Posted on 06/27/2022 11:10:38 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Long, slow and mostly dull movie that has some good parts. Director’s edition removing the voice overs made it unwatchable for me.
Yes, funny and groan-worthy. But it’s a spoof. So it is kind of meant to be. But the category I’m talking about is unintentional comedy. Comedy of errors.
I know of no other films on the level of Plan 9 and R.O.T.O.R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhAAEml6C4
I want Ana...
I saw 2001 in the serviceI had never seen a movie like it!
Do you know what a turtle is?
Yep. B&W movie ~1950, with James Arness.
My dad and I walked a mile or so to the theater to see it one night when I was 7 y/o. When they opened the cabinet and something (dead dog) fell out, I jumped!
Took me several months to get over the movie. I couldn’t sleep if my closet door wasn’t fully closed. I had to always have something solid at my back when reading at night.
Questionable Things Ping
For a short while a company that ran polygraphs for various entities was across the hall from my lab. I stuck a picture of Holden giving Leon the Voight-Kampff test on my door with the caption “When you absolutely, positively have to be more human than human.”
Management was not amused.
See my 88.
LOL, management is full of douche bags.
People should be able to laugh at work.
Some of my favorites: (if they count as SciFi)
Terminator
Matrix
Aliens
They Live
Equilibrium
Gattaca
“””Lately I’ve been watching a lot of pre-1950 films. Lots of good acting and writing even many of the “B” films out class the dreck being pushed out of Hollowwood today especially from the silent era.”””
Something I see in the old movies is how good the peripheral actors are, butlers and such, most actors seem to have had a lot of stage and formal acting training/experience back in the 30s and 40s.
I have not yet seen “They Live” but I do really like all of the others on that list.
Yes you do. Tell them 'Cat lives don't matter' and see what love that gets you.
Bride of the Monster. Also by Ed Wood. Not as funny as Plan 9, though.
Any Hallmark movie... lol.
3 of those at home, but they’re no substitute for a human female.
Freeper 'dead' mentioned Terminator 2: Judgement Day, which truly has everything great sci-fi should, but it's director James Cameron has a twofer here with "Aliens". These films are good examples of the rare sequel surpassing it's original, though many consider "Alien" the better film. Different genres/different tastes.
"Blade Runner" may well be the greatest. The attention to details, cinematography, costumes, practical effects, set designs, daring lighting choices - all in mere service to the writing and excellent actors who drove it home.
Well, BR was certainly better than Alien3.
I (personally) consider Alien and Aliens to be two different genres of film. Alien is the classic monster-in-a-closet suspense/horror, while Aliens is just pure action flick.
Both awesome in their way, but very different.
I prefer Alien and Alien3 as I like the suspense type of movie .
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