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  • #61
    Originally posted by Zkribbler


    You liked the ending of Contact?? I thought it wrecked the movie.

    But Jodie Foster's acting was awesome.
    I liked the way it left things open. My memory is hazy, and I do recall that there was some God-related thing there that definitely I didn't like. I was merely referring to the part about the tape with thirty minutes of nothing...
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    • #62
      I agree with Zkribbler: The ending to "Contact" sucked, and it totally destroyed Sagan's original meaning. I almost started yelling at the movie screen, I was so disappointed.

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      • #63
        You guys have mentioned most of my favorites. So, I will just add a couple. Two of these are a little obscure, but are definitely worth seeking out.

        A Clockwork Orange, this is classic sci-fi.

        Liquid Sky, NYC's Repo Man. Actually Liquid Sky was out first and bears little similarity to Repo Man, other than it has a punk rock attitude.

        The Man in the White Suit, this is an old Ealing Studios picture with Alec Guiness.
        "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
        —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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        • #64
          Originally posted by kassiopeia
          ... Just saw Matrix for the first time and it was rather kickassish as well... but there are many.
          I had a problem with Matrix. I worked for so long printing photos I was VERY distracted by the green cast in the matrix world scenes. I tried to change the tint since nothing told me it was deliberate. Turns out I can't change the color on my Toshiba when I am using the component inputs.

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          • #65
            Rollerball , the one from the 1970s.

            Also, Dune , the Sci-Fi Channel remake (despite the sometimes cheap backgrounds). And, of course,
            Attack of the Clones . Okay, maybe not, but I just love that last battle scene with the clone army.

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            • #66
              Wraith: I watch Anime every now and then. I watched Akira last Thursday/Friday and I was really disapointed. It was really good, but not as much as I had expected it to be. I also watched the Neon Genesis Evangelion series, which I have very mixed feeling about. I'm playing on getting End of Evangelion later this week.

              But anyway for favorites:
              Blade Runner
              Rollerball (The Original)
              Dune
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              • #67
                Originally posted by Ramo
                Dr. Strangelove!
                Is that Sci-Fi?

                If it is, so is Jurrasic Park.

                I just checked on the Netflix site. No Solaris.
                http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=en

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                • #68
                  I just checked on the Netflix site. No Solaris.
                  According to IMDB there is no DVD. I checked that last night.

                  Jurasic Park IS SF as no one has found any dino DNA at all.

                  Dr. Strangelove isn't really SF. I don't think the Doomsday Bomb should count as a science fiction device. The rest was pretty much real technology.

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                  • #69
                    What about the technology to extract our precious bodily fluids?

                    If it is, so is Jurrasic Park.
                    I consider the sci-fi...
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                    • #70
                      12 monkeys. I just love it. Aliens and Terminator 1 and 2 also tie for first place. Star Trek 2 and Empire Strikes back tie for second place

                      I cannot decide between those movies.

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                      • #71
                        I can't believe anyone else knows this film (This Quiet Earth)! I saw this when it came out (early 80s?) and it has stayed with me ever since


                        Same for me! Outstanding film, and the ending was just fine!
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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Ethelred
                          According to IMDB there is no DVD. I checked that last night.
                          Strange that you can order it off Amazon.co.uk then.
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                          • #73
                            Well that is for Europe. The US market has region one. That is region two I think. It won't play in US DVD players.


                            Edition Details:
                            • Region 2 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan only)

                            So Ned can't use it. He lives in California same as me.

                            Here is what I saw on IMDB for the US DVD

                            Solaris
                            Image Entertainment ID 4581 CODVD
                            Certificate: Not Rated
                            Color - 166 minutes

                            Released: 29 December 1998
                            Cancelled
                            List Price: $34.99
                            Snap Case


                            It was cancelled. Which means they never actually sold it. IMDB has a lot of non-americans on it but it is a US site.

                            However if Ned really wants it Amazon does have an all region version for auction.



                            The price is a little high for a DVD and shipping is really stiff at seven bucks. It does have English subtitle which is the way to go for foreign films in my view. I like to hear the actual actors instead of the dubbing. Dubbing loses so much nuance in tone unless the original actors do the dubbing.

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                            • #74
                              Most DVD players nowadays are multi-region, or can be made multi-region by changing a chip. Certainly on this side of the atlantic a lot of people order american DVDs that otherwise would not be available...
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                              • #75
                                The best part of contact for me was the portrayal of scientists as they are, a bunch of backstabbing thieving bastards just like everyone else.
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