http://www.galacticmu.com/movies/a-love-letter-to-danny-boyles-sunshine/ Press your spaceface close to mine Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.galacticmu.com/movies/a-love-letter-to-danny-boyles-sunshine/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Chris Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:26:32 +0000 http://www.galacticmu.com/movies/a-love-letter-to-danny-boyles-sunshine/#comment-394 I was asked to comment as an astronomer; to an astronomer, it's hard not to notice that the science is, well, 'complete rubbish'. That's different from saying I didn't enjoy the movie (which I did), but it does matter. The emotional impact of the film came partly from the fact that we believe this is our world we're watching - otherwise why does the shot at the end of the Sydney Opera House under snow have such an impact? To me, that's completely undermined by the fact that physics appears to work differently in the sunshine universe. I was asked to comment as an astronomer; to an astronomer, it’s hard not to notice that the science is, well, ‘complete rubbish’. That’s different from saying I didn’t enjoy the movie (which I did), but it does matter. The emotional impact of the film came partly from the fact that we believe this is our world we’re watching – otherwise why does the shot at the end of the Sydney Opera House under snow have such an impact? To me, that’s completely undermined by the fact that physics appears to work differently in the sunshine universe.

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