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Everyone covered my favorites so I really nothing to add other than a list of those I considered the best.
Moon Inception Prometheus (Has its flaws but still dug it overall) Distinct 9 (Though I'm not sure if it will stand up as well on a second viewing. I knew nothing before seeing it in the theater.) Looper Star Trek Source Code Pandorum |
I'm not going to put a top 10 or top 5 together, but here are movies I've enjoyed.
Jumper Looper Watchmen Surrogates Star Trek The Road Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel In Time Paul Cloud Atlas The Hunger Games All told, I'm confident the best is yet to come, because with the good, there has been a shitload of absolute crap. Lockout? Please. |
Didn't check years, but
Serenity The Host Dark Horse - Primer |
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Speaking of book adaptations, I'm really excited/nervous for Ender's Game.
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Fraz's Dune is my 'Bonfire of the Vanities.' Perhaps the best book I read in JHS turned into an unrecognizable mess on the big screen. It has jaundiced my opinion of De Palma [yes THAT De Palma] to this day. It hardens my heart against Bruce Willis more than any other shitty movie or Kevin Smith diatribe I've come across to date. It's like if you told all your friends that XXXyyy had the best pizza on earth, and finally cajoled them into trying some. Then, when you get there, their only pizza has seagull shit laying in piles on top of it, and you're like "well obviously I wasn't praising seagull shit pizza, but you've GOT to believe me . . . " |
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I'm finishing up a "book" right now (actually the second Walking Dead compendium...don't laugh...it's actually pretty good) and I was wondering what to read next. I could read Dune....why not? PS - what's up with the fridge comment?? |
I watched Love last night. I liked the styling of it, mostly because they seemed to have copied 2001. But overall, it was just 'meh'. Not terrible, but not exactly 'good'. A lot of it is stream of consciousness that I'm usually just not into (unless it actually builds to decent payoff).
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I watched Loopers last night.
I can't decide if it was good or not! haha! had some cool things in it, some cool ideas of how things could be manipulated via time travel, but overall....I don't know....I've certainly seen worse movies. I guess I just expected more.... |
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Then, unfortunately, it started. From Irulan's opening, monotone, "Oh I forget" monologue, I knew something was amiss. But Leto and Paul were okay. But the dude from Excalibur (Patrick Stewart) as Gurney Halleck? He's not lumpy and ugly! Did these idiots even read the book? Then they had the ****tarded blocky shields, which even by 1985 FX standards were awful. Seriously? And who is this ****ing clown playing Baron Harkonnen? He's not sinister, there's no deep, rumbling base voice, and HE'S NOT EVEN ALL THAT FAT. Holy shit. And it just kept getting worse. And worse. AND WORSE. Weirding modules? WHAT IN THE BLUE **** IS A WEIRDING MODULE????? Sound weapons? That shit wasn't in the book! The Fremen didn't just blindly accept Paul and Jessica because they wandered along. And who casted this turd? The guy playing Stilgar is the worst actor I've ever seen. Whole sections of the book are missing - principal characters are missing. And after all that bullshit, at the end.... it rains? IT ****ING RAINS? IT DIDN'T RAIN ON ARRAKIS FOR GENERATIONS IN THE BOOKS! **** YOU **** YOU **** YOU AAAAAAAAHHHHHH :cuss: I wanted to throw myself in front of a bus when I walked out of the theater that night. I would have never dreamed it was possible to so totally and completely **** something up that much. To take something so good and make it into something so bad. GODDAMN YOU LYNCH THERE ARE NO EXCUSES BURN IN HELL. :cuss: :cuss: :cuss: And that's why I hate this movie. :grr: |
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How bad could it be if it had Sting in it? Sting rocks |
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I hate you people. :grr:
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The Thirteenth Floor is one of my fav Sci-Fi's.
It's like a mix of The Matrix/The Lawnmower Man/Tron Great cast too. Check it out if you haven't seen it. |
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Here is a great list of IMDB's top 100 Sci-Fi movies. Tons of great movies on the list, although ignore the rankings because they are pure garbage. Transformers at #5? Inception at #20? Rofl
http://www.imdb.com/list/WS96EGidLqo/ |
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But some good movies. Donnie Darko, loved that flick. My family didn't quite get it. |
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Thanks to this thread I just watched "Sunshine" for the first time.
Pretty good flick, I enjoyed it. Reminded me a lot of "Sphere" and "Event Horizon". |
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