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10 truly underrated scifi movies
10 truly underrated scifi movies
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Lars Porsenna
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First I'll preface my post by saying I consider SF film to be a step (only a step) above genre fiction.
That being said, the movies I saw were Aeon Flux, Tron, Enemy Mine, and Silent Running.
Aeon Flux: surprisingly good, I liked it much better than the disjointed sex/violence porn of the Liquid television version. It also helps that the LT version I felt had ugly looking characters and animation. There were a few really cool SF elements (I really liked the feet-hands idea, even if such a structure would shatter as soon as the character started running/jumping), and the story was at least interesting if it stretched credibility a bit...
Tron: A classic very much worth watching over and over and over again. Very much a "period piece" (i.e. I don't think it would work with modern games; for that see the anime .Hack). But for the period...a movie in which a character is downloaded to play video games (but with a life-or-death twist? Awesome!) Fo kids that grew up playing Space invaders or some of the first stand-up video games, great stuff. Worth entry into the SF film library (I am ashamed I haven't bought it yet!)
Enemy Mine: it was OK. Like the website described, it gets schmaltzy (especially when the alien gives birth...). It also suffers from the limitation of aliens that are not very alien (IIRC Gossetts character descends into the "human characteristics exagerrated" trope much of film SF gets trapped in, though I haven't seen it in years).
Silent Running: very much dated and IMHO a bit preachy. Also doesn't make much sense (they nuke the forests IIRC...why not just drop them in Saturn's orbit and thus dispose of any debirs threat to future space commerce??? Not to mention they could have just put them in orbit near Pluto, turn off the heaters and just freeze it all for future use...meh). The models and effects were cool for the day. Note this is a very good movie for my theory of how SF film is a reflection of the society it came from...
Damon.
That being said, the movies I saw were Aeon Flux, Tron, Enemy Mine, and Silent Running.
Aeon Flux: surprisingly good, I liked it much better than the disjointed sex/violence porn of the Liquid television version. It also helps that the LT version I felt had ugly looking characters and animation. There were a few really cool SF elements (I really liked the feet-hands idea, even if such a structure would shatter as soon as the character started running/jumping), and the story was at least interesting if it stretched credibility a bit...
Tron: A classic very much worth watching over and over and over again. Very much a "period piece" (i.e. I don't think it would work with modern games; for that see the anime .Hack). But for the period...a movie in which a character is downloaded to play video games (but with a life-or-death twist? Awesome!) Fo kids that grew up playing Space invaders or some of the first stand-up video games, great stuff. Worth entry into the SF film library (I am ashamed I haven't bought it yet!)
Enemy Mine: it was OK. Like the website described, it gets schmaltzy (especially when the alien gives birth...). It also suffers from the limitation of aliens that are not very alien (IIRC Gossetts character descends into the "human characteristics exagerrated" trope much of film SF gets trapped in, though I haven't seen it in years).
Silent Running: very much dated and IMHO a bit preachy. Also doesn't make much sense (they nuke the forests IIRC...why not just drop them in Saturn's orbit and thus dispose of any debirs threat to future space commerce??? Not to mention they could have just put them in orbit near Pluto, turn off the heaters and just freeze it all for future use...meh). The models and effects were cool for the day. Note this is a very good movie for my theory of how SF film is a reflection of the society it came from...
Damon.
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My Book Blog: http://bookslikedust.blogspot.com/
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