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Favorite Science Fiction Movies
inspired by sleeper-has-awakened | Sunday, August 14, 2005 | all interested FReepers

Posted on 08/14/2005 8:45:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

Blade Runner.


41 posted on 08/14/2005 9:09:16 PM PDT by mmercier (no question.)
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To: softwarecreator

"Day of the Triffids" is a cautionary tale and pure sci-fi at the same time. Genesis does a great musical rendition of this theme on their Nursery Cryme album--its called "Return of the Giant Hogweed".


42 posted on 08/14/2005 9:09:48 PM PDT by Cruising Speed
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Day of the Triffids is good SF...although it doesn't follow the excellent book very well! John Wynham had another book made into a movie. It was called the Midwich Cuckoos, which was made into Children of the Damned (made twice). I saw the original as a kid and the images from it stuck with me for some reason.

Day of the Triffids was also made into a British series which follows the book very faithfully...good to see as well...


43 posted on 08/14/2005 9:09:54 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: softwarecreator

Yeah, it's like watching an oil painting. Moving pictures are supposed to move. 201 doesn't. That impression hit me at last in that scene on lunar station where Floyd is sitting there with those other mannikins and no one is saying anything.


44 posted on 08/14/2005 9:10:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oddly enough, I found The Fifth Element to be a marvelous movie. Campy? Yes. But very well done on many levels.


45 posted on 08/14/2005 9:11:45 PM PDT by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: softwarecreator

Another one I watch from time to time is "Stargate" (the movie). Plot makes absolutely no sense at all, regardless of the technological angle, until the nimrods get to the planet.


46 posted on 08/14/2005 9:12:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I admit a perversion...I liked Starship Troopers.

I love Heinlein, and although the movie's a weird interpretation of the book, I liked it anyway, maybe because they played it so campy....

I also admit to liking the latest attempt at Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...perhaps I grew up watching Attack of the Mushroom People and such movies too many times as a kid....


47 posted on 08/14/2005 9:12:48 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: tortoise

Yeah, I prefer it to "Silent Running" and "Soylent Green". (':


48 posted on 08/14/2005 9:13:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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49 posted on 08/14/2005 9:14:06 PM PDT by Smedley
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To: SunkenCiv

Star Trek IV. Although campy, it suggests 'civilization,' is not a bad word.

Unlike most sci-fi crap, you don't feel denegrated to be human. Whales are more important than locusts.


50 posted on 08/14/2005 9:14:31 PM PDT by quantim (I'm at the point now where I refer to all liberals as "insurgents.")
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To: ValenB4

Spaceballs -- the only times I laughed were the silly scene where the villains ran the tape forward, and the scene where the female aide videophoned Mel Brooks in the can. And of course, Pizza the Hut, and near the end where we learn the real name of Barf.


51 posted on 08/14/2005 9:15:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: Cruising Speed

Same here. Most of my favorite actors are people like Fritz Weaver, Don Gordon, Warren Oates, and the like-people who have never been big stars, but have never stepped wrong in a performance.


52 posted on 08/14/2005 9:15:22 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is not conservative!)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
which was made into Children of the Damned (made twice). I saw the original as a kid and the images from it stuck with me for some

Wasn't there also one called "Village of the Damned".

I remember "Children of the Damned" and those kids were creepy.

53 posted on 08/14/2005 9:15:32 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Attack of the Mushroom People -- I was hoping I wasn't the only one. ;')


54 posted on 08/14/2005 9:15:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Stargate SG-1, 1993 movie.


55 posted on 08/14/2005 9:15:54 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (The defense of our nation should begin at the borders...Mr President?.....George?)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Glad somebody mentioned THX1138! The chrome faced cops could double in T2. Plenty was said in that little film.
56 posted on 08/14/2005 9:16:44 PM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
I admit a perversion...I liked Starship Troopers.

Although you have to admit, the movie could have been titled "Ken and Barbie Go To Bootcamp".

57 posted on 08/14/2005 9:16:56 PM PDT by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: SunkenCiv

THE CRAWLING EYE....of course!

Even has excellent Forest Tucker Winchester 1894 .30-30 scenes, and lots of dry ice.

How can ya' beat that ???!!!!!


58 posted on 08/14/2005 9:17:14 PM PDT by PoorMuttly (A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun -T.Jefferson)
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To: SunkenCiv
Another one I watch from time to time is "Stargate" (the movie). Plot makes absolutely no sense at all, regardless of the technological angle, until the nimrods get to the planet.

Saw this a while back and ... it's forgettable.  I never watched the series either.

59 posted on 08/14/2005 9:17:30 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

A lot of people crapped on The Postman, and while it's a heavily flawed movie, I have a lot of respect for Costner in trying to make a faithful adaptation, in both spirit, and, er, letter, of the original David Brin book. It's no masterpiece, but it isn't a disaster either.


60 posted on 08/14/2005 9:17:37 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is not conservative!)
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