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Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:04 am**

durdencommatyler wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Yeah Arrival was good too
Totally agree. Brilliant movie.

Villeneuve is doing the Dune reboot, so I'm super hopeful about that.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:04 am**

durdencommatyler wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.
Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.
Blade Runner 2049 is a revelation and a masterpiece. Annihilation was interesting but super flawed.

DAMN we are super N´Sync today!

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:05 am**

VinylGuy wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.
Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.
Blade Runner 2049?

Watching that one on Imax was like going into the Louvre. Pure art.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:05 am**

BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.
Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.

The Annihilation Trilogy is one of my favorite books ever and the movie was a remarkable achievement in that I liked it Almost as much. The bear scene in particular freaks me out. I listen to the score probably twice a week, if not more. So unsettling.

Dark City is a movie I've been thinking about a lot lately, especially since Rufus Sewell is in Man in the High Castle.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:05 am**

tragabigzanda wrote:I thought Annihilation was atrocious, but I otherwise agree.

Is Dark City an all time best sci fi flick?
How about Gattaca?

Far from all time best, but both were decent. I wasn't a huge Gattaca fan

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:05 am**

tragabigzanda wrote:I thought Annihilation was atrocious, but I otherwise agree.

Is Dark City an all time best sci fi flick?
How about Gattaca?

Gattaca for sure. I'm don't know if Sci-Fi is the best genre to describe Dark City. But it's a great fucking movie, either way.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:06 am**

Gattaca is great.

I remember I was starting to like Malice until she said she hated Gattaca, then I dropped her back to the bottom of the RM barrel.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:07 am**

VinylGuy wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.
Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.
Blade Runner 2049 is a revelation and a masterpiece. Annihilation was interesting but super flawed.
DAMN we are super N´Sync today!

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:08 am**

I like Gattaca. I'm not as high on Dark City as a lot of people are. It's alright.

Speaking of Ethan Hawke, did anyone see that movie Predestination? That one is fucking nuts.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:10 am**

Is The Fountain sci-fi, or just Aronofsky weirdness?

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:11 am**

bune wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.
Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.
The Annihilation Trilogy is one of my favorite books ever and the movie was a remarkable achievement in that I liked it Almost as much. The bear scene in particular freaks me out. I listen to the score probably twice a week, if not more. So unsettling.
.

There's some great imagery and scenes in that movie, and the overall brightly colored take on Lovecraftian type horror was pretty unique, I thought.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:11 am**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:11 am**

run2death wrote:Is The Fountain sci-fi, or just Aronofsky weirdness?

Maybe more fantasy? Great, though.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:12 am**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:12 am**

Speaking of good sci fi, I have yet to watch the 50th anniversary edition 4k UHD of 2001. I'm waiting for my next bottle of Oban and a rainy night.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:13 am**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:13 am**

run2death wrote:Is The Fountain sci-fi, or just Aronofsky weirdness?

Yeah time travel ones are hard to classify sometimes. Fantasy maybe? Which can still be sci fi

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:14 am**

I have 2001 of mono Laserdisc.

I'm old.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:16 am**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Sat August 31, 2019 12:16 am**

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