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What is your Favorite 3 Sci-fi Films and why
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Perlman as an aging Librarian doubting his abilities but saving the day in the final kick-arse fight. Sounds good to me.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Would it be wrong to posit Stephen Hawking as the Emporer?
Which is a good idea - a Horus Heresy film covering the last battle for Earth.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Event Horizon - One of the most scary films I have ever watched, bonus points for not being a brainless shoot em up. It is one of the very few successful marriages of psychological horror and sci fi.
Gattaca - A hugely moving humanistic take on a genetically divided society with a beautiful Nyman score. Shot in a very restrained and belivable way and without allowing the props to get in the way of the story. Jude Law delivers his best performance ever IMO.
Blade Runner - Such an exciting film. I particularly loved the sets and all of the casting was completely bang on the money. Years ahead of its time, too.
Gattaca - A hugely moving humanistic take on a genetically divided society with a beautiful Nyman score. Shot in a very restrained and belivable way and without allowing the props to get in the way of the story. Jude Law delivers his best performance ever IMO.
Blade Runner - Such an exciting film. I particularly loved the sets and all of the casting was completely bang on the money. Years ahead of its time, too.
Damn it! you've just added even more films to my list!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Oh good call.
If we want to go old skool, Escape From The Forbidden Planet. That were proper good, and apparently based on shakespears 'Tempest'. Having no great affection for Shakey means I cannot vouch for the connections but I have it on good authority. By which I mean I read it in a book ages ago
you have GOT to be kidding....that movie was terrible
Louloubelle
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Aliens
Robocop
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Couldn't manage just 3
Robocop
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Couldn't manage just 3
Reno
The In Kraut
Just to avoid dissappointment on your next visit, but in San Francisco the hustlers are to be found in Polk, not in the Castro, which is an upmarket residential neighbourhood.
Alien, Close Encounters and Blade Runner are the three sci-fi films I watched most often and would probably be my favourites.
Hey, what do you expect? I wasted good money to go and see Battlefield Earth at the cinema!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Aliens
2001
Probably Blade Runner (yawn)
Honourable mention goes to Verhoevens Sci-Fi works - Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers.
I agree with DC that The Thing is fucking ace, but I would question it's classification as Sci-Fi.
It involves a monster from outer space. I think that places it pretty firmly in the sci-fi field
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
"Which are", dammit.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
KHANNNNN
cool as.
That made me smile - you have just cheered me up no end!
As for my three
Alien - claustrophobic, frightening with brilliant performances. Have never been able to look at Ian Holm the same since
The Empire Strikes Back - class and classic plus l;oads of Darth
Star Trek: First Contact - it's the Borg!! Run!
Honourable mentions for
Aliens - a great sequel
Starship Troopers - especially Paul Verhoeven's director's commentary
Pitch Black - scary, original, Riddick is an interesting character (and I would, with Vin Diesal, I really would!)
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
I'd put Starship Troppers in there as well. Good point. It's wittier than Robocop and there's the Dizzy Flores factor.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Yeah - plus she is SO much better than Denise 'snub nose' Richards' character.
And I would quite like Michael Ironside or Clancy Brown as a bodyguard/mentor, should I ever need one
Oh and Casper Van Dien, the perfect embodiment of the phrase "eye candy" - lovely to look at, couldn't act his way out of a litter of kittens
Reno
The In Kraut
I also love Starship Troopers. I always felt that all the actors who played the marines were chosen for their daytime soap opera bland looks and acting style to suggest masterrace style eugenics and to make the characters hard to emphasise with on more than the most superficial level, which makes sense when its revealed that the humans are the real villains of the film.
MullahNasrudin
Kick Your Own Arse
Blade Runner: I saw the restored version recently -- by rescanning the original negative, they've managed to make it look a new film almost...there is so much more contrast and detail. I've seen it so many times and was expecting to be bored by the new version, but the opposite was the case.
Children of Men: Not overtly sci-fi, but it certainly has flourishes -- I liked its kitchen sink depiction of the future, another aspect of Blade Runner.
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (70s remake): It's well scary. *point finger and screams*
Children of Men: Not overtly sci-fi, but it certainly has flourishes -- I liked its kitchen sink depiction of the future, another aspect of Blade Runner.
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (70s remake): It's well scary. *point finger and screams*
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Gosh what a toughie.
To be honest I think I would have to put the matrix in there somewhere, I think the original has been tainted but the sequels but is probably still a good film.
Brazil was a firm favorite of mine for years but I have watched it so many times I'm not sure I could ever face it again.
Dark Star and silent running would be hard to choose from but as a kid I was really in love with the robots.
In conclusion then
1 End of Evangellion
2 Dead or Alive 3
3 Cypher
To be honest I think I would have to put the matrix in there somewhere, I think the original has been tainted but the sequels but is probably still a good film.
Brazil was a firm favorite of mine for years but I have watched it so many times I'm not sure I could ever face it again.
Dark Star and silent running would be hard to choose from but as a kid I was really in love with the robots.
In conclusion then
1 End of Evangellion
2 Dead or Alive 3
3 Cypher
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
And it leaves the option open that the whole film is a propaganda piece.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
How do you come to that conclusion
? Your the sort of xeno loving filth that thinks ender made the wrong decision.Aliens action packed and cool hardware
Starship troopers nazis in outer space whats not to like
Silent running its just nice.
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Yup, Starship Troopers is one of my favourite films... can't think of what i'd put in my top three but the fifth element is a good shout, as are a load of the other films mentioned on this thread
Reno
The In Kraut
It's fairly obvious that its meant to be a satire though and as a film about fascism it's more effective than many more conventional WWII dramas.
How do you come to that conclusion
Aliens action packed and cool hardware
Starship troopers nazis in outer space whats not to like
Silent running its just nice.
I'm not understanding a word of what you are saying.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
How do you come to the conculision the bugs were the good guys then
in starship troopers ?
xeno loving filth from warhammer 40,000 anyone who doubts the fact that cleansing the universe of anything other than human beings is a bad thing .
Enders game . A sci fi story in which kids control space battles thinking its a game ender wins the game by blowing up the alien home world .
In later books its explained how aliens were a hive mind so killing a few indviduial humans didn't seem a problem to them so it was all a mistake.
in starship troopers ?
xeno loving filth from warhammer 40,000 anyone who doubts the fact that cleansing the universe of anything other than human beings is a bad thing .
Enders game . A sci fi story in which kids control space battles thinking its a game ender wins the game by blowing up the alien home world .
In later books its explained how aliens were a hive mind so killing a few indviduial humans didn't seem a problem to them so it was all a mistake.
Reno
The In Kraut
How do you come to the conculision the bugs were the good guys then
in starship troopers ?
xeno loving filth from warhammer 40,000 anyone who doubts the fact that cleansing the universe of anything other than human beings is a bad thing .
Enders game . A sci fi story in which kids control space battles thinking its a game ender wins the game by blowing up the alien home world .
In later books its explained how aliens were a hive mind so killing a few indviduial humans didn't seem a problem to them so it was all a mistake.
In the film there is a moment half way through when a journalist points out that it was the humans who attacked the bugs first, which means that the bugs are in effect defending themselves from colonisation. As the humans resort to every trick known to totalitatian regimes it should be fairly clear that they aren't the good guys. Good guys don't send children into a war for one thing.
Sorry, but while I like many sci-fi films I'm generally not into sci-fi books or comics, so I don't get all these references.
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