Are These the Movies We've Been Waiting For?

[Kurdt]

And then they discovered that 666 really wasn't the number of the beast.

 

[Gokul43201]

And then they discovered that 666 really wasn't the number of the beast.

And along comes my fellow QI-mate!

 

[Kurdt]

And along comes my fellow QI-mate!

Well its a good show

 

[Quaoar]

The preview for 23 made me roll my eyes 23 times. I hate numerology.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I've been scouring the Sci Fi shelves at the video store while my wife is out of town. Along with Solaris, I ran across another one that I had never heard about before but really liked - Brazil. It doesn't quite meet the high standard that Solaris does, but it is certainly a unique film and worth the watch.

Brazil (first released on February 20, 1985 in France) is a dystopic black comedy feature film directed by Monty Python member Terry Gilliam. It was written by Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. It stars Jonathan Pryce, and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. Co-writer McKeown also has a small role.

Jack Mathews, movie critic and author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), characterized the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving [Gilliam] crazy all his life."[1]

...Beginning "somewhere in the 20th century" at 8:49PM, the retro-futuristic world of Brazil is a gritty, post-apocalyptic, urban landscape in which terrorist attacks, counter-terrorist measures and a bureaucratic quagmire make everyday life difficult...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(film )

Retro-futuristic sounds right... I didn't know what to call it! It is also a satire about the information age.

Tom Stoppard also wrote one of my favorite plays - Arcadia.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I also watched what must be one of the worst SciFi movies of all time - Dark Star. Most of the movie is not even worth mentioning, but the last ten minutes were funny. The mission of the deep space planet destroyer, Dark Star, is to seek out potentially habitable solar systems, and to destroy planets that occupy unstable orbits in those sytems. The crew of Dark Star does this by using the very intelligent [to be point of being conversational] Thermostellar bombs.

A systems failure results in a failed launch of bomb number twenty, which then refuses to cancel the scheduled detonation. The bomb explains that it has valid orders to detonate, so that's what it is going to do. So in a last ditch effort to avoid disaster, the commander of the ship challenges Bomb to prove that it exists - he introduces the bomb to Descarte! At the last second, Bomb Twenty realizes that it can never be sure that any order is valid, so it stops the countdown to ponder the paradox.

Unfortunately, Bomb Twenty eventually concludes that it must be God, and therefore declares: "Let there be light!"

 

[Kurdt]

I also watched what must be one of the worst SciFi movies of all time - Dark Star. Most of the movie is not even worth mentioning, but the last ten minutes were funny. The mission of the deep space planet destroyer, Dark Star, is to seek out potentially habitable solar systems, and to destroy planets that occupy unstable orbits in those sytems. The crew of Dark Star does this by using the very intelligent [to be point of being conversational] Thermostellar bombs.

A systems failure results in a failed launch of bomb number twenty, which then refuses to cancel the scheduled detonation. The bomb explains that it has valid orders to detonate, so that's what it is going to do. So in a last ditch effort to avoid disaster, the commander of the ship challenges Bomb to prove that it exists - he introduces the bomb to Descarte! At the last second, Bomb Twenty realizes that it can never be sure that any order is valid, so it stops the countdown to ponder the paradox.

Unfortunately, Bomb Twenty eventually concludes that it must be God, and therefore declares: "Let there be light!"

the whole bomb with intelligence concept and having to negotiate with it makes it sound a worth while watch as a comedy for me.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

the whole bomb with intelligence concept and having to negotiate with it makes it sound a worth while watch as a comedy for me.

I wouldn't have posted such a spoiler if the rest of the movie wasn't so completely worthless, but if you must... I hope you enjoy the thirty minutes of battle between a crewman, and a beach ball with penguin feet.

 

[Curious3141]

My, uh, girlfriend and I are always joking about the plot of every Mel Gibson movie: Man has his family either threatened or killed, giving him an excuse to go ape**** in exacting bloody revenge.

True, except for The Passion.

We Were Soldiers doesn't fit either.

Another exception : Payback. In Payback, no one in his family is killed/threatened, in fact, his wife is the one doing the near-lethal betrayal here. Payback's a pretty cool movie.

I guess Lethal Weapon sort of counts : his wife had been murdered, then his "surrogate family" got threatened/kidnapped, so it sort of fits the pattern. Much more obvious in the sequels : LW2 had his current gf being murdered (and the revelation that the same baddies had done in his wife years back), then the threats to the pregnant partner in the later sequels, etc. etc.

But the rest pretty much fit : Mad Max, Braveheart, The Patriot, even Ransom (murder by proxy of the kidnappers).

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

the jim carey movie 23 looks kind of interesting

hint:2 divided by 3 is?

~0.66666666666666666666666666666667 according to my windows calculator

 

[Huckleberry]

I just saw two quirky movies that I really enjoyed.

Six String Samurai - A man reminiscent of Buddy Hollly must travel to Lost Vegas to claim the kingdom of Elvis. On his journey he chops up a bunch of stuff with his sword and throws in a bunch of cheesy 50's era one liners.

Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) - I've always been a big fan of any zombie movie, even bad ones. This one is disturbing in so many ways. It's more of a psychological horror than a zombie thriller. In the whole movie only one person is killed by a zombie at all. Only the cemetary keeper and his companion Nagi know about the zombies. The movie opens with a zombie walking into the keeper's house and he nonchalantly blasts him with his revolver as he steps out of the shower. He thinks he doesn't get paid enough because he has to bury the dead twice, but is afraid of losing his job if he tells the mayor about the problem at this cemetary. I laughed my rear end off at this movie.