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Best Sci-Fi Film ever?
Rick
Sector 14 Studios
in Zocalo v2.0
[b][i]What do you think is the best sci-fi film ever?[/b][/i]
No restrictions, other than it has to be an actual film, not some obscure student project...
I'll post mine later, as not to influence :)
-R.
No restrictions, other than it has to be an actual film, not some obscure student project...
I'll post mine later, as not to influence :)
-R.
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it's Aliens for me, with Terminator 2 running real close...
:D
Possibly Gattaca. As scifi goes, that's pretty damn good.
But best fanmade sci-fi is STARWRECK!!!
Bladerunner with Harrison Ford.
Fanmade: StarWreck of course.
When you have enough ideas here, make a poll.
agh... my... head....
*explodes*
dunno, 5th element was good..
I'm sorry all the movies you named are good, but the most [u]important[/u] and still the best has to be [b]2001[/b]. The special effects still look good today. The model and set design was pracitical (no blinking lights just to have blinking lights) and look like something that would be built today.
It was one of the first movies that had realistic physics and it delighted in that fact. Remember without Kubrick/Clark's vision, there would be no such thing as the "serious" sci-fi movie. 2001 broke from the campy, unrealistic, alien flicks of the day, to start an entire new genre that lead to films such as Aliens and Star Wars.
Jake
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Freejack [/i]
[B]I'm sorry all the movies you named are good, but the most [u]important[/u] and still the best has to be [b]2001[/b]. The special effects still look good today. The model and set design was pracitical (no blinking lights just to have blinking lights) and look like something that would be built today.
It was one of the first movies that had realistic physics and it delighted in that fact. Remember without Kubrick/Clark's vision, there would be no such thing as the "serious" sci-fi movie. 2001 broke from the campy, unrealistic, alien flicks of the day, to start an entire new genre that lead to films such as Aliens and Star Wars.
Jake [/B][/QUOTE]
An interesting aside: The reason that the effects in [b]2001[/b] can hold their own, even against today's CG effects, is because Stanley Kubrick [i]insisted[/i] on hand painted rotoscoping mattes. This is far more accurate (and time consuming) than using the bluescreening method for modelmasking, but, as you can see, it eliminated those annoying "hazy black lines" that you could see around the models in [b]Star Wars IV-IV[/b] and [b]Firefox[/b]. It's also why the rotoscoping alone for this film took over 3 years to complete.
- PJH
the second one has the most quotable lines though.
"Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"
well... maybe the MST-ed version...
"I love you braaaaaaaaaaach!" *boom*
though, in all seriousness, my real list is pretty much shortened to pretty much Blade Runner, 2001 and Alien.
although it was good, just not something that ranks up with Babylon5, etc...
actually, I'm going for the dramatic here...
SciFi's Dune and Children of Dune.
MAN those movies are good, CoD was SO sad though. I really feel for Leto artredies...:(
actually, the list of movies that actualy stay with me is VERY short...
Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
Children of Dune
"O" (Othello)
*Thinks* umm...
thats it. Those are perhaps some of the best movies I've ever watched, very few movies actually stay with me for a few days after watching them, those that do are almost always tragedys. (The last three in that list definately meet all requirements for tradgedy set forth my Arostotle, Sans Dune because lato is still alive...) I'm really racking my brain here, but those are the only movies that actually had an impact on me....Gladiator, CoD, and O all left me depressed for days afterwards, Shawshank Redemption was just a great movie of hope....
Honestly, not many movies can do that.
other movies I like are just "fun" movies, and include such things as The Princess Bride, Babylon5, Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, X-Men, Matrix, etc etc etc
So, going by which SciFi movie left an impact on me, My final answer is definatly ...
SciFi's Children of Dune
Star Trek 6 " The undiscovered country" in german language : " Das unentdeckte Land " is one of the best SciFi - Films.
It has cool special effects and a cool story... And look to the history of our World.. there are parallels...
with best Regards
Chicky
[B]2001 didn't cut it for me, the whole monolith thing was just plain stupid. The first five minutes with the monkeys, bah. stupid stupid stupid.
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heh, thinking about it, and your rather infamous history on the boards, I wouldn't be suprised :p
Though I get the feeling you missed out on the subler hints in the movie...
[B]THIS ISLAND EARTH!!!!
well... maybe the MST-ed version...
"I love you braaaaaaaaaaach!" *boom*[/B][/QUOTE]
May your forehead grow like the mighty oak.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by WHY [/i]
[B]heh, thinking about it, and your rather infamous history on the boards, I wouldn't be suprised :p
Though I get the feeling you missed out on the subler hints in the movie... [/B][/QUOTE]
You know, that was what I thought when I read his post as well. :D
[B]heh, thinking about it, and your rather infamous history on the boards, I wouldn't be suprised :p
Though I get the feeling you missed out on the subler hints in the movie... [/B][/QUOTE]
subtle hints? you mean the whole "Every time the black monolyth shows up we make an evolutionary leap" thing?
Worf
[B]subtle hints? you mean the whole "Every time the black monolyth shows up we make an evolutionary leap" thing? [/B][/QUOTE]
Yup... you missed a LOT...
[B]Yup... you missed a LOT... [/B][/QUOTE]
watched it three times, its an OK movie, but there are MUCH better ones out there.
But then again, thats just my opinion. :) :D :p
ah, almost forgot Pitch Black, cool movie....