Discovering Sci Fi on Film

M. Robert Gibson

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There's a documentary on Sky Arts next Thursday 17th June. I know there are a couple of people on this site who are interested in Sci-Fi, so might be worth a watch ;)

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The 90’ programme features the “Discovering” team gathered for an evening to discuss and review their Top 25 Sci Fi films of the last 100 years.

Our Team
· Ian Nathan, author of “Stephen King at the Movies” & contributing editor Empire Magazine
· Neil Norman, Film Critic and Writer
· Stephen Armstrong, Writer and Film critic The Sunday Times

Films include

Things to Come
Silent Running
War of the Worlds
22 The Abyss
Solaris
Soylent Green
The Time Machine
The Thing
Minority Report
ET The Extra-Terrestrial
Alien
Forbidden Planet
Contact
The Fifth Element
Westworld
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Planet of the Apes
Metropolis
Back to The Future
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Matrix
A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Terminator 2
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
"
 
M. Robert Gibson said:
There's a documentary on Sky Arts next Thursday 17th June. I know there are a couple of people on this site who are interested in Sci-Fi, so might be worth a watch ;)

"
The 90’ programme features the “Discovering” team gathered for an evening to discuss and review their Top 25 Sci Fi films of the last 100 years.

Our Team
· Ian Nathan, author of “Stephen King at the Movies” & contributing editor Empire Magazine
· Neil Norman, Film Critic and Writer
· Stephen Armstrong, Writer and Film critic The Sunday Times

Films include

Things to Come
Silent Running
War of the Worlds
22 The Abyss
Solaris
Soylent Green
The Time Machine
The Thing
Minority Report
ET The Extra-Terrestrial
Alien
Forbidden Planet
Contact
The Fifth Element
Westworld
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Planet of the Apes
Metropolis
Back to The Future
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Matrix
A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Terminator 2
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
"
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I've saw every one of them on that list at least twice apiece
 
I’ve not seen ‘Soylent Green’ all the way through, but all the others, and at least 3/4 more than once.
 
M. Robert Gibson said:
I've not seen 'Things to Come', but all the others I've seen at least once
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Ive seen all of those films multiple times,:cool:


Things to Come 1936 based H G Wells book which a outline of Future history , The Shape off the Things to Come . H G Wells wrote the screenplay for the movie and AlexandER Korda directed the film . The film stared Raymond Massy, Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir Cedric Hardwick . It's a terrific film , for it era its great special effects and production values .:cool:
 
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I've not seen that either. That's the James Cameron money-pit right? I never got around to it and the reviews were poor, but if it is one of the top 25 films of the last 100 years then I'd better watch it?
 
Dave said:
I've not seen that either. That's the James Cameron money-pit right? I never got around to it and the reviews were poor, but if it is one of the top 25 films of the last 100 years then I'd better watch it?
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Well, its OK, and the cgi was pretty amazing in the late 80s, but it is a bit turgid in places, and not really in the same class as some of the others on that list.
 
hitmouse said:
Well, its OK, and the cgi was pretty amazing in the late 80s, but it is a bit turgid in places, and not really in the same class as some of the others on that list.
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I agree. It's a little on the long side, and it struggles to decide what type of film it wants to be; scifi, horror or adventure. Unbelievably the extended version apparently brings in the themes of world disaster/conflict.

As for the programme, it was in equal parts great and disappointing. Great that there was a tv show dedicated entirely to sci-fi, but disappointing that too little time was devoted to each movie. Understandably considering it was only just over an hour show (without ads), but it would have been great to have a serious discussion about the best scifi movies spread over several episodes.

Apparently next week's will be westerns, which I greatly look forward too; hopefully they will do a fantasy themed one as well.

There are always going to be movies that we have as personal favourites. I assume that they were excluding other movies from the same genre, as otherwise the omission of Star Wars, Terminator and Aliens would seem very odd. But I feel that Spaceballs as the ultimate parody of the scifi genre - and a great movie in itself - should have made the list. Then again this was a list of their personal favourites rather than 'the best'.
 
I had to abandon. The presenters had obviously been told they needed to move their hands to avoid looking stiff, but it clearly wasn't natural to them and they looked like overactive puppets. It was worse than watching Curb Your Enthusiasm for vicarious awkwardness.

paranoid marvin said:
but disappointing that too little time was devoted to each movie.
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Also this.
 
Dave said:
I've not seen that either. That's the James Cameron money-pit right? I never got around to it and the reviews were poor, but if it is one of the top 25 films of the last 100 years then I'd better watch it?
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It's a terrific. film one by far one of James Cameron's best and, it has. a great cast. and a great musical score by Alan Silvestri . My advice is to see the extend version of this film .:cool:
 
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