General / Off-Topic Supposedly bad Sci Fi films..
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I tried to read the book because it was mentioned to be partially the inspiration for the Bioshock series. Didn't finish the book - it's overrated. Game is great!
I didn't realise it's connection to the Bioshock sereies - I loved the first Bioshock, think I skipped the second, and enjoyed Infinite alot too! I never read the book, but I love the movie!
Hold on, heres an ACE one, have to go get the name of it, had recently deceased Lemmy as a boat taxi dude.
They had no money to make it but it really is up there in my favourites.
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"Hardware" - heres the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlt1wVw1_f0
I'll leave it to you to find the movie on t'internet.
and heres a bit of a tasterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWQD-SXHIcw
Great movie interesting geek fact it was based on a "future shock" story from 2000AD the comic that created Judge Dredd.
Best sci-fi movie ever is Them (1954) big rubber ants with a surprisingly good story.
Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CugQcmapiwc
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I like your avatar it's the beast from the id forbidden planet.
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Are you sure it wasn't "Atlas Shrugged" that was the inspiration for the Bioshock series? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand. She was a big fan of laissez-faire capitalism which is something that features in the games. I haven't read any of the books but I really enjoyed the Cloud Atlas movie.
And I have to add my thumbs up to Dark Star as well.
yes it is
Man, you're right - massive brain fart here. So yes, ignore what I said - Atlas Shrugged it was. Still that book sucked and I tried to watch Atlas Shrugged on Netflix, but ehhh...
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Yes, Dark Star is great!
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ha, saw Dred while I had to go elsewhere for work. Liked it.
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Anyone remembers Lifeforce from 1985 with Patrick Steward. Talking of which, Dune has is qualities too.
If we are moving back to the 1950's then The Blob was awesome (OK I saw it on TV in the late '60's and it scared the crap out of me! Yeah I was like 6!)
Another classic '50's Sci FI movie that was better than what people expected was Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Another older title:
Coma
Some newer 'schlock that wasn't':
Repo: The Genetic Opera
Rubber (seriously...a psionic car tire is considered sci fi, right?)
Another classic '50's Sci FI movie that was better than what people expected was Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Another older title:
Coma
Some newer 'schlock that wasn't':
Repo: The Genetic Opera
Rubber (seriously...a psionic car tire is considered sci fi, right?)
'Soldier' from 1998 staring Kurt Russell.
I quite enjoy this one, and it has Blade Runner tie-ins that not many people may be aware of (from the wiki page):
written by David Peoples, who co-wrote the script for Blade Runner. By his own admission, he considers Soldier to be a "sidequel"-spiritual successor to Blade Runner. It also obliquely references various elements of stories written by Philip K. (who wrote the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", on which Blade Runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. A "Spinner" vehicle from Blade Runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet that features in the film.
I quite enjoy this one, and it has Blade Runner tie-ins that not many people may be aware of (from the wiki page):
written by David Peoples, who co-wrote the script for Blade Runner. By his own admission, he considers Soldier to be a "sidequel"-spiritual successor to Blade Runner. It also obliquely references various elements of stories written by Philip K. (who wrote the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", on which Blade Runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. A "Spinner" vehicle from Blade Runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet that features in the film.
Now that you mentioning Kurt Russell - Escape from New York (btw, they reused the model of the Bladerunner city set and it was repainted to do the top down view when he's in the glider).
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Another all-time favorite is The Thing. Watched it 1st time during a winter at a friends place who had a LaserDisc player (12 inch DVD if you want and you had to flip it after 60 min like an LP) and one of the first home Dolby surround systems - dam scary.
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Another all-time favorite is The Thing. Watched it 1st time during a winter at a friends place who had a LaserDisc player (12 inch DVD if you want and you had to flip it after 60 min like an LP) and one of the first home Dolby surround systems - dam scary.
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If a space vampire (Lifeforce) is scifi, why not? My favourite Blob is the 80's version. My guilty pleasures are Waterworld and Postman.
If you enjoyed the remake you should really see the original[video=youtube;XjuLZwlDxh8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjuLZwlDxh8[/video]
It is quite interesting that you have an invading alien and most people want to kill it, but you have one of the humans who tries to reason with it, tries to bargain with it. It's funny how something made back in the 1950s can resonate with a position we find ourselves in the 3300s
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It's a great film but John carpenters the thing is a lot closer to the short story it's based on (but the special effects would have been impossible i the 50's).
Online PDF of Who goes there : http://randerson3.weebly.com/uploads/3/2/1/6/32169097/who_goes_there.pdf
And now I've derailed myslef onto written sci-fi I am legend is much much better than the film which totally missed the point.
Online PDF of I am legend : http://www.juliojeha.pro.br/course43amg_pg/I-Am-Legend.pdf
Back to films but staying with missing the point, the original of the day the earth stood still far superior to the Keanu Reeves version.
john carter was a brill film so was the other version princess of mars worth a watch
Completely agree with you. I'm a big fan of Judge Dredd from the 80's/90's and I felt the Karl Urban version was a lot closer to character than the Stallone version. It's just a shame they swapped the blue and gold armour for practical leather/kevlar.
Now I disagree with you. JA is so bad, it will forever be held up as an example of "director's hubris". I forced myself to sit through it and I won't ever voluntarily watch it again.
You what? "One of the best movies of all time" ?!? PLEASE say you're having a laugh!
It was trite visual popcorn and I was left wondering what the fuss is all about it. Don't say "I don't get it", because I totally understand the dystopian nature of it and it doesn't hold a candle to the original Mad Max. There was no emotional engagement with any of the characters. Hell, Tom Hardy as Max was a MacGuffin! He was a minor plot device used to push along Furiosa's story.
You would not believe the amount of squee when I first watched "Hardware" and and realised it was the Future Shock "Shokk". It was peculiar to know what was going to happen in each scene in advance without knowing HOW it would come across visually.
The scene with the fridge was absolutely perfect.
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The original "Day the Earth Stood Still" was brilliant. The ending was a complete twist in the tale. Even back in the days when the movie was made there were a lot of nutters thinking that the space aliens would come down and save the planet. The speech Klaatu eventually gave was that nobody cares what Humans get up to on their own world but they should watch themselves if they start trying any of that nonsense in outer space or the completely autonomous robot space police will slaughter every human... and destroy a few planets they saw on the way over.
Regarding Rotten tomatoes and other critic sites (and critics in general)....opinions are like buttholes, everyone has them and everyone things others stinks worse, those who make the most noise have the biggest buttholes. ergo critics are huge buttholes.
I like what I like, no-one will make me like something I dislike or dislike something I like.
I'm a huge JD fan, I liked both films but felt neither captured the overall "vision" of the comics. Stallone should never have removed his helmet, the helmet design was wrong...nice to see an ABC warrior in it though! The newer one had a more accurate helmet (but several times it was clearly lifted up to allow the actors to see (LOL!). But the vision of the city and the vehicles was awful IMO. It was almost as if they chose to set the film in an alternative reality of a few decades before Dredd existed. The city blocks should have been right next to each other to allow proper block wars! Still enjoyable films though.
Both films are favourites of mine, managed to get Last Starfighter recorded to DVD the recently and it's till a top film (with lashings of teen memories), Having seen "Enemy Mine" for a Loooooooooooooooong time!
I like what I like, no-one will make me like something I dislike or dislike something I like.
I'm a huge JD fan, I liked both films but felt neither captured the overall "vision" of the comics. Stallone should never have removed his helmet, the helmet design was wrong...nice to see an ABC warrior in it though! The newer one had a more accurate helmet (but several times it was clearly lifted up to allow the actors to see (LOL!). But the vision of the city and the vehicles was awful IMO. It was almost as if they chose to set the film in an alternative reality of a few decades before Dredd existed. The city blocks should have been right next to each other to allow proper block wars! Still enjoyable films though.
Ahhh! Enemy mine now, that's a classic.
How about the last starfighter?
Both films are favourites of mine, managed to get Last Starfighter recorded to DVD the recently and it's till a top film (with lashings of teen memories), Having seen "Enemy Mine" for a Loooooooooooooooong time!