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SF films that make you go 'Umm...what?'
Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:29 AM
CHRISISALL
Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:50 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: List your favourite and/or most hated weird-ass SF films here. My faves: 2001 Zardoz Solaris Supernova Final Cut Cherry 2000 I'm a strange man. The laughing Chrisisall
Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:16 AM
JAKE7
Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:51 AM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by jake7: Enemy Mine. What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie!
Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:57 AM
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:00 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: My contrubution to this list is Strange Invaders. One of my favorites for sure.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Quote:Originally posted by jake7: Enemy Mine. What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie! You're daft.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: My contrubution to this list is Strange Invaders. One of my favorites for sure. I suddenly don't feel so strange. The laughing Chrisisall
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:32 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Quote:Originally posted by jake7: Enemy Mine. What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie! You're daft. Then again, I like Fantastic Four & Daredevil. The laughing Chrisisall
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: What a cast! : Nancy Allen Paul LeMat Ken Tobey June Lockhart Mark Goddard Louise Fletcher Diana Scarwid Charles Lane
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:35 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: I like the Director's Cut of Daredevil....
Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:49 AM
RIVERDANCER
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: We all have our little faults.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:21 AM
CITIZEN
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:24 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: I like the Director's Cut of Daredevil.... We all have our little faults. Mine's in California. I had to say it.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: What, you prefer the theatrical one?
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by citizen: Barbarella
Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:14 AM
PEACEKEEPER
Keeping order in every verse
Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:19 AM
Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:58 AM
Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:00 AM
RHYIANAN
Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:14 AM
BLUESUNCOMPANYMAN
Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:30 AM
Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:32 PM
BIGRICHARD
Quote:Originally posted by Rhyianan: The Fountain (speaking of drug trips, this movie makes little to no sense, but it's visually beautiful)
Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:42 PM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: That was a sick flick, I had it figured out after 3 viewings, but that was a while back. Basically, he was dead & finding his way out of eternal Hell. The laughing Chrisisall
Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:26 PM
RALLEM
Quote:Originally posted by jake7: Enemy Mine. What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie! Saw it on cable back in High School. My friend and I sat and watched this thing, all the time talking about how awful it was. Neither of us could believe we sat through the entire thing. I guess we just kept thinking that it had to get better! -------------- MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss. *********** "They just float out there, sending out raver breeding parties..."
Quote:BLUESUNCOMPANYMAN Starship Troopers: It exists in 2 forms. #1 A smart libertarian novel written in classic 1950's style. It stands as a commentary on the topics of meritocracy, moral philosophy, and the labor theory of value. Starship Troopers is at the same time a sci-fi novel, and an acedemic essay. Truely a must read along with Atlas Shrugged for any serious libertarian. #2 A foolish, and at times bizarre, film from 1997, containing obvious plots and stale characters. It's rare nod to the source material is just insulting. The only saving grace of the film was that it ultimately provided uniforms for Alliance Federals in The Train Job, thus disproving the oft quoted statement that "No good would ever come of that film."
Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:50 PM
WHOZIT
Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:25 PM
Quote:Originally posted by BigRichard: Quote:Originally posted by Rhyianan: The Fountain (speaking of drug trips, this movie makes little to no sense, but it's visually beautiful) and it helps to read the graphic novel
Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:10 PM
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:50 PM
22CLAWS
Entirely pointy.
Friday, March 20, 2009 5:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 22Claws: I just finished Sunshine. It was pretty wacky. Also, I'll say Event Horizen and The Black Hole
Friday, March 20, 2009 6:57 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Rhyianan: Quote:Originally posted by BigRichard: Quote:Originally posted by Rhyianan: The Fountain (speaking of drug trips, this movie makes little to no sense, but it's visually beautiful) and it helps to read the graphic novel There's my problem, I don't do graphic novels. Since the age of 7, I prefer my reading material to be sans pictures, unless it was a Graeme Base book. I do like the movie, and I do own the dvd, it just doesn't make sense.
Friday, March 20, 2009 7:00 AM
Quote:Originally posted by BigRichard: ah, see, I said it 'helps', but it's not necessary. It's just an amazing book, that is structured slightly differently and allows it to be clearer. I read the novel after I understood the film, and, while it helped to clarify it a bit better, I already understood. Plus the art is astonishing.
Friday, March 20, 2009 11:32 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rallem: I really liked the book “Starship Troopers," but can I ask you how does the Government in Robert Heinlein's story remind you of Libertarianism? I really liked the idea of only people who served being allowed to vote and everyone else getting every other right afforded a citizen, but from what I remember that is not what made up Libertarianism.
Friday, March 20, 2009 12:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman: the movie angered me. There was no focus at all on political discourse with the one rare nod at the beginning when rico's teacher asks rico "Tell me the moral difference, if any, between the citizen and the civilian" Rico answers: "The difference lies in the field of civic virtue. A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not." The instructor replies: "Yes, those are indeed the exact words from the text. But do you understand it? Do you believe it?" The rest of the film was guns, bugs, and CGI. They wisely waited until Heinlein was dead to produce it.
Friday, March 20, 2009 1:27 PM
THESOMNAMBULIST
Friday, March 20, 2009 1:30 PM
Friday, March 20, 2009 1:39 PM
Quote:Originally posted by peacekeeper: Might not quite fall under the genus of sci-fi, but does anyone remember Jacobs Ladder. Still cant make head nor tale of it, Stoned or otherwise
Friday, March 20, 2009 2:11 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: If I recall, the GN was based on the version of the movie that got scuttled at the last minute (If you didn't already know, the movie almost got made a year earlier, with a much larger budget and Brad pitt in the lead - when Pitt bailed, 2 weeks before shooting started, the whole thing collapsed). The structural and story differences are due to the changes made in the script to bring the budget down to a lower level.
Quote:Originally posted by TheSomnambulist: In the Mouth of Madness. Now I love John Carpenter films, I love his style, humour and sense of pace, but this one I just didn't understand at all, and I most definitely said... "Ummm What?"
Saturday, March 21, 2009 4:17 AM
CLJOHNSTON108
Saturday, March 21, 2009 4:46 AM
IMNOTHERE
Quote:Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman: The rest of the film was guns, bugs, and CGI. They wisely waited until Heinlein was dead to produce it.
Quote:Originally posted by cljohnston108: Mine is Primer... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28film%29
Saturday, March 21, 2009 6:47 AM
Quote:Originally posted by ImNotHere: What annoyed me was the unsubtle use of fascist imagery to make really, really sure that we knew that Heinlein's political ideas were wrong.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:42 PM
DREAMTROVE
Sunday, March 22, 2009 3:38 AM
Quote:Originally posted by dreamtrove: Oh, what's that one where they trek through this desert of white flashes, it's like a nuclear desert on their journey. Oh, there has to be a database for this, like imdBBBBBBBB!!!!!!!!
Sunday, March 22, 2009 5:11 AM
Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:45 AM
SAFEAT2ND
Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:07 PM
Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:31 PM
Sunday, March 22, 2009 6:27 PM
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