I watched it last week, for it was very good, much better than Slumdog but still far from Boyle's best, James Franco was magnificent, deserves an Oscar just depends if he deserves it more than Colin Firth (havent seen Kings Speech yet), I didnt think the score was anything special though. The Social Network>Black Swan>this, all very good though.

Sunshine will always remain my favourite film by Boyle (though admittedly, I am yet to see Shallow Grave or Trainspotting) but I thought it showed all of his best qualities as a director, and I think it seems deceptively shallow. It's such a life affirming film. Personally, I'm torn between Firth and Franco, though at the moment I'm leaning more towards the latter. He gave such a naturalistic performance, and he could get across a range of emotions with just a look in his eyes. Maybe I was just swept along with the film, but I thought the score/cinematography/editing/lighting were all outstanding, and if I had to rank the scores it would be for me The Social Network>127 Hours>True Grit>Black Swan>Inception>King's Speech. Though like you said, they are all fantastic and it's a shame that Black Swan couldn't be nominated. I also think Danny Elfman's score for Alice in Wonderland deserves some attention, say what you like about the awful direction, but the score was at times a thing of beauty.

Edited February 22, 201114 yr by Daniel II

How do you sleep at night with the knowledge you havent seen Trainspotting?

How do you sleep at night with the knowledge you havent seen Trainspotting?

haha I'm a bad sleeper anyway, so I'm sure it doesn't make much of a difference :P It's been on my to-watch-list for ages now, but whenever I get the spare cash to buy a movie, I always get the more recent releases and I always miss it when it's on TV (like I'll switch over and it's already half-way through), so it gets neglected. I may just have to get it now I'm in a Danny Boyle mood, although still need to get Transamerican as well (my local HMV didn't have any copies when I went in yesterday - we have such a $h!tty store).

Watch Shallow Grave too! The black humour in it is so manic and deranged, I genuinely didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

1. Slumdog Millionaire

2. Sunshine

3. Millions

4. Shallow Grave

5. 28 Days Later

6. Trainspotting

 

And I haven't seen The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary or this quite yet.

Watch Shallow Grave too! The black humour in it is so manic and deranged, I genuinely didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

1. Slumdog Millionaire

2. Sunshine

3. Millions

4. Shallow Grave

5. 28 Days Later

6. Trainspotting

 

And I haven't seen The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary or this quite yet.

Oooh Trainspotting at the bottom, controversial. That seems to be universally seen (or at least by fans) as his best film. 28 Days Later I think is pretty overrated myself, although I haven't seen it in years, so maybe my taste has changed. Millions is another one I need to see. And Shallow Grave is also most certainly on my list, have read a lot about it, seems very much my type of thing. Seeing as how you ranked Slumdog Millionaire and Sunshine as your favourites I think you will really like this, it has the same visual flair and emotional impact as those.

Edited February 22, 201114 yr by Daniel II

I can't wait to see this. I'm a big Boyle fan!

just finally watched this and it exceeded my expectations. kinda gutted i never got to see it in the cinema cos i imagine it would have looked incredible especially in imax. i don't really have much to say about it other than like all of danny boyle's other films it looked spectacular and the music he chose was great

 

Watch Shallow Grave too! The black humour in it is so manic and deranged, I genuinely didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

1. Slumdog Millionaire

2. Sunshine

3. Millions

4. Shallow Grave

5. 28 Days Later

6. Trainspotting

 

And I haven't seen The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary or this quite yet.

 

definitely watch the beach! the soundtrack's wicked and it looks beautiful. though try and looked past the whole plot thing :P

 

i still need to watch most of these but i'll definitely be checking them out cos every movie of his i've seen so far has been top notch

I found something missing from this but can't quite put my finger on it. :manson:

The movie need no introduction.The movie is direct by Danny the director of Slum Dog Millionaire.

127 hours is basically a drama movie.I watch this movie online.

I found something missing from this but can't quite put my finger on it. :manson:

really want to say an arm, but i fear that would take me too far into mikey joke territory

I really enjoyed this, i was quite surprised as my mates who had seen it before me said they found it boring, which i thought they would though as they just enjoy films with tonnes of action in.

Finally saw this tonight. Seriously incredible stuff. Brilliant acting and directing.

seen it last week, and i thought it was pretty amazing. brilliantly shot and franco did a great job as well.