>the cinematography & FX in 2001 are fantastic, Sunshine has
>the advantage of CGI but overall I wouldn't say the FX are
>any more effective or that the cinematography is better.
>
>the acting in 2001 is understated but very solid and most
>importantly realistic and believable, there aren't any
>melodramatics thrown in just for the hell of it. Keir Dullea
>gives an excellent performance as Dave Bowman actually - he's
>not playing a stock hollywood hero, he plays it like an actual
>fucking astronaut. you ever seen footage of Neil Armstrong?
>reserved, laconic, cool under fire - that's how Dullea plays
>Bowman. hell he even looks just like Armstrong. meanwhile
>Sunshine has Johnny Storm as the ship's pilot & the wigger
>from Barbershop as second in command.

So because they played those characters in other movies, means they weren't good in this one? Cmon.

>and on top of that HAL is absolutely chilling as the villian
>in 2001 while Pinbacker is like a throwaway from a bad
>monster/slasher movie. hell, HAL is 3000X the character of
>anyone in Sunshine + Douglas Rain's voice acting alone tops
>any acting performance in Sunshine.

I guess not only did I not see enough, I must not've heard enough either. Douglas Rain's voice acting was on par with the voice of Chipo Chung as Icarus. I wasn't overly impressed by either one. Meanwhile Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne & yes even Chris Evans gave great performances.

>the story in Sunshine is cool but not in the same league as
>2001 in terms of scope, and the execution is nowhere near as
>good. not to mention that Sunshine falls off the rails at the
>end.
>
>I mean I'm not telling you that you have to like it or
>anything. And I can understand where you're coming from - I
>thought Seven Samurai was boring & I enjoyed The Last Samurai
>and thought it was entertaining, but that doesn't mean I think
>it's a better movie than Seven Samurai.

LOL. I didn't make it all the way through the 7 sams either. But there's quite a few movies like that where they're supposedly great films but if they're not keeping my interest I guess I'm just not seeing it. You can add Citizen Kane & Touch of Evil (which I did finish) to that list as well.