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What is YOUR Favorite Sci Fi Movie?
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Basil's post on "The Next Voice You Hear" got me to thinking (always dangerous).
One film that has stuck in my memory since childhood was "Red Planet Mars" (1952).
Earth goes into panic as radio comm apparently starts coming from Mars. Gold becomes worthless, the economy fails, riots ensue. People are told there is no hope but "to change your ways". Ex-Nazi scientist then says he was doing it himself, using a secret radio center in the Andes. But the messages keep on coming, even after the radio center is destroyed in an avalanche.
And if my memory holds, after people realize they must change, the last radio message received is "You have done well, my good and faithful people."
Amazing how much sci-fi, especially the "inter-planetary" kind, stemmed from the early years of all the nuclear weapon tests - when mushroom clouds were on the covers of Life and Time, and our evening news.
Tom
One film that has stuck in my memory since childhood was "Red Planet Mars" (1952).
Earth goes into panic as radio comm apparently starts coming from Mars. Gold becomes worthless, the economy fails, riots ensue. People are told there is no hope but "to change your ways". Ex-Nazi scientist then says he was doing it himself, using a secret radio center in the Andes. But the messages keep on coming, even after the radio center is destroyed in an avalanche.
And if my memory holds, after people realize they must change, the last radio message received is "You have done well, my good and faithful people."
Amazing how much sci-fi, especially the "inter-planetary" kind, stemmed from the early years of all the nuclear weapon tests - when mushroom clouds were on the covers of Life and Time, and our evening news.
Tom
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I would have two: Time After Time (1979) and The Blob (1958) for entirely different reasons.
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PAUL161 said:<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">2001 Space Odyssey</span> </span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt">+1
That's the <span style="text-decoration: underline">first</span> one that came to my mind.</span>
<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Invaders From Mars</span> is probably my favourite Sci-Fi flik in the "old, cheesy" catagory.</span></span>
startech47
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On a serious note. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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DrEntropy said:
"Green light go, red light stop, yellow light go very fast."
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For newer movies, I rather like "Core"; a modern-day adaptation of "Journey to the Center of the Earth." In one of the early scenes, set in Trafalgar Square, thousands of bits have lost their navigation ability and are flying wildly and smashing into buildings, cars, etc. If you look real close, as birds are smashing into a large plate glass office building, you can see one of the birds is actually - a trout! Some computer animator had a sense of humor.
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startech47 said:
Given what I am about to say I shouldn't be questioning anyone's taste - but IMHO this such a bad version, in part because the original Hitch Hikers guide (a radio program) relied on verbal gags to work while the movie relied on sight gags.
That being said (and now opening myself to ridicule) two very guilty pleasures are, Fifth Element and (I know) Pluto Nash. (Did I say that out loud?) Mostly for the cars frankly.
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That was kinda my thought. I didn't list it here because it was a movie thread. Its one of my all time favorite books. the radio version was great, the TV series was just hokey enough to be very funny, and I did like the recent movie. But I've always felt the book blew the movie out of the water.JPSmit said:
Still, I'm glad it got mentioned. it was good.
Don't Panic! this is all just my worthless opinion....
