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  • I Ian Darling

    Agnihothra wrote: What's yours? Does Pi count? Failing that, I'd have to go with The Matrix, or possibly Silent Running. Ans to demonstrate my complete lack of taste (in SF), I'd also have to mention Flash Gordon and Barbarella :-D


    Ian Darling The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity ... that such complexity can arise ... out of such simplicity ... is the most fabulous extraordinary idea ... once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened - it's just wonderful ... the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned - Douglas Adams

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    Lost User
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    Silent Running - Bruce Dern's best role. The Matrix - a triumph of black leather and guns over content and plot! The tigress is here :-D

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      Not really Sci-Fi though was it? It was aired in the UK at the time (and has been repeated a billion times since on the Sci-Fi channel for some reason - it was set in the present day IIRC - even if it was meant to be set a year in the future, I still don't think it counts as Sci-Fi!). There was a similar UK one called "Threads" which was really, really scary - it pulled no punches whatsoever and rather than finishing a few months after the war, it showed how life might be a decade or so later (medieval basically, ending with a gorl of 13 or so giving birth to a horribly deformed baby). I still get the willies just thinking about it (I have it on DVD as it has been hard to come by in the past).


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      Sci-Fi can take place at any time, it's about concepts. The tigress is here :-D

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      • K KaRl

        Is that this movie which a scene showing the launch of nuclear missiles from a countryside landscape, with farmers (?) astonished to see them begin to fly from their silos?


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        Roger Wright
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        Yup, that's the one... "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City

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        • P palbano

          Oh Mike! I am so disappointed. I would have bet a steak dinner yours would be Fahrenheit 9/11 :-D

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          Mike Gaskey
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          palbano wrote: yours would be Fahrenheit 9/11 ah, but the question was qualified by the word science. had it been just fiction, I might have answered differently. Mike "liberals are being driven crazy by the fact that Bush is so popular with Americans, and thus by the realization that anyone to the left of center is utterly marginal." JAMES TRAUB NY Times "I don't want a president who is friends with France or Germany" Me Paraphrasing Kerry: I've spoken to many world leaders - they all look at me and say, you've got to win. I just can't tell you who they are, I have a secret plan for Iraq Me

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          • A Agnihothra

            Blade runner,according to worlds top 60 scientists[^] What's yours? My best movie(from those i saw) is Terminator2:Judgment Day Regards,
            Agni.

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            Wjousts
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            Bladerunner is my favorite movie of all time bar none. The Bladerunner computer game released a few years ago was also amazing.


            "Where do we go to get our good name back?...we go where we always go when a dramatic change is needed. We go to the ballot box" - Al Gore 5/26/04

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            • A Agnihothra

              Blade runner,according to worlds top 60 scientists[^] What's yours? My best movie(from those i saw) is Terminator2:Judgment Day Regards,
              Agni.

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              Jeff Bogan
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              What about the worst? My votes go to 1. Fifth Element 2. Red Planet 3. My Favorite Martian 4. Mission to Mars 5. Galaxy Quest ----------------------------- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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                palbano wrote: yours would be Fahrenheit 9/11 ah, but the question was qualified by the word science. had it been just fiction, I might have answered differently. Mike "liberals are being driven crazy by the fact that Bush is so popular with Americans, and thus by the realization that anyone to the left of center is utterly marginal." JAMES TRAUB NY Times "I don't want a president who is friends with France or Germany" Me Paraphrasing Kerry: I've spoken to many world leaders - they all look at me and say, you've got to win. I just can't tell you who they are, I have a secret plan for Iraq Me

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                Ok, but it would still have been funny :-D

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                • D DRHuff

                  It could be shown at 1 in the afternoon and I fall asleep. I have never found that movie anything but boring. :zzz::zzz: Dave

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                  Yep, I'm getting sleepy just thinking about it. :zzz: Regards, Alvaro


                  Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. - George W. Bush

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                  • J Jeff Bogan

                    What about the worst? My votes go to 1. Fifth Element 2. Red Planet 3. My Favorite Martian 4. Mission to Mars 5. Galaxy Quest ----------------------------- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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                    Alvaro Mendez
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                    The Fifth Element?! Wow, that's one of my favorites. Pure entertainment. :) Regards, Alvaro


                    Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. - George W. Bush

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                    • J Jeff Bogan

                      What about the worst? My votes go to 1. Fifth Element 2. Red Planet 3. My Favorite Martian 4. Mission to Mars 5. Galaxy Quest ----------------------------- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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                      Gawd ... the worse of the worse is Battlefield Earth They fucked up what was an entertaininng book; and a good story.


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                      • J Jeff Bogan

                        What about the worst? My votes go to 1. Fifth Element 2. Red Planet 3. My Favorite Martian 4. Mission to Mars 5. Galaxy Quest ----------------------------- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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                        Plan 9 from Outer Space


                        "Where do we go to get our good name back?...we go where we always go when a dramatic change is needed. We go to the ballot box" - Al Gore 5/26/04

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                        • A Agnihothra

                          Blade runner,according to worlds top 60 scientists[^] What's yours? My best movie(from those i saw) is Terminator2:Judgment Day Regards,
                          Agni.

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                          cmk
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                          Logan's Run Rollerball (first one) ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set

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                          • D DRHuff

                            It could be shown at 1 in the afternoon and I fall asleep. I have never found that movie anything but boring. :zzz::zzz: Dave

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                            Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                            Ditto. I don't have a problem with the story though. I just think it's badly filmed (Kubrick was not a god! ;P) -- ...Coca Cola, sometimes war...

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                            • P Paul Watson

                              Oh come on! What about Lost In Space? That rocked! It had way better robots in it than Blade Runner, sheesh. ;) Yeah, Blade Runner must be up there. 2001 too. Alien. And this may garner some laughter but I really, really loved the Fifth Element. Le loo multipass. Oh man :-D I also thought the recent Solaris was very good. I haven't seen the original or read the book, it was just a good movie in it's own right. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan wrote: "I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..." Crikey! ain't life grand?

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                              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                              Paul Watson wrote: What about Lost In Space? TV Series or Movie? I watched the TV series when I was a kid, and liked it very much. :) -- ...Coca Cola, sometimes war...

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                                Paul Watson wrote: What about Lost In Space? TV Series or Movie? I watched the TV series when I was a kid, and liked it very much. :) -- ...Coca Cola, sometimes war...

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                                Paul Watson
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                                The movie with Joey from Friends. It's worth watching for Gary Oldman. He is awesome in anything. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?

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                                  The movie with Joey from Friends. It's worth watching for Gary Oldman. He is awesome in anything. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: "Gassho rei, Watson-san!" Crikey! ain't life grand?

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                                  Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                  I agree, and I raise you one Christopher Walken. :) Christopher Walken wasn't in that particular movie, but any movie he's in, is worth watching IMO -- ...Coca Cola, sometimes war...

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                                  • M Maximilien

                                    Gawd ... the worse of the worse is Battlefield Earth They fucked up what was an entertaininng book; and a good story.


                                    Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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                                    Jeff Bogan
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                                    What do you have against scientology? Their brainless converts provide hours of joyful entertainment for me. ----------------------------- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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                                    • A Alvaro Mendez

                                      The Fifth Element?! Wow, that's one of my favorites. Pure entertainment. :) Regards, Alvaro


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                                      Jeff Bogan
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                                      Really? I have heard that some people really liked it - so I went and saw but the acting seemed terrible to me. All a matter of taste - I guess. ----------------------------- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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                                      • J Jeff Bogan

                                        What do you have against scientology? Their brainless converts provide hours of joyful entertainment for me. ----------------------------- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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                                        Maximilien
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                                        the books were fun, but the movie sucked big fucking time ...


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                                        • L Lost User

                                          2001 was a true leap in SF films and is still magnificent. The tigress is here :-D

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                                          Stan Shannon
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                                          The thing that stands out about 2001 to this day is that it was pure science fiction. Sure, Blade Runner was good, but it was as much a detective story as sf, Alien was good, but it was more thriller than true sf. The Star Wars movies hardly even qualify as SF as the same exact plot could have been set in any time and place with any technology. 2001 remains on top. "Benedict Arnold was a war hero too."

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