Best Sci-Fi Movies of the last 5 Years

[Frazod]

Another strong recommendation for Pan's Labyrinth. Perhaps the most brilliant and original movie I've ever seen.

And I should add Watchmen to my list as well.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by frazod

And I should add Watchmen to my list as well.

You and that damn movie

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by frazod

Another strong recommendation for Pan's Labyrinth. Perhaps the most brilliant and original movie I've ever seen.

And I should add Watchmen to my list as well.

How about last 30 years? We could include Dune.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

How about last 30 years? We could include Dune.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

How about last 30 years? We could include Dune.

Originally Posted by frazod

- like the sun coming up

[Crush]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

How about last 30 years? We could include Dune.

Surely, you can't be serious. David Lynch should have been hanged for that abortion.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Crush

Surely, you can't be serious. David Lynch should have been hanged for that abortion.

He not - he's just ****ing with me. My hatred of Lynch's unholy butchery of my favorite book and of Lynch personally for doing it have been recounted often over the years.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by frazod

He not - he's just ****ing with me. My hatred of Lynch's unholy butchery of my favorite book and of Lynch personally for doing it have been recounted often over the years.

I think Lynch has admitted he blew it. I know theres a TV cut of it that added in a few hours of material. It shows up from time to time when its broadcast, but i dont think its on DVD?

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I think Lynch has admitted he blew it. I know theres a TV cut of it that added in a few hours of material. It shows up from time to time when its broadcast, but i dont think its on DVD?

I wouldn't know. Nor do I care.

And he can disassociate himself with or beg for forgiveness - I don't care. That's like Hitler apologizing for World War II.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by frazod

I wouldn't know. Nor do I care.

And he can disassociate himself with or beg for forgiveness - I don't care. That's like Hitler apologizing for World War II.

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Heres some stuff i dug up on IMDB about it.



David Lynch (13 January 2006) : "Dune I didn't have final cut on. It's the only film I've made where I didn't have, I didn't technically have final cut on The Elephant Man but Mel Brooks gave it to me, and on Dune the film, I started selling out even in the script phase knowing I didn't have final cut, and I sold out, so it was a slow dying- the-death and a terrible terrible experience. I don't know how it happened, I trusted that it would work out but it was very naive and, the wrong move. In those days the maximum length they figured I could have is two hours and seventeen minutes, and that's what the film is, so they wouldn't lose a screening a day, so once again it's money talking and not for the film at all and so it was like compacted and it hurt it, it hurt it. There is no other version. There's more stuff, but even that is putrefied."


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/trivia


•Theatrical version is 137 minutes long; TV version seen both in syndication and on most cable networks, prepared under protest from (and eventually disowned by) director David Lynch, is approx. 176 minutes long (minus commercials) and features outtakes, additional footage, test close-up shots of certain actors, and even fabricated (i.e. "cheated") footage (made up of repeated stock footage from certain points in the film to make it appear that footage had been added--one reason why Lynch took his name off the credits of the TV version). The TV print credits Alan Smithee as director. Whereas the theatrical release features a brief introductory narration spoken by Princess Irulan, the TV version has a longer spoken introduction by an uncredited male narrator, with still paintings and drawings used to bring the viewer up to speed on the story. The TV version (which has been released on Japanese LaserDisc and overseas DVDs) has additional footage of the Fremen that lacks the blue color in their eyes, indicating that the scenes were cut before special f/x were added.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/alternateversions



Whatever the case, it wouldnt shock me if someone tried rebooting this movie someday.

[bevischief]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I think Lynch has admitted he blew it. I know theres a TV cut of it that added in a few hours of material. It shows up from time to time when its broadcast, but i dont think its on DVD?

Not that I have found so far.

[frankotank]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

How about last 30 years? We could include Dune.

I liked Dune. there is an uncut version out there now.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by frankotank

I liked Dune. there is an uncut version out there now.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Read.... the..... book.....

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by frankotank

I liked Dune. there is an uncut version out there now.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Originally Posted by frazod

Read.... the..... book.....

Just a word of advice, Frank.

When Frazod comes for you, don't hide behind the fridge.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by frankotank

I liked Dune. there is an uncut version out there now.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Originally Posted by frazod

Read.... the..... book.....

My exact reaction.

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 . . . "