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The books were great - the movie - not so much.
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Honorable mention to Akira[^], 1988.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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Akira was hugely influential, but I found it to be a snoozefest.
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987), while not popular in Japan, is worth a watch. It's about the first space launch on an alternate Earth- pretty much "The Wrong Stuff" because the effort has no prestige and the government expects it to fail.
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Solaris
Stalker
Metropolis
and for the lighter moments
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
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Again, Solaris ==
Metropolis - mmm - ok, it's in.
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Sleepy? No but you may be confused by its deliberate dream like quality.
Best watched slowly, I find an intermission helps.
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It means boring. Too long and slow, a meandering mess of self indulgent film making. In other words, not enough wham, bam, thank-you-mam, blood and guts action.
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Long, slow, yes.
Boring, yes.
Self indulgent, no.
Is boring bad? Not all good science fiction books are full of wham, bam, thank you mam action either.
The book it's based on isn't really full of action for that matter.
I like the trance like state it can induce.
My advice is don't try Mirror then as it's Tarkovsky unleashed...
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You forgot Idiocracy
It was originally released as a Sci-Fi/Comedy, but seems to have become a documentary in recent years.
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Indeed! This is a worth entrant as sci-fi as social commentary.
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I didn't see Dune in this thread anywhere.
And what of the classic Coneheads ^
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Rubbish
Rubbish
is why...
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I did see Dune in the thread and I like that movie, as well as the book.
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Of the more science than fantasy kind: Aliens
Guided bullets: tested in Afghanistan
Man-portable RADAR to find enemies behind cover: tested in Afghanistan
VTOL dropship: V-22 Osprey
Wheeled APC for the US: M1126 Stryker
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I'd add:
Edge of Tomorrow
Gravity
And I'd remove a lot of yours... sorry! For example, I'd remove A Clockwork Orange. Disgusting movie, and I'm not easily disgusted.
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TNCaver wrote: A Clockwork Orange. Disgusting movie, and I'm not easily disgusted. Pretty tame by today's standards and you have to bear in mind that most movies are of their time, in other words they often reflect culture and society at that time. On top of which Kubrick. Alos, disgust is in the brain of the beholder - I can't disqualify because your stomach turns!
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That movie was of my time (I was in high school in 1971), so I get the context. And yeah, it's tame by today's standards, and I try to avoid similar movies regardless of when they were produced. I understand that the original novel by Anthony Burgess had a different ending that helped some. I've never read it.
Maybe it's my age and the way my life philosophy has developed over the years, but I find the world is full enough of real evil that I don't wish to experience more of it in the fiction I watch.
Hey, other folk love that movie, and hail it as a classic. That's cool, I don't judge people for their tastes, we're not clones, it just isn't for me.
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Funny how Edge of Tomorrow shares a common idea with The Groundhog Day.
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Odd, but I've never seen Groundhog Day. I guess I should watch it someday. I've never been a big Bill Murray fan, even from SNL.
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This Island Earth
I always longed to receive a crate from Unit 16 so that I too could build an Interocitor.
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How you missed Battlestar Galactica, I have no idea.
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Because it's a TV show with no general release movie attached - all broadcast on TV or straight to Video, AFAIK.
You could always start a best TV sci-fi show list...
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Ender's Game[^]
I watched it at my son's place a few weeks back, then read the book. The movie is reasonably true to the book.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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