Sunshine was a bit of a letdown for me, having made so much in advance of being Believable and Scientifically Credible, and then having all the plot silliness you mention. Plus it fell into the trap of having a carefully selected bunch of maladjusted neurotics for a crew (although after the Linda Nowak affair, it's harder to make the 'real astronauts aren't nutcases' claim).
The Illusionist was enjoyable enough and very nice to look at (especially the bits with Jessica Biel in... sorry, where were we?) but my disbelief was stretched by having Eisenheim being shown as apparently capable of real magic which is then revealed as a mechanical illusion that, as you note, couldn't possibly have been that good. To be charitable, it might be that we're being shown the more credulous audience's perception of the tricks, but it leave the film with a tiny whiff of the Scooby-Do ending for me.
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Date: 2008-02-20 06:04 pm (UTC)The Illusionist was enjoyable enough and very nice to look at (especially the bits with Jessica Biel in... sorry, where were we?) but my disbelief was stretched by having Eisenheim being shown as apparently capable of real magic which is then revealed as a mechanical illusion that, as you note, couldn't possibly have been that good. To be charitable, it might be that we're being shown the more credulous audience's perception of the tricks, but it leave the film with a tiny whiff of the Scooby-Do ending for me.