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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#61 - 2014-05-21 15:57:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Surprising that nobody has mentioned "The Matrix" (1999)

(oops...found it in someone's list. But still.)


Only first part of trilogy. And I would like to mention the Animatrix series also. Definitely worth watching.

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Doreen Kaundur
#62 - 2014-05-21 16:23:45 UTC
Worst:

Star Wars prequels.

I had no freakin idea what the fk was going on or why.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#63 - 2014-05-21 17:28:50 UTC
Doreen Kaundur wrote:
Worst:

Star Wars prequels.

I had no freakin idea what the fk was going on or why.



Don't you understand ? George was making children's films. He said so himself. 4 year olds just love 45 minutes of incomprehensible political banter per film. Lol

Ugh.

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Dorian Tormak
RBON United
#64 - 2014-05-21 17:49:40 UTC
Fendro Galbani wrote:
Apart from the obvious classics (2001, Bladerunner, etc), I also quite enjoyed:
- Twelve Monkeys
- Wall-E
- The Terminator
- Total Recall (another Arnold movie, what is wrong with me?)


I severely disliked:
- Armageddon
- Independence Day
- The Core
- Starship Troopers


Good choices, Terminator and Total Recall both aren't up to the standards of the first two, I think you just have a thing for Arnie

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Slick Slomopavitz
Doomheim
#65 - 2014-05-21 18:20:32 UTC
Yes indeed, the first Matrix film was an absolute mind blower and a game changer in a very big way, but wow did they screw the pooch with the sequels. I'm not optimistic about Jupiter Ascending either, guess we'll know soon enough.

David Lynch's DUNE is a total guilty pleasure. Say what you want about the convoluted translation from book to screen, the visuals alone are worth the price of admission. Great score and cast as well!

Other honorable mentions from my personal list:

Blade Runner, Alien, Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Robocop, District 9, Empire Strikes Back, John Carpenter's The Thing (horror sci-fi, still unmatched in terms of awesome WTF practical effects), Solaris (the remake), Brazil, Moon, Avatar (flame if you must), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Forbidden Planet, The Day The Earth Stood Still (original), the Total Recall remake because it looked fantastic even if the story was shallow, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original AND the 70's remake/sequel), Star Trek II Wrath of Khan, Planet of the Apes (the first and best one), The Black Hole.

Wild card pick: Quatermass and the Pit, one of the smartest and (at the time) most controversial sci-fi outings ever, courtesy of Hammer Studios. Recommended!

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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#66 - 2014-05-21 19:47:31 UTC
Best: Blade Runner (followed very closely by 2001 - jaw-dropping effects for when it was made)

Worst:
Hmmm... so many bad films that try to be actual science fiction movies. In order of increasing craptacularity:

War of the Worlds (Spielberg Edition): All flash, zero substance. Flash was OK though.

Star Wars (Ep III): Revenge of the Sith: Not bad as a Powerpoint summary of Ep. 1 & 2, let's you skip them to get a concentrated dose of disappointment.

Star Wars (Ep I): The Phantom Menace - passable as a goofy kid's movie, mediocre as a standalone movie, terrible in the SW universe.

The Happening - A preachy, boring, take-a-dump-on-the-audience experience. At least wins the award for best anti-title. Two words: Lawnmower scene.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (remake): Now we're starting to get some high-density crappiness going. One name tells all: Jaden Smith. Not bad in the Karate Kid remake (which was about Kung Fu :/ ), but really terrible, movie-spoiling, cement-your-ear-canals-shut awful in this movie. In comparison, Keanu Reeves was awesome.

Star Wars (Ep. II): Attack of the Clones: We've reached the point where story and acting are squeezed so tight they form a degenerate viewing experience. This movie is at the neutron-star level, not the worst possible but darn close. Bad acting, crappy CG in many places, kitchen sink plotting, horrifying dialog, main characters we hate but are supposed to identify with, and so on and so forth. It was as if millions of viewers suddenly groaned in terror and wanted a refund.

Battlefield Earth - Here sheer mass of crap collapses to form... the craptacularity. Bad everything: dialog, acting, plot, effects, cinematography, message... everything. It wasn't even funny/bad like The Happening on fast-forward.

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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#67 - 2014-05-21 20:05:40 UTC
So many choices for horrible, I had unconsciously forgotten most of these: http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/06/18/50-worst-sci-fi-fantasy-movies-that-had-no-excuse/

- Escape from L.A.
- RoboCop 3
- The Island Of Doctor Moreau
- Zardoz (!)

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#68 - 2014-05-21 20:53:40 UTC
Ila Dace wrote:


- Zardoz (!)


YupLol

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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#69 - 2014-05-21 20:55:13 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Ila Dace wrote:


- Zardoz (!)


YupLol

Yah, that makes one throw up in the mouth a lot.

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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#70 - 2014-05-21 21:01:37 UTC
So they also seem to be remaking Groundhog Day with Tom Cruise in Bill Murray's role: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX1c1gJsXsE

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Astenion
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#71 - 2014-05-21 21:11:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Astenion
What? No Johnny Mnemonic? WTF is wrong with you people? It was one of those so-bad-it's-great movies. Keanu Reeves, Ice-T, and Henry Rollins in a bad cyberpunk movie with great lines and over-the-top action? Yes, please.

The premise was actually pretty cool and the movie wasn't that bad. It's just one of those 90's movies like Hackers that you find silly now, but when you were young back in the day you thought it was the coolest movie ever.

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Riyria Twinpeaks
Perkone
Caldari State
#72 - 2014-05-21 21:19:05 UTC
Ila Dace wrote:
So they also seem to be remaking Groundhog Day with Tom Cruise in Bill Murray's role: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX1c1gJsXsE


So many concepts used by different movies, I feel one shouldn't judge just because of the "living the same day again and again" premise.
Then again, it IS sort of an arbitrary thing. Unless maybe they give an explanation as to why it's happening. I'd love to see a good one.

Oh well, based on the trailer it does seem a bit run of the mill. Hero/Underdog in impossible/weird situation, gets trained, becomes good, some romance maybe, much heroism, big booms.
Could still be entertaining, though.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#73 - 2014-05-21 21:20:08 UTC
If we are at it i will throw some more bad movies, so bad you probably did not heard about them:
The Beast of Yucca Flats Roll
Turks in Space Cool
Sant Claus Conquers the Martians Shocked
Robot Monster Ugh
Mac and Me Lol

...others. There are to many to count....

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#74 - 2014-05-21 21:35:44 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
If we are at it i will throw some more bad movies, so bad you probably did not heard about them:
The Beast of Yucca Flats Roll


"Flag on the moon. What does it mean ?" LolLol

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#75 - 2014-05-21 21:40:56 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
I'm going to get hate mail for this, but Dune was awful..just awful. The Sci-Fi channel remake was better, but still not that great...but that original one.. pretty sure it gave people cancer.

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Read the novelsSmile
Helps a lot... no wait you will hate the movies even more hehe
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I have read the novels.. hence why I hate the movies soooooo much.

I also loved the Ender's Game novels... and died inside when I saw the movie.

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Riyria Twinpeaks
Perkone
Caldari State
#76 - 2014-05-21 21:59:54 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
[...]
I also loved the Ender's Game novels... and died inside when I saw the movie.


I only read the first novel and really liked it.
I didn't dare watch the movie, although opinions on it seem to differ strongly.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#77 - 2014-05-21 22:15:57 UTC
Riyria Twinpeaks wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
[...]
I also loved the Ender's Game novels... and died inside when I saw the movie.


I only read the first novel and really liked it.
I didn't dare watch the movie, although opinions on it seem to differ strongly.



It was indeed one of the better SF novels when it was written.

But the film just has so much against it, I just can't bear to watch.

First of all, it was 30 years late. The only reason it finally got greenlit is the current rage for Young Adult Fiction, and it was rushed into production, and it shows. It's just a money grab.

And Harrison Ford, honestly, is just an angry bitter old man now. Watch his interviews on the Blade Runner documentary "Dangerous Days". He says nothing positive about the film, seems resentful, does not understand its popularity. He actually squirms as if wanting to just get out of the room. Ungrateful. I guess I get to put up with him in the new Star Wars though.

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#78 - 2014-05-21 22:35:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
This film looks like a funny Sci-Fi class B movie. I will definitely have to watch it. It's in fact first part of the bad Turks in Space, but a lot funnier. Shocked

Spoilers

The fight scenes, I was literally lying on the floor laughing like a madman. LolLolLol

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Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#79 - 2014-05-21 22:39:37 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
And I would like to mention the Animatrix series also. Definitely worth watching.

The short by Peter Chung about the AI "transformed" into a human is amazing. My favorite is the story of the runner by the artist of The Maxx.

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Ranzabar
Doomheim
#80 - 2014-05-21 23:27:06 UTC
Dorian Tormak wrote:
This forum should have a poll so we could vote for greatest sci fi film

Top 3 IMO

2001
Brazil
Bladerunner

After that it gets fuzzy because there are a lot of good ones. You could throw in things like Star Wars, and of course Metropolis has to be up there.

Oh yeah if you like cheesy B-movie sci fi that is actually good, check out Spacehunter.

Gosh there are a lot of bad ones though. Lost In Space, all these dumb superhero movies they keep coming out with, of course like Thor and stuff like that can be entertaining, but most of the time they suck. Those crappy Blade movies. Van Helsing. I still can't believe they remade Planet of the Apes.

I still stand by my pick for worst sci fi movie as Attack of the Clones. Such a huge budget, there is just no excuse for that crap.


I'm not a Star Wars fan, even if I still watch most of them. Close Encounters of the Third Kind still has a real place in the list. Absolute giants of special effects like Douglas Trumbull gave it a real special quality. And, you can time travel back to 1977 anytime you want to when Teri Garr was stil hot.

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