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x_bruce · Post by **x_bruce** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:49 pm

2001: A Space Odyssey - my absolute favorite
Clockwork Orange - great film, you don't know whether to laugh or shudder
War of the Worlds (1953 release) - scared the living hell out of me as a kid. They used to play it almost every month from 1965 to 1970 at a theater when I was a kid.

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 6:12 pm

Jackart wrote: When I saw topic I thought about about Soilent Green, and I was very surprised that I'm not alone. Great movie.
Fastfoodeaters must watch it!

Hahahaha.... yep, totaly agree about the fastfood

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 6:14 pm

Poweruser wrote:
Wow, another Asimov addict
Hi there man

just found out we have even more to talk about
i always have been very fond of Asimov
i have some books but read most of his stuf in our local library
one of my favourites is the naked sun !

Wow, indeed a lot more to talk about. Well, that evening was way to short anyway. Have to do a sequel somewhere soon

Dingo865 · Post by **Dingo865** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 8:50 pm

Re: Asimov addiction...

PLEASE ADD ME TO THE LIST!!!

AFAIC, Asimov is arguably the BEST SF author of the 20th century (and I know someone will beat me up over this...

). The first book I read from him was The End of Eternity, and have been hooked ever since (say, for 24 years or so). The ORIGINAL Foundation trilogy (not too fond of the follow-ups/prequels) would make an awesome movie along the same structure as The Lord of the Rings...

BTW, you can check check http://www.asimov.com for more stuff.

I also thought the Alan Parson Project's "I, Robot" was an interesting, albeit ultimately flawed, experiment at interpreting him from a different angle...

putte · Post by **putte** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 9:07 pm

to me it always was and always will be:

E.T.

putte

Dingo865 · Post by **Dingo865** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 9:10 pm

Kubrick's 2001 is brilliant, but most people are having difficulty understanding it because it uses a very abstract language (should be called KubriClarckese, I guess...

) whose 'vocabulary' has to be learned before you can 'communicate' in it. You wouldn't understand most paintings without knowing something about their style/history/creator, and this film is much closer to a painting than to a straightforward, linear narrative.

If you find it boring, BTW, that's partly because we've gotten used to the portrayal of space and space-travel as a McDonald's kidsroom with lotsa fun colours and anthropomorphic toys, with cute music playing in the background...

I love the original SW, but I sincerely doubt our future will be even remotely similar to that kind of fantasy where going over to the next galaxy is like visiting Aunt Jenny on a sleepy Sunday afternoon just before supper.

2001's space is a cold, vast, black, hostile, and ultimately boring stretch of emptiness, absolutely alien to humans - much like real space. Most of us - myself included - prefer the 'cheats' of whooshing engines and banking spacecraft and 15 minute parsecs, but it doesn't mean they are 'better'. Winnie The Pooh is more fun to read than 1984, but the latter seems a heckuva lot closer to reality - unless, of course, you're smoking something illegal...

ON ANOTHER NOTE: I think Ghost in the Shell should be mandatory viewing for everybody who likes SF. Also, has anybody seen the Japanese anime version of Metropolis? It's just come out recently, and I thought it's absolutely beautiful. Too bad style came to rule it over substance; they tried to cram so many different messages into it, storywise it turned into a jumbled mess of totally different concepts and ideologies heaped on top of each other...

Jim M · Post by **Jim M** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 9:35 pm

It's gotta be John Carpenter's "The Thing"... not a remake of the 50s version, but a hardcore adaptation of Campbell's original "Who Goes There?" (the original story for both).

Suprised no one mentioned "Pi"... great Autechre soundtrack...

x_bruce · Post by **x_bruce** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 9:41 pm

More great SciFi films:

Enemy Mine - great concept, great execution.
ET - ok, it was sentimental, what's wrong with that?
Alien Nation - nihilistic dystopia, very cool.
Dune (Lynch version) - mostly incoherent but visually interesting, also I've never seen a film where the good guys were so miserable and the evil people so gleefully happy.
Contact - the opening 5 minute sequence is worth the price of admission, one of the few films better than the book

progfusion74 · Post by **progfusion74** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 9:48 pm

What I always liked best about 2001 was the silence in space!!! It's beautiful to see those scenes.

prog

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 12:52 am

Stalker, Bladerunner, City of Lost Children, Tank Girl, Repo Man, Silent Running, Battle Royale, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Mad Max, Lost in Time, eXistenZ, Screamers, Forbidden Planet, the Day the Earth Stood Still, Delicatessen

pHuzZ · Post by **pHuzZ** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 12:55 am

hey rabbyt . . . so im not the only fool who loves tank girl then !?!

. . . hmmmnnn . . . delicatessen . . . great film too

. . . cheers

rob

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:01 am

Certainly not a fool.

'Snip snip"

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:03 am

Tank Girl was fun...... not particularly good tmo, but fun

aLeksVolt · Post by **aLeksVolt** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 2:10 am

Here are my top 5...

All Star Wars films
All Star Trek films, but especially II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Contact
2001
A.I.

I just saw Signs and I really liked it.

This should be in another forum, but I would like to see someone make Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama into a movie.

Steve Newton · Post by **Steve Newton** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 2:44 am

Jim M wrote:Suprised no one mentioned "Pi"... great Autechre soundtrack...

I did.

Scifi fans: what is your favorite CLASSIC SF movie ?