Congratulations. Here's my oldie but goodie.
Posted on 08/14/2005 8:45:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
There's an old topic by this name, and it seems like it would be of some interest in casual moments.
Yeah, it's over the top (intentional or not) gave it that comic book feel and glossed over any actor or plot frailties. The special effects were good/great compared to the over use of CGI in "blockbusters" films lately.
This movie is hilarious: The cardboard headstones that move when someone walks past them, the cop scratching his head with his gun, the hubcap (spaceship) where you actually see the string holding it up, scenes change from night to day, female aliens with lipstick.
The dialogue is simply the worst ever written: "the future will affect us all...in the future".
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I'm sure it owes its legendary status to LSD use in the 1960s. Popular Science had a really nice feature back when it was made showing the space station set etc.
Now I like him even more ... we DO need more like him!
Philip Dick would be hard to adapt, I think.
But what I want to know is why did they take a title from a medical SF novel and use it instead of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
And I wonder how many people even remember there was another book "Bladerunner," about a time when senior citizens would be denied medical care and how an underground black market for medical supplies had developed, and the people who carried them were called "Bladerunners," the blade referring to scapels.
I forgot who wrote it, though.
Okay, so, this is my most replied to topic ever (so far, he added optimistically).
Enemy Mine
Didn't know there was such a book; I thought the title "Blade Runner" came from one of Dick's colleagues or buddies, maybe W Burroughs?
My most favorite SF series was Babylon 5...now that was the way to do SF.
I sort of liked Deep Space Nine, but somewhere in the next to last year the story arc got goofy...and I stopped watching it.
Nope. It even got a credit in the credits. I didn't read the original book - I read a book review of it in Analog, and the story concept stuck with me. Just looked it up, it was written in 74 by Alan E. Norse.
Congratulations. Here's my oldie but goodie.
Bladerunner was written by Alan E. Nourse and was an excellent science fiction novel. I was actually disappointed that the movie did not use Nourse's novel.
Both The Fifth Element and Starship Troopers blew major chunks. Starship Troopers was pitiful.
Destination Moon (Written by Robert Heinlein but heavily impacted by Hollywood even though Heinlein was the technical advisor.)
Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers - Great n special effects for a 1950s flick. FX by Ray Harryhause
The Time Machine - 1950s version.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - great silent!
Alien - Great concept, great design. Loved the cat and have to admit I like Sigourney Weaver.
Flesh Gordon - Really guilty pleasure! No, that is the correct spelling... Campiest SF movie send up of all time. Helps that there are lots of topless girls. But the stop action "King Kong homage" monster's jaded commentary is great.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (The original edition without the added ending.)
The War of the Worlds - George Pal version.
When Worlds Collide written by Phillip Wylie. (can you tell I like George Pal's stuff?)
Invaders from Mars (1953 version). Really creepy.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - another creepy 1950s SF flick. The later two can't hold a candle to the first.
The Little Shop of Horros - the original. First movie with Jack Nicholson.
The Little Shop of Horrors - the musical version... Great fun... and Audrey (Ellen Green) is the sexiest and cutest thing on two legs. "Sure!?"
Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve... I like this because it was made where I went to College - Mackinac Island - and the movie theater where Reeve watched his love perform was the theater I was in charge of at college!
Honey, I shrunk the Kids - just great fun.
Forbidden Planet The Krell laboratory scenes were great and the saucer spacecraft was superb.
Quatermass and the Pit AKA Five Milion Years to Earth is one of the best Brittish SF films.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Disney version... fun.
The First Men in the Moon another Ray Harryhausen film with good humor... "He had such a terrible cold."
Monsters, Inc. Pixar's tour de force animation.
All three of the Back to the Future series.
Retroactive about the problems of trying to fix problems through time travel... perhaps the best time travel film.
Westworld with the original Terminator (Yul Brynner).
Robocop - Great satire.
Brazil - more great satire and a rogue appliance repairman as the protagonist.
Minority Report... I know, I know, its a Tom Cruise vehicle but it works.
The Abyss
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