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    Posted: March 01 2007 at 07:12
The Star Wars thread shows a lot of potential - so I'll just steal it Wink
 
What are your favourite science fiction films? I'd like to know what's your overall approach and what elements do you like of them.
 
Myself I'm not a dedicated fan, but I'm delighted to find gems in areas I don't usually frequent - in film just like in literature, music or visual arts. Regarding SF, my best moments happen when I stumble upon a full vision of life unfolded in a story of future and different life tools, rather than gadgets, explosions, action hero stuff.
My favourites are Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" and "Alien", Kubrick's "2001", Tarkovsky's "Solaris" (maybe "Stalker" could fit in this category somehow, too). Though because being strict on artistic achievement I don't find most of the Star Wars as a major achievement in film, I do find the series had one of the greatest stories over concieved for film. It's like "War and Peace", but in the future.
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As already mentioned, "Phase IV" by Saul Bass. It is a movie about two scientists studying an ant colony that has lately shown some strange behaviour and signs of intelligence. It soon becomes unclear who studies whom. Some very memorable close-up scenes of the ants.
A very strange movie is "Zardoz", featuring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling (who is one of my favourite actresses, by the way). Sean Connery runs around in what looks like a red diaper, with two strips of ammo across his chest. The most memorable line of the movie is the unforgettable "the gun is good, the penis is evil". The story is totally weird; I won't even try to give a summary.


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Zardoz totally sucks IMO.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Zardoz totally sucks IMO.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Wink


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 07:51
Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Zardoz totally sucks IMO.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Wink
 
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?
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Charlotte Rampling (who is one of my favourite actresses, by the way).
 
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my fave Sci-Fi film???
 
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Zardoz totally sucks IMO.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Wink
 
I'd love to be a fly on the wall, with you two sat next to each other at a dinner party....Wink
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Zardoz totally sucks IMO.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Wink
 
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?


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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Zardoz totally sucks IMO.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Wink
 
I'd love to be a fly on the wall, with you two sat next to each other at a dinner party....Wink
 
Can I be the fly instead?
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Zardoz totally sucks IMO.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Wink
 
I'd love to be a fly on the wall, with you two sat next to each other at a dinner party....Wink
 
Can I be the fly instead?

Can I be the spider? Wink


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Can I just have some service, Friede? I've been sat in your restaurant for over a year, now, and I still haven't had my entree...

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I quite like THX 1138, Gattaca and Brazil. (if that last one counts.) like Friede I don't go in for the homerian epics in space, and enjoy Zardoz.
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Phase IV, Alien, Bladerunner and Brazil are all on my list...also Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the seventies version with Donald Sutherland when he was the king of cool) and Dark Star. 
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Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

I quite like THX 1138, Gattaca and Brazil. (if that last one counts.) like Friede I don't go in for the homerian epics in space, and enjoy Zardoz.
 
I think the proper word for "Brazil" is "distopia" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distopia), but the fact that it's placed in future makes it slightly ambiguous to define. Usually Sci-Fi shows development of various tools like science, engines and other mechanisms, but "Brazil" shows the exact opposite - the degradation, the involution. Or maybe it's just a distopic, serious parody Sci-Fi film... It's my all-time favourite, anyway. "12 Monkeys" fits the definition better and it's also a Gilliam movie Smile
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Here are some SF films I have enjoyed.

  1. Dark Star
  2. Forbidden Planet
  3. Bladerunner
  4. Alien
  5. Aliens
  6. 2001
  7. 2010
  8. The Day The Earth Stood Still
  9. Metropolis
  10. Twelve Monkeys
  11. Minority Report
  12. Bicentenial Man
  13. A.I.
  14. Terminator 2
  15. The Ice Pirates

and many more I haven't thought of yet...
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^^^You picked "Dark Star." I thought I was the only one that liked that movie.

Some of my other favorites;

Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2001
Brazil
Planet of the Apes
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Trek IV
Alien
Minority Report
Pitch Black
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Try "Slaughterhouse Five."  Billy Pilgrim has become "unstuck" in time and is not living his life in chronological order.  It's a great Vonnegut story.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Zardoz totally sucks IMO.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Wink
 
I'd love to be a fly on the wall, with you two sat next to each other at a dinner party....Wink
 
Can I be the fly instead?

Can I be the spider? Wink
 
How can I possibly remain annoyed with you when you are being so willfully playful and mischievous? Huh?
 
 
From now on I'm gonna kill all spiders!
 
 
 
 
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Zardoz totally sucks IMO.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Wink
 
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  
 


Edited by The T - March 01 2007 at 14:38
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