with the limits of your imagination than those of their credit cards.

You know, IMO. Anyway, SUNSHINE.

Yeah, you're gonna like this commentary.

If they wanted it done right they would have sent Bruce Willis.

I do think that that's a movie that should be made. Teague, Brian, Trey, Eric from the other board, I need you guys to take three years out of your life and make Sunshine properly. Please?

You might call me Deputy Deputy Chief of Staff.

Peter Hyams made it. It was called "Outland." Although admittedly, that was more "High Noon" in space. Okay, it was entirely "High Noon" in space.

The great irony is that just as visual effects have gotten good enough that it might be possible to adapt "Rendezvous with Rama" for the screen, we've reached a sort of point where a story that contemplative and cerebral could never, ever work.

wow. i am sounding like an asshole. which i never meant to do. i meant i don't own an HDTV. i by no means think i am better than someone who does. in fact, wish i did. i so badly want a blu-ray player, it's not funny. but i can't swing it right now. besides, what's the point without the hdtv (1080p not 720... come on, i want true HD).

ANYWAY, sunshine...

I just figured out how you make a two hour movie out of this after you cut out the terrible villain third.

You cut in the first third of The Core. Dub any mentions of 'the earth's core' with 'the Sun,' and any mention of the mission as 'Icarus 1.' Right before the terranauts start the dig, put 'TEN YEARS LATER' up on the screen, and cut to the shot of the Sun.

Boom. Phantom Edit. Done.