I feel like the movie didn't need the horror. The psychological terror of them going to die due to the error would have been enough for me. Maybe Ikarus I should have had the exact same Problem they had to make the deaths even more demoralizing

On subsequent watches of Sunshine, I noticed that Icarus II's on-board psychiatrist is somewhat showing signs of obsession towards the sun, much like Pinbacker (and possibly his whole crew) Plus, in the beginning of the film, we're introduced to two crew members literally fighting, and how one said that he just sometimes couldn't cope with the isolation and time under mission. So I just thought that maybe, if they hadn't gone the detour, they would end up just like Icarus I. I dunno.

I saw Sunshine in the theater because I mistook it for Stardust. It was a good mistake.

One of the most underrated sci-fi (horror) movie ever, the main musical theme is so mesmerizing.

I remember the speculated reason for the sun losing luminosity was a brown dwarf collided with the sun and created an imbalance where part of the sun did not fuse it. The bomb was the jumpstart they simulated would reignite the sun to full luminosity.

Imagine trying to use the gold covered EVA suits, it's literally a mail slot visor a foot away from your face.

An awesome video, about a spaceship from movie I love, with infos I never found on my own!

The icarus 2 A.I voice is so beautiful...

I can give them putting the docking port in the middle IF it had a door in the secondary heat shield that would be closed over that weak point after separation.

Wow! How interesting and informative! Thank you! I love the movie Sunshine, and the time shows now how great this movie is, because it has become a cult classics of psychological science fiction!

I didn't even know a movie like this existed, seem worth the watch. I also have a suggestion for a video in the future: the space station from Cloverfield Paradox, it looked like it had a really cool design and it's purpose was quite unique as well, would make for a nice vid for sure! Rock and Stone!

One of my favorite movies ever.

4:27 If you look VERY closely, you’ll notice that where the airlock is located on Icarus 1 is where the oxygen garden is located on Icarus 2.

Awesome vid.

great content!

What an interesting video. I didn't know this movie before. It did remind me of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Thanks for the detailed explanation of the ship. Already checked Netflix but I couldn't find the movie there. Hope I can find it somewhere. Great job with the video!

Did you ever stop to think about what a weird name Ikarus is? He crashed, yet it's constantly used as a name for air/spacecraft! Meanwhile, Dedalus is never once used.

I actually have this on dvd one of my faves

It's a good one, and I highly recommend watching/pirating it.

Please make a video about the different spaceships in Interstellar, I think a lot of people would love to see that

The big holes in the movie's realism and that the physics aren't as accurate as in Interstellar is clear. It's not a bad movie at all, and pretty much the most underrated movie I know. It's music is iconic, almost all the sacrifices / deaths are well written and make the viewer understand how important that mission is. The Icarus' design is genius and mostly realistic(the composition of the heatshield is seemingly out of a unknown material, since no metal or material can withstand the sun's heat at such a close range), with great details such as the wings on the second heat shield burning away. The writers made the protagonists obsessed by the sun and it's beauty. They made the humanity look small and vulnerable, pointing out the human misstakes which the crew makes as the movie continues. The human mind and it's irrational choices are our greatest blessing but still our greatest curse. A con is that many important scenes have a lot going on in the background. You will have to watch the movie 2-3 times to fully understand it. Sadly the movie loses it's edge if you watch it a second time. I rate the movie with a 8.5 out of 10

Pinbacker: FOR YEARS, I HAVE SPOKEN WITH GOD! HE SAID WE MUST ALL COME TO HEAVEN! HAL 9000: I'm sorry, Pinbacker. I'm afraid I cannot allow that.

Great channel, just found u. Subbed.

i realy want to know how they got all the urnuim material into space ? like wtf and the Co2 they need to get this shuld warm earth for some years :D great video!

I liked the movie, but found the entire Pinbacker subplot hokey. It really marred the overall film. I think I watched it three times just for the engineering-not entirely realistic, but interesting.

Wait what am I even looking at ? I've never heard of this movie .... fml I'll be back

Someone made that "Daylight Savings Time" (á la The Core) xkcd strip into a real thing, lol

a bomb always solves the bigest problems !!!!

Besides the unnecessary horror element in the final 3rd of the film, I felt the biggest issue was there was a provision for the astronauts return at all. The planet was dying. They either succeeded in restarting the sun, and humanity survived, or they didn't and humanity would die. With that context in mind, I would think the mission would be have been one way and the crew would have all been professionals who volunteered to die saving the planet.

Solar wind wouldn't be strong enough to keep the ship stable if it went to rotate. Thus what you say in the payload section part of the video is false. According to what I know

I'm writing a story called Sunshine 2 Flight of the Icarus 3. Original opening: "Our Sun is dying. Mankind faces extinction. 7 years ago, the Icarus project sent a mission to restart the Sun, but that mission was lost before it reached the star. 16 months ago, I, Robert Capa, and a crew of 7 left earth frozen in a solar winter. Our payload: a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan Island. Our purpose: to create a star within a star. 8 astronauts strapped to the back of a bomb. My bomb. Welcome to Icarus 2." My story opening: “Our Sun has been revived. Mankind has been saved. 2 years ago, the Icarus 2 successfully delivered its stellar bomb payload, even though the delivery cost the ship itself and the entire crew. 14 months ago, I, Julius Grande, and another crew of 7 left Earth now thawed from a solar winter. Our mission: study the Sun up close and land the first group of humans on Mercury. 8 astronauts strapped to the back of an artificial bomb. My artificial bomb. Welcome to Icarus 3.”

From what I can say about this movie… Captain America was right. They should have stayed course to the mission haha!