What Is Your favorite Sci Fi Flick?

[Guest Chrysee]

I blame Mel Brooks.

I knew it!

"Merchandising, merchandising. . ."

[Carolyn Marie]

I blame Mel Brooks.

May the Schwartz be with you!

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest]

Which hole was that again?

Huggs,

Joann

[Guest Chrysee]

Which hole was that again?

Huggs,

Joann

Grrrr! My kingdom for a come back!!

[Guest]

OK I'll throw it in the river instead. I love "Switch" everything except the over played bit with the high heels. I stepped into heels and it was one of the natural things of my life. It was one of the movies that encouraged me to come out of hiding. Hug. Alice. Giggle.

[Guest Chrysee]

OK I'll throw it in the river instead. I love "Switch" everything except the over played bit with the high heels. I stepped into heels and it was one of the natural things of my life. It was one of the movies that encouraged me to come out of hiding. Hug. Alice. Giggle.

Okay, you've lost me on the river thing.

I thought the high heel part worked. That's as badly as I'd navigate around in them now. Of course I've had three back surgeries and still suffer with sciatic nerve pain in my right hip, so a two inch heel is as much of a committment to tall shoes as I'm willing to make.

And so down the rabbit hole ya go, Alice!

[Guest]

Perry King,Steve. The body was thrown in the river? I gotta quit watching so many movies and live life. Giggle. Jody

[Guest Chrysee]

Perry King,Steve. The body was thrown in the river? I gotta quit watching so many movies and live life. Giggle. Jody

Who's 'Perry King Steve'?

[Guest]

Perry King is the actor that played the part of Steve, the guy that gets murdered by the three ladies and they dumped his body into the river? That reincarnates as Amanda?

Alrighty then... I'm out. Jody

[Guest *Charlotte P*]

1, Star Wars

2, The Abyss

3. Aliens

[Guest Chrysee]

Perry King is the actor that played the part of Steve, the guy that gets murdered by the three ladies and they dumped his body into the river? That reincarnates as Amanda?

Alrighty then... I'm out. Jody

Wow, I'm impressed. I've seen the movie twice, I think. Truly enjoyed it and would really recommend it. But you could write 'A Dummies Guide. . .'

Cissy

[Guest nat1982]

My list rather simple lol

1:Alien

2:Aliens

3:Alien 3

4:Alien resurection

5:Prometheus

6:Predator

7:Predator 2

8:Predators

see told you it was simple.

Always wanted to be ripley. used to pretend i was her so much growing up!!

[Guest danabanana]

I'm not sure if "World War Z" is going to be in the scifi/horror category or just horror, but I saw the trailer and it looks super creepy! They move so fast like swarms! Trailer is on YouTube and it comes out next year. Please don't blame me if you have nightmares.

[Guest nat1982]

Cant wait to see world war z. Love zombie flicks!!!

[Guest Chrysee]

My list rather simple lol

1:Alien

2:Aliens

3:Alien 3

4:Alien resurection

5:Prometheus

6:Predator

7:Predator 2

8:Predators

see told you it was simple.

Always wanted to be ripley. used to pretend i was her so much growing up!!

My 23 year old daughter (the youngest) is named Ripley.

[Guest Edina]

1. Forbidden Planet -- I would soooo love to tell Robby to make me a dress covered in diamonds, then claim I designed it myself.
   
2. Total Recall -- I would sooooo love to change my nail color every 10 seconds.
   
3. This Island Earth --- I would sooooo love my own interociter.
   
4. The Matrix -- ankle length leather jackets and knee boots are just soooooo cool!
   

Of course I love these movies for other, more compelling, reasons, but I couldn't help pointing out some of the little things to love about these films.

[Guest nat1982]

My list rather simple lol

1:Alien

2:Aliens

3:Alien 3

4:Alien resurection

5:Prometheus

6:Predator

7:Predator 2

8:Predators

see told you it was simple.

Always wanted to be ripley. used to pretend i was her so much growing up!!

My 23 year old daughter (the youngest) is named Ripley.

Thats awesome!!!!!!!! Maybe i might make that my middle name.

[Guest Chrysee]

My list rather simple lol

1:Alien

2:Aliens

3:Alien 3

4:Alien resurection

5:Prometheus

6:Predator

7:Predator 2

8:Predators

see told you it was simple.

Always wanted to be ripley. used to pretend i was her so much growing up!!

My 23 year old daughter (the youngest) is named Ripley.

Thats awesome!!!!!!!! Maybe i might make that my middle name.

Good plan!

At the time (I believe it was not too long after Aliens came out) my then wife wanted to name the almost born baby Sigourney. Having been abused as a child, my wife thrilled at strong, take charge female characters (and the actresses who played them.) I didn't think that Signourney would work with our last name. I pointed out that Signourney wasn't her real first name either but had been borrowed by Weaver from an F. Scott Fotzgerald novel. After thinking about it a moment, I asked: "What about Ripley?"

I don't believe that we yet knew that Ripley was not her first name. Ellen, of course, was/is.

At any rate, my daughter listened to a lot of "Ripley's Believe it or Not" jokes. As well, here in Portland the local NBA team is the Trail Blazers, and they have a slogan:"Rip City!" which Ripley has come to hate. However, she has dearly loved anything to do with the Alien films her whole life and is still trying to find the courage to get Alien tattoos (she's dreadfully afraid of needles.)

So go for it!

With love,

Cissy

[Guest nat1982]

Thats is awesome Cissy. I would be so proud to have that name. Please tell her im so jealous of her!! As for the name jokes, you get them not matter what name you have as kids will think up the most stupid things about your name and say them.

As for the alien tats, well i have a few of my own, just worried abouy my look as a female once i go full time :-\

Nat

[Guest Chrysee]

Okay, I haven't posted here in a bit but have a bone to pick.

On Christmas Day I got to see the recent remake of Total Recall and didn't have much enthusiasm going into it. The first one, I felt, had it's good points. It stressed the humanity of the characters and the unfair treatment received by a greedy government. Some of the effects were clever though it lacked finesse and often appeared as cheesy as some 60's Saturday sci fi matinee. Too, the whole thing was shot through with a tongue in cheek cheesiness, I felt.

And worst of all was the fact that most of the principals couldn't act a lick. I realize this matters precious little in Hollywood or, sadly, among many movie goers/watchers. How many times have so called actors with no more skill then a kid in a costume at your door on Halloween picked up a statue on Oscar night? As Peter O'Toole's character said in the film "My Favoritte Year":

"I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!"

Watching the scene with Arnold and Sharon Stone was like watching a school play. Yeah, Arnold's cool. He's bad. He's the man.

He cannot act!!! He prances and poses and mugs for the camera. Whatever character that he has hired to bring to life was left on the pages of the script.

Of this remake, the viewing world, both critics and viewers, have lambasted the thing. It doesn't do justice to Philip. K.'s story or to the original film.

Really?

Okay, the drug addled, psycho-spiritual (?) author forged a carrier cranking out bland prose capped with unforgivably cutsey titles. If you've ever read "Do Abdroids Dream of Electric Sheep", it is a credit to the film industry that a landmark film like Blade Runner could have come from such drek.

As to how this remake stacks up with the original, to its credit I must say that it leaves Arnold's cartoon in the dust. Yes there's a great deal of CGI. It still amazes me that Blade Runner (1982) contains no such computer enhancements. In fact they didn't yet exist. It was done with matte paintings and miniatures. I had the thrill of seeing the matte painting that served as the opening L.A. skyline scene once. I was horrified by the pencilled notes in the margin. A nearby video store called Movie Madness also has on display a piece of architecture from the set.

SPOILER ALERT

IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM AND WISH TO BE SURPRISED THEN STOP READING HERE!

At any rate, with an eye towards Blade Runner, the Dystopia portrayed in the new Recall is an expanded tribute to Blade Runner. Once again in the future the sun never rises and the rain never stops as hordes of Asian people toting umbrellas move through clogged streets past an endless array of neon. The concrete nightmare that is one of only two civilized areas left on the planet is stacked like filthy, forgotten box towers overrun with relatively insignificant, almost needless creatures and looks like Satan's basement.

And the government seeks to grind the 'have nots' into oblivion.

All that is missing is Mars. This film begins and ends on Earth.

There are amusing allusions to the first film (specifically referring to trips to Mars, especially when visiting Rekall to take a trip to Mars is mentioned). The umbrellaed crowds moving through the rain amidst an occasional glimpse of Oriental architecture gives a wink to Blade Runner, as does a great scene where the hero, with a headful of implanted memories, picks at a piano that he didn't know he could play, still trying to determine who he truly is.

Think of Rick Deckard in Blade Runner picking at the piano with his precious family photos on the music stand. At that point he didn't yet realize that he, too, was a Replicant and thus his recalled life is a lie.

And if anyone compares Kate Beckinsale unfavorably to Sharon Stone, then it is my wish that the sewers of Ragoon should back up into their breakfast. Stone is best remembered for sitting in a short skirt and flashing the camera, gaining much recognition and criticism that caused her to appear on Talk Shows claiming that she didn't realize how much the camera was capturing. Beckinsale has shown repeatedly that she can get behind the wheel and take her role home.

She was one of the few performers not to sink to the bottom in that dreadful Pearl Harbor flick, by the way.

As well, Jessica Beil Timberlake's preformace delivers. She shows the appropriate range of emotion beginning with the fact that her brainwashed boyfriend that she put all on the line to save doesn't recognize her. She presents rage and relief in ways that ring true. She's not simply reciting lines and pacing off directed blocking.

And when she slides up to the rescue, broadside in a hovercar, opens the door and says to her lover: "Get in!", think of Quorra (played by Olivia Wilde) in 'Tron Legacy.'

I watched the film twice on Christmas Day and yesterday went to Best Buy and bought a copy.

I shall watch it many times and recommend it enthusiastically.

With love & popcorn,

Cissy Sartorious

[Guest (Lightsider)]

1. Hunger games

2. Star Trek

3. Silent Running

4. Blade Runner

5. BSG

[Guest Chrysee]

1. Hunger games

2. Star Trek

3. Silent Running

4. Blade Runner

5. BSG

Which BSG (The new or the old?)

And I agree, Hunger Games was awesome. I read that they're in Hawaii filming the second one now.

On a bleaker note, I recently read that Cameron isn't even going to begin filming Avatar 2 until the end of 2013! And then he will (supposedly) be filming both 2 & 3 simultaneously.

[Guest (Lightsider)]

The new BSG. The old BSG was simple a rough draft.

[Guest Chrysee]

The new BSG. The old BSG was simple a rough draft.

A rough draft, indeed! Well stated.

And I agree.

The fact that one of our local gals (Katee Sackhoff) was one of the stars of the second one certainly swayed my opinion to boot.

[Guest Jo-88]

The new BSG. The old BSG was simple a rough draft.

A rough draft, indeed! Well stated.

And I agree.

The fact that one of our local gals (Katee Sackhoff) was one of the stars of the second one certainly swayed my opinion to boot.

I love Katee Sackhoff... this was on the battlestar galactica facebook fan page awhile back :