Shane wrote:The Vicar wrote:Which Fly?
David Hedison or Jeff Goldblum?
David Hedison.
The Croenberg one was neat at the time, just to see a new Fly movie, but is sadly just a cheap immitation of the greatness that started it all.
The Movies went down hill in order of when they were made.
The Fly was perfect. Return of the Fly less perfect, but still cool. Croenbergs' Fly good movie. Fly II not as good but still the Fly. Now it's time for the best Fly, my fly I rambled on in the directing in your head thread.
mister six wrote:Am I alone in being an Enemy Mine fan...?
How about Hardware? Bonus points for a Lemmy cameo..
Bad Taste must surely be up there with the greats too! Laughed my arse off the first time I saw that...
RogueScribner wrote:Well, I didn't mean to pick on Aliens. I only mentioned it because it has so many votes currently. But Aliens is just an action thriller. It's a very good one, but it's neither challenging in its ideas or emotional development. Eternal Sunshine takes a wonderful what-if scenario and explores the true emotional verisimilitude of it with engaging characters and concepts that actually make you contemplate your own actions and how you conduct your life. What's important and what isn't and what it means to share a life with someone. The movie affected me on a deep personal level and I can't say that for any other film on the list. There are many good movies on that list, but none so great as Eternal Sunshine in my opinion.
monorail77 wrote:Has anyone mentioned Solaris? I thought it was pretty good. But then, I also liked Sphere (please don't kill me for that)
monorail77 wrote:edit: I also give props to Minority Report (ugh, I just know I'm slitting my own throat now...)
monorail77 wrote:Has anyone mentioned Solaris? I thought it was pretty good. But then, I also liked Sphere (please don't kill me for that)
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I really liked Minority Report...until the last 10minutes.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:monorail77 wrote:Has anyone mentioned Solaris? I thought it was pretty good. But then, I also liked Sphere (please don't kill me for that)
Tarkovsky, or Soderbergh?
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I won't kill you for liking Sphere, but I may have to go all Ludovico on you...
ZombieZoneSolutions wrote:Never underestimate Spielbergs power to completely ruin even his
most successful films with a drollop of treacle so painfully forced, it causes
Care Bears to roll their eyes in ironic-distance revulsion...
monorail77 wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:monorail77 wrote:Has anyone mentioned Solaris? I thought it was pretty good. But then, I also liked Sphere (please don't kill me for that)
Tarkovsky, or Soderbergh?
I've only seen the Soderbergh remake. How does it compare?
monorail77 wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I won't kill you for liking Sphere, but I may have to go all Ludovico on you...
Don't recognize this reference, sorry ignoramus that I am. I googled it, but came up with several possibles, none really fitting with your comment. Much obliged if you would 'splain.
The Vicar wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:
Hey, that's from my wedding night!!
You bastards!
TheButcher wrote:From io9:
Enemy Mine: the B-movie that is a parable for absolutely everything
Wolfgang cops out and plugs in a crazy-ass rescue mission in which Davidge says the word "Zammis" no less than two dozen times.
cockknocker wrote:Audition almost made one of my mates throw up, though he had been smoking a bit. I quite like it, there is some really disturbing imagery. I liked it a lot more than ichi the killer, not sure what all the fuss was about that.
One that hasn't been mentioned, Dont Look Now, i found that quite disturbing. Also thinking of Sutherland I have a lot of love for the Kaufman remake of invasion of the body snatchers. I really like Leonard Nimoy's (great to see him in a different role) and Jeff Goldblum's performances in that film.
BRIAN COLLINS wrote:It's interesting how many of the movies people tend to name-check when citing great horror remakes (even better than their originals in some cases) are actually adaptations. John Carpenter's The Thing is probably the most famous/respected, a "remake" of Christian Nyby's The Thing From Another World but really just a more faithful adaptation of the story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr. The Fly also has its roots in literature; the 1958 film (remade by David Cronenberg in 1986) was credited to a short story by author George Langelaan, and The Ring was famously based on a Japanese film (spawning an endless wave of Asian remakes, none of which lived up to Ring's acclaim or popularity), which in turn was based on a novel by Kôji Suzuki. There are exceptions, of course (Dawn of the Dead certainly comes to mind), but as I've said in a previous column, I think having a meatier source to draw from results in better remakes than when all they have is a 90 minute movie that was probably good to begin with.
But even before those above examples came along, there was a precedent set by Philip Kaufman with 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, an update of the 1956 film by Don Siegel - and both based on a published story, in this case The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (originally published as a serial; since collected as a relatively brief novel). Finney's work isn't exactly the best sci-fi novel ever written, with inconsistent character actions and cliched plot points overshadowing his intriguing (if not entirely original - Robert A. Heinlein's Puppet Masters tackled similar territory in 1951, and 1953's feature film It Came From Outer Space was an even closer cousin) concept of aliens taking over human bodies for their own mysterious purposes. By pretty much anyone's count, Siegel's film improved on the novel, casting Kevin McCarthy as the only man who has seemingly caught on to the fact that everyone is being replaced by "pod people". In an era where much of the horror and sci-fi films involved creatures or traditional space aliens, it stood out with its creepier "human" antagonists.
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