Yes, "This Island Earth" was excellent - as was "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Let's see how "The Chronicles of Riddick" turn out!
Clito, Gort, Morada, Nicktoe or something like that.........If someone calls you and spits out those four words, then leave that day blank on your calendar. Atta Boy
Silent Running - best music, best robots The Road Warrior - best of the Mad Max series Fahrenheit 451 - nuff said Tank Girl - gotta love Lori Petty
Alien - the rest of the series was shit, but Scott knew what he was doing. Eraserhead - not sure if this'd qualify, but it's definitely one of the weirdest, most haunting films you'll ever see. eXistenZ - hey, I'm a mark for organic firearms. 2001 - obvious choice, but hey, monkeys are hilarious, and monkeys brutally beating other monkeys with a bone because of the influence of a timeless, inscrutable obelisk are even funnier. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan - pretty much the only element of the Star Trek universe I find tolerable. The Empire Strikes Back - proof that Lucas isn't entirely a fuck-for-brains trogodolyte hellbent on using computer graphics to remove any semblance of emotion or plot from cinema. A Clockwork Orange - random fact: one set was built for the film, with '70s England supplying the rest. Further random fact: after numerous acts of copycat violence spawned death threats directed at Kubrick and his family, he forced the studio to pull the film out of hte theater.
Cool.....All of those great Scifi films of the past 50 years help shape today's society........I can only imagine what the next 50 years will bring in the order of special effects and new imaginative scifi alien terror flicks.........Maybe it won't be our imagination, but the real thing!!! Atta Boy
Yea, Gort was the big robot dude.......Clito was the character Michael Rennie played......I'm not sure about Murada or Nicktoe........Maybe someone else knows. Atta Boy
Klaatu was the guy's name. Pretty sure it's the same in the short story. So, his message was, "Klaatu verata nicto". This line has been widely ripped off (or payed homage to), most noticeably in Army of Darkness.
2001: A space Odyssey was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'm saddened by the time I wasted on that movie (book was good though). Any movie today where 10 minutes went by where absolutely nothing happened would never even make it out... I like all 6 Planet of the Apes movies, Matrix trilogy, Stargate, Highlander 1, X-Files, etc... There's really too many to list.
Seinfeld is nothing and will always be nothing.........On a scale of 10, Seinfeld is a big 0!!! Atta Boy
I was very fond of Silent Running as a kid. Anyone else think was OK - or are you all terminally cynified and hating anything with an conservation theme?
Best thing about the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is the movie's same message still applies today........To bad the space ship carrying Gort and Klaatu didn't land on the White House lawn when George Bush is there. Might change a few things I think........ Atta Boy
Nope, greedy people won't be diswayed by sci fi threats. Even if something did land it would be capitalized on in a heartbeat and made to sell all over the world. The message would be lost as it has been since this movie was released.
I remember the 50's scifi movies "The Conquest Of Space" and "Destination Moon".......Those two scifi movies alone must have stimulated the american space program a little bit. After seeing them a dozen times over the past 50 years, I remember they had some pretty good "tongue in cheek" scenes in them. Even so, they were still pretty good scifi movies for their time. Atta Boy
Funny :| I mean, literally nothing. Absolutely nothing happening but crappy music playing and a guy floating thru space... For about 10 minutes... .... Literally. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! P.S. Actually, I think it may have been more than that...
Yea, Maybe......But scifi movies back in the 50's, at least the good ones were still stimulating enough to make a few kids major in the sciences back then.......especially rocket science and astronomy. Atta Boy
Actually, no. I liked the robots, and I liked Bruce Dern as an actor; but the whole movie had so many holes in it it is incredible; the big domes in space with artificial gravity, supposedly supporting various Earthly Biomes to protect them from environmental disater on Earth; I mean- artificial gravity? and why was it in Saturn orbit? Those domes couldn't preserve more than a tiny fraction of a rainforest biome- why didn't they just collect seeds or DNA? And the psychology was daft too- why did no-one else want to preserve these biome domes except one disturbed character actor? Environmental science was what I was studying at university when I first saw this film; I should have liked it, but it is so wrong about so many things.
Does anyone remember the 70's scifi movie "Laser Blast"??? Any movie where T-Rexs pilot a spaceship, land on earth chasing another renegade T-Rex with a laser gun can't be all bad.......or maybe it can! Atta Boy
