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What is your Favorite 3 Sci-fi Films and why

2001: A space Odyssey
Starship Troopers
The Time Machine


very nearly: Total Recall; Dark City; The Cube; Silent Running; 2010; Bladerunner; Escape From New York; They Live; Village of the Damned; Dark Star; Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers; Robocop
 
Fair enough ,but, they were not children had all left high school so young adults .
The colony incident was mentioned ,but, retaltion didnt start until they attacked earth .The colony was set up against recomendation by the earth government by some sky pixe worshippers of some flavour and met its just deserts.
So the bugs are the bad guys.
 
dream_girl said:
2001: A space Odyssey
Starship Troopers
The Time Machine


very nearly: Total Recall; Dark City; The Cube; Silent Running; 2010; Bladerunner; Escape From New York; They Live; Village of the Damned; Dark Star; Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers; Robocop
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Not sure you can call Escape from New York sci fi, as there is hardly no science in it really, the most scientific bit is probably the President's bracelet. Hardly seems enough to qualify it as Sci Fi.
 
dylanredefined said:
Fair enough ,but, they were not children had all left high school so young adults .
The colony incident was mentioned ,but, retaltion didnt start until they attacked earth .The colony was set up against recomendation by the earth government by some sky pixe worshippers of some flavour and met its just deserts.
So the bugs are the bad guys.
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You seem to be talking about the novel rather than the film and it seems to have escaped you that the film is completely different in its intentions. It helps to listen to Verhoevens audio commentary if you didn't get what he was trying to do. In everything the humans do they are strongly parelleled to how the Nazis behaved in WWII and late in the film there is a scene where they do send children into war in uniforms that are too big for them, just as Germany did at the end of WWII. The lead characters themselves are not exactly supposed to be evil, but they do hold up an evil regime. What good regime restricts citizenship only to those who served in the military ? By the end the guy who played TV's Doogie Hauser turns up as a Mengele type character, I mean how much more blatant can you get ?
 
Matrix
Blade Runner
2001

Honourable mentions: Alien, Terminator and Soylent Green

Winner of the 'WTF were they on?' category: Plan 9 from Outer Space :)
 
This is Mr. QofG's choice (he can't post during the day so I am his proxy!)

"This is a tough one as the definition of sci-fi quite often veers into fantasy and horror. However, how do these 3 grab you:

1. The Matrix
2. Total Recall
3. The Day The Earth Stood Still

Please to remind me now of classics I've missed out. No room at the top for This Island Earth or 2001. Certainly no room for the likes of Blade Runner"

He is not a fan of Blade Runner :o

I feel ashamed that I forgot "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Fantastic film.
 
Reno said:
You seem to be talking about the novel rather than the film and it seems to have escaped you that the film is completely different in its intentions. It helps to listen to Verhoevens audio commentary if you didn't get what he was trying to do. In everything the humans do they are strongly parelleled to how the Nazis behaved in WWII and late in the film there is a scene where they do send children into war in uniforms that are too big for them, just as Germany did at the end of WWII. The lead characters themselves are not exactly supposed to be evil, but they do hold up an evil regime. What good regime restricts citizenship only to those who served in the military ? By the end the guy who played TV's Doogie Hauser turns up as a Mengele type character, I mean how much more blatant can you get ?
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Agreed 100%. It should have been as plain as a Bulgarian pin-up that it was an analogy for fascism.
 
Only kid in uniform I remeber from the film is a jokey bit on the parade ground .And dougie howser was a commander not a mengele character .
 
Blade Runner
12 Monkeys (if other people reckon it's sci-fi, then I'll vote for it)
Alien

Also, Aliens AND Alien3 (take that, my reputation), Starship Troopers, The Fifth Element, Total Recall. Also, terminator was a great film, i enjoyed Predator too, and of course 2001 gets an honourable mention.
 
But that's WHY i love it... plus, it's nice and claustrophobic, makes plenty of sense within the continuity, and it has pete postlethwaite fighting an alien armed with a broomstick. How can that not be a vision of the future we all can love?
 
Final said:
I like Alien 3.

But then, I like resurrection as well :hmm:

sigh, while I'm at it I might as well confess to also being a huge fan of Flash Gordon.
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Yeha, resurrection is good in a cheesy way, but the science is so shonky that it's unforgivable.

Flash Gordon is great though, I love it. I forgot all about it!
 
Alien 3 has a great first half hour and last ten minutes, but the main bulk of the film is rather dull with mostly interchangable characters unlike the two previous films. More of an interesting failure than a great film. The alternative cut is an improvement for the most part, but there is an akward cut in Elliot Goldenthal's fantastic score during Ripley's descent into the fiery pit, which greatly diminishes the emotional impact of the ending.
 
bluestreak said:
Emotional impact? You're joking, right?
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Why, did you want for Ripley to die at the end ? :(

Maybe it didn't work for you, but I think we were supposed to feel something when one of the greatest film heroines ever has little choice but to commit sucide after all she's been through. Apart from that, the Goldenthal's excellent score acts as a requiem for the character at that point which is ruined by the edit to cut out the birth of the alien queen.
 
2001: A Space Odyssey - just because. Kubrick + Clarke + Doug Trumbull = magic.

Forbidden Planet - The Tempest in space. :cool: Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. Amazingly intelligent Sci-Fi for its era. I shall carry the phrase 'Monsters from the Id' to my grave. Bonus points for Robby the Robot, the theremin soundtrack and Leslie Nielsen playing it straight. :)

Tough call on the third, though Ridley Scott probably gets a look-in for either Alien (which is one of the few Sci-Fi movies to genuinely scare me) or Blade Runner (for the breadth of its vision)
 
Reno said:
Why, did you want for Ripley to die at the end ? :(

Maybe it didn't work for you, but I think we were supposed to feel something when one of the greatest film heroines ever has little choice but to commit sucide after all she's been through. Apart from that, the Goldenthal's excellent score acts as a requiem for the character at that point which is ruined by the edit to cut out the birth of the alien queen.
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What I wanted wasn't important. It was necessary that she did so. We knew it was coming, she knew it was coming. It wasn't that emotional really.
 
cybertect said:
Forbidden Planet - The Tempest in space. :cool: Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. Amazingly intelligent Sci-Fi for its era. I shall carry the phrase 'Monsters from the Id' to my grave. Bonus points for Robby the Robot, the theremin soundtrack and Leslie Nielsen playing it straight.
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It was mentioned earlier ;)
 
bluestreak said:
What I wanted wasn't important. It was necessary that she did so. We knew it was coming, she knew it was coming. It wasn't that emotional really.
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We probably relate to films completely differently then. When I first saw this at a preview the ending was possible the biggest downer ever and I felt that compared to Alien and Aliens the film just wasn't acclompished enough to have earned it.
 
QueenOfGoths said:
This is Mr. QofG's choice (he can't post during the day so I am his proxy!)

"This is a tough one as the definition of sci-fi quite often veers into fantasy and horror. However, how do these 3 grab you:

1. The Matrix
2. Total Recall
3. The Day The Earth Stood Still

Please to remind me now of classics I've missed out. No room at the top for This Island Earth or 2001. Certainly no room for the likes of Blade Runner"

He is not a fan of Blade Runner :o

I feel ashamed that I forgot "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Fantastic film.
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We just watched a clip of that in me genre fiction class.

I wanted to fastforward to the bit where Michael Ironside has his arms sheared off 'see you at the party Richter' but was overruled.


Incidently, it's the only film I know of where the Baddies chief luitenant actually has a cooler death than the main Baddie.
 
DotCommunist said:
We just watched a clip of that in me genre fiction class.

I wanted to fastforward to the bit where Michael Ironside has his arms sheared off 'see you at the party Richter' but was overruled.


Incidently, it's the only film I know of where the Baddies chief luitenant actually has a cooler death than the main Baddie.
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Cool!

If I had a baby it was always going to be a toss us whether I dressed him/her as Yoda, the Mekon or Kuato (is that the name of the mutants leader?).

Just strap said baby to my chest and put a jacket over it - perfect!

Ah, Michael Ironside - he's got to be a bit of a hero hasn't he? I mean Total recall, Scanners plus Starship Troopers (another sticky end!) :cool:
 
bluestreak said:
Yeha, resurrection is good in a cheesy way, but the science is so shonky that it's unforgivable.

Flash Gordon is great though, I love it. I forgot all about it!
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Flash Gordon is easily in my top ten sci-fi films of all time- silly it may be, but every moment is a joy. ;)

My three would be:

Bladerunner
Star Wars (the real ones obviously, not the recent embarrasements)
Aliens

I almost feel boring for picking such obvious ones but really, those three films have shaped the genre far more than any others. Bladerunner looks as amazing now as it ever did, and Star Wars is, well, Star Wars. No other film has had a bigger impact on the "Spaced" generation. And I pick Aliens rather than Alien because more shit gets blown up. :D


I'm really surprised by how often Dune has turned up in this thread. I didn't mind it personally (still fastforwarded through the more tedious bits) but I thought it was generally considered to be a bit toilet. :confused:
 
What I can't believe is how many people like fucking Star Wars. Most over-rated thing in the history of the English-speaking peoples of the world. even more over-rated than The Beatles or Thatcher.
 
senny dreadful said:
I'm really surprised by how often Dune has turned up in this thread. I didn't mind it personally (still fastforwarded through the more tedious bits) but I thought it was generally considered to be a bit toilet. :confused:
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I think that like me, most of those rating Dune read it first and so appreciatted it more.

I personaly would have flicked over in disgust at those stupid noise guns (his name is a killing sound)



Also, has nobody mentioned the wonderful Dark City?


SLEEEP


dc08.jpg
 
bluestreak said:
What I can't believe is how many people like fucking Star Wars. Most over-rated thing in the history of the English-speaking peoples of the world. even more over-rated than The Beatles or Thatcher.
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But Mrs. Thatcher IS the Emperor.

And Paul McCartney is Luke.
 
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