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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 4:50 pm
My top ten in no particular order:
(intentionally left out Star Wars and Star Trek, I love them but find it too hard to choose between and not include several)
(2001 is one of those things where I feel like I should pick it and while I enjoyed it, I still don't know exactly how I feel about it)
Blade Runner (1982
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
The Matrix (1999)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
The Thing (1982)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Wall-e (2008)
Terminator 2 (1991)
Event Horizon (1997
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 4:54 pm
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Minority Report
........Total Recall, cmon, you know you loved it.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 5:09 pm
(June 15, 2016 at 4:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
........Total Recall, cmon, you know you loved it.
One too few actors in the roles.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 8:25 pm
(June 15, 2016 at 4:50 pm)Organic Machine Wrote: My top ten in no particular order:
(intentionally left out Star Wars and Star Trek, I love them but find it too hard to choose between and not include several)
(2001 is one of those things where I feel like I should pick it and while I enjoyed it, I still don't know exactly how I feel about it)
Blade Runner (1982
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
The Matrix (1999)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
The Thing (1982)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Wall-e (2008)
Terminator 2 (1991)
Event Horizon (1997
Was Donnie Darko really sci-fi though?
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 8:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2016 at 8:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Yes?...but only so that it could set up a much more intense moral dilemma/drama. Hell, Wild Wild West was sci-fi (as a steampunk western).
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 8:43 pm
See, I have troubles labeling something as sci-fi just because it has some interesting tech or something in it. To me, in order to be sci-fi, science has to play a role in the plot. Whether the science is the plot or is simply used to help move a plot along, it has to be a part of the plot. This is why I didn't put those Alien films on the list, because they are more horror than anything.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 8:57 pm
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Some of the best sci fi is sci fi that really plays down the sci. Like PKD said.
The future is alot like today, only dirtier.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 9:58 pm
Funny how we categorize some movies, the first Terminator is my favorite romance title.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 10:14 pm
(June 15, 2016 at 9:58 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Funny how we categorize some movies, the first Terminator is my favorite romance title.
Arnie certainly was packing a terminator at the Griffith Observatory. Then he got pants.
Anyway, any movie where Bill Paxton dies in on my top ten.
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RE: My Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies
June 15, 2016 at 10:29 pm
Well, it was Kyle Reese confessing his love to Sarah Connor that got me.
I came across time for you . . . . .
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