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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 7, 2014 15:21:11 GMT -5
Chris, the Conan Doyle estate is a bit miffed.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 18:20:56 GMT -5
I've seen King Kong and The Lost World. I used to love The Lost World when I was a kid. I think I saw clips of it first in a dinosaur documentary and my mom knew what movie it was so I eventually got to see it, can't remember if it was late night on TV or if it was a rental, but I watched it every chance I got for a while. 20,000 Leagues and Creature From The Black Lagoon have been on my Netflix queue for a couple years. I've been meaning to watch them. It's not that old 20,000 Leagues though, I also did not know one that old existed.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 7, 2014 18:53:16 GMT -5
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Post by Jesse on Aug 7, 2014 19:36:39 GMT -5
The Creature from the Black Lagoon is my all time favorite movie monster. I think one of the impressive things about it is that one of the two costumes they used during production was functional underwater. The underwater scenes with the creature and Julie Adams being some of the most powerful and memorable scenes throughout the entire film.
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 7, 2014 22:34:14 GMT -5
Chris, the Conan Doyle estate is a bit miffed. Can't see why. I gave Arthur C. his credit. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 8, 2014 17:35:29 GMT -5
Chris, the Conan Doyle estate is a bit miffed. Can't see why. I gave Arthur C. his credit. That does look better now, but there's still a reference to "Arthur clarke" in an earlier paragraph. Clarke is indeed a great writer, but from a different generation. |
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 8, 2014 23:26:08 GMT -5
My favorite Arthur Clarke character is Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 11, 2014 9:46:24 GMT -5
83. Sunshine (Boyle, 2007)
The spaceship on a desperate quest to reignite the dying sun. I think that's a great dramatic premise. Add that the first such ship had failed under mysterious circumstances and that this ship was literally the last chance.
Boyle spends his energy creating the claustrophobic atmosphere of the ship, a small group of people in closer quarters under immense pressure and with mounting tension. Because the stakes are as high as they get, even for their mathematician and a simple calculation error. Sometimes the best option is not clear, and sometimes the crew cannot agree on what that is.
The crew comes faces to face with fear, fanaticism, and the possibility of failure.
What if man is really meant to die today?
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Post by Jesse on Aug 11, 2014 15:16:28 GMT -5
I liked Sunshine and generally enjoy Danny Boyle movies.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2014 15:23:19 GMT -5
What if man is really meant to die today? Perhaps I shouldn't have bothered paying my utility bills today after all. Dammit. |
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Post by paulie on Aug 12, 2014 9:25:43 GMT -5
I liked Sunshine and generally enjoy Danny Boyle movies. Agreed. |
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Post by paulie on Aug 12, 2014 9:26:49 GMT -5
83. Sunshine (Boyle, 2007) The spaceship on a desperate quest to reignite the dying sun. I think that's a great dramatic premise. Add that the first such ship had failed under mysterious circumstances and that this ship was literally the last chance. Boyle spends his energy creating the claustrophobic atmosphere of the ship, a small group of people in closer quarters under immense pressure and with mounting tension. Because the stakes are as high as they get, even for their mathematician and a simple calculation error. Sometimes the best option is not clear, and sometimes the crew cannot agree on what that is. The crew comes faces to face with fear, fanaticism, and the possibility of failure. What if man is really meant to die today? I thought this was a great movie and after the success of Slumdog Millionaire I'm surprised it hasn't become an established cult classic. |
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 24, 2014 17:29:54 GMT -5
82. The Butterfly Effect (Bress & Gruber, 2004)
Your basic time loop film, with a concept loosely inspired by Bradbury's seminal A Sound of Thunder.
Included because you can't have a respectable film list without Ashton Kutcher.
The protagonist's life is filled with trauma, as are the lives of those around him. But he learns he has the ability to relive certain moments of his life, and perhaps a chance to set things right.
But every changes leads to, well, changes. And sometimes things get worse. Deciding the right course of action by attempting to predict the consequences of actions is a dangerous thing to do. And a little foreknowledge is often not as helpful as you may think it is.
There are several versions of the film with several endings. The Director's Cut is my preferred choice, which takes the logic of the other endings to their extreme. Nothing he did seemed to set things right for the people in his life, perhaps because he himself was the problem.
81. Robot Stories (Pak, 2003)
I always have trouble judging where anthologies belong on lists. This film by Greg Pak, a name likely familiar to comic fans, contains four short films about robots.
"My Robot Baby". This is a fine little story, but mostly acts as a science-fiction-as-allegory film. Which isn't really what I'm looking for here. A couple raises a robot baby in order to prepare for parenthood. In the problems that ensue, all the doubts and fears about parenthood rise to the surface. I am reminded of a high school project where I had to care for a robot baby. We were graded on how much neglect and abuse the baby recorded. I recall bowling with the baby in my left arm. I should probably never be a parent.
"The Robot Fixer". A great little film, but not really science fiction. A mother feels helpless about her comatose son, so works hard to complete his collection of robot toys, desperate to do something.
"Machine Love". A sappy robot love story I didn't have much appreciation for.
"Clay". This is the film that puts the anthology on this list. In the future, immortality is possible. Your consciousness can be digitized and preserved. But one man would rather die. His family, both the dead and the living, try to talk him out of this. It works as allegory for similar real life situations, but also as pure science fiction. A new technology that makes philosophical questions concrete. When our minds our digitized, what happens to our souls? Do we want to live forever? Is there a nobility in accepting the cycle of life, the old making way for the new? A very introspective film about a man rejecting immortality.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 26, 2014 8:10:56 GMT -5
My wife and I watched the Butterfly Effect together. I was completely underwhelmed by it and my wife really disliked it. Her more so because she likes ending with closure or an assured ending, not something left out there floating. I had no problem with either end I just didn't really care for the movie as a whole. I would put it at a movie I am good with the one viewing I had of it, and wouldn't steer people away from it if they said "hey have you seen Butterfly Effect?"
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Post by shaxper on Aug 26, 2014 21:55:38 GMT -5
My wife and I watched the Butterfly Effect together. I was completely underwhelmed by it and my wife really disliked it. Her more so because she likes ending with closure or an assured ending, not something left out there floating. I had no problem with either end I just didn't really care for the movie as a whole. I would put it at a movie I am good with the one viewing I had of it, and wouldn't steer people away from it if they said "hey have you seen Butterfly Effect?" I liked the concept of the butterfly effect, and there were memorable moments to be sure, but I was similarly underwhelmed overall. Ashton Kutcher was definitely a big part of that. |
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