Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

[deadly_habit]

'The skin I live in' is a really good film, wouldn't want to explain too much about it- but it's unsettling and well worth watching.

The Man from Earth is great as well, same kinda vein and sci fi as fuck.

[Hedley King]

'The skin I live in' is a really good film, wouldn't want to explain too much about it- but it's unsettling and well worth watching.

The Man from Earth is great as well, same kinda vein and sci fi as fuck.

Nice one, haven't seen that- will give it a go.

[deadly_habit]

Snag that and Primer, smart sci fi flicks.

[joeki]

cheers, will have to check them out.

yeah, Primer is a good post-2000 mention as well. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it puzzled my noodle for a bit. But then again, time travel is something that within the spectrum of Sci-Fi has interested me less unfortunately.

[deadly_habit]

Unfortunately we've only gotten popcorn Sci Fi lately
Looper was great but full of plot holes and ummmm what other flicks....
oh Dredd was pure to comics and flopped in spite of being a great movie

[Hedley King]

Unfortunately we've only gotten popcorn Sci Fi lately
Looper was great but full of plot holes and ummmm what other flicks....
oh Dredd was pure to comics and flopped in spite of being a great movie

Yeah, I really enjoyed Dredd in 3D at the cinema, not sure it would seem so good on a normal telly but hoping for a sequal

[deadly_habit]

Its not gonna happen Dredd flopped unfortunately

[vishes]

Just watched 2001, i'm craving for the sequel now

Surely you must be joking?

What about?

Yeah sorry I honestly never knew there was a sequel...
Never seen 2010, is it any good?

[joeki]

This one could be all right. John Hurt + Ed Harris as well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/

Hope it is not a remake of the apocalypse drama "The Last Train" though.

[cloquet]

I think 2001: A Space Odyssey is overrated. Visually stunning, but content lacking

I can see where you're coming from but on the whole I don't think so, the visual side does take centre stage but I don't think it's necessarily to the detriment of the content - if anything it enhances it. The sheer artistry of some of the sequences beggars belief - that he can make these segments of spacecraft almost aimlessly drifting through space so engaging is a testament to Kubrick's skill & vision.

The only other director I've ever really seen say & present so much with such simplicity & finesse is Tarkovsky.

I think the questions & themes addressed are fairly obvious ones & the ambiguity that comes with them does leave the film feeling a little vague at times but it's very difficult to be anything other than vague when you're covering that sort of ground.

On a final note, special effects wise it holds up remarkably well even by today's standards.

[Hedley King]

I think it's a great looking film, but does drag on a bit and the ending looks a bit dated. Loads of amazing images though.

[magma]

On a final note, special effects wise it holds up remarkably well even by today's standards.

I was astounded watching 2001 on BluRay last year. Could be released today and it'd still look great - the trick is they don't over-imagine anything, it actually looks a lot like space tech does now and hasn't aged badly at all. Compare it to the near-future world that Back To The Future imagined...

[cloquet]

On a final note, special effects wise it holds up remarkably well even by today's standards.

I was astounded watching 2001 on BluRay last year. Could be released today and it'd still look great - the trick is they don't over-imagine anything, it actually looks a lot like space tech does now and hasn't aged badly at all. Compare it to the near-future world that Back To The Future imagined...

Agreed. I think that's also why Blade Runner still holds up & why films like Dune look quite tacky.

[joeki]

Tarkovsky is generally my favourite director all round.
Stalker probably my favouite SCI-FI movie along with Blade Runner. But I always am ambiguous about the final scene in Stalker. I don't like it. But the rest of the movie is so good. Top SCI-FI movies for me would include (I'm not going to bother ranking them):

- Stalker (tarkovsky)
- Solyaris (tarkovsky)
- Alien (Scott)
- Blade Runner (Scott)
- Akira (otomo)
- 2001 (Kubrick)
- Aliens (Cameron)
- The Matrix (Wachowski)
- The Thing (Carpenter)
- Mad Max (Miller)

In the second category
- Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)
- Dune (lynch - as I said, more in a so bad it is good kind of sense, this could deffo do with an awesome remake)
- Ghost In The Shell (Oshii)
- Event Horizon (Anderson)
- Pi (Aronofsky)
- Primer (Carruth)
- Memories (Otomo)
- Predator (McTiernan)
- Escape from NY (Carpenter)
- City of Lost Children (Jeunet)
- Silent Running (Trumbull)
- Altered States (Russel)
- 12 Monkeys (Gilliam)
- Moon (Jones)
- Donnie Darko (Kelly)
- T2 (Cameron)

Don't rate Children of Men as Sci-Fi. Haven't seen Gattaca yet, Didn't like Dark City. On the fence on Metropolis.

I have each of these movies either on VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray. I'm a bit of sci-fi nut though.

What am I forgetting here?

[cloquet]

Dark Star

[parson]

Pi isn't sci fi

[parson]

It's about phi and the shemhamphorash

[joeki]

feck off;

Pi, The Fountain, Eternal Sunshine, Donny Darko ETC ETC

I consider none of it SCi-FI, only deep space shit should qualify tbh

[cloquet]

I've not gotten round to it yet but THX 1138 is meant to be worth a watch.

Brazil is brilliant. I'd say it falls under sci-fi in some ways.

[joeki]

Ah yes, Brazil. That should deffo be included. Not in my top category for I'm not a big humour fan (even if its cynical) in sci-fi. But nonetheless, a movie that deffo stuck with me.