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Poll Question: Your favourite, and why?
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^I haven't seen it yet. Maybe I'll just think of it as a yarn when i  watch it.
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I would included Signs, which is great and had everything about SF genre. 

But I voted for Eternal Sunshine just because it's really a great movie. 

And also I Robot was great... 
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Robin hood was the wost f'ing movie I ever watched. My family, bless them, have very shallow tastes, but we all burst out laughing in derision as the movie recreated Saving Private Ryan with wood and arrows in its climax, ridiculous, melodramatic and corny to the Nth degree. A parody of film on a massively pathetic scale. It rang so hollow that it created a black hole and swallowed everything within 3000 light years. 
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^ Then I must have shallow tastes. Maybe I really do. Maybe I should watch "Saving Private Ryan" in its entirety after all. 
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Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

I would included Signs, which is great and had everything about SF genre. 

But I voted for Eternal Sunshine just because it's really a great movie. 

And also I Robot was great... 


Signs is so bad man.
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

I would included Signs, which is great and had everything about SF genre. 

But I voted for Eternal Sunshine just because it's really a great movie. 

And also I Robot was great... 


Signs is so bad man.
Oh, Com'n... it's thrilling, it has mistery, suspense and great dialogue. Please, don't tell me you hate because of it's way to positive message...
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I hate it because of the glaring plot holes, terrible acting, and lack of anything approaching fear. 
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Havn't seen enough to have an accurate vote, but I liked "Children of Men" a lot.

Also I liked "Cloverfield" it wasn't great or anything but I liked it.
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Uh sorry Jampa....positive message...dude even if I was a hardcore Christian I'd want to facepalm.
A positive message doesn't make it well done LOL , don't let the movie cop out like that! It was sooo forced and awkward any positive message can't be heard over my laughing.

Which can be said for the movie itself.
So awkward and lame :(  
The whole thing kind of felt like a cop out IMO. Like no idea what to do with it so it just kind of ends.





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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Uh sorry Jampa....positive message...dude even if I was a hardcore Christian I'd want to facepalm.
A positive message doesn't make it well done LOL , don't let the movie cop out like that! It was sooo forced and awkward any positive message can't be heard over my laughing.

Which can be said for the movie itself.
So awkward and lame :(  
The whole thing kind of felt like a cop out IMO. Like no idea what to do with it so it just kind of ends.




My point was that precisely. BECAUSE it has a positive message I thought some of you could hate it. But come on, it's a good movie. There's no plot wholes, and you are talking about Phoenix and Gibson, you can dislike them but you can't say they are bad actors. So, I will think it's a matter of pure taste and I did love it. Guess I'm alone here. 

Children of Men is pretty much "meh" for me... 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Ridley Scott + SF is going to be watchable regardless.
Ridley Scott + virtually any genre is watchable.

Ermm robin hood


OK, a bit of a stinker that one, but still very well made... you don't think the French used wooden & wickerwork landing craft in the 13th century then?

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OK, a bit of a stinker that one, but still very well made... you don't think the French used wooden & wickerwork landing craft in the 13th century then?
I don't think the French would have been daft enough to attempt a landing at Dover either. A few hundred Brits lobbing rocks and spears from the cliff top would have been enough to send them packing.
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Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Uh sorry Jampa....positive message...dude even if I was a hardcore Christian I'd want to facepalm.
A positive message doesn't make it well done LOL , don't let the movie cop out like that! It was sooo forced and awkward any positive message can't be heard over my laughing.

Which can be said for the movie itself.
So awkward and lame :(  
The whole thing kind of felt like a cop out IMO. Like no idea what to do with it so it just kind of ends.




My point was that precisely. BECAUSE it has a positive message I thought some of you could hate it. But come on, it's a good movie. There's no plot wholes, and you are talking about Phoenix and Gibson, you can dislike them but you can't say they are bad actors. So, I will think it's a matter of pure taste and I did love it. Guess I'm alone here. 


I liked it.
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Originally posted by jampa17 jampa17 wrote:

There's no plot wholes,
Ermm "Hey let's invade a planet whose surface is 75% water, whose creatures are 60-80% water, whose atmosphere is high in humidity and where it precipitates a lot because there is a kid having a birthday party in one of the wettest countries down there I really want to spook - and let's go without protective clothing or hand weapons and make sure we don't know how to kick down flimsy doors because bombarding these critters from space just isn't sporting and since we have claws for hands making and using such weaponry is a tad more difficult than constructing and flying inter-stellar craft. And since we can navigate the vast distances of space to an isolated water filled planet we had best hope that  the planet is populated by a semi-advanced life-form that has evolved sufficiently to allow arable farming so our plan of marking their fields with navigation aids works because if these monkeys are still living in trees then we might as well just go to Mars or something"
 
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No plot holes at all.
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^To be fair he was on about plot wholes.

But seriously Dean. That isn't a plot hole but a dodgy premise.


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^ to be fair, the whole plot was a hole.
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^What about The Happening?
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Awww Jampa you're better than that man! Don't pull the "we're heathens" thing.
You're above that dude.
Also positive message is a nice way to avoid saying Christian I guess? Why hide it? Be proud of it.
Anywho, I loved "The Green Mile" How's that for a movie with a positive message, and I'd say far better done?


Not to derail:
Signs was just poorly acted and written.
I wasn't gunna bring this up but:
Water kills em. It burns the aliens to the touch.
Yet they could survive in our atmosphere???


Also everyone whispering doesn't make it scary or tense, just means I need to turn the volume up to 75 to hearLOL





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I wouldn't say it was poorly acted. But i would have to watch again.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

But seriously Dean. That isn't a plot hole but a dodgy premise.
Who cares what it's called, if a logical inconsistency spoils my enjoyment of a film that's enough... killing an alien with half a glass of water is not a dodgy premise - having the alien survive in a caustic environment for the half-glass of water to kill it is not a dodgy premise.
 
I love science fiction and will happily suspend belief to be entertained but there are limits.
 
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^What about The Happening?
Never seen it.
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