forgoton classics - Sci Fi movies

Schrodinger's Cat said:
my main problem with the film was this;

I found it so engaging at the beginning specifically because it was such a moving love story in a dystopian future. But then they split them up so early in the film, and then the focus of the movie completely shifts away from the love story, and then her death is just anticlimactic and seems meaningless. I was just so captivated by their story, and the dynamic of their relationship, that when that ended, I lost interest in the film. And then in the end, all that happens is he goes to the surface, and it ends. The story has no closure. So he escapes, so what? Does he know how to find food, or build shelter, or do anything to take care of himself? Are there any other people around? I've never been a fan of movies with open endings.
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And thank you for a well thought out argument. Which is exactly what I
hoped for. I dont care if people like or dislike films. I care if the can articulate their reasons...which you did
 
Marduk said:
I can only remember two films from my childhood that I would consider classics
1. Night of the Lepus. Sherrif- "it looks like hes been attacked by a sabre tooth Tiger", obviously in a town thats rife with sabre tooth attacks
which was just awesomely bad, even for a 5 year old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus
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Heh, I remember seeing that one on television a few times when I was a kid. But I'd say Kingdom of the Spiders gives the killer rabbit movie a run for its money. :D
 
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Hmm, one actually not mentioned so far that I noticed... Moontrap, a 90s (?) flick with Walter Koenig (original Ensign Chekov of Star Trek) as an astronaut investigating some sort of alien nastiness on Luna. OK, not by any stretch of the imagination a "classic", but apparently mostly forgotten.
 
Fukkatsu no hi (Virus)

also known as:
The End Argentina (video box title) / USA (video title)
Dødelig virus Norway (video title)
Day of Resurrection USA
Exterminio Spain
Overkill - Durch die Hölle zur Ewigkeit West Germany
Ultimo rifugio: Antartide Italy
Virus Japan (English title)

One has to see the long version (155min). When I saw it for the first time I thought that this must be the most depressing movie of all times.
 
Bell said:
Yes yes, I remember when I once accidently saw a low budget porno movie myself.
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I accidentally downloaded a crapload of them (mostly 60's and 70's classics) over the last few months. Love the ones that actually have plots.....:)
 
fuelair said:
Fun, but PIV and Demon Seed don't show up at all frequently. F451 is used by schools a bit. Lang. Arts classes mostly.
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True, I think it was shown in a film class I had in high school (though it was well know to me before then) “The Andromeda Strain" (1971) was on TV (Encore I think) about the time of the release of the TV remake. I can’t say when the last time was that I’ve seen a lot of the others mentioned on this thread (including “Silent Running” and “Dark Star”) playing on TV. About once every year or two I do find “Soylent Green” playing on some channel.

Oh I almost forgot

Master of the World
 
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That’s also one of my favorites, as well as the part when the one (older) guy falls into the trap and gets devoured. My particular favorite though is the part where they put the praying mantis into the equipment (air conditioner) to protect it. Later we see an ant eating the insulation to expose bare wires, inside the equipment, who finishes just as the mantis strikes. While consuming the first ant another ant (lying in wait) grabs the mantis by the leg pulling him onto the bare wires shorting out the equipment.
 
And let's not forget...

... the ants' incredible engineering feat of building a ring of mounds, around the humans' compound, that had polished surfaces angled to reflect sun's heat to overwhelm the air-conditioning system. Then there's the brilliant countermeasure of finding a non-reflecting sound frequency for the reflecting mounds, and turning up the volume. The slo-mo shots of yellow ants being crushed in the debris are beautiful.



ETA: Note also that Phase IV was directed by Saul Bass, the king of movie title designers -- notably the opening titles for North by Northwest and West Side Story.
 
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Atragon - flying submarine defeats invaders from beneath the sea.

Destroy All Monsters - Godzilla and all the other giant nuclear mutant Japanese monsters vs space aliens. Classic.
 
The vanilla DVD of 'THX' has a commentary w/ Lucas and, IIRC, Walter Murch but the fancy/shmancy one is the pick to click--one of the audio tracks is just the ambient sound F/X, which are pretty trippy....

Also, according to the commentary, this was the debut or whatever of the term 'wookie'-it was the term for the dwarfs that appear occasionally in the film
 
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