40 years later someone makes a modern trailer for their film school project that this masterpiece deserved.
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Sci-Fi Movies Thread
Wasted 45 awful minutes on this putrid turd of a remake and would warn all sci-fl forum users to avoid this like the plague, it's been showing up on TV. Unaware, unscary, uninteresting and trying way too hard. It didn't hold me. Jame's Caan's ancient 70's movie had 10X the gravity of this one.
Rarely does a remake of a song or a movie come out better. It does happen, but not by a longshot here.
You could do better for a Saturday afternoon flick.
This has been a sci-fi PSA.
Realy liked this Time Lapse https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2669336/
Small low budget movie but quite enjoyable and one of the best depiction of what time manipulation would look like imho
Because it's awesome and not yet mentioned:
Brazil
To me "proper" Sci-Fi is earth- and human- centric. Space fantasies and UFOs and E.T.s are different thing. Here are few definitions more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_science_fiction
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) / World on a Wire (1973) (Way better if you speak German or can deal with subtitles) - both based off a book called Simulacron-3.
Anime:
Paprika (2006) - Inception but in anime
Megazone 23 (1989) 1&2
qk4-li3 To me "proper" Sci-Fi is earth- and human- centric. Space fantasies and UFOs and E.T.s are different thing.
disagree completely. I think anything not worldly, and clearly not (but sometimes can be) horror is sci-fi. How could Alien
not be sci-fi? But Tremors
can be ('human-centric')?
your source is even title dis 'definitions' with a plural for a reason.
Brazil is dystopian future movie based real loosely on Orweil's masterpiece) and we both agree it belongs squarely in Sci-Fi as most of the brilliant mind of Gilliam's does. We could parse semantics all day, but I respect your commitment to the definition, and your unique take. I don't believe there can be true right or wrong anyway.
If it's a day that ends with a Y I am wrong about something!
ender I'm going to give this a try because I love the time-travel sub-genre. Some is unplausible crap (butterfy effect) and some really is plausible.
Speaking of the brilliant mind of T. Gilliam, I thought his 12 Monkey's was the greatest time travel movie ever made because 1) it was sensible and 2) a large degree of human error was built into it as it didn't pretend to be precise in any way. Sometimes you aim for 1917 and end up in the 40's.
--I look forward to seeing Time Lapse on your rec.
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Was DUNC the best movie, or merely very good? Discuss.
davidjharder SSHHH..... No spoilers please! I haven't watched the new Dune II yet, it's not on Netflix.
elfprince Dune I is on Netflix and Prime I believe.
I'll just be patient for now. I checked Prime, and no joy. And I dumped Netfliix after their last price increase, because I seldom used it. Down to just 7 streaming services now. I've got a feeling that sooner or later, Disney will buy the series, and I've got that covered.
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Dune (1984) is on Amazon Prime as well. The Blue Ray is dirt cheap as well.
I saw Part 2 on the weekend. Good but diverting too far from canon for me.
IMHO the best was the miniseries Dune (2000) and Children of Dune (2003). I think it was Sci-fi channel. Fortunately I recorded it at the time and subsequently ripped it to DVD. I've never seen it on a streaming service but I think it is available on DVD &/or Blu Ray.
edit. Maybe not on US Prime?