Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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Yep, I hated The Fifth Element too. Reasons? Because I wanted to smack the smirk off the faces of... everybody involved in it, and the baroque sentimentality of the ending (OMG! Did you know war is bad ??), and the pointlessness of its high-concept design. Also? I do not book interstellar travel to go watch an opera singer get remixed for the dance floor. I can have that in any discotheque in France.
The last good thing that movie did was make Luke Perry beg for his mother.
At least Eve Salvail was in it. That was a pleasure.
I love The Fifth Element it's way over the top and bright colors and it's great. Plus I love the alien monster guys. I also love Sleepy Hallow it was pretty! And Johnny Depp was pretty.
I have seen Hudson Hawk or Resident Evil but I really want to now.
I liked The Fifth Element well enough when I saw it, but it was late and I realized about five minutes in that watching the pretty images without thinking too much about them was the way to go.
Event Horizon owes me $7.00, 2 hours, and all the Gaiman books it takes to replenish my faith in human creativity. This movie managed to bore me and irritate me simultaneously. If others found pleasure in it I'm happy for them, and I don't want to harsh their happiness. It's just that I'm still annoyed with it, this however many years later.
I'm looking forward to seeing Hero.
Huh. They are OK choices, if tad predictable.
I'd have included Brazil over The Matrix or Close Encounter, but that's just me.
I remain unimpressed by Close Encounters.
I didn't really care for Close Encounters either, although I couldn't point to any one thing I hated. It was just sort of BTDT, which means I guess it may have just aged badly.
The Matrix to me is a monument of movie wizardry, but not a good SF movie. For one thing, I predicted the ending at about the 20-minute mark, complete with rising from the dead and seeing the code behind objects.
I'm sort of surprised Forbidden Planet didn't make it on there, since it's often bandied about on lists like these. I suppose the fact it is basically The Tempest in space may disqualify it.
From the top 10 sci-fi list:
The first two films of the original Star Wars trilogy make it onto the list probably for reasons of nostalgia rather than science.
Essentially westerns set in space....
Aren't many sci-fi movies, not just Star Wars, basically westerns in space? Or am I pulling that theory out of my ass?
I remember having a yammering argument about the "westerns in space" concept, and I think I came out with "You can't call it a western if it's based on Yojimbo" as well as "If westerns were the first true genre of movies, then all movies owe their existence to westerns, don't they?"
So, debatable. In the case of Star Wars, I'm gonna stand by the Yojimbo assessment. Just because Kurosawa movies get made into westerns does not mean they are all westerns to begin with.