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Ethelred
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Originally posted by nostromo
And the winner is... 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick wanted to make "the proverbial good sci-fi movie" and he succeeded IMO.(Btw I saw it not so long in a movie theater. It makes a huge difference, trust me! Puny TV screens ruin movies.)
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Puny movie screen if you saw it lately. I saw at the Cinedome in Los Angeles. It still had way too much slit scan nonsense, a serious need for editing and a increase in clarity. Or maybe not from what I think it was supposed to mean. Clarke and his benificent super inteligent aliens that can't comunicate any better than an autistic three year old.
Trumbles space travel effects were great. The front projection worked even if the proto hominid costumes didn't. The music was pretty good also even though Strauss was a Nazi.
2001 has always struck me as being more important than it was good.
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Ethelred
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Originally posted by Promethus
Robie The Robot Rulls! |
Forest J. Ackerman owns Robbie last I saw. Robbie was in the background in Gremlins at the gadget convention.
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Ethelred
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I though A Boy and His Dog had some very clever things in it. Shooting in a park at night to simulate an underground city was good.
Its not exactly a great date flick. In fact it may very well be the worst date flick of all time. Harlan Ellison truly earned his reputation as a misogynist. This however isn't accurate. He has anger problems with everyone, not just women.
My brother heard him tell a story about his home town once. He hates his hometown Painesville, Ohio. His was the only Jewish family in the town and I guess it was during the rise of the Bund before WWII.
He said someone came up to him and asked "Are you the Jew?" Harlan said yes and the guy hit him. Its no wonder Harlan has anger problems.
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Dr Strangelove
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Among Sci-Fi films of the 50's I'd have to declare a tossup between "War of the Worlds" for its special effects and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" for its story.
In the 1960s I think that 2001 wins hands down.
In the 1970s Star Wars wins because of its special effects.
In the 1980s "Enemy Mine" wins.
In the 1990s its a toss up between "Blade Runner" and "Phantom Menace".
"Final Fantasy" deserves special mention for introducing near photo-quality computer generated graphic simulation of its characters.
Yes, I remember "The Quiet Earth" too.
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nostromo
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Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
time: 00:19
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quote:
Originally posted by Ethelred
Puny movie screen if you saw it lately. I saw at the Cinedome in Los Angeles. It still had way too much slit scan nonsense, a serious need for editing and a increase in clarity. Or maybe not from what I think it was supposed to mean. Clarke and his benificent super inteligent aliens that can't comunicate any better than an autistic three year old.
Trumbles space travel effects were great. The front projection worked even if the proto hominid costumes didn't. The music was pretty good also even though Strauss was a Nazi.
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I saw a remastered version when I was in France. IIRC they were honoring Stanley Kubrick's memory in Cannes, so a remastered version of 2001 was circulating in France. Really, really nice!  Much better than on a TV screen, I tells ya! And remember, it's a 1969 movie. I think it aged very, very well. I don't know about more clarity. It seems to me that it would have killed one of the movie's best feature, the aura of mystery. Have you read Clarke's book, the one he wrote after writing the scenario? He tried to clarify some points, but it doesn't work very well. Reading it, you realize that it's not the scenario that makes 2001 a great movie. IMO it's all about the experience, the classic scenes, the amazing photography, the perfect choice of music. And its still the most realistic space travel movie out there.
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boann
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ice queen colorado
Sep 2000
time: 22:19
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The Matrix
Road Warrior
Star Wars (i love all of them)
Aliens
Blade Runner
Star Trek the motion picture
Bicentennial Man
Mad Max
Waterworld
The Postman
2001
Independence Day
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
King Kong ....remake with jessica lange
Dune
Starman
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ...remake
a few older ones that ive always enjoyed
20000 leagues under the sea
journey to the center of the earth
the seventh voyage of sinbad
Invasion of the body snatchers
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Flash Gordon
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