Mike_L wrote:Disney does sci-fi...

The Black Hole (1979)





Didn't do very well at the box office, but I quite liked it. Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates from Psycho) gets shredded by a robot with spinning blades. Then the ship plunges into the black hole and the movie goes all esoteric. Bizarre ending to an otherwise-entertaining live-action cartoon.

Speaking of Disney sci-fi.

The cat from outer space(1978)


I quite enjoyed back when I was a little kid, don't want to see it nao.

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, by Uwe Boll.
Just kidding.

In no particular order:

Primer - Shane Carruth
Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
Twelve Monkeys - Terry Gilliam
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry
Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky
Firefly - Joss Whedon (Series rather than film but worth a mention)
Alien - Ridley Scott
Solyaris - Andrei Tarkovsky
Inception - Christopher Nolan
Time Bandits - Terry Gilliam

Oh pointy birds!

virphen wrote:

I had forgotten about that. Excellent movie.

So bonkers bad, that it's actually quite good.

Plus it features the most impressive, and unnecessary, cleavage in cinematic history in the shape of Dana Gillespie.

NilsGLindgren wrote:I had forgotten about that. Excellent movie.

Never saw the end of that one - my date made us walk out on it.

Guess it was a little too... French.

Lost Continent reminds me of Lost Horizon (Capra, 1937). Beautiful film of a surprisingly good book, that gave us the term Shangri-La.

CookieJon wrote:

NilsGLindgren wrote:I had forgotten about that. Excellent movie.

Never saw the end of that one - my date made us walk out on it.

Guess it was a little too... French.

... err ... yes ... and?

It ought be noted that Terry Gilliam seems to be the name thats cropping up most consistently on this thread.

There.
I've noted it!

Now we ought to agree that Twelve Monkeys is his best....closely followed by Brazil....





AND; c'mon! For the second time of askin'; am I the only one that rates The Omega Man?!

I do agree with smudge that Terry GIlliam has made some truly good things, one of which being Twelve Monkeys. Brazil I have so far only seen parts of but I liked what I saw - there is one scene where these secret police kind of guys bores up through a floor and arrests the husband in the family living there, then gives the wife a receipt for the husband, then gives her a receipt for the recipt, then disappears, whereupon a handyman appears to put a pre-fab plug into the hole bored in the floor ... loved it. Got to find the film and watch all of it.

HAven't seen The Omega Man, I am certain this is a serious oversight on my part.

Brazil beats Twelve Monkeys, obviously. I don't know what you were thinking, smudge.

The Omega Man is one of three (at least) adaptations of I Am Legend. I'm told the first, The Last Man On Earth, with Vincent Price, is pretty good too.

j.mills wrote:Brazil beats Twelve Monkeys, obviously. I don't know what you were thinking, smudge.

The Omega Man is one of three (at least) adaptations of I Am Legend. I'm told the first, The Last Man On Earth, with Vincent Price, is pretty good too.

@Nils; an 'oversite' indeed!


I'd like to see The Last Man on Earth. As a rule I do like Vincent Price. Mind you, all the man has to do is 'speak' to impress me! I was impressed when he was advertising pickle (or whatever it was!) fer f*cks sake!

Must admit, my fondness for Omega Man may be related to seeing it young, being impressed (despite 70's hokeyness), finding it scary as hell (at the time)...yadda yadda...

j.mills wrote:Brazil beats Twelve Monkeys, obviously. I don't know what you were thinking, smudge.

I've never seen Brazil...

If it's better than 12 Monkeys it must be flipping amazing. I think it's just been re-released on DVD so it might be time to watch it.

It's always time to watch it.

MacIver wrote:

j.mills wrote:Brazil beats Twelve Monkeys, obviously. I don't know what you were thinking, smudge.

I've never seen Brazil...

If it's better than 12 Monkeys it must be flipping amazing. I think it's just been re-released on DVD so it might be time to watch it.

It is damn good.
Which is why I'm not fighting with JM!

smudge wrote:It is damn good.
Which is why I'm not fighting with JM!

Yes, I've noticed. But don't feel bad about it, smudge-san, I recently agreed with JM as well, and duly noted it!*

*) ... which, however, was not acknowledged. There goes sportsmanship.

NilsGLindgren wrote:

smudge wrote:It is damn good.
Which is why I'm not fighting with JM!

Yes, I've noticed. But don't feel bad about it, smudge-san, I recently agreed with JM as well, and duly noted it!*

*) ... which, however, was not acknowledged. There goes sportsmanship.

Oh, I'm not agreeing with him Nils! No no no....! I just 'kinda get where he's coming from' and am not moved to argue as there's 'not a huge amount in it'. I do hope that's cleared that up.