So did my grandpa, clearly remember him taking me to The Day Of The Triffids too. My grandparents lived in Long Beach and my sister and I would spend the summer there. Back at the time there were still the old movies palaces.
Really? Without the narration? I have always thought the narration adds a certain gravity, or reality to the story. I'll have to watch with the narration off to find out. Either way the movie is good.
There are quite a few really good Sci-Fi films, for various reasons. I am also not a "favorites" type. There are too many subtleties for me to pick just one favorite of just about anything. But, seeing as you said one I have to choose. 1977 Original, always to be known as just plain Star Wars to me.
There has been many versions! I've seen most of them and I think the Final Cut is the one to see. There is another version that might be the International one with graphic eye gouging etc. but isn't as good pacing wise. The narration was an unwise addition to the first American theatrical version. Versions of Blade Runner - Wikipedia
I have a few versions, including the Final Cut, but not all of the possible iterations. Still, a good movie if this sort of thing interests you.
C'mon people. Teenagers From Outer Space. 1958 Was it terrible of me that I really wanted that ray gun?
There was going to be a sequel called Fantastic Voyage: The Brain. Isaac Asimov wrote the script, Richard Fleischer was going to direct again, and two of the original actors were to return, but Fox kept putting it off, and finally the production died. Asimov rewrote his script as a novel.
I like all the sequels but Conquest is my favorite of the sequels. I watched it many times in the theater, but I had to wait like thirty years to see the original ending, which I prefer. Still, nothing beats the first film. The first Planet of the Apes remains a cultural milestone, above and beyond brilliant, a true work of art.
I don't have one. I think there's too many great ones (and way too many bad ones) but this week it's "Blade Runner".
Nah, I kind of doubt that Ridley Scott had seen this much less Phil Dick. Besides, Phil Dick and others had used the same tropes before.
Well since we're listing our favorites now (meaning more than one): My list (in no particular order aside from the first film) of fav science fiction films from the 1920's to 2019. 1. Blade Runner 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey 3. Alien 4. Children of Men 5. The Day The Earth Stood Still (the original) 6. The Time Machine (the original) 7. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (it has major problems but still love it) 8. Forbidden Planet 9. Seconds 10. Charly 11. Brazil 12. Planet of the Apes (the original) (I'm partial to ALL of the Apes films except the last original one of the series but Conquest is a close second as the best of the bunch). 13. A Boy and His Dog 14. The Prestige 15. Interstellar 16. Quatermass and The Pit 17. Star Wars 18. Arrival 19. Blade Runner 2049 20. The Road Warrior 21. The Martian 22. Ex Machina 23. Edge of Tomorrow 24. Under The Skin 25. Prometheus 26. The Matrix 27. Moon 28. Iron Man 29. The Avengers; Infinity War and Endgame 30. Captain America: Winter Soldier 31. The Abyss 32. The Terminator 33. Terminator 2 34. Aliens 35. Metropolis 36. The Thing (John Carpenter film) 37. Escape from New York 38. Solaris (Original Russian film) 39. Back to the Future 40. Minority Report 41. A Scanner Darkly 42. The Andromeda Strain 43. Logan's Run 44. Gattaca 45. Twelve Monkeys 46. A.I. 47. Akira 48. Robocop (original) 49. Starship Troopers 50. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 51. Guardians of the Galaxy 52. Inception 53. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 54. War of The Worlds (Spielberg version) 55. Paul 56. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 57. Predator 58. Gravity 59. Altered States 60. THX-1138 61. Galaxy Quest 62. A Clockwork Orange 63. Alphaville 64. The Fly 65. Shivers 66. Men in Black 67. Ghost in the Shell (the animated one) 68. Annihilation 69. Source Code 70. & 71. Invasion of the Body Snatches (both 50's and 70's versions) 72. District 9 73. The Iron Giant 74. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 75. Jurassic Park 76. Snowpiercer 77, Westworld 78. Serenity 79. True Crimes 80. Zardoz 81. Sunshine 82. Dark City 83. The Man Who Fell To Earth 84. Videodrome 85. Scanners 86. Predestination 87. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 88. Stalker 89. Pitch Black 90. Village of the Damned 91. 1984 (remake) 92. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai 93. Fantastic Voyage 94. Sleeper 95. War of the Worlds (original film) 96. Donnie Darko 97. Repo Man 98. Soylent Green 99. Fantastic Planet 100. Contact 101. Her 102. Total Recall 103. Wall-E 104. They Live 105. La Jette 106. Silent Running 107. The Last Man on Earth 108. Fahrenheit 451 109. 4D Man 110. Mysterious Island 111. The Damned 112. X-The Man with the X-Ray Eyes 113. Colossus: The Forbin Project 114. Slaughterhouse Five 115. Dr. Strangelove 116. Capricorn One 117. Demon Seed 118. Quintet 119. Time After Time 120. Outland 121. Starman 122. Explorers 123. Lifeforce (as absurd as it is, it's fun) 124. The Quiet Earth 125. The Hidden 126. The Rocketeer 127. Cube 128. Screamers 129. The Incredible Shrinking Man 130. The Quatermass Xperiment 131. 20000 Leagues Under The Sea 132. It Came From Outer Space 133. Quatermass II 134. Phase IV 135.
I'd love to see this on Blu-ray with a restoration (two versions-one with the wires digitally cleaned up and those without for purists).
