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    Favorite Sci-fi/fantasy flicks

    I'm not going to go into a big deal on rankings but some of my favorites are (for various reasons):

    Blade Runner (DUH)
    Soylent Green
    LOTR
    Clash of the Titans
    Star Wars (just #1 really)
    Dune (holy shit was this a good movie Dino D is the man)
    Flash Gordon (the arm in the hole thing to this day freaks me out and Ming's daughter is HOT!)
    The Last Starfighter

    Okay, obviously my list is B movie heavy but for some reason I like the super campy nature of some of em.

    edit- and I for some reason kept some plain distopias off the list even if set possibly in the furture (Clockwork Orange 1984).

    Hmmm have to chew on why/how that happened.
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    Alien & Aliens

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    I just bought "12 Monkey's" on DVD. One of Bruce W's and Brad Pitt's best movies.


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    2001
    Star wars
    2001
    Alien
    the animated Hobbit
    2001
    Escape from NYC
    Highlander
    Beastmaster
    all 3 LOTR
    2001
    Wrath of Kahn
    They

    did I mention 2001?
    yourdistopia rule kept off Scanners, why did you include SG?

    Dune is a good movie if you forget the series by Herbert it was based on

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    SG was far enough into the future I guess. Like I said, it wasn't a good or conscious rule. You can put scanners in.

    Somehow I forgot: [Comic Book Guy Voice] "The Greatest Movie Ever" - Repo Man [/CBGV]

    I take it your reference to Dune means if it is treated as a stand alone work instead of by comparison to herbert's books and not saying ill of the herbert books (which are pretty darn okay imvho), if scenario one then agreed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lemon boy
    I take it your reference to Dune means if it is treated as a stand alone work instead of by comparison to herbert's books and not saying ill of the herbert books (which are pretty darn okay imvho), if scenario one then agreed.
    I think Dune the series was genius, on scale with LOTR even.
    I think the movie version had its moments but was a poor portrayal of Arrakis, the scope of the galactic Empire & federations, the Atredies family etc.
    John Schoenherr at least did it some justice.

    Just the imagination and bacground to create that Universe was staggering.

    A book in Herbert's words "about the messianic convulsions that periodically overtake us. Demagogues, fanatics, con-game artists, the innocent and the not-so-innocent bystanders-all were to have a part in the drama. This grows from my theory that superheroes are disastrous for humankind. Even if we find a real hero (whatever-or whoever-that may be), eventually fallible mortals take over the power structure that always comes into being around such a leader.

    Personal observation has convinced me that in the power area of politics/economics and in their logical consequence, war, people tend to give over every decision-making capacity to any leader who can wrap himself in the myth fabric of the society. Hitler did it. Churchill did it. Franklin Roosevelt did it. Stalin did it. Mussolini did it.....
    .....my superhero concept filled me with a concern that ecology might be the next banner for demagogues and would-be-heroes, for the power seekers and others ready to find an adrenaline high in the launching of a new crusade.

    Our society, after all, operates on guilt, which often serves only to obscure its real workings and to prevent obvious solutions. An adrenaline high can be just as addictive as any other kind of high."
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    The problem I had with the books was the same problem afflicting most large multi-volume sets: declining energy on the part of the writer (don't get me started on the son's either), but they were good (IMHO only the declining energy factor keeps them from rivaling the LOTRs 4).

    As with many a grommet, I came to dune w/o the books and think of the movie totally separate from the books upon which I think it really stands well.
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    I read it young, then again and again.
    the first 3 are almost 1 book to me so i saw no dropoff in energy.
    the last 3 were good, but not the "same story"
    didnt read the follow ups

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    Talking

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    Starship Troopers! bunch of 34 year olds pretending to be high school kids fighting giant bugs AND you get to see that girl's boobies! yay boobies!

    ps. to reference Dune; I no longer need the weirding module biatches!!!!!
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    I'd add a couple to the ones already mentioned:

    Enemy Mine (surprisingly good)
    AI (if you turn it off when it fades to black in the Ocean - before the cheesy Spielberg ending)

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    Quote Originally Posted by vinzclortho
    Starship Troopers! bunch of 34 year olds pretending to be high school kids fighting giant bugs AND you get to see that girl's boobies! yay boobies!

    ps. to reference Dune; I no longer need the weirding module biatches!!!!!

    Don't forget the fact that their hair was alway's perfect. I suppose that could be because of some advanced hair gel, but I wish the would have explained that, because it was too distracting.


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    -Road Warrior/Mad Max
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    -Tron, of course
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    Quote Originally Posted by vinzclortho
    Starship Troopers! bunch of 34 year olds pretending to be high school kids fighting giant bugs AND you get to see that girl's boobies! yay boobies!

    ps. to reference Dune; I no longer need the weirding module biatches!!!!!
    WAR!
    love that movie, so few get it.

    and weirding modules are the perfect example of how the movie and the book were different creatures.
    Think it would have been tight if thelet Lynch finish it his way.

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    I am very ashamed to admit that I am currently enjoying the second season of the new Battlestar Galactica series. IMHO it is very well done and there are so many good story lines taking place all at once. Not afraid to get crazy and gory too, which is nice since sci-fi tends to be so clean for the most part.

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    Blade Runner hands down for me too.
    If seven of nine ever became a movie besides in my mind while I slept she would rank up there too.
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    Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, Time-Bandits
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    Blade Runner
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    Star Wars Episodes 4 & 5
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    Dune
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    No Keanu Reeves movie will ever make it on my list of even good movies.That being said I like the Matrix inspite of his putrid "acting".

    I'm super P.O'd that that imbecile was chosen for the lead in the up coming version of Phillip K Dick's novel,"Through a Scanner Darkly".I'll go see it because it's based on a novel I love,But I Flippin HATE Keanu!

    His "band" Dogstar can go F*ck itself as well.
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    No one has mentioned Willow? An underrated little movie in my opinion.

    Lots of other greats have been mentioned =)

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    No love for "Tank Girl" or "The Brother From Another Planet"?

    And, of course, the Ed Wood classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dromond
    No one has mentioned Willow? An underrated little movie in my opinion.

    Lots of other greats have been mentioned =)
    Which reminds me: Buffy or Willow?
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