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Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: Uncle Mort on April 28, 2008, 12:48:55 PM
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Now showing cloud9:
However I caught a bit of "The Core" yesterday ~ unadulerated crap.
Tonight:
18:55 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
21:00 I, Robot
23:05 The Fly
50 Science Fiction Films To See Before You Die (http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/feature.jsp?V=12&SV=-1&id=163138)
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I thought I robot was shite... I liked The Fly tho...
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First two are pants, but I agree The Fly is worth a watch.
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I like 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'
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I like 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'
Hmmmm rubschin:
Would that be Paltrow or Jolie?
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I'm not sure some of the ones on that list are sci-fi. Not what I would class as sci-fi anyway.
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I like 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'
Hmmmm rubschin:
Would that be Paltrow or Jolie?
Yes redface:
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I like 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'
Hmmmm rubschin:
Would that be Paltrow or Jolie?
Both, preferably at the same time.. cool14:
Bloody hell, I've seen all but three films on that top 50 list eeek:
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I've seen quite a lot too and I don't class myself as a sci fi fan!
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The patrons of The Off Topic cause page meltdown !!
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I like 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'
Hmmmm rubschin:
Would that be Paltrow or Jolie?
Yes redface:
noooo:
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I like 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'
Hmmmm rubschin:
Would that be Paltrow or Jolie?
Yes redface:
Should I send him into melt-down with a full frontal of Paltrow?
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Do you really think I want to see that?
Macrobiotic flat as a pancake blonde!
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I wouldnt call Battle Royale a sci-fi
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Do you really think I want to see that?
Macrobiotic flat as a pancake blonde!
And not a real blonde either eyes:
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I wouldnt call Battle Royale a sci-fi
I wouldn't call the 1930s Frankenstein sci-fi either.
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I wouldnt call Battle Royale a sci-fi
I wouldn't call the 1930s Frankenstein sci-fi either.
More of a docu-drama in 30's Germany perhaps?
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I wouldnt call Battle Royale a sci-fi
I wouldn't call the 1930s Frankenstein sci-fi either.
Having seen some of the locals in the out of the way cornish villages I'd have said it was a documentary eeek:
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I wouldnt call Battle Royale a sci-fi
I wouldn't call the 1930s Frankenstein sci-fi either.
But it is. Although it's difficult to get a precise definition of Science Fiction, Frankenstien contains at it's core the construction and animation of a being using scientific principles and the consequences thereafter. Very much a SF theme.
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It is based on a novel by Shelley! It can't be sci-fi. It is predominantly a classic adaptation.
Although it could be considered in part sci-fi thematically it is far more than that.
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It is based on a novel by Shelley! It can't be sci-fi. It is predominantly a classic adaptation.
Although it could be considered in part sci-fi thematically it is far more than that.
Why can't a 'classic' be sci-fi? Mary Shelley's novel is pure science fiction. Read this (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2961480.ece)
It (sci-fi) is the most vivid and direct chronicler of our anxieties about the world and ourselves, what Mary Shelley called “the mysterious fears of our nature”. It was Shelley’s Frankenstein that was, Aldiss argues in his superb history of the genre, Billion Year Spree, the first true SF novel. Her big idea – and it is the big idea that haunts all SF – was that our imperious ingenuity would backfire horribly. Frankenstein’s monster runs amok, the Skynet computer in the Terminator films decides to destroy humanity, Philip K Dick’s robots think they are human, and his humans fear they might be robots
There was this couplet back in the 60s when SF was breaking into mainstream literature.
"It's no good," they bellow till we're deaf.
"But this looks good."--"Well, then, it's not SF!"
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It is based on a novel by Shelley! It can't be sci-fi. It is predominantly a classic adaptation.
Although it could be considered in part sci-fi thematically it is far more than that.
Using the same logic though Wenchy one of the most famous classic sci-fi films of all time wouldnt fit either. Forbidden Planet was based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'.
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True. rubschin:
I am having to rethink my personal classification of these things.
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It is based on a novel by Shelley! It can't be sci-fi.
Agreed, in fact I didn't know she wrote at all.
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doh:
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True. rubschin:
I am having to rethink my personal classification of these things.
I stayed up far too late last night watching The Fly; a distant tribute to Kafka's Metamorphosis, so I think it's grey area confused:
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True. rubschin:
I am having to rethink my personal classification of these things.
I stayed up far too late last night watching The Fly; a distant tribute to Kafka's Metamorphosis, so I think it's grey area confused:
Which of Franz's works covered the agony of watching late night TV then?
His inspiration to Roddenberry in the creation of Spock was also the stuff of legend.
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See! We can all do pretentious
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See! We can all do pretentious
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