Brainfart: film similar to Sunshine

[asterroc]

I just watched "Sunshine". This isn't about that.

I know there was another film, maybe 8 years ago, that involved going to the Sun and dropping stages of the spaceship into the Sun with nuclear bombs on them to trigger ... who knows what. Maybe restart the Sun spinning? or restart its nuclear reactions? I'm not sure. One of the characters was a jackass writer (no clue how he got to be an astronaut) who kept making notes to himself on a voice recorder; of course he's one of the ones to die in the end, though not the first.

The film is in the grand tradition of sci-fi based B movies upon horrible science, such as Sunshine (and the plot is laughably similar though the feel is drastically different) and The Core. It's not Solaris.

Anyone got ideas?

Comments

[best-ken-ever.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that that's not The Core? That sounds exactly like it, except The Core is dropping stages of the ship into the Earth with nuclear bombs. Six years ago is kinda like eight years ago.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh huh, I think you're right. That's what you get for using shitty visualizations of the Earth's core that in my memory look exactly like X-ray and UV images of the surface of the Sun.

[nyrchicky.livejournal.com]

All I know is... Chris Evans is in Sunshine. And he is hawt.