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RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 1:17 am
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I think people need to realize something important about star wars.
It's fantasy. Technically science fantasy - swords and magic in a sci-fi universe.
It's not really strictly one or the other.
It's also a sort of old pulp flash gordon style of storytelling that empasizes an epic story and character building over the more sci-fi concepts that came during the second half of the 20th century.
Great sci-fi films include things like:
2001 Space Oddessy
Plant of the Apes (original - not the TERRIBLE Tim Burton remake)
Twillight Zone
Outer Limits (New and Old)
The first four and the sixth original star trek movies (the next gen and 5th star trek movies are all bad movies)
The Matrix
Inception
Minority Report
The Red Planet
Alien and Aliens
Predator
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Supernova
Solaris
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dr. Who
Stargate
Terminator (The first two movies and the TV series)
.... I'll think of more. If any of you like, I'll attempt to also link some trailors - I'm just listing movies off the top of my head right now.
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RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 1:22 am
How has nobody mentioned the firefly series, and by extension, serenity?
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RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 1:28 am
I DIDN"T SEE FIREFLY OKAY!
I wanted to...
*sobs*
I wanted to...
*shame*
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
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RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 1:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2012 at 1:47 am by Cyberman.)
You're right, Darkest, when you say that Star Wars is not strictly sci fi. Though it contains sci fi ingredients, it's more correctly known as a space opera; the sci fi/fantasy equivalent of the horse opera style of western. The sci fi elements (in the truest sense of the genre) in the Star Wars trilogy would probably include the concept of the Force, the dystopian society of the Galactic Empire, the sentient machines and other similar themes. Guns, dogfights and giant fortresses are the stuff of westerns and WWII.
(January 2, 2012 at 1:22 am)Stue Denim Wrote: How has nobody mentioned the firefly series, and by extension, serenity?
Personally speaking, I didn't mention them because, never having seen them, I know nothing about them. I don't know about anybody else.
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January 2, 2012 at 2:08 am
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(January 2, 2012 at 1:28 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: I DIDN"T SEE FIREFLY OKAY!
I wanted to...
*sobs*
I wanted to...
*shame*
So do it (right now), I'll wait for you. It's sooooo very worth it, but by the end of it you WILL hate Fox for cancelling it. You as well Stimbo
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RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 2:24 am
If the whole point of watching it is to make me hate Fox I'm sure there are easier and certainly quicker ways - yes I'm looking at you, Rupert and James Murdoch - however I'm not averse to the experiment, first chance I get.
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RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 2:27 am
I highly recomend this little gem that went under the radar.
My favs are these.
Alien
Blade Runner
Star Wars (original trilogy)
Children of Men (shown above)
13th Floor
Donnie Darko
Renaissance (shown in my previous post)
Terminator 1 & 2 (wish I'd never seen 3)
Robocop and the Star Trek remake are honorable mentions
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RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 2:43 am
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Some I haven’t noticed on anyone’s list yet are Metropolis, The Day The Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet.
Honorable mention goes to The Incredibles.
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January 2, 2012 at 2:45 am
Tried to watch Metropolis online but the service offering it had a messed up copy. It is good I take it.
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RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 3:06 am
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Ah yes, Forbidden Planet - The Tempest in Space, with Leslie Nielsen as I recall. "Would sixty gallons be sufficient?" Classic - how could I forget that one? Metropolis I could never really get into, and I have tried several times; maybe it's just me, I don't know.
I shall pretend that nobody mentioned the Star Trek reboot. It's the Marmite of the Trek world; you either love ot or loathe it - and I'm afraid I don't love it. Young Spock was ok though.
Also, I've just bought a DVD of a found-footage style film called Apollo 18 ("There's a reason we never went back to the Moon!" or somesuch tagline); it was cheap and it looks fun, so I thought I'd give it five minutes. I haven't had chance to watch it yet, so no spoilers please if you don't mind.
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