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[GaijinPunch]

Genisys can only be better than my expectation based on the trailer.

[Mischief Maker]

Genisys can only be better than my expectation based on the trailer.

I can only imagine what it was like in the skynet time-machine complex right after Kyle Reese went through:

John Connor: Okay, people we're done here, let's pack it up and head to the afterparty!

Soldier: Sir, shouldn't we at least unplug this thing before we go?

John Connor: Nah, I'm sure it's perfectly fine. There's a rat kebab with my name on it that's getting cold.

Soldier: Sir! Sir! While we were out, one of those magic terminators made entirely out of liquid metal snuck through the time portal!

John Connor: Don't you need the field created by a living organism to be able to go through that? Oh well, let's reprogram a meat-terminator and send it through to stop it. And make sure it obeys my commands.

Soldier: The terminator has been sent, sir! Should we unplug the time portal now?

John Connor: Do you mind? I'm having a moonshine mojito right now. These things can wait, soldier, loosten up!

Soldier: Sir! Sir!

Old Claire Danes: He's passed out, soldier, what is it now?

Soldier: One of those super-duper terminators that has the magic liquid metal AND a flamethrower attachment just snuck through the time portal!

Old Claire Danes: Well go send another meat terminator to stop it. But make sure this one is programmed to follow MY orders!

Soldier: The terminator has been sent maam! Maam?

Old Claire Danes: Zzzzzz...

*Next Morning*

Soldier: Sir! Sir! Another magic liquid metal terminator snuck through...

John Connor: Ahh! Shut up! Fuck me, I'm hung over... Look, just send a meat terminator to watch over my mom from childhood until I'm born, okay?

Soldier: Then should we unplug...

John Connor: SHUT UP AND LET ME SLEEP! And turn off the lights!

[Sinful]

Anyone want to name some of their fave sci-fi flicks for me to torrent? >_>

Genisys can only be better than my expectation based on the trailer.

Without James Cameron (my fave director) it can't be anywhere near as good to the first two (my fave movies). But I'm enough of an Arnold fan to just be happy to see him reprise the role again.

[Sinful]

Interstellar - nothing special.
McConaughey sporting an unhealthy orange tan.
Anne Hathaway looking terrible and at only 32
Matt Damon looking fat and almost unrecognizable.
Otherwise....nothing to say on the film itself. Drab.

lol, I just seen this movie and man, are you ever right on what you said. Then again, it's a Christopher Nolan flick. :p

... man did that story ever take a dive. I was like "Give me a break" when I seen the reveal for the space handshake. Otherwise movie took forever to get to the sci-fi stuff in space (like 40min) with boring Earth stuff and always lame overly dramatic & fake Hollywood BS emotions. Once in space I was happy enough with the movie up until the plot got way to BS and with even way thicker Hollywood BS emotions that went until the credits.

So yeah, the middle section was ok enough, I guess? But everything else makes me really hate the movie overall. I guess you can watch it if you got nothing better to watch. Otherwise pass.


EDIT - and this movie has thee lamest robot design ever. When I first seen it I was like "Is this movie serious or this a kids movie?"

[GaijinPunch]

Anyone want to name some of their fave sci-fi flicks for me to torrent? >_>

Most of the obvious ones have been talked about here ad naseum. Blade Runner, The Thing, etc. Coherence is an indie flick that is worth the download, and falls in the SciFi realm. Hardware is another goodie.

[Sinful]

Anyone want to name some of their fave sci-fi flicks for me to torrent? >_>

Most of the obvious ones have been talked about here ad naseum. Blade Runner, The Thing, etc. Coherence is an indie flick that is worth the download, and falls in the SciFi realm. Hardware is another goodie.

Cool, thanks for letting me know everything has been mentioned here as I was going to browse the rest of this topic. So glad sci fi fans be here.

My brother just pointed me to The Thing movie a few days ago. Have just seen the prequal remake first. Next the original release which is already downloaded.

I can't believe I never seen Blade Runner in all my life either (outside of the very beginning). It's already downloaded. Kinda saving it, lol, but any day I will finally see this ultra classic flick. EDIT - whoops. Already have it downloaded (did a wiki sci fi listing then added a bunch that seemed sci fi enough for me), so I'm going to watch it right now.

Coherence? Sure. I'll track it down right now. Thank you, GajinPunch.

[GaijinPunch]

Cool, thanks for letting me know everything has been mentioned here as I was going to browse the rest of this topic. So glad sci fi fans be here.

Shit, you've never seen those? They're pretty much cream of the crop and defined the genre. Don't forget Alien & Aliens while you're at it. There's more, they just seem... well... obvious.

My brother just pointed me to The Thing movie a few days ago. Have just seen the prequal remake first. Next the original release which is already downloaded.

It's dope.

I can't believe I never seen Blade Runner in all my life either (outside of the very beginning). It's already downloaded.

Jesus... you haven't. Get off the internet and start watching!

Coherence? Sure. I'll track it down right now. Thank you, GajinPunch.

It's what I do... that, and be a dick sometimes.

[Mischief Maker]

Anyone want to name some of their fave sci-fi flicks for me to torrent? >_>

2001: if you want to see what Interstellar was trying and utterly failing to recreate. This is more a setting-driven movie than plot-driven, and there has never been a more realistic and coherent sci fi setting ever put to film.

Blade Runner Director's Cut: natch.

The Matrix: I don't know if it's even possible to appreciate this movie anymore, it has been so diluted by pop culture appropriation and its terrible sequels, but it is the "Star Wars" of Generation X.

Robocop (the original): Paul Verhoven's masterpiece. Its social satire is even more relevant today. See for yourself why people were so outraged just by the idea of a reboot.

Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan: Even if you're not a Trekkie, this movie is totally accessible. Such a great movie that years later desperate Paramount execs tried to resuscitate the franchise by copying it three times! (Star Trek Nemesis and both JJ Abrams Treks) The best acting from William Shatner ever caught on film, thanks to a heroic effort on behalf of director Nicholas Meyer.

The original, NOT SPECIAL, edition of the Star Wars trilogy: The shoehorned-in CGI just takes you out of the movie, and in the DVD special edition of Empire was ruined by a moronic change:

Spoiler

The emperor fucking tells Darth Vader that Luke is his son halfway into the film.

The Terminator: T2 gets more love due to being the last great practical effects action film before CGI metastasized, but I think the original Terminator is the better film. Such a pity it's getting the Abrams treatment.

I feel so sorry for you going into The Thing for the first time after already having your expectations tainted by that awful prequel.

[KindGrind]

Anyone want to name some of their fave sci-fi flicks for me to torrent? >_>

Apart from the usual suspects, I'd suggest something somewhat less talked about like Europa Report and Moon.

On the theme of sci-fi, I've rewatched the first hour of Solaris (1972) while training tonight. I had to stop to shower and watch the end of the football game, but it will be very hard for me to go to bed now without watching the other 1h45...

Was there ever a more mesmerizing film? It gets me every time...

[Sinful]

K, seen Coherence yesterday before sleepy time. And I can't believe that movie was the second time I heard of that cat in the box with poisen theory or whatever it is. As something like 3 days ago I also heard of it in Repo Man. Weird how life is like that. You never hear something all your life, then you always hear it.

Anyways, that movie was a great idea. The only part I didn't enjoy was I wasn't buying the conversations before things started getting weird as natural enough. Especially with the ultra realistic view of the movie. So if it wasn't for your suggestion, I may never have watched it due to the slow start.

[Mischief Maker]

K, seen Coherence yesterday before sleepy time. And I can't believe that movie was the second time I heard of that cat in the box with poisen theory or whatever it is. As something like 3 days ago I also heard of it in Repo Man. Weird how life is like that. You never hear something all your life, then you always hear it.

A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone will say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in looking for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

[Satan]

23

[drauch]

Is this another cryptic SATAN post, or did you watch the movie 23? Could have coincided with your 23rd post if you timed it right. Never again.

[Pointman]

Finally saw the original Oldboy recently and I can't believe it took me so long to sit down and watch it. Crazy film that lingers on the mind afterwards, which is the way a film should leave you. Then I decided for giggles to watch the US remake. For what it's worth they didn't sanitise it but it fails so spectacularly that I've pretty much blocked it from my mind. Everything that made the original so gut wrenchingly brutal was sapped from this version, I read that even Spike Lee was unhappy with it. I really don't mind remakes if they have a different story to tell (for all the hate they get at least the new Robocop and Total Recall tried to be something different) but an inferior, shot for shot remake like Oldboy really does scream pointless to me.

Also caught John Wick, now that is a lead character with a reputation!

[dspoonrt]

Anyone want to name some of their fave sci-fi flicks for me to torrent? >_>

Besides what has just been listed, here are some of my sci-fi favorites.

In order of release date (oldest to newest):

Westworld (1973) - the robots in a futuristic theme park go haywire (The Simpsons did a great parody of the film)
Escape from New York (1981) - the iconic Snake Plissken is sent into a futuristic prison to rescue the President
Tron (1982)
The Last Starfighter (1984) - cheesy 80s family-friendly sci-fi centering around an arcade game used as a recruiting device for an alien war
Brazil (1985) - very British dark comedy set in a dystopian future run by an excessively bureaucratic government
Predator (1987) - Arnold fights an alien hunter sent to Earth.
Total Recall (1990) - Arnold struggles to remember his own identity and unravel a conspiracy surrounding the planet Mars.
Demolition Man (1993) - cryogenically frozen Stallone fights a 90s criminal in a future society that has eliminated crime and thus become weak
Stargate (1994)
Waterworld (1995) - critics panned it, but I love it for the atmosphere, epic scale, and Dennis Hopper as the villain.
Strange Days (1995) - thrilling murder mystery yarn featuring a high-tech cyber street drug/entertainment medium
Twelve Monkeys (1995) - another great Terry Gilliam film (he also did Brazil). This one is either a sci-fi flick dealing with time travel and the prevention of World War 3 or a somewhat depressing movie about mental illness.
The Fifth Element (1997)
Event Horizon (1997)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Pitch Black (2000)
Equilibrium (2002)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Serenity (2005) - better once you've seen its TV predecessor, Firefly
Sunshine (2007)
Moon (2009)
Super 8 (2011)
Looper (2012)
Pacific Rim (2013)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

[Stevens]

The Terminator: T2 gets more love due to being the last great practical effects action film before CGI metastasized, but I think the original Terminator is the better film. Such a pity it's getting the Abrams treatment.

I feel so sorry for you going into The Thing for the first time after already having your expectations tainted by that awful prequel.

Someone who agrees with me!

The original Terminator does one thing that the sequels could never do: It makes you believe the bad guy might actually win.

And thanks for suggestion PC Engine Fan. I'll check it out.

[Pointman]

Saw Event Horizon again last night. For a Paul W.S Anderson film it's great, and that is saying something. It does fall foul of typical horror tropes towards the end but it's an entertaining ride with a interesting premise and a great soundtrack. Laurence Fishburne has a few cracking lines in it.

[drauch]

Saw Event Horizon again last night. For a Paul W.S Anderson film it's great, and that is saying something. It does fall foul of typical horror tropes towards the end but it's an entertaining ride with a interesting premise and a great soundtrack. Laurence Fishburne has a few cracking lines in it.

Yeah, Event Horizon could have been sooooo much more if there wasn't all the studio interference. There's a workprint VHS floating around with all the original core and special F/X stuff with about 20 minutes of footage or so.

But really, dunno if this ties into that or not, but the most egregious thing about EH is that the use every goddamn stock sound in the book. Every stock scream, explosion, door opening, etc. is pulled from the book. Still, it's a fun film that gets pretty nasty at times, and that I can appreciate.

[Pointman]

But really, dunno if this ties into that or not, but the most egregious thing about EH is that the use every goddamn stock sound in the book. Every stock scream, explosion, door opening, etc. is pulled from the book.

Funny you should say that as I always listen out for a "Wilhelm Scream" whenever I watch a film but I didn't catch one in this. I was chuffed however to hear a totally digitised sounding Wilhelm Scream in Tron Legacy the other day. I missed it on first viewings, nice one Tron sound designers.

[DEL]

Satan wrote:

23

Haha! The old Satanic numerology.
I'll raise you a CUBE 2 Hypercube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_2:_Hypercube
Of course I know the Satanists' abbreviations for the Devil:
X = Satan
BOX = Satan
CUBE = Satan
Saturn = Satan

....Uh-Oh! We have all the names of the consoles

360 = 3X6 = 666
The Dark Knight Rises.
Another Nolan effort like Interstellar. Still, it is a bit better.
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GAMECUBE-BL-R
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Saturn

[Xyga]

Rewatched Labyrinth (1986), so 80's cheesy and glittery-dark it hurts, but it's awesome in some ways like the insane overall work they put on the scenery and puppetry.
Bowie's pants aren't cool though.

Going to rewatch The Dark Crystal next, IIRC it's kind of boring and cheesy too, but it's the current subgenre I'm exploring (more or less dark/gothic fantasy and faerytale stuff).

[lilmanjs]

Aces Go Places
Early 80s HK movie that I found to be pretty funny. Only one comedy bit really felt out of place in the movie, but I gotta say the tight rope sequence was my favorite. That impending moment of death followed by the comedy relief that ends it was good. Was also fun watching the guy who they were trying to catch save their lives over and over. I'll probably check out the second movie tonight.

[options]

Finally saw the original Oldboy recently and I can't believe it took me so long to sit down and watch it.

Great movie. So raw and original and, well--brutal. People had been recommending it to me for ages and when I finally watched it... Wow.

Wild Card
Jason Statham continues to play roughly the same character in every movie and I don't really have a problem with it. This was cool, but the side characters and how their stories/motivations related to the lead had me confused for a good while as to what the movie was actually supposed to be about. It almost felt like a drama with a few dubstep/super slo-mo fight scenes sprinkled in just for kicks. The overall look of the movie, however, (colors, cinematography) was great.

[Some-Mist]

Interstellar - nothing special.
McConaughey sporting an unhealthy orange tan.
Anne Hathaway looking terrible and at only 32
Matt Damon looking fat and almost unrecognizable.
Otherwise....nothing to say on the film itself. Drab.

lol, I just seen this movie and man, are you ever right on what you said. Then again, it's a Christopher Nolan flick. :p

... man did that story ever take a dive. I was like "Give me a break" when I seen the reveal for the space handshake. Otherwise movie took forever to get to the sci-fi stuff in space (like 40min) with boring Earth stuff and always lame overly dramatic & fake Hollywood BS emotions. Once in space I was happy enough with the movie up until the plot got way to BS and with even way thicker Hollywood BS emotions that went until the credits.

So yeah, the middle section was ok enough, I guess? But everything else makes me really hate the movie overall. I guess you can watch it if you got nothing better to watch. Otherwise pass.


EDIT - and this movie has thee lamest robot design ever. When I first seen it I was like "Is this movie serious or this a kids movie?"

I still liked it tbh... tho I agree on the robot design.

Anyone want to name some of their fave sci-fi flicks for me to torrent? >_>

from what hasn't been listed yet
Tarkovsky's "Solaris" (sorta mentioned)
Mr. Nobody
Pandorum
Primer

and depending on your definition of sci-fi
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

[Pointman]

Primer messes with your head, it's a time travel film for people who enjoy hard maths. I like to think I was clever enough to understand it. But only just. Was the director's follow up, Upstream Color, any good?

[Some-Mist]

I enjoyed it. I actually went to a Q&A with Shane Carruth and double feature of Primer and Upstream Color when it released. The person I went with hated it... but they also never saw Primer. It's not as big of a mind fuck nor complex, but it's still pretty unique. I remember someone in the crowd asked Shane, "what was it really about?" and the majority of the crowd boo'd the person haha.

The timeline for Primer has been plotted out at a few different places which can help if you sort of follow along while watching in subsequent viewings

Spoiler

[Pointman]

Damn, that makes the timeline for Interstellar seem pretty pedestrian by comparison. I'll have to pluck up the courage to watch it again sometime. Funny story about Carruth there, I'll have to give Upstream Color a go. What I do like about his films are the lack of hand holding. So many filmmakers use that method of storytelling (even Christopher Nolan) that it kinda feels like they are insulting your intelligence. I like it when you have to watch something so intently in order to actually work out what is going on. True Detective did this to brilliant effect.

[amdiggywhut]

I saw The Babadook on Monday night. Highly recommend it. It's not outright "scary" by any means, but it is very thought provoking and dark.

[JBC]

Werner Herzog's Nosferatu. I really expected more, but it wasn't bad. I doubt I'll be watching it over the original or even Coppolla Dracula anytime soon. There were a few standout moments added in this tale that worked very well, but overall it failed to wow me. It comes off like a movie about a town of mentally handicapped people who are all incapable of identifying danger.

I recently watched the low budget Shadow Of The Vampire, which stars Willem Dafoe as the actual vampire Dracula hired on to play Nosferatu in the original Murnau film. It was fairly cheesy as well but mighty entertaining. Willem pulls an Ozzy at one point. No, not peeing on the Alamo but the other thing.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Picked up the Blu-Ray version of the horror anthology series titled "The ABCs of Death 2" which is a sequel to the original film of the same name. The sequel clocks in at a whopping two hours and two minutes (which is appropriate given the fact that it has another brand new 26 horror genre themed shorts to check out at your leisure).

The Blu-Ray & DVD versions of John Wick are already out now (it debuted 2-03-2015 stateside) and managed to snag that one as well. Interesting code of honor shown within the hotel between the staff and the usual clientele. Even the cleaning crew is kept on a retainer if it needed be (they're paid quite well indeed).

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~