28 MONTHS LATER is a great idea, but 28 YEARS LATER is the one I'm waiting for.

I get to get back to my impending homelessness...

In "Weeks", aside from the lack of naval vessels, when the immune/infected mother was discovered, she would not be allowed to remain there, and would be guarded by numerous heavily armed soldiers/Marines. No way Carylse would be able to get to her. Ridiculous. And as pointed out here earlier, the military would NEVER be involved in mass slaughter like depicted. Stupid, stupid, stupid. And it killed the movie.

Perhaps if this were more of a Escape From New York premise, I'd buy into it. But the whole situation doesn't make a lick of sense, other than to bash the military. Having an End Time situation with military people who have been trained to defend and protect its populace turn into loathsome rapists/murderers is too much of a stretch.

I did like both 28 Days and 28 Weeks (although weeks had some dumb ass moments)and hopefully the third times a charm.

You're the Ed Wood of Videogame based Movies who should be banned from making any more films.

If you're quick, you can still catch the full thing on youtube.

C'mon, gotta admit Sunshine doesn't even get a mention.

What's wrong with you lot- and it certainly didn't copy the plot.

A ship is sent to investigate and finds the slaughtered remains of the original crew. An explosion leads to the survivors having to shelter on the Event Horizon and are further stalked and butchered by one of the crew who is transformed into some king of monster. The film ends with part of the ship being sucked into some kind of interdimensional vortex after said monster/former crewman says he's taking them to hell.

Sunshine is a movie that tells a story about a ship that is launched towards from the sun (Icarus I) and it disappears before being found 7 years later transmitting a distress and missing its crew.

In this case the ship (Icarus II) finds the Icarus I by chance and finds the mummified remains of the original crew. An explosion leads to the survivors having to shelter on the Icarus I (if I remember that correctly) and they are further stalked and butchered by one of the crew who is transformed into some king of monster. The film ends with part of the ship being sucked into some kind of vortex on the surface of the sun after said monster/former crewman says he's taking them to heaven.

In fact, you could almost call Sunshine "Event Horizon II - Towards the sun this time".

Instead, we have Pinback (or was it Pinbacker?) transformed into some kind of luminescent being that's survived on the Icarus I for years (why? how? at least Event Horizon had some kind of explanation for Dr Weir). Whatever made the Icarus I crew do what they did was completely absent from the Icarus II crew - hence what the Icarus I crew did made no sense at all and finally like Event Horizon, the film devolved into a poor stalk and slash at the end ruining whatever promise the opening set up had.

My main disappointment was that despite being technically accomplished, I couldn't help but feel I'd seen this movie before. Every key event seemed the same, unfortunately.

There's some especially funny mileage out of people stuck in an isolated reality tv show who don't know that the world outside as they knew it has ended.

Dead Space had an OK animated prequel movie but I actually found the comic prequel (which was also done with voiceovers to the stills) much more creepy, chilling and downright bizarre. You can find the comic on youtube if you haven't seen it. Of course the movie and the comic all but contradict each other.

As for not explaining what happened to Icarus 1 Crew - the eternal (and admittedly half-assed) explanation will undoubtedly be "We are trying to put you in the perspective of the Icarus 2 crew who also don't know what made Icarus 1 go nuts and besides the not knowing is scary - your imagination is better than anything we cant be bothered to put up on screen etc."

To be perfectly honest - my fave bit was the commentary from the AstroPhysicist who liked most of the film but had issues with how the crew interacted with the gravitational field off one of the planets ... or somesuch. I'm not a physicist - i just play one in talkback.

Your explanation could well be it but I still just remember thinking Pinbacker's survival and then turning into a neon maniac seemed completely random and ... well to be honest just a bit stupid.