Sci Fi movie discussion

Equilibrium. Top notch christian bale futuristic dystopian gunfighting! It doesn't get much better than that.
I personally really liked minority report. I like those sci fi movies that concentrate on stories only slightly in the future. good stuff. Outland with sean connery was really good. The older less clean sci fi. But Chronicles or Riddick was by far one of the most fun sci fi movies Ive ever seen.

Two Words: ICE PIRATES.

Starring Robert Ulrich and featuring a bunch of thrown together misfit fighting robots in space.

Glover: It's Robert Urich! Don't disrespect the man like that!

Robyn: Did you know that the script for "Big trouble in little china" was originally a sequel to Buckaroo Banzai?

For me my favorite Sci Fi movies are from all over the place. Zardoz will always have a soft spot in my heart... "The Gun is good, the Penis is Evil!", Dark City was da Bomb, I endorse all Robyn's pics, and Ice pirates is great. I like Pitch Black, one of my all time favorites, but Chronicles of Riddick made me want to punch my brain.

Godzilla is good in any form, so long as it wasn't made in English.

It's been getting harder and harder to find good sci-fi lately. TV has been doing a good job with Galactica and I even enjoyed the Terminator shows, but theater wise I am hard pressed to talk about a show I could call Sci-Fi that sticks out as good recently. I think episodes I-III sort of crapped in my brain and may have taken a little out of the genre for me. Too much Ghosts of Mars and crap like that.

I was pleasantly surprised by Doomsday as well. Probably because I was watching it with the lowest of expectations. I don't think I have ever seen that many exploding or squishing heads in a movie ever.

Do we count The Road Warrior as a Sci Fi movie. If we do, It gets my vote as best, I usually try to watch it as many times as I can.

We are also forgetting Blade Runner. Harrison Ford is DA BOMB!

I'm not a hater of Road Warrior, but I do think it deserves mention more as an innovator of a genre that was never able to live up to that movie, rather than a fantastic movie. I like it, to be sure, but I do think it's a little overated. My favorite part about watching the movie lately is when the gyro captain flys over the compound and you get to see a sort of birds eye view of the place. Man, the back door to the compound is JUST BARBED WIRE! The Humongous is an idiot! With all those cars and bikes nobody took a look around back? Just keep launching an assault into the flame thrower I guess. We'll get them soon, my dogs of war...

And what a jerk off weapon a flame thrower is in that world anyway. That's like the most "Baller" show off weapon in a world without gasoline. Just rub their faces in it, "we have so MUCH gas, we actually have decided to light it on fire and shoot it at you." Like choking poor people with 100$ bills. I also love that one of those guys had to work at SportMart Australia and when the economy started to collapse he totally raided the compound bows and football pads (Do they even use those in Australia?).

But on to other movies I overlooked

Cloverfield, I liked the Nines, The Abyss, but mostly it's hard to pick out the good ones. We should talk about bad movies, then I can really get going.

I liked Coverfield a lot, it had everything I needed to call it a succesful monster movie and more.

-guy going back to rescue a girlfriend or cat or something even in the face of a horrible monster, check.
-cool looking monster, check
-dude firing a shoulder mounted rocket at a monster that he has to know is not going to do anything, check.

I love Asimov and was dissapointed that I, robot was a bit of a turd. I do not hate Will Smith but he is in a bunch of crap movies that usually are not his fault.

Good movies, I liked 12 Monkeys, Brazil (does that one countÉ).

Twelve Monkey's was fantastic. I thought the Willis and the Pit were both great in that one. Another Willis one, The fifth Element. A little to colourful and showy for me but had all the elements (get it?).

How about Event Horizon? I actually enjoyed that one. Haven't seen it in 10 yrs though.

Going back, Robyn how can you say such awful things about Ice Pirates. It does have Space Herpes you know.

System Commander wrote:Space Herpies.. thats was I was thinking of... hehe. See, in my mind right now I'm remembering it as being good, but 10 years ago I was thinking the same thing when I picked it up.. and I remember it being bad.

Tell you what, I'll watch Ice Pirates again if you watch Megaforce.

Deal, I'll get you my DVD copy as soon as we next see each other.

My brain isn't working. Whats the movie with the Swayzie train in it. It's were he helps protect the space farm from bandits. I own it but I cant think of the name. I do have to thank Tim Miller for picking out of the bargain bin and give it to me for christmas way back when we were roomates. Scott? Robyn? One of you has to know what I'm talking about.

STEEL DAWN!!! I just remembered. Awsome, mainly because of Swayzie.

System Commander wrote:Now, I'll have to try and track down a copy of Megaforce.. I'm sure most copies have been burnt by their owners..

I do have a copy of Fist of the Northstar, best anime ever created, although Ninja Scroll gives it a good run for it's money.

I'll start looking for Megaforce now. Prepare to enjoy some cardboard covered dune buggies from the future!

If any of you bastards even ATTEMPTS to watch megaforce without me I will learn to ride a motorbike and fly over to your house with a pink smokescreen shooting out from behind me and punch you in the BALLS!

"Deeds, not words".....(Me and Robyn High-Five across the internet!).

First and foremost N#1 SCI FI = 5th Element

Other's of note definately have to be:
Star Wars in all forms
Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black for a interesting story
Babylon 5... I did enjoy alot of that series

While I am with you on Pitch Black and Babylon 5 I still can't get why people enjoyed 5th element. It would be on one of my worst movie lists for sure. I can see how some might be thrilled by the visual aspect of the movie but I have way, way to many other problems with the movie.

-Chris Tucker must die. Painfully.
-That stupid 10 minute scene of the blue chick singing. Luc Besson, hire an editor kid!
-Gary Oldman. We know he's good, so why pay a man to act like a bad actor. They would have been better off paying one of the cast of friends to chew their way through his scenes.
-Luke Perry. Guest star cameos are only cool if they're stars.

And of course the fact that the fifth element was in fact love. Which I just don't accept. I think the fifth element definetly should have been something else. Anything else. And what kind of love is it that these aliens have determined is the cure for evil? Bruce Willis love the chick after about a day and a half? Because of her personality and her charm? Maybe if the alien geniuses wanted to ghet proof about love they should have made their chick ugly, or at least plain, to make sure that homeboy really digs her for her soul and stuff and not just cause she's wicked hot. What happens when Bruce finds out she's really needy? If he kicks her to the curb does the stupid second moon thingy just fire up again and crash into us? Man, too many questions for a 90 minute crap-a-thon.

I think the worst thing about this movie was the context I first watched it in. I had just watched the Proffesional and le Femme Nikita and figured I would go check this out. Basically it was like thinking you'er going to an AC/DC show and finding out it was a lie, and in Fact you will be watching Justin Timberlake bring sexy back for 90 minutes.

Two words: Space Truckers!

LexMechanic wrote:Two words: Space Truckers!

Yeah Boyeeeeeeeeee!

Now we are talking some SENSE!