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the box office success of Independence Day led to the resurgence of the big sci-fi event movie,
...What? No, what? What are they talking about? Just looking at the other movies included in the list (Jurassic Park & Terminator 2, for instance), it's clear how little sense that makes.
I should have stopped reading at #3.
I should have stopped reading at #3.
Yeah I started to get really mad in the 80s. Serenity is only slightly better than Dune?
Anything's better than Dune.
Except, of course, The Last Action Hero.
Except, of course, The Last Action Hero.
Hey! That was a cool movie! It was mis-promoted.
oh, connie.
I stand by my stand.
I stand with connie.
I also stand with Connie. Last Action Hero is a very clever movie, and one of Ahnold's best. Shane Black co-wrote the screenplay. He was also responsible for The Long Kiss Goodnight, Monster Squad, and, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
As for the list; about the only thing I got worked up enough about was not having Galaxy Quest, Serenity, and Dark City closer to the top.
On further review I've seen 83 of the top 100 Science Fiction movies.
As an addendum on my 2001 note, I'll say that I think there are lots of interesting ideas in Clockwork Orange, The Killers, Paths of Glory, and other Kubrick flicks. But 2001 is best in its moments of cold irony and bleak humor and least good in it's "epic philosophies."
I finally got around to watching my dvr recording of I Know Where I'm Going just now while I was burning it to dvd. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed it the first (and only) time I saw it twenty years ago.
Halfway through it, I was grinning at the romance developing between Torquil and Joan--it was such a Harlequin instant-combustion thing, but so well done, especially by Wendy Hiller with her confused panicking over her developing feelings for the oh-so-sexy-in-his-kilt Killoran.
And Local Hero owes soooo much to this film.