The new Danny Boyle film Sunshine is fantastic. The crew of the spaceship Icarus II head towards the sun with a bomb the size of Manhattan Island to try and kickstart the dying star.
You can guess that this film could be labelled as science fiction, and frankly it is (due to science not yet being able to take us to the sun). However, the label science fiction immediately gets some people's backs up and they immediately decide they don't/ won't like the film which I think is a shame, and which I believe misses the point.
Like many other films in this so called genre, this is an intelligent film with very rounded and believable characters faced with decisions with enormous consequences. It is about people under stress and how they react to situations and each other. It just happens to be set in space.
There are many appalling science fiction films: Lost in Space and Stargate to name two, but I think it is wrong to dismiss a whole body of films due to being set in space, and thus being complete fiction.
Really is a fantastic film though...
