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I haven't seen a "sci-fi" movie in a long, long, LONG time. I don't think they're made anymore.
RobertScorpio
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Oh...they make them. But they have been concentrating on remaking classics and failing each and everytime...
Rob
I disagree there, Day the Earth Stood Still was a more complex, more logical, much better film than the original. War of the Worlds was much better than than the 1953 version. I still hate the religious overtones of the Pal version. Were they "event" movies? Probably not.
RAMA
The Day The Earth Stood Still remake barely even had the tilte event in it. It was just an evironmental terrorist movie. Saving one planet justifies wiping out an entire sentient species? The original made more sense.
And the original War of the Worlds is a classic. Campy yes, but still a classic. Spielberg couldn't even give props to Wells. Steven Spielbergs War of the Worlds. I don't think so.
But to each his own.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
The Day The Earth Stood Still remake barely even had the tilte event in it. It was just an evironmental terrorist movie. Saving one planet justifies wiping out an entire sentient species? The original made more sense.
And the original War of the Worlds is a classic. Campy yes, but still a classic. Spielberg couldn't even give props to Wells. Steven Spielbergs War of the Worlds. I don't think so.
But to each his own.
Yes, totally agree. Nothing against GLOBAL WARMING folks. But recent movies have been so blatant with their messages, I felt like I was an an AL GORE festival when I came out of the local screening of DAY EARTH STOOD STILL. The dude next to me wrote for the local READER movie. He told his friend when it was over that the movie was great, and would change everyone's stance on the subject..
well...he was wrong. The movie, like the one a couple years ago when the world started freezing real fast, was an insult to those who saw it. And I fear 2012 is going to do the same thing...suck...
As for WAR OF THE WORLDS? When the lead character of the movie is a moronic father, and his kids are shitheads too, I could care-a-less if any of them died.
Rob
Haha what? That remake was utterly hamfisted.
That one was just Spielburg jerking himself off, nothing more.
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Superheroes: Iron Man
Non Superhero sci-fi: Serenity
Fantasy: Return of the King
Non Superhero sci-fi: Serenity
Fantasy: Return of the King
The Day The Earth Stood Still remake barely even had the tilte event in it. It was just an evironmental terrorist movie. Saving one planet justifies wiping out an entire sentient species? The original made more sense.
Yes, totally agree. Nothing against GLOBAL WARMING folks. But recent movies have been so blatant with their messages, I felt like I was an an AL GORE festival when I came out of the local screening of DAY EARTH STOOD STILL. The dude next to me wrote for the local READER movie. He told his friend when it was over that the movie was great, and would change everyone's stance on the subject..
well...he was wrong. The movie, like the one a couple years ago when the world started freezing real fast, was an insult to those who saw it. And I fear 2012 is going to do the same thing...suck...
Is 2012 about global warming? I thought it was going to be more supernatural than that.
I wasn't a big fan of The Day After Tomorrow but at least that one made sense and didn't leave me with all these unanswered questions.
With The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), I'm just not sure where to begin. Firstly, it's completely illogical that Klaatu would save some humans while he fully intends to exterminate the entire species. Secondly, why are the aliens so concerned with Earth's well being? Why does he insist on only speaking with the U.N. and not running the message by the Secretary of Defense first? Surely it doesn't hurt anyone to repeat the message a few times. Don't they have protocols & bureaucratic evasiveness where he's from? They pass judgment on us and yet they clearly have no understanding of our culture or how we communicate. Why only let us know of their existence a few days before they plan on destroying us? Maybe they would have been more effective at communicating with us if they'd given some time for the message to sink in. Why not help humanity develop advanced green technologies? Or, rather than exterminate the entire species, why not merely destroy all human technology and then diminish the population down to a more manageable level? For such an "advanced" species, they very quickly leap to genocide as the only option.
This is quite a while back, but Unbreakable really amazed me so much it is probably in my all-time top ten. Samuel Jackson did an amazing job of foreshadowing the end by taking what should be a sympathetic character and playing him just too unlikable.
In terms of being an "event" movie, I'd have to say "Transformers". I saw it at an advance screening at Botcon 2007, first with a crowd of people who bought special invites (it was a charity event) and then again right after in a room surrounded by Transformers fans. Both times Tyrese and Rachael Taylor were there to introduce the film and get the crowd fired up. For a life long TF fan, it was an incredible experience.
Iron Man. One of the very few times that a comic book movie has absolutley nailed it in pretty much every respect.
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