Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tales

No matter how good a piece of music is, and how good a show is, forcing one into the other is not always a good thing.

This week's The Walking Dead ep used the amazingly beautiful music from Sunshine:



It knocked me out of the story faster than anything. Since I was out of it, I headed over to Bear McCreary's music blog to see if he had anything to say about it. I thought maybe he recreated the music himself, though it sounded exactly the same as in Sunshine.

Oddly, he didn't mention it at all. He mentions the scene before and the scene after, but the scene with the song is ignored. I wonder if it's because he disagreed with using someone else's music but he couldn't post negative stuff about the show?

Usually he's good at replying to comments, but none of the comments about that song got a reply.

Not that Netflix is all that expensive! But wow, Sunshine is the best movie I've seen in a long time, and that it's a SciFi movie? Even better. A wonderfully dark scifi story.

This seems to be the weekend for end of the world movies. Yesterday was 2012, today Sunshine. Sunshine is about the somewhat distant future, when the sun is nearly burnt out. A small crew is flying what's basically just a bomb to the center of the sun to "restart" it. No one's ever successfully gotten close to the sun before, so this is a very dangerous, very hard, likely one-way mission.

The crew is just eight people -- for the whole of the movie, we're with only these eight. They're interesting people both character-wise and physically to look at, so the small cast is no hardship at all.

The whole thing is just so believable -- they're human, flawed, and no humans have done this before. The challenges they face seem really realistic, surprising, and interesting.

If you like bright, happy, perky, light movies, this is not the movie for you. It's dark, dangerous, and at times it has horror movie elements (realistic ones though -- what's a guy in a hockey mask and knife compared to the danger of the sun?).

I strongly, strongly recommend it. (I had to fudge a couple small facts for this review to prevent spoilers, so if you do watch it and have a "Hey, but Thistle said..." moment, that's why!)

Edit: Here, have one of the bits of music from the movie. I originally encountered this on a Russian LJ, it's what made me want to see it!



Beautiful, huh? :D

Edit: Warning, spoilers in some comments!