Tag: movie
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Pacific Rim (Dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
Pacific Rim (Dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2013) Sometimes a movie comes out of Hollywood that is everything that Hollywood should always be- perfect entertainment for the masses. Unfortunately, too often Hollywood churns out rehashes of mediocre material trying to cash in on the “fan” audience. See Lone Ranger for a current example. But Pacific Rim is…
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes Review
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt, 2011) Rise of the Planet of the Apes is easily one of the best prequels in movie history, but let’s compare it to something more worthy. This, in my opinion, is almost equal to the original Planet of the Apes movie. It enhances the viewing of…
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Oblivion Review
Oblivion (Dir. Joseph Kosinski, 2013) What can I say except this is surely a sci-fi meant to sink into Oblivion. But that’s too easy. Oblivion does star my favorite actor, Tom Cruise, who has never been in a great science fiction film. I will rewatch Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, but with that terrible reunion…
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The earliest film version of Frankenstein (1910)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcLxsOJK9bs I was watching the first episode of Prophets of Science Fiction, which is about Mary Shelley. Her novel, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus can be argued to be the first fully realized work of science fiction. And linked here is the first adaptation of Frankenstein into a motion picture, created by the Edison company.…
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Time Travel and 12 Monkeys
In general, I have has major issues with the over simplification of time travel in movies. I feel that one must have sufficient influence to dramatically change the course of history. Now, yes, traveling back in time does have a significant impact. But does stepping on a plant really cause world war 5? How many…
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Solaris Meditations
Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky I recently re-watched my favorite science fiction film, Solaris, by Andrei Tarkovsky (not to be confused with Steven Soderbergh’s George Clooney version). This is my second favorite movie, second only to Federico Fellini’s 8 ½. The reason why I love 8 ½ so much is that it is a perfect representation…
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I never was a Star Wars fan…
I never was a Star Wars fan… See what Alec Guinness thought about being in Star Wars. http://io9.com/5974242/alec-guinness-thought-star-wars-was-fairytale-rubbish-and-harrison-fords-first-name-was-tennyson?popular=true Someday I will re-watch the movies and let you know if anything changes. Star Trek forever!
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The Final Frontier: Mission Statement
Why have I always loved science fiction? There must be an origin. My 90’s were marked with alien posters, electricity balls, lava lamps, and glow in the dark stars. Had I been abducted by the X-files? (Haha) When I was old enough to first appreciate movies I gravitated toward science fiction. My “holy trinity” of…
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