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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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| 334502 | 2008-01-10 18:18:00 | Heres a few odd ones to add to the pile...hope they all qualify Cherry 200 Harrison Bergeron Gatica Mad Max Both Harrison and Gatica are commentaries on future society, I guess you could say the same about Mad Max...and anyone who has seen Cherry 200 as a school boy will know where I'm coming from on this one !!! And I recently saw "Sunshine" and was pleasantly surprised. |
limepile (96) | ||
| 334503 | 2008-01-10 21:04:00 | Heres a few odd ones to add to the pile...hope they all qualify Cherry 200 Harrison Bergeron Gatica Mad Max Both Harrison and Gatica are commentaries on future society, I guess you could say the same about Mad Max...and anyone who has seen Cherry 200 as a school boy will know where I'm coming from on this one !!! And I recently saw "Sunshine" and was pleasantly surprised. Of yes, Cherry 2000. Oh yes. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 334504 | 2008-01-10 22:07:00 | Out of the back of my head; sci-fi films that I enjoyed: Minority Report Equilibrium 2001 A Space Odyssey Alien Aliens Serenity Transformers (lol) Battlefield Earth (J) |
jason_f90 (3544) | ||
| 334505 | 2008-01-10 23:51:00 | How about Dune, that was a great movie! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 334506 | 2008-01-11 00:11:00 | How about Dune, that was a great movie! I've got a love-hate relationship with it. David Lynch's rough cut was 4 hours - he reportedly intended to edit it down to a 3-hour movie but the studio demanded a 2 hour running time. So Lynch and the producers re-cut, simplified and added voice overs to try and explain stuff for the 2 hour cut, and the result is a bit a of a mish-mash. I kind of love it, but it is also unsatisfying to watch. There was a much longer "alan smitthee" cut made for US cable TV - Lynch was not involved and had his name taken out of the credits because he disapproved. To date, Lynch has never done a true director's cut of the film, restoring it to his original 3 hour intention. One of cinema's great lost opportunities. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 334507 | 2008-01-11 01:55:00 | Hmmmm, okay, Dune, that was a great 'story' | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 334508 | 2008-01-12 10:35:00 | The book 'Dune' is great. The rest of the books were crap. Just recently watched the late great Alan Smithie version of Dune the movie. It's a good movie. But could be better. Dune is a great book looking out for current CGI technology to make into a GREAT movie. A remake should be done. Good movies, my favorites: Alien series except for the last which was 'B' Blade Runner Planet of the Apes series Enjoyable trash Starship troopers. Resident Evil. 5th Element Underrated, Pitch Black Stuff I liked but no-one else on the planet did: Vanilla Sky, The Island. And a bunch more |
mmmork (6822) | ||
| 334509 | 2008-01-12 10:59:00 | Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary :- Original Soundtrack by Vangelis has just been released. Get it from here www.marbecks.co.nz :)Sounds fantastic Trev - I'll have to get it! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 334510 | 2008-01-12 18:14:00 | Matrix (first one only) Star Wars - first 3 (Parts 4, 5, 6) Star Trek - all Alien, Aliens |
Myth (110) | ||
| 334511 | 2008-01-12 18:30:00 | I tend to go for some arcane and far-out sci-fi . The Day Of The Triffids (you can see the zippers in the costumes) The Crawling Eye (scared the snot outta my first wife!) The Thing (James Arness' debut before Matt Dillon and Gunsmoke) The Day The Earth Stood Still (Watch for the camera truck in a few shots) Dune (Don't it make my brown eyes blue?) Night Of The Comet I (sheer nonsense and camp) Fahrenheit 451 (it missed Orwell's intent as just a chapter of "1984" . . but was entertaining) War Games (a kid; a modem; Want to play: "Thermonuclear War?") Silent Running (Bruce Dern's greatest role . . right after shooting John Wayne in the back) Soylent Green (Yummy Great with dips and beer . ) A Boy & His Dog (Don Johnson debut; "What did you do with her?" "I ate her") The Coneheads ("We're from France . Meeps!") The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (an itinerant gynecologist/neurosurgeon dabbling in string physics on his days off) Spaced Invaders (The FORD hood ornament was the beginning of bodmods) The Last Starfighter (reminds me of Enemy Mine . . the Lou Gosset part) Batteries Not Included (cute little anthropomorphic tin cans) Mom & Dad Save The World . (Marge, Marge . . . I Love You . . . . . Large!) I don't like Star Wars and it's remakes . . it's too heavy handed and demonic . It's "The Force" which I find troubling . Sky Captain is very good, but I don't feel it meets the category of Sci-Fi . . . it's more "Serial-Adventure" to me . The (new) "Transformers" is very very good . . . I thought I'd not like it . . but it has a good story line and romance and special effects . . . I just wonder why, if Bumblebee has his "guns" intact, why the others didn't use theirs too . They seem so effective I'd have thought they'd be more used than they were . Ah, well . . . that's a movie I guess . There was one book about traveling on the surface of the sun with pure ablative-carbon sleds which I read many years ago and was made into a flick . . . but I cannot recall the name . The Martian Chronicals was interesting . . . not like the original author's intents . . but interesting . Logan's Run was filmed at UC-Irvine when I was attending classes there . . . and I didn't like the premise and never saw it . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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