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Thread ID: 55632	2005-03-15 10:37:00	Best Sci-Fi Films You Have Seen	vinref (6194)	PC World Chat

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334482	2005-03-18 11:38:00	Glad to see some support for my 3 "older" choices. Bruce has a good list - which also corrected my absent-minded "Return" of the Body Snatchers to "Invasion" as I surely meant the original b\white. And thanks, Tom McB for supplying Planet of the Apes. Much better than my "that thing with Charlton Heston & the monkeys." ( It'd been a long day) I'd also like to see the local Quiet Earth again. Like Bruce, I wonder how it stands up today - though vinref still rates it, obviously. As we have NZ film re-runs on TV1 every so often ( one currently on Saturday nights), with luck they'll get around to it. Maybe lots of email requests would be remembered for the next series..?	Laura (43)
334483	2005-03-18 21:34:00	but after the 34th sequel to Enders game he really should have quit while ahead..... Yes, I confess I have never read the whole Ender series for that reason, even though most of them are on the bookshelf and did not finish the Alvin Maker series either. Ender, I think, could and should have been a 1 book thing. Alvin Maker, about 3 books.	Biggles (121)
334484	2005-03-18 23:23:00	Can't believe I forgot John Carpenters The Thing only marginally sci fi as a vehicle for horror but still a goody.	the highlander (245)
334485	2005-03-18 23:45:00	Once again Bruce comes up with a beauty. Metropolis is a classic movie. I originally thought a modern soundtrack had been added by Queen but no, its by Gottfried Huppertz according to IMBD. A strange and almost overpowering film, made in 1927 (restored digital version 2001) it was a favourite of Adolf Hitler. I'm gratified to see sci-fi fans here and will start a new thread.	Winston001 (3612)
334486	2005-03-20 00:27:00	Can't believe I forgot John Carpenters The Thing only marginally sci fi as a vehicle for horror but still a goody. In a similar vien was The Hidden (1987) with Twin Peaks Kyle MacLachlan. B grade but fun. And 1988's The Live!, also by David Carpenter and starring WWF wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper, about aliens among us who can only be seen when you wear special specs ...	Biggles (121)
334487	2005-03-20 04:16:00	In a similar vien was The Hidden (1987) with Twin Peaks Kyle MacLachlan. B grade but fun. And 1988's The Live!, also by David Carpenter and starring WWF wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper, about aliens among us who can only be seen when you wear special specs ... Were they as bad as the "Ghosts of Mars", also by Carpenter? In my hunger for sci-fi one night, I stumbled onto this one and regretted it dearly. Starred the equally horrible Natasha Henstridge form some other forgettable sci-fi rubbish about aliens sending us their DNA.	vinref (6194)
334488	2005-03-20 10:06:00	I haven't seen either in a while but remember enjoying them at the time. B-grade for sure, but fun.	Biggles (121)
334489	2005-03-20 10:20:00	To me B-Grade is when a group of serious people get together to make a serious attempt at making a serious movie with what budget/personnel limitations they have. I regard this as an honest attempt, and most of the finest sci-fi are produced this way. There is the other kind, which much of sci-fi ends up as, which is just churning out a product to sell. And it always looks like the director, script-writer, producer and the actors, didn't know or didn't care what they were doing.	vinref (6194)
334490	2005-03-20 10:22:00	I have great respect for Orsen Scott Card, he maybe my favourite author (the Worthing Saga is pure genius) but after the 34th sequel to Enders game he really should have quit while ahead... 34 sequels to Enders game? :confused: I've read 3 sequels to it which weren't that great and I read the Shadow saga which was quite good.	E|im (87)
334491	2008-01-09 07:33:00	Just rewatched Blade Runner for the billionith time. Still cool as:cool:	rob_on_guitar (4196)
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