Sunshine
Can't believe I didn't... Actually post about this earlier! I won't make a huge post about it, because I realize that half of my readers have either already seen it and the other half probably won't bother to see it at all... So there you are! But anyway, this movie is an independent film from the UK... The basic story is that the Sun is starting to die in 2057, and two expeditions were dispatched in an effort to deliver an incredibly massive nuclear device to reignite the Sun. (The second device is several times states to have been created from every ounce of Earth's remaining fissile material.) The first expedition didn't finish the job, so the story is about the second expedition trying to get the job done and discover what happened to the first.
I honestly think, without having seen it in about a month, that this is one of the very few movies that I, personally, didn't find anything wrong with, nor cared to see anything wrong with it, because it's just... amazing. I would file it under psychological horror. It's Rated R, and rated R for a reason... There's a few language bombs and several disturbing (relatively speaking) images and violent scenes, but... I don't know why I like it, to be honest. It's very deep and emotional... It's... Romantic? I don't mean romance, either... There's perfectly zero love interest here. Romantic as in:
(usually initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a style of literature and art that subordinates form to content, encourages freedom of treatment, emphasizes imagination, emotion, and introspection, and often celebrates nature, the ordinary person, and freedom of the spirit (contrasted with classical).
The technology is very believable... The space craft look like they affixed a giant rocket to the back of the International Space Station, made some parts rotate, and pointed it at the Sun. In fact, they manage to get so close to the sun by driving a giant mirror in front of the ship to reflect and dissipate everything. Interesting idea that is a perfect example of the "it's believable, but I don't know if it can actually be done, but I don't care" mentality that I have.
And the music! OH MAN... The music. Perfect. It's awesome. No other words can explain it. I wanted the soundtrack so very badly, so I started browsing Amazon and Gracenote and... I couldn't find it. I was able to locate the thing on Bittorrent, so why can't I find the real thing? Turns out, sadly... That the Sunshine soundtrack is indefinitely on hold because, apparently, John Murphy, the composer, collaborated with a band by the name of Underworld. They'd do work and send it back and forth to each other and then stick it on the film and, man... Amazing music. Unfortunately... the official soundtrack is on hold. Why, you ask? I'll give you three guesses.
Okay, no, I won't, because I bet you don't need three. The lawyers for Underworld couldn't agree with Fox Searchlight (the movie publisher) on licensing terms or something... Imagine that. Publishers disagreeing and hurting the consumers in the process. It makes me sick, honestly. There are people begging for them to get the thing done, but someone, somewhere, doesn't think it's fair and is asking for more money and won't let them publish a music CD. Bah! Further proof that DVD movies need to have an option to listen to just the musical score while you're watching the movie. It would be insanely easy to do, too... It would be exactly like a commentary track! Everyone knows you record music when the thing's done, anyway... It's not like you're mixing the music in with the voices... They do that in the final product!
Anyway, here... Since there's no official CD, I ripped the best track (that I can remember) for you to hear. There are voices and sound effects, and there are spoilers (trivial spoilers, as in, you'd just know what happens to a certain character and not destroy the entire point of the movie), but, like I said, half of you have already seen it and half of you will never see it, so... Here you go! Tentatively called "Kaneda, What Do You See?" (Personally, I would much rather hear voices than chops and cuts and frequency modifications to get rid of them.) It's also untagged, because it's not a real track, and I don't want Last.fm picking it up.
EDIT: Actually, the torrent with the funky, nasty rips? They were tagged, and people have been listening to them, so they have nearly 8000 listens on these rips, so I decided to rename and tag this to match the other rip, so you WILL get picked up by listening to it.