Your Top 5 Movies

[iansales]

"intellectual/thoughtful"... well, that's pretty much all of Hollywood's output excluded then :-)

[Steve Jordan]

Originally Posted by iansales

"intellectual/thoughtful"... well, that's pretty much all of Hollywood's output excluded then :-)

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2001
Solaris
Gattacka
Soylent Green
Andromeda Strain

...okay, I'm out.

But seriously, folks (thank you, I'm here all week... try the veal!)... you're right, Ian, the "thoughtful/intelligent SF" list would be shortest of all...

[iansales]

And four of those films are adaptations of novels...

[iansales]

Oh, except 2001 isn't really.

[Connavar]

Well it is in some ways cause i read he didnt finish the story before after the movie came out. That they didnt wait for him to finish the story which is prolly why people think the movie doesnt end as well as the novel.


Gattaca i liked. Is it also a novel? I wish cause something tells me it would be alot better than the movie

[iansales]

Solaris - based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem.
Soylent Green - based on Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.
2001 - inspired on the short story 'The Sentinel'; the novel was written alongside the film.
The Andromeda Strain - based on the novel by Michael Crichton.

[ilthaniel]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

Gattaca i liked. Is it also a novel? I wish cause something tells me it would be a lot better than the movie

Personally I can't really name a movie that actually enhanced the novel...

And my personal top 10; again in no particular order:
-Galaxy Quest.
-The Iron Giant.
-The Thing (with kurt Russell).
-T1.
-The Incredibles.
-Blade Runner.
-the Fifth Element.
-Akira.
-Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
-Aliens.

Oh, and about different lists that can be made, we shouldn't forget the (probably) easiest list: Top 10 worst SF-movies..

[Connavar]

Haha that is an easy list mine would be topped by Doom

[ilthaniel]

Aren't you forgetting Highlander II?

[Connavar]

Wasnt that the one with Sean Connery?

[iansales]

Highlander: Endgame was worse than Highlander 2: The Quickening, although there's not much in it.

[ilthaniel]

Yes, but it was mostly the one that played in the future where the Immortals came from the planet Zeist...

That is a personal opinion, I'd say, Iansales... Personally I think they don't even come close to each other in badness. But then, I kinda like the series...

[williamjm]

Originally Posted by tangaloomababe

William much as I love this movie, I dont think I would call it s/f, but then I supose sci fi is a fairly loose term, I'd be more inclined to call it Fantasy/Horror. Its a great film though whatever you want to call it.

That's why I listed Brotherhood of the Wolf under Fantasy. Admittedly it is debateable whether it really is Fantasy either.

Why not the original Abre los Ojos, rather than the remake Vanilla Sky? It's better, too. Well, let's face it, Hollywood has a long and undistinguished record of remaking foreign films and doing a bad job of it.

I was debating which one to include. I think they're both very good movies and they're similar enough that it's difficult to chose between them (obviously if you really value originality then Abre Los Ojos would have the advantage). ALO did has some scenes that really should have been in VS as well - particularly the scene near the end where he's running around with the gun (allegedly this was shot for VS as well but got cut, I think it does appear in the trailer) - and it does got a bit further in showing the main character being injured. On the other hand, I thought the glossy Hollywood production and Tom Cruise were actually quite apt for a story where the main character is meant to be a vain spoiled playboy. I also think the supporting characters were more memorable in VS (I particularly like Kurt Russel's psychiatrist), the soundtrack is good and the opening scene with Tom Cruise wandering through the empty New York is very effective.

[Rawled Demha]

i know this is gonna sound dodgy, but conceptually i did like the matrix...the effects werent so bad either

[Tabasco]

There was a movie with Sean Connery, where he was a police officer or something on an asteroid, or a space mining colony. I remember thinking 'This is great!', but I only saw it once, long ago, and forgot the name.

Also, does Event Horizon count? Because that movie totally rules.