Sci-Fi Films

The T wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Snow Dog wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Zardoz totally sucks IMO. That doesn't surprise me at all.   I see the wink that indicates you are joking, but are you suggesting I do not have the intelligence to watch more "serious" films.....e.g. non action films? Not at all; you just have a different taste. But for me all that action is usually plain boring. I can take some action in measured doses, but I want a good plot too. And I have a taste for the weird and unusual, which many don't share. But who am I to judge your intelligence?   Now this is the place to talk about this... Not the Star Wars thread

Jim Garten wrote: The Star Wars movies are fine, if you want popcorn entertainment; just updates of the old 'peasants against the evil king' stories... Don't get me wrong, I can happily enjoy schlock like that, but if I had to choose favorites: Event Horizon (I know, I know - so sue me! ) Dark Star (I want a beach ball alien) 2001 (although I think my home PC is Hal ) But if I had to choose an absolute favorite from the genre (and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet), it has to be Silent Running: Made on a low budget in 1972, with effectively a single character (Bruce Dern) - fantastic movie & a serious contender for the best eco-movie of all time.

I mentioned it in another thread, Jim. Great movie indeed!

Jim Garten wrote: The Star Wars movies are fine, if you want popcorn entertainment; just updates of the old 'peasants against the evil king' stories... Don't get me wrong, I can happily enjoy schlock like that, but if I had to choose favorites: Event Horizon (I know, I know - so sue me! ) Dark Star (I want a beach ball alien) 2001 (although I think my home PC is Hal ) But if I had to choose an absolute favorite from the genre (and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet), it has to be Silent Running: Made on a low budget in 1972, with effectively a single character (Bruce Dern) - fantastic movie & a serious contender for the best eco-movie of all time.

I almost forgot about that one. I remember watching that when I was a kid. Great movie. You actually began to care for those little robots.

I missed Videodrome the other week, but I did see it when I was a teenager, but I've forgotten a lot of it.  Quite a freaky film, if I remember correctly.

And yes, Brazil is great, I was surprised at how good it was, because I'd seen The Fisher King previously and didn't really think it was that great.  I fell asleep through 12 Monkeys, but that's not because I wasn't enjoying it, I was tired!

It doesn't help that I'm not the biggest fan of Bruce Willis, I just can't take him seriously.

As I said, I saw Videodrome when I was in my teens and cannot remember it completely.  Not a Cronenberg fan then?

I also fell asleep through Predator (or maybe it was Predator 2).


Edited by Geck0 - March 02 2007 at 12:35

andu wrote: How about Lars von Trier's "The Element of Crime" as one of the best dystopies ever? Not very Sci-Fi, though, but a great film.

That is a great film!  Interestingly enough, just yesterday I was thinking of doing a Lars von Trier poll (one of my favourite directors), and was specifically thinking about voting for that film.

Speaking of dystopian tales, has anyone mentioned Delicatessan and Soylent Green yet?  What about Metropolis?

On a different note: Wender's Until the End of the World is a fun road trip movie that could be included here.

Cronenberg has been mentioned, and I like Scanners and Videodrome muchly.  Though Dead Ringers isn't appropriate for this topic, that's my favourite movie he did by far.  I like his body horror.

andu wrote: Jeunet's previous "La cite des enfants perdus" is one of the most interesting allegorical films I've ever seen - and there's more "science" there, something like in Gilliam's "12 Monkeys".

andu wrote: Delicatessen is one of my favourites!  Plenty of fiction, great script, visuals and acting, lotsa French humour, but no science. Jeunet's previous "La cite des enfants perdus" is one of the most interesting allegorical films I've ever seen - and there's more "science" there, something like in Gilliam's "12 Monkeys".

Very true, which is why in my former post I opted to list City of Lost Children and ignored Delicatessan.  However, I had intended to mention Deli in another context rather than as a sci-fi piece.

Here's some thoughts I had on what is sci-fi at another board I have mostly left so as to concentrate on this site: CLICK
I do consider myself knowledgeable in that arena.

A topic I have discussed a great deal over the years, and I've been a bit of a thorn in people's sides as I'm something of a purist when it comes to defining (rather like many people here when trying to define Prog).

For a fun sci-fi romp (very soft sci-fi), I love Barbarella.

EDIT: Cause I left that open for a joke that I thought someone would make...

It may be a soft[core] SF romp, but it sure leaves me hard.



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Edited by Logan - March 03 2007 at 20:07