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[hirez]

You know, I'm now rather glad I didn't waste any dollar on going to see 'Sunshine'.

It's like a mob of useless tossers, but in space. With a broken plot.


Edit: dyllanne nailed it quite some time ago. I believe that film should be shown to systems architects and DR people as part of the hiring process. If they can't spot at least ten things wrong, you probably want to avoid them.

Which reminds me. Years ago, I jabbered randomly about 'Comp.risks: The Movie'. That film would be 'Sunshine'.

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[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah.

It was like watching a passable thinkpiece skiffy movie get mauled by a diseased controlling metaphor.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I may have shouted at the telly some, then stalked off when they started thieving properly from 2001.

I mean, if you've an AI, it's not going to get a strop on and need to be turned off while you do some Hard Sums in your head. And if you're the sort to do Hard Sums, you're also not going to be allowed near the launch pad if you're going to forget half the bloody job.

It was like watching a mob of PHP 'coders'.

I mean, we already have 'Apollo 13'. And the background story of the computer in the Apollo 11 lunar module crashing repeatedly on descent is just...

... There's no bloody excuse for peddling that level of utter bollocks when the actual business of going into space seems to breed far better stories than that pish.

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

But everyone knows, if you think really hard about it it must be smart, and if one part is smart, they all must be smart by extension!

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Did it want to be Solaris (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/) or did it want to be Event Horizon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/)?

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

In my very esteemed opinion?

Yes. It did.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It was closer to Red Dwarf.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Obviously, if you want to see for yourself, we can lend you the DVD.
:)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I liked Event Horizon.

Somewhere inside there was a good film trying to get out and never quite getting there.

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Yes, if they'd have taken the first 9/10ths of "2001" and finished it off with the middle of "Event Horizon" instead of that acid trip you only understood if you had an encyclopedic knowledge of 1950s American soap operas.

I refer the learned gentleman to this...

[wehmuth.livejournal.com]

http://wehmuth.livejournal.com/273097.html

Re: I refer the learned gentleman to this...

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Luckily, the DVD was second hand and I only paid £3.00 for it.

Re: I refer the learned gentleman to this...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Sir has hit the metallic wood-fixing device firmly upon its upper striking surface.

Wait. There's alleged to be a story in there? I don't believe it; the version I saw was entirely incoherent.

Re: I refer the learned gentleman to this...

[wehmuth.livejournal.com]

Unless I am gravely mistaken, the allegation that it contained a story was not made, although certain compromises may have been made on the articles integrity in order to maintain the scansion.

You have my deepest sympathies, by the way.

Re: I refer the learned gentleman to this...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think alasdair was of the opinion that there's a story in there somewhere. He is far more forgiving of shoddy management and poor decision-making than I.

[badnewswade.livejournal.com]

Even though I liked it, I still don't disagree with you.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I thought it was utter rubbish, but IIRC perlmonger quite liked it.

There's no accounting.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Loads of people rated it highly when it was on general release. I saw it a few weeks ago on Sky and thought it was utter tripe. It wasn't even 'ignore the flaws and enjoy' level.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Even Supernova was better. But then Supernova at least featured James Spader being sleazy.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

It was fine up until a couple of minutes after they realize they're using oxygen too quickly, then it rapidly fell apart.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

He said "FFS!" at the point where they have one spacesuit and 4 guys to cross a broken airlock.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Did they have to take some foxes and chickens with them?

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I loved it. Although, as you say, the plot was made out of broken biscuits, and the science was off the back of a cornflake packet. But I still loved it.

In other moview news, we saw Stanger Than Fiction last week (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/). It's a splendid movie, and I recommend it most highly.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It was far too much like watching a 'new media' 'project team' squabble amongst themselves.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Perhaps there's an opportunity here, to improve the teamwork on new-media project teams by stranding them in vacuum with too few spacesuits.

[andrewducker]

I saw it at the cinema. It was very, very shiny.

Bollocks though.

[dyllanne.livejournal.com]

I'd like to refer you to my rant on sunshine :-
http://dyllanne.livejournal.com/25660.html

There 9 quid and 2 hours of my life gone. Made all the worse by the fact that I rarely get to go to the cinema and having my one film in the year as this one added insult to injury.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's a quality piece and covers all of my problems with it, plus several others I'd not paid enough attention to spot.

Oh. You know, that film's got a future as a learning experience for systems people/DR planners/Auditors. It's an effective demonstration of where poor resource allocation, bad planning, rubbish training and no backup strategy will get you.