no contest Event Horizon FTW

No contest is right - Event Horizon, hands down. Even though it dwindled into a sort-of slasher movie at one small point, the cast and plot was fucking awesome.

I've been saying since Sunshine came out that it heavily plagiarised Event Horizon. Unfortunately though this time Danny Boyle failed

Wow! I must be in the minority. While this is a pretty good mash up, I find Sunshine to be the superior film... by far, actually. I think it has something to do with Boyle being the superior filmmaker. Sunshine reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey fused with The Shining-- it’s imagery and cinematography are absolutely stunning, the score phenomenal, and the acting very believable. Boyle was so dedicated to realism that he brought in actual experts in astronomy and physics fields to approve of the script. Plus, the ending in Sunshine is one of those great ones that everybody interprets differently. Event Horizon is one of Anderson's better films, but he is certainly lacks the intelligence and technical brilliance of Sunshine.

I really like both of these movies, but "Event Horizon" is the better film. That movie is flat-out scary! I'm just not as sold on Sunshine's scariness.

I unfortunately have not seen Event Horizon. I should probably get on that. but I thought Sunshine was a beautiful film. Flawed in ways, but the symbolism was fantastic. Definitely a Danny Boyle movie.

Both directors are hacks. Anderson claimed in interviews before his films release that it was an intelligent sci-fi film 'not schlock like Hellraiser'. Ironically his film pretty much ended up being Hellraiser in space. Boyle on the other hand wanted to make 2001 and basically ended up with a poor mans Event Horizon. Event Horizon gets my vote, being by far the closest Anderson will ever come to making a decent movie.

I'm in the minority as well, Sunshine was easily the better of the two. I loved the subtleties, and I liked each of the characters. Event Horizon... not so much. This is one of those cases where I just feel Sunshine got the quality and respect from the filmmakers more so than EH. Sorry.

Definitely Sunshine, though I love Event Horizon. I thought Sunshine was a little more compelling and it was almost beautiful to watch.

Sunshine is clearly the better movie. Better made, and better scripted. However, it is not one that I would watch very often. Event is more fun to watch, because it seems to move faster, so if is a good party film. But to me Sunshine is definetly the winner. It's deeper, and has much better performances, and yeah I know Sam Neill was in Event, but his performance alone isn't enough.

Both very good movies, IMO, but I'd rather watch Event Horizon over Sunshine any day of the week. Sunshine was far too serious for its own good, while Event was just a good old fashioned popcorn flick. I watch it anytime it's on TV now. Paul Anderson isn't the better director, by miles, but this time he takes the trophy.

Sunshine definitely. Event Horizon was entertaining the first time through but its gore impact has diminshed and the lack of good storytelling overshadow the rest of the story. Sunshine has only partial horror elements and most of them not till the final act. For the majority of the film its straight science fiction and done very well. To say one is a copy of the other is ignorant.

Sunshine was interesting and well made but very generic and obvious in places (a character sacrificing himself on the solar pannels so that the others could live, oh so heroic) and the ending was stupid (nothing on Earth can survive going literally into the Sun so how could they still be fighting?). But Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are a class act so I can't slag it off too much

I've got two words for you, " EVENT HORIZON."

Did the dude up there just call Danny Boyle a "Hack"! Have you seen Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and 28 Days Later? Sure he's done some questionable films (A Life Less Ordinary) but compared to P.T. Anderson!!! Really!!! Not that I put too much stake in it...but fuck man...Boyle has an Oscar!

One thing sunshine was lacking in was james van der.....err sam neil!!!!!!!.Sam wins ."hell is only a word blah blah blah...

Muppets In Space is the scariest space movie ever made.

Yes, I did call Danny Boyle a hack. Shallow Grave I love, don't get me wrong, but it was down to John Hodge and the cast, Boyle's direction is functional at best, film student guff at worst. Trainspotting? faux gritty heroin chic wank based on louthsome Burroughs wannabee source material. 28 days later? Solid but overrated (and as for Boyle claiming not to have seen Romero's zombie movies? Must have just been an accident that the best scenes in 28 where practically lifted shot for shot from Dawn of the dead then). Is he a better director than Anderson? Of course, who isn't? There's a circle of hell reserved so that when they die WS and Uwe Boll can be tortured by being made to sit and watch each others movies for all eternity. Does being a better director than Anderson make him good? Hell no. Sunshine is an enjoyable movie, but like 28 is damaged in my opinion by Boyle's poor choices (Take the deserted London at the start of 28, could have been one of the most atmospheric, dread filled scenes ever shot, Boyle's choice? Put brain dead dance music over it, bravo). As for him having an Oscar? It took Martin Scorcese, arguably the greatest director of our time, thirty odd years to win one, when he did it was for a movie that, whilst very good, was by his standards mediocre. Don't get me started on what I think of the Oscars.

Bravo and well-said, Montgomery. Especially liked the parts about Scorcese's Oscar win and how true it was about 28's deserted city scene with the horrible music. Great movie, that 28 Days Later, but bleh all over that scene in particular.

Event Horizon wins!!!

MONTGOMERY MADE SOME DAMN GOOD POINTS

This is a rad debate, feel free to bring it over to the Double Murder forum thread at http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37 477 I don't want to give too much away from the podcast, but I really enjoy both films and if it were just based on "scariness", Event Horizon would win without question. Anyways, thanks for commenting and listening to Double Murder!

even though sunshine was decent it was to slow give me event horizon anyday

Event Horizon or sunshine ?? Sunshine is a realy nice movie (on blu ray looking soo good), & Event Horizon got more scary elements as sun shine. I like both

Both great fun and very enjoyable to watch and I would say based on their own merits pretty much as good as each other it's a shame they somewhat faulter at the end and the quality deminishes. But for me Sunshine just edges out mainly because it can be quite hypnotic and beautiful. But it's a very close thing as messing around with Dimensions in EH really pushes all the right buttons