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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2014.05.21 19:47:00 -
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Best: Blade Runner (followed very closely by 2001 - jaw-dropping effects for when it was made)
Worst:
Hmmm... so many bad films that try to be actual science fiction movies. In order of increasing craptacularity:
War of the Worlds (Spielberg Edition): All flash, zero substance. Flash was OK though.
Star Wars (Ep III): Revenge of the Sith: Not bad as a Powerpoint summary of Ep. 1 & 2, let's you skip them to get a concentrated dose of disappointment.
Star Wars (Ep I): The Phantom Menace - passable as a goofy kid's movie, mediocre as a standalone movie, terrible in the SW universe.
The Happening - A preachy, boring, take-a-dump-on-the-audience experience. At least wins the award for best anti-title. Two words: Lawnmower scene.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (remake): Now we're starting to get some high-density crappiness going. One name tells all: Jaden Smith. Not bad in the Karate Kid remake (which was about Kung Fu :/ ), but really terrible, movie-spoiling, cement-your-ear-canals-shut awful in this movie. In comparison, Keanu Reeves was awesome.
Star Wars (Ep. II): Attack of the Clones: We've reached the point where story and acting are squeezed so tight they form a degenerate viewing experience. This movie is at the neutron-star level, not the worst possible but darn close. Bad acting, crappy CG in many places, kitchen sink plotting, horrifying dialog, main characters we hate but are supposed to identify with, and so on and so forth. It was as if millions of viewers suddenly groaned in terror and wanted a refund.
Battlefield Earth - Here sheer mass of crap collapses to form... the craptacularity. Bad everything: dialog, acting, plot, effects, cinematography, message... everything. It wasn't even funny/bad like The Happening on fast-forward.
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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.05.21 20:05:00 -
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So many choices for horrible, I had unconsciously forgotten most of these: http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/06/18/50-worst-sci-fi-fantasy-movies-that-had-no-excuse/
- Escape from L.A.
- RoboCop 3
- The Island Of Doctor Moreau
- Zardoz (!)
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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2014.05.21 20:55:00 -
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Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:Ila Dace wrote:
- Zardoz (!)
Yup
Yah, that makes one throw up in the mouth a lot.
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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.05.21 21:01:00 -
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So they also seem to be remaking Groundhog Day with Tom Cruise in Bill Murray's role: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX1c1gJsXsE
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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.06.04 21:12:00 -
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Reaver Glitterstim wrote:I liked Avatar, but to me it was a fantasy adventure. I guess I never took it as a sci-fi, and sorta didn't realize people think of it as a sci-fi till after I watched it, so maybe that saved it for me. It doesn't really have any sci-fi elements, just space and future themes re-hashed from other works. Well, the idea of having remote-controlled bodies is kinda sci-fi until they dispense with every last shred of reality and allow the remote controlled unit to become the guy's new body, as if they couldn't just go and physically unplug him.
Avatar is science fiction, not fantasy. There's nothing that has an actual "it's magic" explanation, at least from the audience's perspective (though "unobtanium" comes close).
Body-mind transference through the big tree? The body was a real body made through cloning, the tree was a giant planetary nerve junction...
Granted there are other science fiction movies that step right up to the line: Dark City comes to mind.
The Matrix: Revolutions crossed it, which made it suck.
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Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.06.04 21:39:00 -
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Reaver Glitterstim wrote:Ila Dace wrote:The Matrix: Revolutions crossed it, which made it suck. Avatar crossed it in the same way. But maybe I'm just being too picky. I just like my science fiction to tease my intellect. My intellect didn't feel teased by Avatar.
Yah, didn't say it was good science fiction. Sturgeon's Revelation
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