Post by pinkgothic on May 6, 2007 16:09:30 GMT -5
When you first saw the trailer for Sunshine, what were your thoughts? Did your imagination run wild on the given information, off on tangents that the movie didn't contain? Or did you have it pretty much spot on? Or did you intentionally not muse about what the movie might end up being about, precisely?
Were you pleasantly surprised, or mildly disappointed (I'm going to assume those who frequent these boards will not have been heavily disappointed
hence this isn't an option)?
I had very high expectations of Sunshine after viewing the trailer. It'd been ages since I last saw really good sci-fi, much less really good sci-fi with an original (or at least not beaten-to-death) plot.
I saw both the teaser and the trailer - in that order. The teaser doesn't involve "the fifth crewmember", and as such, piked my curiosity more than it had my imagination spin wildly... simply because it left such a huge span of possibilities that it seemed impossible to tackle. (Not that any of that would have been a conscious thought, mind you.)
But when I got to see the trailer, I was surprised to see a movie that seemed far different than the clinical sci-fi I'd assumed from the teaser... suddenly, the "classic" horror element of Alien loomed into the picture. An unknown fifth lifeform on the ship? The trailer never specifies what precisely is on board. I now know that the intruder was, indeed, human; but my initial thoughts were definitely something else.
With mixed feelings, I expected some alien lifeform. That, whilst it would likely have caused far more criticism than the movie is already getting, would have had awesome potential. Specifically, I thought, "Maybe it's a lifeform that is profitting from the death of the sun... maybe the survival of its race depends on this somehow, in whole or in parts. Maybe it wants to stop them... and then, suddenly, the question mutates from 'the life of some versus the life of millions' to a 'the life of a people versus the life of a people'."
As such, the movie experience was slightly dampened for me, which I regret. I would have loved to enter the movie with no expectations at all - it would have blown me away. It already excited me beyond belief and landed well in my top ten movies of all time - but I think I could've enjoyed it far more if I hadn't been "disappointed" by the human intruder. (Well, species wise. I'm not going to debate the Icarus I's captain's philosophical humanity right here and now.
)
Of course, retrospectively musing about it, it's the better choice by far. It's wonderfully realistic, and it shows how likely it will be that the biggest problems of mankind will remain, well, mankind, regardless how far we progress with technology. Though I should say that, nonetheless, I'm not misanthropic - quite the opposite, in fact.
So, what were you expecting when you saw the trailer, and how did it differ from the movie?
Were you pleasantly surprised, or mildly disappointed (I'm going to assume those who frequent these boards will not have been heavily disappointed
hence this isn't an option)?I had very high expectations of Sunshine after viewing the trailer. It'd been ages since I last saw really good sci-fi, much less really good sci-fi with an original (or at least not beaten-to-death) plot.
I saw both the teaser and the trailer - in that order. The teaser doesn't involve "the fifth crewmember", and as such, piked my curiosity more than it had my imagination spin wildly... simply because it left such a huge span of possibilities that it seemed impossible to tackle. (Not that any of that would have been a conscious thought, mind you.)
But when I got to see the trailer, I was surprised to see a movie that seemed far different than the clinical sci-fi I'd assumed from the teaser... suddenly, the "classic" horror element of Alien loomed into the picture. An unknown fifth lifeform on the ship? The trailer never specifies what precisely is on board. I now know that the intruder was, indeed, human; but my initial thoughts were definitely something else.
With mixed feelings, I expected some alien lifeform. That, whilst it would likely have caused far more criticism than the movie is already getting, would have had awesome potential. Specifically, I thought, "Maybe it's a lifeform that is profitting from the death of the sun... maybe the survival of its race depends on this somehow, in whole or in parts. Maybe it wants to stop them... and then, suddenly, the question mutates from 'the life of some versus the life of millions' to a 'the life of a people versus the life of a people'."
As such, the movie experience was slightly dampened for me, which I regret. I would have loved to enter the movie with no expectations at all - it would have blown me away. It already excited me beyond belief and landed well in my top ten movies of all time - but I think I could've enjoyed it far more if I hadn't been "disappointed" by the human intruder. (Well, species wise. I'm not going to debate the Icarus I's captain's philosophical humanity right here and now.
)Of course, retrospectively musing about it, it's the better choice by far. It's wonderfully realistic, and it shows how likely it will be that the biggest problems of mankind will remain, well, mankind, regardless how far we progress with technology. Though I should say that, nonetheless, I'm not misanthropic - quite the opposite, in fact.
So, what were you expecting when you saw the trailer, and how did it differ from the movie?
??
