I'll begin with saying, I can't freakin' wait to see Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines.

How 'bout you guys 'n gals?

TheJediUnit Wrote:I'll begin with saying, I can't freakin' wait to see Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines. How 'bout you guys 'n gals?

Same here. I wish it was July already. That way I could watch T3, and would only be a month away from release.

In the meantime, I visit www.terminator3.com often, and post messages there frequently.

TheJediUnit Wrote:I haven't been there lately. I guess it's time to check back. Excluding Tron, what's some other sci-fi favorites of everyone?

Blade Runner & THX1138.

I always loved Back to the Future 1,2&3.
3's my favorite cause they go to the future.
I still want a hoverbord!

I still haven't seen all of Bladerunner. Been meaing to get the DVD. I've seen bits and pices of it. Love the cityscapes and vehicles.

Ghostbusters! I loved this movie. It was funny, entertaining and had an awsome concept. "He's an ugly little spud isn't he?" "Ray, I think it can hear you. AHHHHHH!"

John Carpenters THE THING. Man, I just love this movie. Gore and guts were so well done in this movie. Animatronics were excellent too.

Total Recall. Great movie. Love the futurisic world it presented and how it leaves you thinking at the end.
Is it a dream or is it real?

Has anyone ever seen Dune? I saw it recently, and I was very impressed - although it's seriously surreal.

I'd really love to see balderunner some time soon, I hear the city effects are great.

I really loved Judge Dredd, some of the cotyscapes in that were squeaky clean - brillo

TheJediUnit Wrote:You know, I've never seen THX1138.

You either like THX or hate it. Its very slow paced and it bores alot of people. I think the entire soundtrack (Walter Murch) and dialogue is a masterpiece, pure genius. It's not for everyone. It looks like it could be a Kraftwerk or Laibach video. Lots of retro sounds and images of old terminals and such.

I actually have, on DVD, the original student film George made before THX was made. It is called Electronic Labyrinth and is what THX is created from. It is about 15 mins long. Pretty cool.

Yea, I kinda presumed that THX was that sorta one of those love it or hate it things since pretty much all sci-fi is like that if you think about it. I guess I'll get 'round to seeing it someday.

I've always dug the heck outta 2001 A Space Odyessy. VERY compelling understory, themes and message. Masterpiece of special effects. Came out within the month of when I was born. Loving it was my desssssstiny.

TheJediUnit Wrote:I found both Dune and Bladerunner similar in the same respects that they are both very stimulating in their dark imagery and vision, but were a bit weak in the plot and message and both's ending were kinda flat. But, when they're on T.V., I'll stop 'n watch 'em, that's for sure.

Agreed, I will say however I tend to nitpick more on films based off of PKD stories than I do the ones based off of Frank Herberts. Blade Runner, while an excellent film, was not as emotional as the book, and left out some interesting concepts that I would like to see in a film version. Dune, seemed to get alot of what it was out the first time, and the second time (SciFi Mini) it only enhanced the flavour of the story to the point of showing us how much more broader an epic it really is. Though I am not happy with some of the casting in the upcoming SciFi sequel (Children of Dune) I plan on watching it with bated breath. THX I thought was a pretty cool little scifi. Lucas' original made very little sense to me so having a fuller story with the Duvall classic was nice. Its one of the few 70's era SciFi gems with originality in its framework.

As for upcoming films.... I am all about the Matrix sequels and especially the Animatrix. I'm all over it. And I think Tron is going to come back too with a vengence. With the game coming out, hopefully a film and other stuff will follow.

Hm, cool points of view.

What do we think about the Alien legacy?

Here's my ratings...

Alien: 7
Aliens: 10
Alien 3: 2
Alien Resurrection: 3

Man, if Aliens isn't inspiration enough to be careful making sequels, I dunno what is.

he he he

what did the role of Newt demand of you? Letting her clean you off and scream non-stop?



That poor kid.

I wonder what she looks like now or if she still makes movies. She's gotta be like in her twenties now. Dang.

You know, I got the director's edition DVD of Aliens (ain't botherin' with the others) and it rocked. It had whole themes surgically removed to cut for time, namely those awesome century guns. They must have decided to trim off their longer scenes so the ended up having to delete all references to them and in some cases that was merely mentioning them. And the scene with the entire crew running that station and Newt's parents was really neat, but I guess when you have to trim it you have to trim it. Thank God for DVD because since we don't care if we sit longer when at home instead of the theater we can now get every precious drop of these films.