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When will our generation start making good scifi movies?

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Count Dookkake said:
Transfer is a pretty neat German film about body-switching, with a racial twist. Avoids most cliches associated with the genre.
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Sounds good, Dook! Hope it's as good as Faceoff!
 
Feep said:
I feel like I'm the only person who liked Paycheck.

Also, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time!

Oh, and Source Code was decent.
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I liked Paycheck, though I think if the movie was given to someone else to direct, it would have been far more cerebral and interesting and less of an action movie.
 
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Haven't seen it in a while, but i remember liking it a lot.
 
icarus-daedelus said:
Your memory is correct. It's awesome. This movie came out when I was 7 and it shaped me. SHAPED ME.

It's a great satire and a fun bloody action film. Has its cake and eats it too. I love it,
even more than Robocop.
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The end/brain bug stuff was boring and shitty.
 
The Fountain is not sci-fi. It is literally fantasy. Although it contains sci-fi imagery and is awesome.
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
The Fountain is not sci-fi. It is literally fantasy. Although it contains sci-fi imagery and is awesome.
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From what I've been told, one of the interpretations is that the characters are dreaming in cryosleep on their way to a distant star. Not sure if that's official or not, however.

icarus-daedelus said:
Your memory is correct. It's awesome. This movie came out when I was 7 and it shaped me. SHAPED ME.

It's a great satire and a fun bloody action film. Has its cake and eats it too. I love it,
even more than Robocop.
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Reading the book retroactively ruined my enjoyment of the movie, even though I saw the movie 3 times before I read the book. I really wish they had stuck with the original script title, "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine", which had the same plot but the characters/universe was unrelated to Starship Troopers (which makes sense, given the book and movie have like 10% of their features in common with each other, mostly superficial stuff like character names and the fact that alien insects exist).
 
Rentahamster said:
No one mentioned "Serenity"?

For shame.
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Because it is an overrated movie. It is a decent enough movie, but it is not THAT good. Not good enough to keep winning all these online polls for best sci fi movies. Whedonites need to get over it. The show is over, and they should be happy the movie even got made and gave some closure.
 
icarus-daedelus said:
That's probably because the movie is, in some ways, a subversion of the values and themes presented by the book. It's less of an adaptation and more of a criticism of the source material disguised as/mistaken for an adaptation. One reason I love it so (and Heinlein fans tend to hate it.)
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No but see, it's not a criticism of much of anything. It's more like a total inversion. The closest it comes to actual critique is the portrayal of the federation as oppressive and totalitarian, where as in the book it's a pretty benevolent state (where you could see it as making a statement to the effect of "there are no benevolent dictatorships" or something). Given the subject matter of the rest of the film and the history of the production, I'm approximately 150% sure that any relevant critique to be gleamed was total coincidence, and is all going on in the eyes of the viewer, not the people who wrote the script or the director.

Even if it wasn't, it's still pretty disrespectful of the source material to call something like this an adaptation. If the Nolanverse batman films were all about how Batman has to kill all of the criminals and the Joker is a really nice guy, that's the kind of level of inversion we're talking about for these films. Everything is ass backwards, and the director even admitted that he didn't read the book all the way through (got bored a few chapters in).
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
What is it about? Like is it a monster movie, aliens, what?
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It's really a movie lover's movie, if that makes any sense. Not because of the fact that the characters use a film camera.

Seriously man, it's really good.
 
LaserBuddha said:
It's really a movie lover's movie, if that makes any sense. Not because of the fact that the characters use a film camera.

Seriously man, it's really good.
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No really, tell me what I'm supposed to be watching. What is it about? And don't say "some kids find something mysterious *coy look*".
 
edotherocket said:
Thinking about it a little more, Cargo [2009] was another decent sci-fi film made in Switzerland.

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I just watched this movie. It was bad.

Overly long, extremely predictable, remarkably uncharismatic characters, and just kinda bleh. Also German sounds like backwards English.
 
has anybody seen Tron
:Legacy
?

I also like the Matrix Trilogy, or are they too old?

The Fith Element is one of my favourites.

New Terminators were alright as well (3 and Salvation).
 
chicko1983 said:
has anybody seen Tron
:Legacy
?

I also like the Matrix Trilogy, or are they too old?

The Fith Element is one of my favourites.

New Terminators were alright as well (3 and Salvation).
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*AVATAR QUOTE*
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
No really, tell me what I'm supposed to be watching. What is it about? And don't say "some kids find something mysterious *coy look*".
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Do you want a synopsis or something? I don't like to ruin movies. Go to wikipedia if you want that.

There's no Shyamlongadingdong twist that is supposed to be a megaton or anything. Let's just try to not be conditioned to modern trailers' tendency to spill everything.
 
Man on Earth ultimately fails because of
Jesus aspect
 
Veidt said:
Man on Earth ultimately fails because of
Jesus aspect
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It fails because it basically amounts to some guy (whoever wrote it) having a bunch of "great ideas" about what it would be like to
talk to a guy who lives forever
. Without refining those ideas in any way beyond the initial brainstorming, he just committed his rant to film. It's the greatest example of a half-baked movie idea (though "half" is giving it too much credit).
 
So we're expecting 20-something directors to get these relatively big budget movies?

Well I can tell you why you don't see good sci-fi from our generation: you showed up way early for the appointment.
 
This generation doesn't like full-blown sci-fi.

Stuff like Moon, D9, Fountain, Pandorum, etc. feel more like theatric plays wrapped up in sci-fi/fantasy clothing. OK, maybe except for D9.
 
wetwired said:
and lol at Serenity
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Nowadays, whenever I start reading about someone's Whedon love, my eyes glaze over and I hear the Meow Mix jingle in my head a la Homer Simpson.

Although I have found a fun game: Go to Wikipedia, find character backgrounds for Angel characters, and paste them on a forum with the names changed. Watch everyone who isn't familiar with the series mistake it for horrible fan fiction.
 
LaserBuddha said:
Nowadays, whenever I start reading about someone's Whedon love, my eyes glaze over and I hear the Meow Mix jingle in my head a la Homer Simpson.

Although I have found a fun game: Go to Wikipedia, find character backgrounds for Angel characters, and paste them on a forum with the names changed. Watch everyone who isn't familiar with the series mistake it for horrible fan fiction.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer says suck a dick.
 
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