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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 18, 2017 18:01:35 GMT
...one which I thought was a mind bender - Predestination w/Ethan Hawke
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Post by chasallnut on Apr 28, 2017 9:31:27 GMT
I watched this because I had posted something on Twitter about William Katt and the producer picked up on the tweet and mentioned I should watch the Man From Earth. It gets a great deal of praise but I thought it was pretty awful. The acting was average and plot badly contrived. Still each to their own
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Post by ♥ Lace ♥ on May 2, 2017 11:50:28 GMT
Immortal (2004).
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Post by President Ackbar™ on May 12, 2017 22:57:13 GMT
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Post by raiderjedi on May 15, 2017 5:47:58 GMT
Top 3 have all been mentioned already. Fifth Element, Event Horizon, and Enemy Mine. I also have a soft spot for The Last Starfighter.
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Post by SciFive on May 26, 2017 7:43:52 GMT
Outlander (with Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman and John Hurt) Pandorum (with Ben Foster, Antje Traue and Dennis Quaid) Pandorum is really good.
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Post by bluerisk on Jun 5, 2017 21:38:02 GMT
Gattaca - it presents very interesting questions and ideas Deus ex Machina for KIs will sooner or later come Silent Running Enemy Mine Gunhead - guilty pleasure of mine Juggers Rollerball - especially since were are more and more governed by cooperations and their interests Phase IV Pandorum Oblivion The Philosophers
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2017 1:06:43 GMT
Screamers (1995) was really good, for the technology & resources available at the time. And, it's probably the closest thing out there to a PKD short story, as most adaptations drifted pretty far from the source material in varying degrees. Saw it at the theater and didn't like it. Not the best PDK adaptation out there.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 2, 2017 18:00:47 GMT
...one other that came on in the second half of filming was Repo Man...it had a very weird sci-fi type ending...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 17:58:04 GMT
I recently revisited the 1982 film "Android", with Klaus Kinski and Don Opper, the latter best known for playing Charlie in the "Critters" series. Very charming little film that deserves to be better known.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Sept 14, 2017 20:55:09 GMT
What Sci Fi Film do you really enjoy that you hardly ever hear talked about, flopped at the box office, or you feel is negatively regarded for no good reason? The Hidden (1987). About as good as the first Terminator IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 20:24:16 GMT
"Enemy Mine" is a pretty decent and forgotten 80s sci-fi flick. I remember seeing it on its release in a huge and empty London cinema. I was so appalled by the lack of promotion for it that I phoned the distributor to ask why it had been dumped but they didn't really have an answer. I love the original novella. The movie got it mostly right, but it made one catastrophic blunder. That whole sequence at the end with all the nasty human miners and their slaves? That was inserted on the insistence of a studio executive. His reason? "People who go to see a film called Enemy Mine will expect it to have a mine in it. Run by an enemy." Yes, seriously.
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Post by ironjade on Sept 18, 2017 8:26:08 GMT
I remember seeing it on its release in a huge and empty London cinema. I was so appalled by the lack of promotion for it that I phoned the distributor to ask why it had been dumped but they didn't really have an answer. I love the original novella. The movie got it mostly right, but it made one catastrophic blunder. That whole sequence at the end with all the nasty human miners and their slaves? That was inserted on the insistence of a studio executive. His reason? "People who go to see a film called Enemy Mine will expect it to have a mine in it. Run by an enemy." Yes, seriously. And people still wonder why most Hollywood SF movies are so bad.
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Post by xystophoros on Sept 19, 2017 2:01:13 GMT
Outlander (with Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman and John Hurt) Pandorum (with Ben Foster, Antje Traue and Dennis Quaid) Pandorum is really good. It could have been a lot better. I like SF/horror, in fact I love it when it's done well, but too many Hollywood SF movies devolve into monster chases with characters dying one by one. If you're going to make that movie you need to have a seriously novel twist on it, because it's a movie that's been made a hundred times over. The whole "pandorum" mental illness thing was half-assed. The cast was solid, but the writing unfortunately didn't match the acting or the production values.
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Post by SciFive on Sept 19, 2017 11:44:01 GMT
It could have been a lot better. I like SF/horror, in fact I love it when it's done well, but too many Hollywood SF movies devolve into monster chases with characters dying one by one. If you're going to make that movie you need to have a seriously novel twist on it, because it's a movie that's been made a hundred times over. The whole "pandorum" mental illness thing was half-assed. The cast was solid, but the writing unfortunately didn't match the acting or the production values. Good points. Thanks.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Sept 25, 2017 15:03:02 GMT
Rollerball 1975.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 25, 2017 23:45:37 GMT
The Lost World (1925) / Harry O. Hoyt Berkeley Square (1933) / Frank Lloyd Things to Come (1936) / William Cameron Menzies Seconds (1966) / John Frankenheimer Tanin no kao (The Face Of Another) (1966) / Hiroshi Teshigahara THX 1138 (1971) / George Lucus Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990) / Roger Corman eXistenZ (1999) / David Cronenberg Frequency (2000) / Gregory Hoblit Happy Accidents (2000) / Brad Anderson Ritânâ (2002) (Returner) / Takashi Yamazaki 2009 loseuteu maemorijeu (2009: Lost Memories) (2002) / Si-Myung Lee Shi gan (Time) (2006) / Ki-duk Kim Kurôn wa kokyô wo mezasu (The Clone Returns Home) (2008) / Kanji Nakajima Moon (2009) / Duncan Jones The Congress (2013) / Ari Folman
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Post by ellynmacg on Nov 17, 2017 1:58:41 GMT
2010 (1984 (!)) Yes, I know history took a very different path from the one explored in this movie...and that wasn't the case with 2001?!?
I prefer to think of the story of 2010 as one of alternative (formerly future) history.
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Post by geralmar on Nov 30, 2017 6:21:34 GMT
The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963). Like the admittedly superior Unearthly Stranger (also 1963), it shows what can be done with a tiny cast and minimal budget.
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Post by lordarvidthexiii on Dec 5, 2017 4:54:29 GMT
What Sci Fi Film do you really enjoy that you hardly ever hear talked about, flopped at the box office, or you feel is negatively regarded for no good reason? The kind of film you see and wonder how could this movie not be a big hit? Mine is Gattaca (1997). I had heard the name of this one for years, but it never piqued my interest. Then I saw it was on Starz or Showtime several years ago, and happened to give it a shot. I was astounded by this work! What a story of the human spirit. It may not be your everyday action film, but what a sleeper of a film. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to see a meaningful science fiction film that's not going to knock you over with action, but it will make you think. They Live! Dark City Gattaca The 13th Floor Morgan
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