View Full Version : New "UFO" movie with Gillain Anderson
BushMasterBoy
07-25-2018, 14:39
Last alien flick I saw was "Arrival". Main message from that film was the cryptic "Use the weapon". I wonder what this is going to be like? I always thought the X-Files was lame and always left you wondering. Maybe this will be better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxUcHrPhewY
My impression of Arrival was "We've got 55 different variations of the standard Hollywood love story, let's toss some aliens into this one." Just like Titanic, Pearl Harbor, All Dogs Go to Heaven, A Fast & Furious Christmas Special: Snowkyo Drift, etc.
Either way, I always welcome good sci-fi movies. When was the last one, District 9? Sphere? Event Horizon?
Speaking of which, anyone seen the original 1973 Westworld? Was it any good?
My impression of Arrival was "We've got 55 different variations of the standard Hollywood love story, let's toss some aliens into this one." Just like Titanic, Pearl Harbor, All Dogs Go to Heaven, A Fast & Furious Christmas Special: Snowkyo Drift, etc.
Either way, I always welcome good sci-fi movies. When was the last one, District 9? Sphere? Event Horizon?
Speaking of which, anyone seen the original 1973 Westworld? Was it any good?
I liked it, but then again, I'm a fan of Yul Brynnyr.
I thought they wrecked Arrival with the love story angle.
What's with redheads and Sci-fi movies by the way? I'm not complaining, but I think it's interesting.
Here is another one, but seems more AI fears than aliens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTfqVFTOYjY
Here is another one, but seems more AI fears than aliens.
HAL 2.0
Yep. I think it's funny that the universal symbol of good robot is blue, and bad robot is red.
Have any of you seen “Moon” with Sam Rockwell, 2009 release? Just watched it on Netflix, really liked it.
Aloha_Shooter
07-25-2018, 18:57
I LOVED the original 1973 "Westworld". Hated "Event Horizon", it wasn't good SF or good horror, just a lame attempt to be the next Alien IMO.
IMO, the last genuinely good SF movie was "Ghost in the Shell" (I still prefer the original anime but was pleasantly surprised at how well the live action worked). Prior to that, maybe "Interstellar".
Interstellar was great. Event Horizon was more horror than Sci-stuff, but I liked the setting and it holds a special place in my heart. What's another good horror/sci-fi? Fire In The Sky? Leprechaun 4?
I even liked Cowboys vs Aliens since the juxtaposition between the genres was refreshing.
What do you think of the HBO Westworld?
Glad to hear the new Ghost in the Shell was good. I didn't think it would be, so didn't make an effort to see it.
LOL- I loved Event Horizon. More horror than sci-fi, but still great fun.
I tried with Ghost in the Shell. I wanted to like it. I just couldn't get into it.
It's been a long time since I saw Fire in the Sky, but I recall really liking it. Then again, I like DB Sweeney.
For watchable sci-fi series, I'd suggest: Stranger Things, Altered Carbon, Black Mirror, and even Orphan Black.
Sci-Fi movies: I'll have to get back to you on this. I know I've seen some recently, but I am drawing a blank right now.
Jeepers Creepers is a fun scifi horror movie.
colorider
07-26-2018, 09:18
have tried to watch Arrival several times. Just does not do it for me. SLOW moving and boring as hell. I prefer less chatter and more splatter in sci fi movies.
Jeepers Creepers is a fun scifi horror movie.
I also wrote this one off as being the classic summer blockbuster movie that would make me grimace. Is it decent then?
I also wrote this one off as being the classic summer blockbuster movie that would make me grimace. Is it decent then?
I wouldn't consider it a blockbuster, but it's decently paced, if not a bit campy. The villain is interesting in how it hunts the main characters.
No love for Prometheus ? Or Covenant or whatever it was called ? Some things I would have liked to have seen different, but I liked seeing how the xenomorph came be be.
I think I saw the one after Prometheus, and I did not like it.
I think I saw the one after Prometheus, and I did not like it.
Yea I didn’t like the second one as much. Just the part where is shows the blonde dude creating the “alien”
My impression of Arrival was "We've got 55 different variations of the standard Hollywood love story, let's toss some aliens into this one." Just like Titanic, Pearl Harbor, All Dogs Go to Heaven, A Fast & Furious Christmas Special: Snowkyo Drift, etc.
Either way, I always welcome good sci-fi movies. When was the last one, District 9? Sphere? Event Horizon?
Speaking of which, anyone seen the original 1973 Westworld? Was it any good?
IMO, Plan 9 From Outer Space was the last good UFO flick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukRYsYPmo
Aloha_Shooter
07-27-2018, 08:23
LOL- I loved Event Horizon. More horror than sci-fi, but still great fun.
I tried with Ghost in the Shell. I wanted to like it. I just couldn't get into it.
It's been a long time since I saw Fire in the Sky, but I recall really liking it. Then again, I like DB Sweeney.
For watchable sci-fi series, I'd suggest: Stranger Things, Altered Carbon, Black Mirror, and even Orphan Black.
Sci-Fi movies: I'll have to get back to you on this. I know I've seen some recently, but I am drawing a blank right now.
Yeah, different strokes for different folks. I've never been much for horror movies (as opposed to thrillers ... big difference) and Event Horizon just didn't make any sense to me. Most of the people who were originally opposed to the live action Ghost in the Shell (like me, originally) were fans of the original anime movie. I was against it because I really hate the Hollywood thing about redoing classic movies that were done perfectly before, even in the case of turning anime into live action. However, I was impressed with how much of the original movie they wove in and even the alterations were self-consistent. If you never saw the original, you probably wouldn't have appreciated any of that. Ghost in the Shell is really a thinking person's story with some action and skintight outfits (on the women) thrown in for fan service but it's really a venture into the question of what constitutes life and personality.
No love for Prometheus ? Or Covenant or whatever it was called ? Some things I would have liked to have seen different, but I liked seeing how the xenomorph came be be.
Ugh, no. I think the alien was much scarier when it had unknown origins. The thought that there might be more of them out there, just waiting, lingering for decades, added whole dimensions to the terror of the creature. I thought providing a terrestrial origin in fairly recent years took away from all that.
No love for Prometheus ? Or Covenant or whatever it was called ? Some things I would have liked to have seen different, but I liked seeing how the xenomorph came be be.
Yea I didn’t like the second one as much. Just the part where is shows the blonde dude creating the “alien”
Which makes no sense, because in Prometheus, in the room with all the goo canisters, there is a mural of the xenomorph.
https://i.imgur.com/hGSqY.jpg
No love for Prometheus ? Or Covenant or whatever it was called ? Some things I would have liked to have seen different, but I liked seeing how the xenomorph came be be.
I was stoked to see Prometheus in the theater.
Then after I walked out of the theater, I was annoyed and disappointed at how plot hole-eriffic it was (to say nothing of the fact that it's basically a rehash of a bunch of books that Erick von Dannegan* wrote in the 1980s).
Then I stumbled across the following video that basically sums up just how idiotic that movie is.
Some language is NSFW, so don't watch around kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0
*I don't care how you spell his name.
That review is so on target. The only question that has an answer is the one asking why they want to kill us. It's pretty heavily implied that, as they were our creator, and they were last seen about 2000 years ago, that when they came to check in on us, we nailed the guy to a piece of wood.
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