I like "Dune" even though it makes no sense and deviates massively from the original book.
I love the dune film and think its reasonably close to the book and makes quite a lot of sense, unlike the later books in the dune series wich go right over my head.
Eyes behind the stars
Voyage to a prehistoric planet(Basil Rathbone!)
Journey to the center of time
Neophites and neon lights (this is the crazy one with the pee theraphy to lenghten peoples lives)
Abraxas(Try guessing why I like this movie)
I love the dune film and think its reasonably close to the book and makes quite a lot of sense, unlike the later books in the dune series wich go right over my head.
Dune is ace! Certainly one of ze best filmz ever made. Sticks very close to the book, and even betters it (Frank Herbert himself also said it was better than the book!)
Personally, I felt the Dune film was better than the critics portrayed it. Plenty of symbolism, some good special FX (particularly the shield belts), Patrick Stewart as Gurney Hallack, and of course a giant slug...
One of my all-time favourite films. Watched it every day for about 6 months. Not crap at all. Nice truck! (re-used in Apex!)
Damnation Alley was ace. I too remember thinking the truck was ace. I also remember the kid with the catapult and the cockroaches eating that blokes arm when he puts it down the drain!!! I'm going to see if I can find a torrent of it right away!!!
Personally, I felt the Dune film was better than the critics portrayed it. Plenty of symbolism, some good special FX (particularly the shield belts), Patrick Stewart as Gurney Hallack, and of course a giant slug...
It was about a group of tripped out hippies blowing up unstable planets.
Except that, because of a laser malfunction, one of the bombs keeps getting primed and lowered out of the ship - only to have it's mission routinely aborted. And it doesn't like this state of affairs and the crew have to try to stop it detonating using philosophy.
I think I've seen that Dark Star I watched it on TV late one night I think? I was probably out of my tree as well as I remember laughing my head off at it, but I wasn't sure if it was actually supposed to be funny?
I think I've seen that Dark Star I watched it on TV late one night I think? I was probably out of my tree as well as I remember laughing my head off at it, but I wasn't sure if it was actually supposed to be funny?
I've never watched it. Sorry. Always wanted to, but never have :(
So you lack motivation, perhaps you should just do it, not just prognosticate, just deliberate, motivate, gyrate, gesticulate, not stagnate or migrate ( unless you live in Bognor, then you should migrate ) Oh I have just remembered, you do live in Bognor!
Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
Star Odyssey was quite good for that time, it was meant to be serrious sci-fi problematics.
I remember some parliament votes in 90s here some political party chosed the theme song from this film for their hustings. Perfect contrast between this music and the people on the screen in their TV shot :-)
Dark Star is an extraordinary film to watch now. At the time (1974), it was a bit of a stoner comedy, but now you can see the massive influence it had.
The discussion with the bomb is a bit of a take on 2001 (I was surprised to find that was made in 1968), but there's a daft beach-ball like alien interloper on the ship in the over-sized ducts, where the sub-plot is the obvious inspiration for Alien to do it a lot more viciously.
The grubby control panels and low-tech controls in a futuristic starship are the obvious inspiration for all the Alien films.
There's even an external shot of the ship, showing the comms dome, while a beeped message is transmitted. It looks for all the world like it has R2D2 in the back, 3 years before Star Wars had Astromech droid mounts on the outside of the ship.
but there's a daft beach-ball like alien interloper on the ship in the over-sized ducts, where the sub-plot is the obvious inspiration for Alien to do it a lot more viciously.
The grubby control panels and low-tech controls in a futuristic starship are the obvious inspiration for all the Alien films.
Well Sgt Pinback is played by the late Dan O'Bannon - who went to co-write the original screenplay for Alien.
Battle Beyond the Stars is a great film. I made LEGO models of all the ships for a Sci-fi display at Leicester's space museum. We had a system where you could send an SMS message to a laptop under the table and it would play the theme and make Nestor light up. (Among other things - you could make an AT-AT walk or War of the Worlds tripods scan round).
It had a great cast, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard (a drunk cowboy), John Saxon and a super score by James Horner he self-plagariased massively for Star Trek 2.
Don't forget art, miniatures & photography by James Cameron. One of the producers (Gale Anne Hurd) is a name you'll see on a lot of blockbuster credits too.
Don't forget art, miniatures & photography by James Cameron. One of the producers (Gale Anne Hurd) is a name you'll see on a lot of blockbuster credits too.
Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd were once married to each other fact fans!
I love the dune film and think its reasonably close to the book and makes quite a lot of sense, unlike the later books in the dune series wich go right over my head.
I'm a David Lynch fan and enjoyed the film, but It makes several critical changes to the plot of the book which I take serious issue with. I'll spare you the fanboy rant, but the purging of some of the more interesting metaphysical elements and replacing them with technology (e.g. the "weirding" modules) and the ridiciulous conclusion where it rains.
I do agree that the books quite quickly go off-track after the 2nd...
Again, the film Alien drew it's inspiration from part of the premise...
The plot:
1: A distress beacon is picked up by a rocket-ship.
2: It lands on Mars? where a derelict alien vessel is discovered.
3: Inside the ship is the calcified remains of the pilot - He's HUUUGE!
4: It become apparent that he's the victim of SPACE VAMPIRES!
5: Arrgh, look out, they're everywhere!
6: Returning to the ship, they discover that one of the crewmen is infected.
7: Now the Vampire is loose onboard the rocket, slowly turning the crew into mindless slaves!
I've got a sneaky feeling that I've asked this on here before.
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I love the dune film and think its reasonably close to the book and makes quite a lot of sense, unlike the later books in the dune series wich go right over my head.
Eyes behind the stars
Voyage to a prehistoric planet(Basil Rathbone!)
Journey to the center of time
Neophites and neon lights (this is the crazy one with the pee theraphy to lenghten peoples lives)
Abraxas(Try guessing why I like this movie)
One of my all-time favourite films. Watched it every day for about 6 months. Not crap at all. Nice truck! (re-used in Apex!)
Dune is ace! Certainly one of ze best filmz ever made. Sticks very close to the book, and even betters it (Frank Herbert himself also said it was better than the book!)
Ooh, look - double post, how naughty!
Damnation Alley was ace. I too remember thinking the truck was ace. I also remember the kid with the catapult and the cockroaches eating that blokes arm when he puts it down the drain!!! I'm going to see if I can find a torrent of it right away!!!
Slug! slug!. thats no slug its a giant penis.
Dark Star, Classic John Carpenter!!! :D
it was about a group of tripped out hippies blowing up unstable planets...and it was about 86mins.... and I have the LP....
Except that, because of a laser malfunction, one of the bombs keeps getting primed and lowered out of the ship - only to have it's mission routinely aborted. And it doesn't like this state of affairs and the crew have to try to stop it detonating using philosophy.
Yes it was. Supposed to be funny.
"Bombed out in space, with a spaced out bomb."
So you lack motivation, perhaps you should just do it, not just prognosticate, just deliberate, motivate, gyrate, gesticulate, not stagnate or migrate ( unless you live in Bognor, then you should migrate ) Oh I have just remembered, you do live in Bognor!
Idaho Transfer
I always remember Martin Landau uttering those imortal words - "We ain't alone!"
Star Odyssey was quite good for that time, it was meant to be serrious sci-fi problematics.
I remember some parliament votes in 90s here some political party chosed the theme song from this film for their hustings. Perfect contrast between this music and the people on the screen in their TV shot :-)
Aliens with killer CDs!
I saw this when it was last on telly - yep, it's soo much like Predator, just a bit long-winded! The ending is cool tho. I got it on a VHS somewhere.
The discussion with the bomb is a bit of a take on 2001 (I was surprised to find that was made in 1968), but there's a daft beach-ball like alien interloper on the ship in the over-sized ducts, where the sub-plot is the obvious inspiration for Alien to do it a lot more viciously.
The grubby control panels and low-tech controls in a futuristic starship are the obvious inspiration for all the Alien films.
There's even an external shot of the ship, showing the comms dome, while a beeped message is transmitted. It looks for all the world like it has R2D2 in the back, 3 years before Star Wars had Astromech droid mounts on the outside of the ship.
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Well Sgt Pinback is played by the late Dan O'Bannon - who went to co-write the original screenplay for Alien.
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Don't forget art, miniatures & photography by James Cameron. One of the producers (Gale Anne Hurd) is a name you'll see on a lot of blockbuster credits too.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd were once married to each other fact fans!
I'm a David Lynch fan and enjoyed the film, but It makes several critical changes to the plot of the book which I take serious issue with. I'll spare you the fanboy rant, but the purging of some of the more interesting metaphysical elements and replacing them with technology (e.g. the "weirding" modules) and the ridiciulous conclusion where it rains.
I do agree that the books quite quickly go off-track after the 2nd...
He's always on the lookout for future ex-mrs cameron's apparently.
*Edit - Actually, those last two aren't crap sci-fi at all...they're really good! So are the other two, but in a different way...*
Again, the film Alien drew it's inspiration from part of the premise...
The plot:
1: A distress beacon is picked up by a rocket-ship.
2: It lands on Mars? where a derelict alien vessel is discovered.
3: Inside the ship is the calcified remains of the pilot - He's HUUUGE!
4: It become apparent that he's the victim of SPACE VAMPIRES!
5: Arrgh, look out, they're everywhere!
6: Returning to the ship, they discover that one of the crewmen is infected.
7: Now the Vampire is loose onboard the rocket, slowly turning the crew into mindless slaves!
I've got a sneaky feeling that I've asked this on here before.