SF films that make you go 'Umm...what?'
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, March 23, 2009 16:54
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List your favourite and/or most hated weird-ass SF films here.
My faves:
2001
Zardoz
Solaris
Supernova
Final Cut
Cherry 2000
I'm a strange man.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
List your favourite and/or most hated weird-ass SF films here.
My faves:
2001
Zardoz
Solaris
Supernova
Final Cut
Cherry 2000
I'm a strange man.
The laughing Chrisisall
You may indeed be strange, but at least you generate interesting threads concerning sci-fi.
Zardoz....definitely not for the sci-fi beginner. This is a complicated film on many levels. You MUST see the full, un-cut version to fully appreciate this film. I have likely seen it a dozen times, and to this day I do not fully understand all elements of it. Zed is quite duplicitous and mysterious, and Consuella is a powerful and complicated woman. The ending is both surprising and a bit disappointing.
Cherry 2000.....Love this movie! Saw it in the theater when it ran. Pamela Gidley, as Cherry, stole my heart forever. I can't say if I would have made the same choice at the end as the protagonist made. Sandwich?
My contrubution to this list is Strange Invaders. One of my favorites for sure.
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Enemy Mine.
What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie!
Saw it on cable back in High School. My friend and I sat and watched this thing, all the time talking about how awful it was.
Neither of us could believe we sat through the entire thing. I guess we just kept thinking that it had to get better!
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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.
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"They just float out there, sending out raver breeding parties..."
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Originally posted by jake7:
Enemy Mine.
What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie!
You're daft.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Quote:I own it on DVD, and tear up every time. I think it's a solid sci-fi, and a moving other-planetary version of Hell In The Pacific.
Originally posted by jake7:
Enemy Mine.
What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
My contrubution to this list is Strange Invaders. One of my favorites for sure.
I suddenly don't feel so strange.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:Then again, I like Fantastic Four & Daredevil.
Originally posted by Storymark:Quote:
Originally posted by jake7:
Enemy Mine.
What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie!
You're daft.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
My contrubution to this list is Strange Invaders. One of my favorites for sure.
I suddenly don't feel so strange.
The laughing Chrisisall
Strange Invaders baby! Yeah dog, like it's dope! What a cast! :
Nancy Allen
Paul LeMat
Ken Tobey
June Lockhart
Mark Goddard
Louise Fletcher
Diana Scarwid
Charles Lane
Now I'm gonna make you feel completely un-strange, or almost "normal". I love these clunkers as well :
Journey To The Seventh Planet
Creation Of The Humanoids
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Not Of This Earth
Journey To The Center Of Time
Missile To The Moon
Angry Red Planet
Galaxina
She Demons
I Married A Monster From Outer Space
The Brain From Planet Arous
and many, many, many more. This IS my life, don'tcha know.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Then again, I like Fantastic Four & Daredevil.
Originally posted by Storymark:Quote:
Originally posted by jake7:
Enemy Mine.
What an incredibly stupid, horrible movie!
You're daft.
The laughing Chrisisall
I like the Director's Cut of Daredevil....
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Donnie Darko. I love it, but I don't claim to understand it.
2001 - it really should be watched at various times in your life. If you're paying attention at all, you'll get different meanings out of it every time. It was a much different movie when I was 18 than it was when I was 6 - and even more different when I was 28. And more serene when I hit 38.
Mike
A baby seal walks into a club...
The "On Fire" Economy -
The Dow closed at 10,587.60 on January 20, 2001, the day GW Bush took office. Eight years later, it closed below 8000 on the day he left office - a net loss of 25%. That's what conservatives call an economic "success".
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