To boldly go OT where no man has gone before...
Any of you all see the latest Star Trek flick "Into Darkness"?
I'll admit it I'm in to that shit which pretty much includes all sci fi out there good or bad. Actually the worse it is the better it becomes in some regards.
So if you saw it what did you think?
For reference purposes what do you consider the top 3 ~ 5 sci fi flicks of all time?
I know that is off topic but I went to see "Into Darkness" at lunch today and it's kinda stuck in my head right now.
I'll admit it I'm in to that shit which pretty much includes all sci fi out there good or bad. Actually the worse it is the better it becomes in some regards.
So if you saw it what did you think?
For reference purposes what do you consider the top 3 ~ 5 sci fi flicks of all time?
I know that is off topic but I went to see "Into Darkness" at lunch today and it's kinda stuck in my head right now.
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I saw the first one (the one that came out 2 or so years ago) and loved it. Haven't seen this one yet though.
All that having been said I liked Oblivion a whole lot more than Into Darkness...FWIW
That having been said you do have a right to your opinion but not to judge in the absence of a body of direct experience with the subject matter at hand.
I am curious though what would be on a list of your top 5 sci fi movies Alucard?
I'm a big time Trekkie.
Bullwinkle good list all good flicks. I guess I'm a little more forgiving of JJ's approach to movie making cause I definitely feel the ST vibe in his work. I think that in many respects he is simply to clever by half and the story tends to get lost in the production but with all the toys available to these guys today I can understand how it would be hard not to try a little bit of everything. Unfortunately in many respects it ends up going over the top and we are left with the diminished result. Still I applaud your list.
Just because a Filmmaker "Reboots" &/or "Reimagines" a movie or a movie series or a TV show or TV series, doesn't mean it is good or can live off of the source material. IMO the Franchise name "Star Trek" is being used to promote this soulless CGI exercise. IMHO it isn't REAL Star Trek. I've watched it for 47 yrs and I "KNOW" what Star Trek is & isn't.
CGI exercise are not even decent low level movies if there isn't a good plot & writing & acting & direction and all the other elements that make up a GOOD movie.
Could not stick to 5 - These are not in order of quality or preference, sort of alphabetical:
A. Alien/Aliens - Hard to separate for me
B. Close Encounters of the Third kind
C. Contact
D. Forbidden Planet
E. Day the Earth Stood Still
F. King Kong
G. Them
H. Time After Time
I do like some of Alucard's picks, "Them" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still", but they didn't make my top 5.
1. Andromeda Strain
2. Planet of the Apes
3. Terminator
4. Logan's Run
5. Starman
Narrowly missing, "Invastion of the Body Snatchers" (1950's version)
(PS - you can guess I'm not a youngster)
It's as simple as that.
Amen.
I couldn't get through the 1st one either. I'll give another shot, then decide on seeing the new one. The trailers look great though.
I haven't seen it yet but saw all the others. I even got a letter from Paramount stating I was an honorary officer of the Star Ship Enterprise the same week I got a letter stating that JPL included my name along with over 140,000 other names on a chip sent to Mars and sitting on the surface. It should be part of The Carl Sagan Memorial if that is what they call the remains of the first rover spacecraft landing equipment. I read that somewhere.
2. Space Nuts
3. Shot Glasses 4
We're EVERYWHERE! :)
If the 2 part episode of "The Best of Both Worlds" from ST:TNG had been released as a film, it would have been IMHO the best of the ST:TNG feature films. I already consider it the BEST episodic ST ever. Closely followed by the 2 part series finale of ST:TNG.
There are a lot of B & C & D grade SCi-Fi films from the 1950's & 1960's that I love and watch quite often, but they aren't ones I rate in a Top 10 or Top 20.
One of the GREAT moments on Star Trek history. If you aren't "moved" a little bit by that scene, you're dead.
http://www.dominantwire.com/2012/02/best…
I really like Zombie films. The audiobook was good.
I also enjoyed the clumsiness in the old series of the Cylon drone robots but that didn't really make practical sense for a thinking advanced robot.
One series that I thought had promise and watched was Caprica. I thought they were going somewhere with the series but it died.
The last good sci-fi movie for me was "The Matrix". I though "V for Vendetta" was great, but supposedly it's not considered sci-fi.