I am aware that Sunshine (the one about sending a bomb to the re-start the sun) has yet to open in the US…but just testing my luck 
What on earth is going on when
…in the end, the gigantic ball of fire stops just inches in front of the lead character? Time distortion?
Thanks in advance!
I hadn’t heard of this movie previously. It sounds like the sequel to The Core.
I haven’t heard of this movie before, but based on what’s written here I’d have to say that this is going to be the most scientifically ludicrous film of all time.
You’re not frikkin’ wrong. Planet Earth mines every last bit of it’s fissile material, wraps it up like some giant cooking cube full of spices, and sends it on a mission to the Sun, to save life and everything as we know it, by kickstarting a mini big bang.
So this giant 16km wide cube of fissile material is now at the surface of the sun, right? And somehow, inside this payload cube, the computers and electronics and air-conditioning are working just fine so that the 3 human beings left alive are still nice and comfy in their 72 degrees Fahrenheit enivronments.
And then at the end, the hero is standing on his gantry walkway as his mini big bang starts kicking into gear, and the ACTUAL SUN ITSELF starts burning through the walls, but our hero stays alive and puts his hands up to the flames itself? He’s inside the sun and looking at the pretty flames? Wearing jeans and a t-shirt? All this, after many earlier moments in the film instantly burnt stuff because they were now so close to the sun?
This is a film that should never have been made. It started out with promise, and went down hill the moment they diverted their mission. The ending was PISS WEAK. That’s why the OP asked what the ending was all about. Because it was PISSWEAK.
Is this movie so bad, it’s good, because it kinda sounds like it?
Yes, possibly! I hadn’t considered the “Killer Tomatoes” angle. But yeah, it’s chockablock full of every space sci-fi cliche imaginable. Even the really cheesy ones like, every time the spinning gravitational gantrys swing by when you’re seeing an outboard space shot, you hear this really loud swooshing sound goe past, as if the space ship is floating in a windy gale in the Grand Canyon or something.
There is no sound in space! There is no WOOSHING sound, capiche?
And never once did the characters float. Even when they were walking down a section of space ship which wasn’t part of the gravitational section, they still walked like they were on a shitty set in Pinewood Studios in London. Oops. They were!
I’ve got no consience about not using spoilers with this stinker. I’m pissed. I had my first opportunity to go to the movies last night in months, and it was a toss between “300” or “Sunshine” and the counter girl talked me into “Sunshine”.
I just saw it and boy was it ever awful. It was like The Core and *Armaggeddon *wrapped into one. It was like a visit to the dentist…provided you sat 45 minutes in the waiting room, waiting for anything at all to happen and then the dentist put on fancy sunglasses and looked at the sun. Or something.
Valuable lesson we learned from this movie: If you’re wrapped in aluminum foil, being out in space isn’t that bad.
Valuable lesson the characters should have learned: If you’re sending 7 people out on a space craft with a bomb that will save mankind, you probably should teach each of them how to operate it. Not just the one guy you’re always sending out wrapped in aluminum foil. (No, I’m kidding, he got to wear the fancy disco space suit.)
At least they *did *have fancy disco space suits. Which probably accounts for the 87% positive reviews on rottentomatoes. Who reviews these movies? Gah.
Oh, and the ending, I think, was a metaphor or something. Channeling Dave from 2001. Not to be taken literally. Or to quote Boo Boo Foo: It was PISS WEAK! Yep, that’s about it.
I’m really disappointed to hear these negative reviews. I’m usually so impressed with Danny Boyle and Alex Garland. 
…and I was going to come in with a funny “Little Miss, or Eternal of the Spotless Mind?” joke.
It’ll be ludicrous. Just the way I like (some of) my movies.
I think the ending was an effect of time dilation that close to a star, yeah, plus it’s Capa’s perception of what’s happening. They frequently have people die from sun exposure in the film, so it’s not very likely that they’d suddenly forget that being in the sun itself would be rather bad.
It’s a shame they didn’t explain that they didn’t mean the sun was just dying; the q-bomb thing is pretty implausible too, but it’s not the utter stupidity most people seem to assume it is.
And apparently the few seconds in space but surviving thing isn’t so unlikely - on the other thread someone linked to an article that’s not there now, saying that no, you wouldn’t instantly die. Besides, one of them did die and the other was injured, so it’s not like ‘nothing happened to them.’