[Stryke 9]

Zylon: Hell, one would be hard-put to name ten sci-fi movies that aren't. So?

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by Turnsky
Battlefield earth: i cried for the rental money i spent on it:p

yeah, sad for being a bad movie and being a scientology movie. Doubley sad... erk.

Basically the only movie I've seen that was truly sad and "wow" was Grave of the Fireflies, that movie is genius.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
Basically the only movie I've seen that was truly sad and "wow" was Grave of the Fireflies, that movie is genius.

[color=66ff00]I'm actually a little annoyed that I've never heard of this film. Same as 'open your eyes' nobody in Ireland/UK would have seen it if it weren't for the existance of the poorer 'Vanilla sky'.
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[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Zylon: Hell, one would be hard-put to name ten sci-fi movies that aren't. So?

At least you're admitting how bad it was.

Oh, and in no particular order--
Dark City
The Thing (Carpenter version)
Gattacca
Forbidden Planet
Blade Runner
2001/2010
Alien/Aliens
The Time Machine
Robocop
Fantastic Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Fly (Cronenberg version)
12 Monkeys
Fantastic Voyage
Terminator 1/2
Planet of the Apes
Soylent Green
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
The Arrival
Colossus - The Forbin Project
Alien Nation

Oh yeah, and Barbarella. :devil:

[Blue Lion]

Ace Ventura

[Stryke 9]

Zylon: Sure you didn't pad that list? The proper one would read more like:

Dark City
Gattacca
Blade Runner
Alien/Aliens (same level as ID4, by the way, just seen through the rose-tinted lens of time)
Robocop (1/2)
12 Monkeys
Terminator 1/2 (1/2)
Planet of the Apes (for comedic value only)
Contact (maybe)


And Blade Runner shouldn't even be in there. Still more than I could think of, but really.

Also, you forgot Space Cowboys. It's pretty bad, but a Slim Pickens moment gains a movie an automatic 10 in any just and honest review system.

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]I'm actually a little annoyed that I've never heard of this film. Same as 'open your eyes' nobody in Ireland/UK would have seen it if it weren't for the existance of the poorer 'Vanilla sky'.
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http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/grave/ if you don't mind something that's incredibly sad, I recommend you watch it. It manages to be emotionally horid without using graphic violence or gruesome display...

[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Zylon: Sure you didn't pad that list?

Quite the opposite. The challenge was not to list amazingly great SF movies, but rather ones that weren't as bad as ID4.

Alien/Aliens (same level as ID4, by the way, just seen through the rose-tinted lens of time)

snort... Hardly. ID4 was decried as moronic from the moment of its release. Alien and Aliens were not. Much superior films that knew better than to spew meaningless technobabble.

And Blade Runner shouldn't even be in there.

Oh, of course not. Wouldn't want to mistake Blade Runner for science fiction, now would we?

[Stryke 9]

Eh, the technobabble's standard these days. I blame Star Trek for making it popular, it's in every cheesy movie.

Blade Runner is science fiction, it's just not very good. Mostly, I think I was pissed off that it got so heavily overrated, but it certainly wasn't a masterpiece any way you cut it.

[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Blade Runner is science fiction, it's just not very good.

You should put that in your sig. It would help people out a lot.

[YodaSean]

I though bladerunner was a videogame...

[Turnsky]

a videogame based off the movie....

[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by YodaSean
I though bladerunner was a videogame...

I guess you don't have cable TV under that rock?

[Stryke 9]

Think someone pissed in Zylon's Cheerios again today.

[Stunaep]

I'm gonna mention "The Long Twilight Struggle" again. That was both dramatic and sad.

[Nico]

Originally posted by ZylonBane
It was an action movie that seemed genuinely convinced that it was also a science fiction movie. And as science fiction, it was aneurysm-inducingly wretched.

smart ass.
they don't explain the singlest crap about tech or anything. there's battles, and ****, and the only technocrap I heard in that movie was the virus thing and the fact that cable engineers can triangulate people's position with their cellular phones.
you really love like *****ing for **** ain't ya?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Venom
smart ass.
they don't explain the singlest crap about tech or anything. there's battles, and ****, and the only technocrap I heard in that movie was the virus thing and the fact that cable engineers can triangulate people's position with their cellular phones.
you really love like *****ing for **** ain't ya?

I didn't mind ID4 but I'm under no illusion that large parts of it sucked. The science in it was also ridiculous.

The idea that the aliens could be taken down by a computer virus was a really good one. The idea that one person could come up with the virus in one night on an Apple Mac is beyond stupid.

The idea that aliens could travel across the galaxy to attack Earth is a staple of sci fi. The idea that they'd then need to hack into human satalites and reprogram them just so that they could tell the alien ships when to attack was the invention of a moron.

[Splinter]

Originally posted by Turnsky
Battlefield earth: i cried for the rental money i spent on it:p

ha! we actually BOUGHT the DVD of Dudley Do-right  

anyway I think The Green Mile is good and sad
armageddon rox and is sad
deep impact sucks poo
independence day rox as well
and the only movie i ever really cried to was the Lion King (I was very young when i saw it.)

[Nico]

Originally posted by karajorma


I didn't mind ID4 but I'm under no illusion that large parts of it sucked. The science in it was also ridiculous.

The idea that the aliens could be taken down by a computer virus was a really good one. The idea that one person could come up with the virus in one night on an Apple Mac is beyond stupid.

The idea that aliens could travel across the galaxy to attack Earth is a staple of sci fi. The idea that they'd then need to hack into human satalites and reprogram them just so that they could tell the alien ships when to attack was the invention of a moron.

...
did you really watched the movie to learn about technology?
for my part, I went to see cities going boom and F18 raping flying saucers.
and to that regard the movie performed beyond expectation.
It's the only thing I expected from that movie, so -> ID4= great movie, to me. my own simple and stupid way of rating a movie. the most efficient one too. no mental masturbation about details nobody gives a **** about.

[kode]

Originally posted by Turnsky
a videogame based off the movie....

based on a philip k dick novel