Kevin's Watch

What is Primer? I must see it!!!

in no order:
Bladerunner
The Empire Strikes Back
Dark City
The Thirteenth Floor
Pitch Black
A Clockwork Orange
Event Horizon
The Thing
Alien
Contact
The Fifth Element
Screamers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Logan's Run
The Abyss

I'm genuinely surprised that so many of you are listing Pitch Black. I thought it was a second-rate Alien ripoff with a few interesting visuals.

Screamers did indeed kick butt.

Peter Weller rocks! I had to go back and edit in The Abyss! Great stuff. I don't know Pitch Black was just so damm cool--maybe you're right I should have replaced it with something like Outland. Silent Running is very good too...

What about...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai?

Bicentennial Man was cool.

Why are people classing the Thing as sci-fi, if anything it's more horror.

Well said, Cail. 2010 - underrated. 2001 grossly overrated. Sorry!

Yes it is horror, but everybody else was doing it mom!!!!

Lorelei wrote:What about...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai?

Absolutely love the movie, but I consider it more of a comedy.

But what the heck, Go Team Banzai!

Way to go Danlo, I'll second The Abyss, Outland and Silent Running.

Cail wrote:I'm genuinely surprised that so many of you are listing Pitch Black. I thought it was a second-rate Alien ripoff with a few interesting visuals.

Screamers did indeed kick butt.

The thing that makes Pitch Black memorable for me is Riddick. There are few films, certainly very few science fiction films, in which the "hero" starts off a self-interested, amoral sociopath and remains so for the full duration of the film. Sadly, the sequel discarded this character in favour of Super-Riddick.

Murrin wrote: 28 Days Later

Great movie.

What about The City Of Lost Children?

--A

The release date of eXistenZ was unfortunate, because it got overshadowed by The Matrix. It's a shame, because it's more of a mind-trip, it's far more adult (lots of sexual imagery), and it blurs the lines between reality and simulation completely. The only thing that bugs me about it, is why there's so much emphasis on the spelling of various things - it seems unneccesary to me.

I liked the The Matrix as a stand-alone film, but I can't enjoy it anymore because the sequels were so bad. It could have been brilliant, but Reloaded and Revolutions swayed between gratuitous philosophising (if that's a word - ?) and gratuitous fight scenes. They just seemed like excuses to show off bullet-time.

Cube was also a very slick low-fi science fiction flick. There's not very much to it, and it asks a million questions without any of them being answered, but it's cool in a "huh?" kind of way.

Yeah, the Cube was good too. Watched it a couple of times now and still enjoy it.

--A

CovenantJr wrote:The thing that makes Pitch Black memorable for me is Riddick. There are few films, certainly very few science fiction films, in which the "hero" starts off a self-interested, amoral sociopath and remains so for the full duration of the film. Sadly, the sequel discarded this character in favour of Super-Riddick.

I'll grant you that, but he still seemed a bit too cartoonish.

The original Matrix was OK, but I thought The 13th Floor tackled the subject better. Reloaded and Revolutions just plain sucked.

Yeah...what is Primer?

I have a soft spot for the Cheesy Logan's Run and Westworld.

OOOOO! i just thought of one...a GREAT one!


The Day the Earth Stood Still!!!!!!!

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Is it kinda like Donnie Darko?

Considering I liked Primer and thought Donnie Darko was an utter waste of film, I have to say.....No.

For me, Darko was one of those films you watch once or twice and then the thrill's gone. Thought it was generally well done--liked the dark feel, the giant rabbit, execution of plot, etc., but it just didn't reward me after repeated viewings. The film can initially convince you that it's highly cerebral and philosophical, but I found it to be a paper-thin veneer more than anything. Hides its absence of intelligence behind confusing paradoxes.

Lord Foul wrote:For me, Darko was one of those films you watch once or twice and then the thrill's gone. Thought it was generally well done--liked the dark feel, the giant rabbit, execution of plot, etc., but it just didn't reward me after repeated viewings. The film can initially convince you that it's highly cerebral and philosophical, but I found it to be a paper-thin veneer more than anything. Hides its absence of intelligence behind confusing paradoxes.

Hear hear!

And when you mention that to a fan, you hear, "Well you obviously didn't get it".