my fave movies: are, Interstellar(scifi), The Covenant (war movie, afgan) (by guy richie) Arrival (scifi) A bridge too far (war movie, WW2) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (sailing movie) Stargate (SciFi)
what about you?
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All of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, most of his Dirty Harry movies, Zardoz, Oblivion, the Ghost in the Sell animated movies, The Edge of Tomorrow, The Dead of Night, The Matrix (including the Animatrix, excluding all the sequels). The old Vincent Price/Edgar Allen Poe style horror movies.
Any of the Monty Python documentary movies, formerly known as British comedy movies. Old B-movie sci-fi from back in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Monty Python documentaries! LOL!
““I wanna have a baby!”
You must know of the Carry On movies.
Remember those old 50’s Sci-fi movies when the Martians injected alcohol into the kids? Or Earth vs the Flying saucers, where we got buzzed by saucers, and shot first?
I really do think that the 1970s were the cultural peak of the west.
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I haven’t seen those classics yet. Should definitely add them to my “check out” list!
I recall watching one about some robot kid who just wanted to be loved and went on a whole journey just to find he was one of many robots that look and acted the same.
forgot the name though.
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Watch “Zardoz.”
Pretty much everybody but me hates it, but goddamnit, it was a great movie.
“In 1992, Geoff Boucher, writing in the Los Angeles Times, felt that Boorman achieved his vision to a degree, and that “for fans of wild science fiction, the film is a trippy examination of what happens when intellect overpowers humanity and humans taste immortality”.” -(Wikipedia)
Sounds interesting!
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…a movie in which humans built starships, and discovered “another dead end.”
“Would you like to see immortality at work? Well get a move on!”
“Apathetic or renegade, take your pick.”
Ray of Sunshine, that’s me.
Gladiator, The Patriot, my al time favorite has to be The Godfather
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Flying hubcap movies. I forget which movie, but in one of them they used actual vintage wheel covers as flying saucers. I think they stuck two of them together, inside to inside. In pretty much every one of those movies, it was a local rancher, sheriff’s deputy, or the military shooting first, asking questions later. “Because it must be those evil red commie bastards up to something!”
The culture peaked in the 1980s for movies. There were quite a few good movies from that decade. Then in the 1990s, things slowly went into decline until about 2000. Then it went into Georgia overdrive. I am hoping we will get to the bottom soon, now that the criminal leftoids have started to openly show off their criminal terrorist tendencies.
I would add anything by Mel Brooks to my list. I always found it strange how my parents believed Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were serious movies. But then, The Blues Brothers went clear over their heads.
Movies by John Hughes. I have a small group of nieces. When they were old enough, I told them to watch those movies and learn something. I believe it worked. Those movies are timeless when applied properly to confused teens.
The original Red Dawn from 1984. Hollyweird hates it.
I have never heard of the Carry On movies.
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The Carry On movies are right up there with Monty Python, some of the best of old Brit comedy.
I am going to have to check those out.
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In the end, I dislike sap, and I like violence in movies, so long as the writing is good. Strange and outlandish ideas are what I really like. A good story sells itself. A few sexy broads never hurt a show.
This is why I have recently become a Jap Anime fan. I was, first and foremost, a horror fan, before I got into sci-fi. Some of the Jap anime stuff actually truly disturbed me, like Elfen Lied; Scenes of pure horror that would be borderline impossible to sell: A woman, after a difficult birthing, staggering to her husband, blood streaming down her legs, begging her husband not to murder her mutant baby; a woman, naked, being held in the air in a crucifixion pose, being dismembered by psi forces, etc. Pure fucking disturbing horror that left even me, an aficionado of horror, gawking in awestruck horror.
Even then, all this stuff doesn’t compare to the sci-fi story by Peter Watts called “Blindsight.” In that story, one of the protagonists rolls into the fetal position when he realises how smart the aliens are, and with good reason. The story is a true indictment of the human condition. To this day, it still bugs me, worse than anything else I have ever read or seen.
I guess I should add “Alien” to my favourite movies.
I’m a simple man.
Weird Science by John Hughes. Kelly LeBrock as the doll.
Is further explanation required?
I would tell my teen nieces, that is how boys are. Get used to it. You can’t change them.
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As for science fiction, I have been fed up with everything ever since JJ Abrams destroyed Star Trek and Disney destroyed Star Wars. I would sooner watch Kirk deal with this week’s space babe for the 500th time in reruns, according to the Other Prime Directive, of course.
What is the Other Prime Directive?
Women from civilized planets wear mini dresses and go-go boots. Women from uncivilized planets wear fur bikinis. Yes, I know this upsets feminists. I don’t pay them to think so I don’t care what they think.
I believe Kirk was the only Star Fleet captain to never violate the Other Prime Directive.
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TOS was great. TNG, while it had a few good stories, turned the bar-brawling sailors into corporate workers.
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Some guy made a trailer of “Blindsight”
It would make “Alien” look like a Sunday afternoon in the park.
These beasties can hide between our saccades, and read our minds/brains like we read a book, only much, much faster.
“Eventually, there won’t be any real people left, just robots pretending to give a shit.”
Jacob’s Ladder, Donnie Darko, Old Boy (Korean, not the US one), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Just to add variety 
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This only holds for movies made in the west. The Japs, Russian, Koreans, heck even the Laotians are still making good movies.
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Scent of a woman (the Italian originale movie, not that with AlPacino), Devil’s advocate, Leon, Novecento, daunbailó, the big Lebovski, Sleepers, Apocalypse now, Ghost in the Shell (cartoon, not movie), Donnie Darko and so many others, mostly old movie (included russian and germans movie from the beginning of the last century)
The Devil’s Advocate was great. Another good Pacino movie, IMHO, was “Heat.”
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