I saw Strange Days for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It is too long. Fiennes is pretty great in it though.
― caek, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember the first time i saw huge posters for Total Recall on the platform of Tottenham Court Road tube station. brilliant design, got a real 'wow wtf is that' sense of excitement from them.
― blueski, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
which is, comedy-substitute for people who don't particularly like actual comedy (like the admirable Eric H).
If you don't think Female Trouble is funny, we really have nothing to talk about.
― Eric H., Friday, 28 March 2008 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i always confuse species and mimic.
― Jordan, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe Tremors should've been in - it's meant to be good isn't it?
― blueski, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
xp: EH, I like me some comedy-substitute too, prime Waters included! (and FT is my fave, a masterpiece; it's terrifically funny but in a non-comedy-crafted way)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Tremors is on the 80s list.
― Duane Barry, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone actually rewatched dark city since it came out? i haven't, but i remember thinking it was kind of lame in the theatre.
― bell_labs, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I only find out that Alex Proyas is a contender for cinematic genius here
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
honestly i haven't re-watched either dark city OR the 13th floor, and i bet they would both suck. dark city was "atmospheric."
― ian, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i watched it on dvd and i was into it. although some parts crossover from noir into goth, i think.
doesn't ebert do the commentary?
― Jordan, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude you're totally neglecting the troo genius -- screenwriter David Goyer, who went on to the BLADE trilogy!
― David R., Friday, 28 March 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't believe i have never seen johnny mnemonic. now i kind of want to!
i think i am voting for 12 monkeys.
― bell_labs, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
X-Files is Fight the Future, not the entire television series, right?
― Mordy, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't johnny mnemonic mostly set in NEWARK? I'm from Newark. Don't make any ponderous, horribly written dystopic movies about Newark.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Dark City: great set-up, shite final act. Gets points for trying though. It tosses very similar ideas about that the Matrix would a few years later.
― chap, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i know i shouldnt but for some reason i need to vote for EVENT HORIZON
― max, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't believe people are non-jokingly saying they liked Johnny Mnemonic and Dark City and Strange Days and '90s sci-fi ect ect.
― DavidM, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Contact, obv., but what do you mean 'fiction'?
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah actually, fucking contact ruled. i must've missed it on the list the first time around.
― ian, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Jordan, Friday, March 28, 2008 3:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
one has TITS
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
the scifi aspect of Conatct was Foster & McBongos being into each other
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
contact was a dope movie
― max, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i liked it but i didn't like it.
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
McBongos!
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Contact = gripping cheeseball
how is Dark City bad anyway? i can't remember anything that wrong with it
― blueski, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i liked it but i didn't like mathew mcdingus
― Jordan, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a bit dull
― Ste, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm forgainst it.
― nickalicious, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, that and the horrible forrest gump-style news footage parts.
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
if it's not on teevee, it didn't happen
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ old people bitching about how the 1980s were so much better for science fiction
got nothing to do with being old. I think the 80s were a nadir of cinema in general. 70s and 90s were much more interesting, just not when it comes to sci-fi.
― Edward III, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
species is a really weird cheesy movie but i like it.
― omar little, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
species was a favorite of all my male high school friends
― bell_labs, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
it really is the perfect straight teenage male movie
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
monsters and tits=win-win
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Was that the one where a naked woman space monster kills people or something?
― Tuomas, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
yes.
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
it's also got forest whitaker as a useless psychic
― omar little, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
haha yes he "feels things strongly"
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
also marg helgenberger as a horny scientist<3
― latebloomer, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Forest Whitaker is kinda like Samuel Jackson, he's been in every possible sort of movie imaginable.
― Tuomas, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I always heard about his memorable role in The Crying Game, but never got around to seeing it until last night. Wow, he can play female astonishingly well.
― JTS, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Speaking of useless psychics, where is PHENOMENON with John Travolta?
― JTS, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
And Forest Whitaker (!)
― JTS, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Contact is the Gone With The Wind of radio telescope movies. Parts of it I like quite a bit, but there's way too much science vs. religion hectoring in the way and idiot stunt casting with Rob Lowe and McConaughey as something other than an excitable stoner.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, in the radio telescope sweepstakes The Arrival is way superior to Contact even with Charlie Sheen as the lead.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Contact is the Gone With The Wind of radio telescope movies.
lol
McConaughey as something other than an excitable stoner
you sure?
― gabbneb, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i have seen all of these except for the arrival and virus and only saw abt 15 min of virtuosity. which is kind of sad b/c i wld like to be able to watch more new 90s sci-fi movies. i will go to the 80s thread.
― rrrobyn, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I've seen all but a handful of these and while I do give high props to a few like Starship Troopers (Verhoeven rules) and Fifth Element (Milla + Moebius=awesome), the only movie that really stands out on this list as bringing something new and lasting to the table is Ghost in the Shell. That gets my vote.
The Matrix is garbage. I promise that's not "willful contrarianism" either. It's simply the honest in-theater reaction of a lifelong scifi devotee who does not believe recycled materials are more palatable after they've been shellacked, mirror-shaded, trench-coated, or karate-kicked. I see nothing redeeming about it.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 29 March 2008 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link