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The Wizard
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Topic: Favorite Sci Fi Film Posted: July 18 2005 at 19:03 |
Favorite Sci Fi film. Sorry If I forgot yours.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 08:30 |
Star Wars,followed closely by The Matrix trilogy.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 09:13 |
Jurassic Park, but Star Wars is very good too.
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felixxx
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 12:38 |
Event horizon
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 13:19 |
Star Wars movies are not Sci Fi ... neither is Jurassic Park.
I voted for the Forbidden Planet ... Leslie Nielsen rules ... and the robot, too!
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 13:20 |
BTW: I think you forgot Star Trek ...
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 13:57 |
2001 is leagues ahead of the others, but Close Encounters is a fabulous movie.
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BaldJean
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 14:12 |
None of the above. "Phase IV" from 1974, directed by Saul Bass. The
movie could have been even better, but he had to cut out a lot of the
end; the company required it. I would have liked to see the originally
planned ending.
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Logos
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 14:13 |
Minority Report
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: July 19 2005 at 14:22 |
BaldJean wrote:
None of the above. "Phase IV" from 1974, directed by Saul Bass. The movie could have been even better, but he had to cut out a lot of the end; the company required it. I would have liked to see the originally planned ending. |
hmmm... sounds interesting but I've never heard of it... Is it an english film, is it fairly obscure or is it easy to find?
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Lane
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 17:02 |
1. Blade Runner
2. 2001
3. Alien
Uh, must mention Event Horizon, too! Great scifi horror.
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Starette
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Posted: July 26 2005 at 17:55 |
I LOVE the matrix but...I really want to see Clockwork Orange. Heard a helluvalot of good things about it. Also- The Matrix thing is kinda overdone now...not that it's ever going to kill my love of black-leather trench-coats!
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50 tonne angel falls to the earth...
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Trotsky
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Posted: July 26 2005 at 22:55 |
Of these A Clockwork Orange (is it strictly sci-fi, though?) ... my favourite is a rare one ... Babylon 5: In The Beginning ...
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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NetsNJFan
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Posted: July 26 2005 at 23:27 |
- The Lathe of Heaven (1979)
- Gattaca (1997)
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (yr. ?) not as good as the other two
- Logan's Run (197_)
- 2001 (1968)
gattaca really is a piece of Art. Beautiful movie. Love it.
Lathe of Heaven is still my favorite though, great book/novella by U.K. Leguin, PBS did a wonderful job on a $300,000 budget.
are two of my favorites
.....Star Wars, bah, more fairy tale than science fiction.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 27 2005 at 03:32 |
I chose Bladerunner but 2001 was more thoughtful!
Not sure I would classify Clockwork and Jurrassic as Sci-fi. though.
How about old "Classics" such as Plan 9 From Outer Space or Mars Needs Women.... real tacky but funny !
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let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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spectral
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Posted: July 27 2005 at 04:09 |
Sean Trane wrote:
I chose Bladerunner but 2001 was more thoughtful!
Not sure I would classify Clockwork and Jurrassic as Sci-fi. though.
How about old "Classics" such as Plan 9 From Outer Space or Mars Needs Women.... real tacky but funny !
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Plan 9 From Outer Space - rubbish acting, rubbish sets, rubbish story, rubbish direction! Still, a cult classic and a lot of fun to watch.
...it's also a bazillion times better than Star Wars Episode 2! Give me Ed Wood any day over George Lucas.
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: July 27 2005 at 08:05 |
What, no Tarkovski's "Solaris" or "Stalker" on the list? Well, I'll go for "Blade Runner" then.
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BaldJean
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Posted: July 27 2005 at 08:47 |
GoldenSpiral wrote:
BaldJean wrote:
None of the above. "Phase IV" from 1974, directed by Saul Bass. The movie could have been even better, but he had to cut out a lot of the end; the company required it. I would have liked to see the originally planned ending. |
hmmm... sounds interesting but I've never heard of it... Is it an english film, is it fairly obscure or is it easy to find?
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we saw it on tv twice. it is a movie about intelligent ants. 2 scientists set out to study their behavior, but it soon turns out the ants study the scientists just as well
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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gr8dane
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Posted: July 27 2005 at 15:27 |
Eetu Pellonpää wrote:
What, no Tarkovski's "Solaris" or "Stalker" on the list? Well, I'll go for "Blade Runner" then. |
Nice picks Eetu.You see 'Mirror'?
I also like Bladerunner and Pitch Black is pretty tense.
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: July 27 2005 at 15:41 |
gr8dane wrote:
You see 'Mirror'? |
Sure! I have it on DVD, best movie I have ever seen I think.
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