SF films that make you go 'Umm...what?'
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, March 23, 2009 16:54
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Quote:Requiem's not a sequel, it has NOTHING to do with the first horrible one. And it's bloody.
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
I was so saddend by AVP that I'm staying well clear of anything claiming to be it's sequel.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Big Richard
Thanks for the overreaction. Of course, my motto is, if I comment on something at all, it's a compliment. I kind of like Fincher. I hated 7 because talk about FAIL, if you figure out everything that is going to happen in a mystery about 15 minutes in, it's just painful to watch. It's made more painful as torture porn. Sorry. One of the people I was watching it with says, no, you gotta hang on to the twist at the end, you'll never guess who's driving up there. I said "Kevin Spacey with Brad Pitt's head in a box?" and he said "Oh, you've seen it?" And I said "No, this is just he most predictable film I've ever seen." It was really painful to watch abysmally stupid heroes fail to solve an obvious mystery.
I liked Fight Club. That's the only reason I cut Fincher any slack. Alien3 was terrible, but nowhere near as bad as Se7en.
BSCM,
Okay, I'll admit that's cool. If more of that has come through in the film, it would have worked for me. Yeah, I'm a geek and I know exactly what you're talking about. I think that the problem was probably that the studio had no interest in 40k, and twisted it to make it more like another knife in the wormhole story.
Mike,
Strange Days? that was it. The question isn't are you paranoid, but are you paranoid *enough*. :)
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Urotsukidôjii
I skipped mentioning this because I thought it didn't count. I guess I'm not sure on the parameters. Ultimately, doesn't all decent anime make you say Huh? even without tentacle sex?
I mean Hentai is a lot of huh, but even the rest of anime. I did mention something. But I think there's an element of Hayao Miyazaki no longer being outside the box, but there's a lot of disturbed confusion there. For that matter, Fantasia is sort of Umm What?
Frem recommended Elvenlied earlier, I have to second that.
Somewhere between waterworld and nymphoid barbarian from dinosaur hell there are some movies actually worth watching.
No one has yet mentioned Peter Jackson, like Dead Alive/Braindead. I thought we were going for a sort of wrong turn into nowhere land
Speaking of which, for anyone who wants to see a bad b-movie that is very disturbed and feels that they aren't getting enough Eliza Dushku, there's "Wrong Turn."
Some movies just leave me saying "Why?" Silent Hill for example. it's almost clever. I feel that a story editor is needed to make this not suck. I surprised by how many of these things are in my head.
Like a lot of people would put the Game on this list, I just find it too mundane. I'll grant Existenz, but I think that would be my limit.
Dreamscape is another 80s film in need of an editor.
Here's one I really liked, while not totally in the huh category, a decently executed film: Lost Souls with Winona Ryder. Oh, and another satanic film about a book dealer, someone help me out here.
To get horror to be interesting I think that abandoning christianity which is getting kind of boring in favor of classical pagan deities in something more than just random satanism and better more seriously done than Xena, though it can keep all the girl on girl...
Oh, there's another one Warlock, a bunch of stuff like that. Here's a huh with sean connery iirc Outland.
That one where i think it's vin diesel, and claudia black gets cut in half.
Of course, a lot of these aren't nearly as Huh? as random Farscape or Lexx.
Still looking for challengers to Cherry 2000.
On the Alien list, Cameron is best, but Joss-Jeunet's Resurrection was a decent huh. There were some truly disturbed moments in it. The underwater scene was nice but weak, in that it had that element of deep blue sea. Monster of the week "Let's see how many characters we can sacrifice for no apparent reason" which as a theme got the ultimate send up from Shaun of the Dead. Yes, we actually are morons, that's why we keep dying.
I really want to see "Aliens take Manhattan" It's been a long time coming. Here's hoping that summer's 4 week absence from T:SCC was because they're putting her in the new movie, btw.
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