we have seen before. But there were some personal highlights:
In New York, in the 1970s, I recall a cab driver asking my father
about his work as a solar physicist. After hearing the quick
explanation, including a few seconds about nuclear reactions, the
cabbie asked whether, when the sun dies, it would be possible to send
a bunch of atomic bombs into the sun and "re-kindle" it. Fast
forward a few decades and we now have a movie about just that idea.
That was cool connection, but not really a reason to recommend the
film.
There were many nice CGI shots of space, and the images of the sun
would not have been so real had there not been several huge
scientific efforts over the past few decades to record details about
what the sun looks like in great detail.
But to really see great shots of the sun, check out the Imax movie
Solar Max. And to see a really great movie about a deep space
mission gone wrong, revelation, mysticism, and cool special effects,
go see 2001 (again).
