curious_guy (imported) wrote: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:42 pm Have you seen The Butterfly Effect?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/

I love this movie! I haven't watched it in a while, but I think I had the DVD, or was it my brother? Anyway, might have a bit of a look around for it and view it again

Moi, would you be happier if I admitted I saw The Jazz Singer in 1929

I don't know but MacWolf did tell me he got a special viewing of Alice in Wonderland before it went out to the public in 1902. Its true they took pictures and everything, OLD MAN with a White BEARD.

River

I liked 2001: A Space Odyssye -1968

A favorite of mine is Sean Connery in Outland, a sci-fi remake of High Noon, set on a space station on a moon of Jupiter.

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transward (imported) wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:22 pm A favorite of mine is Sean Connery in Outland, a sci-fi remake of High Noon, set on a space station on a moon of Jupiter.

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Good call!

SciFi and Westerns also have actors who cross over like some of the original Star Trek gang.

I had not seen the High Noon connection. Just corporate bad guys doing bad things for profit enhancement.

Moi

MY side of Universal Studios ended at Barham Blvd. Al Jolson's old estate in ruins. Spartacus crosses along the hill sides for a while. No fences.

hey punky if you going to mention anime don't forget akida or evangelion.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:05 pm Good call!

SciFi and Westerns also have actors who cross over like some of the original Star Trek gang.

I had not seen the High Noon connection. Just corporate bad guys doing bad things for profit enhancement.

Moi

MY side of Universal Studios ended at Barham Blvd. Al Jolson's old estate in ruins. Spartacus crosses along the hill sides for a while. No fences.

Gene Roddenberry who created Star Trek was a writer for Have Gun Will Travel. Several have observed that, particularly the first series of Star Trek was essentially Paladin In Space

And Outland is practically a scene for scene remake of High Noon

In the Boston Globe, Michael Blowen was more favorable: "The parallels between Outland and Fred Zinneman's 1952 western High Noon are apparent. Writer-director Peter Hyams has transported the characters and motifs from the dusty frontier town of Gary Cooper to the frontiers of space. While Hyams keeps the story barreling along, he also develops a corollary anti-capitalist theme. Io is an outpost for exploitation, and it doesn't make any difference whether the miners are digging gold in the Colorado hills or titanium on Jupiter's moon, the greed of the corporate class will prevail. Outland marks the return of the classic western hero in a space helmet. His outfit has changed and his environment has expanded but he's still the same. When Connery stares down the barrel of that shotgun, you'd better smile".[5]

Desmond Ryan at the Philadelphia Inquirer called it: "A brilliant sci-fi Western. In many ways, Hyams has made a film that is more frightening than Alien, because he surmises that space will change us very little and the real monsters we are liable to encounter will be in the next space suit.[9]

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punkypink (imported) wrote: Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:50 pm I'm surprised btw, nobody's mentioned anime movies. If it's SF we're talking about surely the Ghost in the Shell franchise is one of the best.

Yes! The Ghost in the Shell definitely deserves mention. The original manga version is far superior to the, still great, anime version. One of my best students wrote an M.A. thesis in anthropology about it. The key question for anthropology is "What's human about human beings?" The Ghost in the Shell explores the overlapping of human and machine in a creative and convincing way.

I also appreciate it because the manga was my son's favorite at the time. He devoured it. At the time he claimed that he had entirely forgotten all of the Japanese that he had once learned and was only looking at the pictures to understand the story. When the English translation first appeared, I immediately sent it to him. He complained (with examples) of some of the shoddy translation. (It's still much better than I could ever do, though.)

And I should note too that The Ghost in the Shell was one of the inspirations for The Matrix.

DEEP THROAT... no, I mean the one in All the President's Men... (http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cult ... knows.html)