I was going to say something in the other thread but I decided against it. We're not living in the 80's or early 90's. Quality Sci-Fi is dead, get over it!
Cube may have had a lower production cost but it was way more atmospheric, the acting was over the top and the storyline was grim. I'll take all of those elements over some big budget Hollywood shit show.
Wait, ALIENS? With an S? That was the cheesiest follow up to ridley scotts masterpiece.
most of the time i can appreciate your hate, but i will not suffer hate to any aspect of the first two Alien movies. the third yes, but those first two are fucking awesome.
Wait, ALIENS? With an S? That was the cheesiest follow up to ridley scotts masterpiece.
most of the time i can appreciate your hate, but i will not suffer hate to any aspect of the first two Alien movies. the third yes, but those first two are fucking awesome.
3 sucked. Resurrection was awesome though.. highly underrated imho
Pandorum was an ok sci fi thriller movie that came out this summer. I liked it better than d9 but it was still kind of cheesy. It was more traditional in the sense that it took place in a spaceship the whole time, not a poor south african slum with giant bug fags that conquered space travel but live in shacks, much like poor Africans today except not as cool
in D9 they never elaborated if it was a derelict convict ship, deported lowlifes, homo bugs, etc...i still think it was damn good and i'm wondering where they will go with it.
post by the_reverend at Jan 29,2010 11:00am edited Jan 29,2010 11:01am
haha fuck you. My movie night the other night consisted of watching total recall. Of course after the movie I had to go to the Sharon stone side nipple shot then relook at the 3 titted lady. fap
aril you really need to redeem yourself now. pandorum a "good" movie? who are you shitting bro? terrible acting, plot holes xgodzillax could fit through, retarded story, boring antagonist rip offs of the movie the descent.
you know what rules about liking old sci-fi movies and not new sci-fi movies? YOU CAN WATCH OLD MOVIES ANY TIME YOU WANT.
original twilight zones or outer limits FTW
outer limits was ok but the twilight zone. man, nothing will ever compare to rod sterling's genius. quite possibly the greatest sci-fi tv series ever produced.
haha...Pitch Black was actually good but i am a fan of the Riddick series. The escape from butcher bay/that remake that just came out is a killer underrated game.
PS: I think a halflife movie is doable, but should have more focus on action/filmography than dialogue. the beginning of the movie should have most of it, because he WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE TEST CHAMBER HALF AN HOUR AGO
you know that a big budget means they would have to add in some sort of hokey story and dialogue, paint freeman as a badass american hero and have him bang that chick. i won't have any of that shit.
halflife 1 didn't have that woman. But you're right, they'd have to write in a sub plot. I don't think a halflife movie needs a love story.
take away the love story in apocalyto and you have a movie that's full of chase scenes. Halflfie was essentially a game about escaping black Mesa, then going to the alien planet to take the mother out. Fuck I wanna play it again.
post by FuckIsMySignature at Jan 29,2010 12:12pm edited Jan 29,2010 12:13pm
haha...Pitch Black was actually good but i am a fan of the Riddick series. The escape from butcher bay/that remake that just came out is a killer underrated game.
i am a huge fan of Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick.
*ahem* gateway animation done great. and i agree it was awesome. i own all the manga and i definitely would like to see a sequel some day. lord knows there is enough material for there to be a miniseries.
It wasn't meant as a derogatory remark. It's the fact that Akira is one of the most familiar films in Japanese animation. The story was engaging and the visuals are frighteningly intense. So yes, it is that good.
total recall did have some great ideas in the plot. It just didn't follow through that great. I own the movie and love it but it could have been better.
it's backbone rings true to today's world though. An elite coporate dude that controls everything..
A Scanner Darkly was a more faithful rendition of the Phillip K. Dick source material than Total Recall, had cool animation, and Keanu Reeves. Automatic win.
Enders Game is coming out this year. Interested in seeing that, although I don't like Orson Scott Card too much.
I was hoping they'd make a Rendezvous with Rama movie but it fell through. Not sure why, that'd be a SICK movie. Geometric alien landscape in a giant ship ftw.
Oh yea. The Sphere movie. Fucking blew ass. That book was one of Crichton's best, and the movie failed hard. Still can't believe he died. I heard there's a book he was working on before he died. Interested in seeing what it was.
I thought the Sphere movie was alright because I liked the actors...but the book was great. Speaking of Crichton, Jurassic Park was a good scifi book, the movie is...dino drama. Even better is the people who bought the book because of the movie and then said "shit, I can't read this at all"
i just watched The Black Hole this weekend, i think i saw it once when i was a kid. for being cheesy and a Disney movie it's surprisingly good, and surprisingly dark.
I'm a huge sci-fi fan, and i'll tell you exactly where it's at:
BOOKS.
George RR. Martin
Robert Jordan
nothing in almost any movie in the last twenty years can compare to books by these two.
A Song of Ice and Fire made a pilot and was picked up by HBO...IMDB that shit nigga. Supposedly the WoT series may be made into movies but I dont have imdb pro to get more info...
Firefly series anyone? Its not very dark, but I found the whole sci fi/western theme pretty interesting. It was ruined by FOX sadly. Its too bad another channel never bought it for more seasons.
post by FuckIsMySignature at Dec 22,2010 5:32pm edited Dec 22,2010 5:35pm
theres supposedly some big sci-fi western coming next year.
Firefly series anyone? Its not very dark, but I found the whole sci fi/western theme pretty interesting. It was ruined by FOX sadly. Its too bad another channel never bought it for more seasons.
Just watched it through finally. I tell people it's like if Han Solo had his own show without the cheese of Star Wars or aliens. The movie they made to tie up the series, Serenity, is so fucking good.
I enjoyed district 9 and didn't really watch it as a sci-fi movie. it was more of a story between the dude and the alien family with the overall theme of apartheid.
although I am sure most haters will hate, Pandorum was actually a decent film
and if you want to wait, del toro is directing at the mountains of madness, and I doubt he will fuck that up too much
for now... next year the ruined version comes out.
post by Fuck Logging In at Dec 22,2010 6:17pm
Nothing you people are talking about is actually sci-fi, you people are talking about action films set in space. Go read a fucking Heinlein and learn something.
Nothing you people are talking about is actually sci-fi, you people are talking about action films set in space. Go read a fucking Heinlein and learn something.
Heinlein is decent, I'm not all that into "hard" sci-fi though, and his books generally devolve into blindly idealistic hippie utopianism, which can be hard to stomach. "Stranger In A Strange Land" would have been fucking perfect if they cut that crap out of it, it gets terrible about halfway through, but hey, I'll take that over most of his other books.
If we're talking books, I could go on all fucking day, especially with Dick. I can never get enough Dick. It's hardly fair to criticize Total Recall as not being faithful to the original short story, since there wasn't really that much to work with, the movie would have been ten minutes long. In all honesty, it is fairly faithful, it just picks up where the original story left off, leaves off the ending, which wouldn't have translated very well to the big screen, and explores some of Dick's other themes and ideas that he established in his novels. I think that's a pretty significant achievement, actually.
For movies, I'm surprised Moon wasn't brought up. That's probably the best sci-fi movie I've seen in the last decade.
Pandorum was entertaining, but it was kinda long for what it was, and lost some of its coherency (what little it had even) as a result.
Nothing you people are talking about is actually sci-fi, you people are talking about action films set in space. Go read a fucking Heinlein and learn something.
Ummm, Starship Troopers ring a bell? That's definitely space-marine scifi, whether you look at the book or the movie.