Favourite/Best SF film of 2009? by chrisisall

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Favourite/Best SF film of 2009?

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Sunday, April 25, 2010 04:32
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Saturday, April 24, 2010 5:22 PM

2012? More destruction.
Astroboy? Fun family flick.
Surrogates? Cool sort of Outer Limits-like episode.
Terminator Salvation? 'Bots will be back.
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen? Fox is hot, no doubt.
Moon? A brilliant low-budget masterpiece.
Avatar? Amazing spectacle with heart.

But my pick is Star Trek because I JUST CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!

Thoughts? Mind-melds?

The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:09 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

The Road. Depressing but inspirational at the same time.

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Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:33 PM

CHRISISALL

Cryfest. No way.
"The Day After" had me depressed for weeks.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, April 24, 2010 7:44 PM

DEWRASTLER

What, no one else liked District 9?

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Saturday, April 24, 2010 9:19 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

I have Trek and watch it repeatedly. But District 9 was probably better, and Avatar close. Surrogates seemed like it was a half story.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010 12:06 AM

IMNOTHERE

Quote:
Originally posted by Dewrastler:
What, no one else liked District 9?

I liked it.

The world could use more original* films like "District 9" and "Moon".

*Ok, so the premise of District 9 was a bit like Alien Nation, and Doctor Who did the "transmogrify the slave-master into a slave" thing a year earlier, but that's just being mean, and not on the "Pocohontas dances with thundersmurfs" or "2012: Knowing When Worlds Collide with a Deep Impact" scale of unoriginality :-)

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:12 AM

LWAVES

My fave would probably have to be Star Trek coz it was fun, action packed, well acted and ticked all the boxes it needed to for a blockbuster movie. And it managed to re-whatever a classic series that kept most fans happy.

My best would have to be Moon. Brilliant performance from Sam Rockwell, great story and all for a relatively tiny budget. Showed the big films how it can be done.
If it hadn't been for this then District 9 would have been the best film.

An honourable nod to Avatar for being so beautifully rendered. A film I really like but it's few faults keep it off the top spot.
A dishonourable mention to Terminator Salvation for further screwing up the Terminator franchise. It was better than T3 but that ain't saying much.

I haven't seen 2012, Surrogates, The Road or Transformers so I can't comment on them. I'll probably see Surrogates and The Road soon enough but I think I'll pass on the other two.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:47 AM

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)

Guys, just hold back for a minute and feature this: We actually have MULTIPLE choices this year for great sci-fi films. That's not a common thing! We find ourselves trying to decide which is the best or which is our particular favorite, all among a veritable plethora (yes, Guapo, I *DO* know what a plethora is!) of really great sci-fi movies. Not *OKAY* movies, but movies that were considered great enough to be nominated for Academy Awards.

That's really saying something, I think.

I haven't seen Avatar yet, but it certainly seems to be the overall favorite, based on box-office take anyway.

Of the movies listed, I saw "Moon", "District 9", and "Star Trek". I thought "Moon" was an amazing piece of acting, "District 9" just an amazing piece, both as original story AND as apartheid fable, and "Star Trek" an amazing re-boot and just a joyous, fun-filled ride from start to finish.

Of the three, Star Trek was the most fun to watch, and the one that most made me want to jump up and cheer, not just for what it is, but for what it DOES - a wonderful, ORIGINAL, non-derivative re-boot of a classic franchise. Think about the inherent near-irony involved in trying to have an "original re-boot", and you'll see the brilliance of Trek. It's also the one I'm most likely to watch over and over.

Moon was by far the best acted of the bunch. Sam Rockwell is that rare actor who's so damned good that I've found myself halfway through movies he's in, looking at his character and going, "Wait a minute... is that... is that Sam Rockwell? Damn, I had no idea that was him!"

District 9 may well have been the best MOVIE of the bunch, at least from a social perspective. Hopefully it wasn't written TOO broadly, but if it gets people around the world to stop and think, "Hey, that's just like the kind of stuff we're doing in...", then its place in the popular culture is secure.

It's funny, because for the first time in a long time, I've really had my sci-fi itch scratched this year, with a bonanza of really good movies that just happen to be in the sci-fi genre - and I've still got quite a few I *haven't* seen yet! Transformers and 2012 just look stupid to me, and I make a conscious effort to avoid films associated with Michael Bay or Roland Emerich (burn me 34 times, shame on me!), but I'll still see The Road and Surrogates, and I'm sure I'll find still more that haven't been mentioned.

How lucky are we to be living in such a time? Now, if only we could be blessed with our very favorite sci-fi - MORE FIREFLY/SERENITY!!! That might be asking too much, though...

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 2:57 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

My runner-up choices would be Moon and District 9.

I doubt many others will care for The Road, and I'm not sure I'll ever want to watch it again. But at the time I did see it I loved it, a near perfect adaptation of a book that I thought was going to be unfilmable.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 3:46 AM

WHOZIT

The "Star Trek" remake was better than I thought it would be.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:32 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by Dewrastler:
What, no one else liked District 9?

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I didn't care too much for it, no.

I'd say Moon was probably objectively the finest achievement of that year.

The laughing Chrisisall

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