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20 years later, the movie "Total Recall" still kicks butt
Josh:
Three words...Howard the Duck
f0dder:
Three words...Howard the Duck-Josh (June 13, 2010, 07:40 PM)
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Saw it as a kiddo, found it again a few months ago, been meaning to revisit it... wonder if it'll spoil my (fond) memories of it.
PS: linking to external images don't work, at least not the way you tried doing it :)
zridling:
Cherry 2000 made me think of some others I can't pen down right now. As for cheesy sci-fi/doomsday movies I can't resist, here's a few:
Soylent Green (1973)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/
Coneheads (1993) -- highly underrated!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106598/
Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) -- so, so bad it's good
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093171/
They Live (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/
Galaxy Quest (1999)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) -- not cheesy, but I liked it after the third time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Ice Pirates (1984)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
40hz:
If you're up for some really heavy retro sci-fi, check out a 1962 short 'film' by Chris Marker called La jetée.
I put the word film in quotes because the story is actually told via a series of still photographs with narrative voiceover. Very much like someone is showing a photo album or reading a private diary to you. It's all done in an eerie and somewhat sinister way that almost makes you feel like you're watching the slideshow that goes with the briefing on some secret government investigation - which makes it absolutely perfect for the subject matter of the film.
Black and white and only 28 minutes long. It packs a wallop that many films, with magnitudes higher production budgets (like 12 Monkees) seldom manage.
Director Chris Marker was a determined experimentalist who still sought to entertain, so it's no surprise that his most famous film, La Jetée, is both bizarre and compelling. Shot as a collage of still images, it tells the story of a man sent backward and forward in time in order to save a war-ravaged world. Packing all of the intensity of a full-length feature into 28 minutes, this densely layered narrative stands up to many repeat viewings. Every moment is fraught with anxiety, longing, and suspense as the unnamed protagonist moves through and across time, trying to avoid death at the hands of his contemporaries, the repeated loss of a past love, and the annihilation of his world in the future. Much more a human story than a science fiction film, it is essentially about the power of memory, and its snapshot format captures the feel of a strongly remembered moment. This film is definitely a masterpiece and is not to be missed by the serious cineaste. (The American film 12 Monkeys was adapted from La Jetée, though the original is no doubt the superior piece of cinema.) --James DiGiovanna
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It rarely runs on television/sat/cable, so you'll either have to order it from Amazon (as part of an overpriced Criterion Collection bundle which includes Marker's Sans Soleil), or watch it on YouTube.
Be forewarned that the YouTube uploads are pretty badly done and don't do this film justice. This is most likely because the original was shot on 16mm B&W in a film noir-ish style which makes it difficult to get a 'good quality' digital transfer unless you really know what you're doing.
Great cult flick. Check it out! :Thmbsup:
40hz:
Cherry 2000[/b] made me think of some others I can't pen down right now. As for cheesy sci-fi/doomsday movies I can't resist, here's a few:
-zridling (June 14, 2010, 01:31 AM)
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Hey! You left out:
Logan's Run
(with the exquisite and classy Jenny Agutter as Jessica. Who'd have ever imagined a grubby mini-toga could look that good?)
20 years later, the movie "Total Recall" still kicks butt
and
Silent Running
An interesting sc-fi take on the perennially popular Space Ark concept. Natural heritage preservation habitats in earth orbit. A tale of hope, corporate greed, and public indifference. May turn out to be prophetic in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
and
Zardoz!
The post apocalyptic world meets the flower children with a hefty splash of 70s-style misogyny thrown in for good measure. (Hey, this was 1974! Back then, most guys were all for women being 'liberated' - just so long as they didn't get too liberated... )
Such a bad film it's great!
20 years later, the movie "Total Recall" still kicks butt Sean Connery is still trying to live that role down. ;D
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