A sort of counterpoint to the best sci-fi thread and perhaps a companion piece to the remakes you love thread.
Moonraker. My favorite James Bond movie, probably because it's the least like a James Bond movie. Ron Moore is awesome, Drax is a great villain with a cool plan, there are astronauts and cosmonauts with laser guns, Jaws is priceless, and "Attempting reentry" is the best double entendre in the film series.
The Search for Spock. Okay, not everyone hates this, but virtually everyone's reaction toward it is "meh" (excepting perhaps the NCC-1701 self-destruct scene). I don't get it. To me, it's the most emotionally engaging, well-acted, well-scripted Trek film of them all. Kirk's reaction to his son's death is the best work Shatner has ever done, indeed one of the finest renditions of total shock that anyone has ever done. Of course, the scenes everyone does like are incredible. Film scores have to be amazing for me to notice them; I notice Star Trek III's.
North. Damn it, it's good, goofy fun. It can be characterized as slightly racist, viz. American Indians, but the joke about putting old people on an ice floe to die is a pretty innocuous one. Would people get bent out of shape if a comedy had a joke about Indian widows jumping on a pyre? Well, probably. And somehow that would come off as much darker.
Eyes Wide Shut. I covered this in another thread, but to recap, it's a good, impressionistic movie about the dangers that lie outside the safety of a middle-class lifestyle.
Of course, everyone should feel free to tell me why these movies suck, and I encourage that attitude to reign throughout this thread, because that's the fun of it.
Moonraker. My favorite James Bond movie, probably because it's the least like a James Bond movie. Ron Moore is awesome, Drax is a great villain with a cool plan, there are astronauts and cosmonauts with laser guns, Jaws is priceless, and "Attempting reentry" is the best double entendre in the film series.
The Search for Spock. Okay, not everyone hates this, but virtually everyone's reaction toward it is "meh" (excepting perhaps the NCC-1701 self-destruct scene). I don't get it. To me, it's the most emotionally engaging, well-acted, well-scripted Trek film of them all. Kirk's reaction to his son's death is the best work Shatner has ever done, indeed one of the finest renditions of total shock that anyone has ever done. Of course, the scenes everyone does like are incredible. Film scores have to be amazing for me to notice them; I notice Star Trek III's.
North. Damn it, it's good, goofy fun. It can be characterized as slightly racist, viz. American Indians, but the joke about putting old people on an ice floe to die is a pretty innocuous one. Would people get bent out of shape if a comedy had a joke about Indian widows jumping on a pyre? Well, probably. And somehow that would come off as much darker.
Eyes Wide Shut. I covered this in another thread, but to recap, it's a good, impressionistic movie about the dangers that lie outside the safety of a middle-class lifestyle.
Of course, everyone should feel free to tell me why these movies suck, and I encourage that attitude to reign throughout this thread, because that's the fun of it.
