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My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
(June 12, 2016 at 4:07 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: No 2001? for it's time (1968 I think) it had some of the best special effects (pre CGI) fairly accurate science (no sound in space!) the film is actually easier to understand if you read the book first though!

2001 was just a bit too slow for me. Add that with it having that 60's acting and style, and I just couldn't get into it. I respect it for the classic that it is, but it's not really for me.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
(June 12, 2016 at 8:43 am)ignoramus Wrote: WTF? No Avatar?

Nope, no Avatar. I mean the visuals of that film were good, but...
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#13
RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
Avatar succeeded by its excessive advertising; so many people went to see it not because of the quality of the film, but because it had been plastered everywhere and artificially hyped months before release.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
No "Star Wars" or "Empire Strikes Back?!?"
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
(June 12, 2016 at 4:01 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: No "Star Wars" or "Empire Strikes Back?!?"

They sure are among the top ten if cultural impact has any weight.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
I wouldn't count the Star Wars movies as science fiction. They're space opera - fantasy in space.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
(June 12, 2016 at 4:01 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: No "Star Wars" or "Empire Strikes Back?!?"

Star Wars is science fantasy, not science fiction. :p
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#18
RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
Ok - considering different subgenres

favorite space operas

1. Fifth Element
2. Star Wars
3. Empire
4. Stargate

Favorite space horror

1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Pitch Black
4. Apollo 18

Alien plays in a different league from any of the other ones, though. The best space based film there is in my opinion.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
(June 12, 2016 at 3:30 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Avatar succeeded by its excessive advertising; so many people went to see it not because of the quality of the film, but because it had been plastered everywhere and artificially hyped months before release.

Some of us weren't droids.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
(June 12, 2016 at 7:19 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote:
(June 12, 2016 at 3:30 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Avatar succeeded by its excessive advertising; so many people went to see it not because of the quality of the film, but because it had been plastered everywhere and artificially hyped months before release.

Some of us weren't droids.

I'm sure some of you weren't, but the massive success of the movie was still built on inflation. Many saw it because advertising had dedicated so much time, money and internet space into forcefully making it the movie everyone was supposed to go see. It wasn't word of mouth about the quality of the film that filled seats, it was well-funded, persistent drilling of the movie into the public's collective consciousness.
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