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Post by captbart on Sept 22, 2010 10:15:10 GMT -5
Just curious, what other science fiction you guys watch. I've attached a link to the movie that got me interested in geology. It is probably worse than the original Godzilla in terms of science but I liked it as a kid. It had explosions, nucs, volcanoes, helicopters, death and destruction ... and some of the worse science I've ever seen in my life. What's not to like? If you have a couple of hours check out video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8720806257609918145#
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Post by captbart on Sept 22, 2010 10:21:52 GMT -5
A really good short story by Larry Niven that was made into an Outer Limits episode is "Inconstant Moon" that aired in April 1996. Basically, a physics professor notices that the full moon is extremely bright and concludes the Sun has gone Nova. He starts trying to have a great final night and then decides that maybe it isn't quite a full blown nova and prepares to survive. Good story and faithful TV episode (Niven wrote the screenplay as well). It is available as online video.
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Post by timforston on Sept 23, 2010 18:38:18 GMT -5
mostly post apocalyptic anything and on this i would have to say Hail George Ramero the all time king of post apocalyptic and beside that got to love star trek i really read alot more sci fi than i watch sci fi is one of those genres that really is SOOOOO much better to read than to watch oh how could we only dream that tremors could of been a book as well
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Post by captbart on Sept 24, 2010 9:28:36 GMT -5
timforston, Amen, Brother, amen! My mental special effects are almost always better than Hollywood's ... I actually sat in the command chair of the Enterprise when the exhibit was at the Smithsonian. What a hoot! Of course it was just plywood and such but still - Wow! With the possible exception of 'the day the earth stood still', 'forbidden planet', '2001' and 'this island earth', star trek (original) was the best sci-fi out there. certainly the best TV. Of course in some cases (Godzilla leaps to mind) it is the bad special effects that makes the movie. I figured out watching Godzilla that the reason the Japanese lost WW2 was that their pilots could hit the broadside of a 300 ft monster! ;D
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Post by timforston on Sept 25, 2010 19:20:16 GMT -5
LOL so true and if you have ever seen the movie 'the stand' they did the sorriest job i could imagine of the hand of God
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Post by captbart on Sept 26, 2010 18:24:28 GMT -5
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Post by timforston on Sept 29, 2010 9:14:16 GMT -5
ok since this is the other shows movies etc lol watching 'it' gotta love this movie and it is one of the few movies that is better than the book in many ways plus tim curry makes a great pennywise
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Post by captbart on Sept 29, 2010 10:25:34 GMT -5
I agree. Have you seen 'Them'? 50's style we are going to destroy ourselves stuff with giant ants. Still ends on an optimistic note if we heed the warning. Not too bad.
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Post by timforston on Sept 29, 2010 12:26:23 GMT -5
i believe i have seen that if i am right that movie has james arness in it right? also know as the Marshall Dillon for all yall younguns running around here
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Post by timforston on Sept 29, 2010 12:35:14 GMT -5
ha i looked it up it does have james arness in it and yes it is in the 50's style it was made in '54 LOL it was a good movie just downloaded it from itunes so i can watch it again
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Post by captbart on Oct 1, 2010 11:33:43 GMT -5
Yep, that's the one. Some of those 50's movies were actually pretty good.
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Post by timforston on Oct 1, 2010 19:54:28 GMT -5
yes they are i love oldies almost every night i watch 'have gun will travel' on encore westerns love it
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Post by captbart on Oct 6, 2010 14:53:58 GMT -5
Timforston, I'm also a really big 'Oat Opera' fan. The thing about a lot of the older shows is that without all the splatter effects or CGI stuff they actually had to make the stories work. I always thought a lot of Hitchcock's genus was in what he didn't put on camera. The imagination is a great thing. I'm afraid we short change a lot of folks with too much visual input. I liked Tremors because a lot of what happens happens off camera (in a cloud of dust, just off screen or what ever). We never actually "SEE" a shrieker dismember someone, for example, and it isn't needed. The one shoe from Blast is another example. Splatter effects don't make good movies, they just make messy movies, in my not so humble opinion.
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Post by project412 on Oct 7, 2010 5:31:15 GMT -5
I love a lot of comedies like Tremors: Ghostbusters (1 is great, 2 is very enjoyable). Gremlins (Both are amazing). Men in Black (Been a while, but I remember the second isn't as good). None are as good as Tremors, though. Probably rank them:
Tremors Gremlins/Ghostbusters Men in Black
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Post by captbart on Oct 7, 2010 10:16:22 GMT -5
Project 412, WHAT are you doing UP and 0531? Good grief, man, that sets a bad example for those of us who like to lounge around in bed until 0600 :-) I agree with you about MIB2 ... although the closing scene wasn't bad. I also agree with the rankings. As far as bang-bang shoot em up type shows, I also liked Independence Day - guess I"m just a Will Smith fan. I do have a bit of a hang up with the interstellar war thing - if the alien technology is more than a few years ahead of us, we're toast. Think about Gulf War 1. We were 5 to 7 years ahead of the best the Soviets had given to Iraq and look at the results. Perhaps more appropriately, think about 50 or 100 years ago. Can you image going up against the F22 with an F86 Sabre? Or an old Dreadnought class battle wagon against a nuclear sub or aircraft carrier? Genocide maybe. War? Never happen. One of the things I do like about Smith is that he does add humor to his roles. The MIB thing was fun. Even his rendition of Wild West was fun. I think my objection to much of what passes as good film making today is that even the sci fi stuff is just too depressing. The humor is one of the reasons I've taken a liking to Warehouse 13 - not EXACTLY sci fi since the stuff they acquire (the artifacts) seem more magical that scientific but as Clarke's third law states, 'Any sufficiently advanced science is inextinguishable from magic.' Warehouse 13 seems to assume that the ancients may have been brighter than we give them credit for which is a premise I buy into. Part of the success of Star Trek was also the humor of the multi-species interactions.
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