Posters and screening feedback from Boyle's 'Sunshine'

We seem to be mighty reluctant around these parts to post anything about Danny Boyle's sci-fi thriller 'Sunshine'. Perhaps we're a superstitious bunch and we don't want to jinx it. Perhaps in each of us there is an internal struggle to really like Boyle and publicly admit it, but he is seemingly a director that splits his audience and we would rather not incur the wrath of those who sit on the dark side of opinion.

Regardless, this last week reports started surfacing about preview screenings on the other side of the pond. Over on Richard's site he picked up on a report from Solace in Cinema that was pretty much a glowing report of the film. Here's what Richard highlighted from it [because I am too lazy to pick out all the good bits myself]...

...the film looks beautiful...there was more than a couple of moments that visually took my breath away and had me literally in awe of what I was seeing...a second and third act that had me on the edge of my seat right up until the end. I think the last film I was this tense in was ‘The Descent’ and that was almost too much to bear, and I loved it.

However, as does seem to be the case with all Boyle films, the audience was split and the folks over at Film ick spoke with folks who weren't as impressed...

Well, most of the crowd liked it, it seems. Not everybody though. Nobody would even go on the record with me, but let me tell you: they made it obvious that this film can be quite easily rubbished if you want to rip it down...Negative terms I could coax out of the lucky few? Portentous. Indulgent. Smug. Silly.

But that is to be expected isn't it? Movies don't please everyone and opinions are like belly buttons. Everyone has one. Sunshine will open in a couple weeks over in the UK and we'll have our R2 DVDs well before the December release date here in North America.

By the way. Have you seen the posters for it? I found these three over at EmpireOnline. I like the two with Cillian Murphy, though they are essentially the same one. I don't like the other one though. It's too Hollow-wood. It is too obligatory. It looks like that Stealth poster and anything that reminds of Rob Cohen must die! What do you think?

Upright Cillian Murphy poster
Horizontal Cillian Murphy poster
Crappy Cast poster