'Soul Purpose'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Question for the hivemind: Is Cyril Cusack related to the John-Joan, etc., generation?
Nah. But he's the father of Sinead Cusack, who's married to Jeremy Irons.
Think-y Sci-Fi? Does Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind count? Errr, Twelve Monkeys and Brazil, to bring up a couple of movies mentioned lately.
I should retry 2001: A Space Odyssey. If only the damn Blue Danube didn't render me comatose every time I listen to it...
Thoughtful Sci-Fi movies:
Killer Klowns from Outer Space!!!
Or uh, Gattaca, Day of the Triffids, Them, The Thing (either version)
No mention of the Nick Roeg version of The Man Who Fell To Earth, so I'll mention it. Other "thoughtful" scifi movies are They Live, Metropolis, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Forbidden Planet, A Boy and his Dog, Frankenstein, Plan 9 From Outer Space and a shitload of movies from foreign climes that few outside that country have ever seen. I know there's a Russian director who made some amazing movies under the Soviets but I'll be damned if I can remember his name, or any of his movies. :(
Um, Cube ? A Boy and his Dog ?
It didn't do it very well, really, but The Matrix. (Apologies if this has been mentioned a hundred times. I just skipped over a hundred posts.)
Also, Donnie Darko is kinda thinky and kinda sci-fi.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space!!!
I have this on DVD, and it's my 9 yr old son's favorite movie.
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I'm going to have to throw Starship Troopers into the mix. Its portrayal of Earth as a globally facisit society (particularly in light of recent world events) is downright eerie.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space!!!
I have this on DVD, and it's my 9 yr old son's favorite movie.
I saw this movie tons of times when I was young. I loved it. I want to see it again now.
I'm going to have to throw Starship Troopers into the mix. Its portrayal of Earth as a globally facisit society (particularly in light of recent world events) is downright eerie.
Eh. I think it's portrayal of Earth as a globally fascist society was shallow at best. To me, Starship Troopers has no substance. It's pretty and fun, but incredibly stupid and shallow.
Besides, I can't accept a portrayal of a fascist society as deep and thoughtful if it's also clearly in favor of said society and ultra-militant machismo, as that movie seemed to be to me.
Plan 9 is thoughtful?
Who knew?
now I want to rent Ed Wood. Heee.