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  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited April 2006
    OH GOD

    OUR FRIENDSHIP HAS NEVER BEEN SO ENDANGERED

    I expected better discernment in watching movies from you, Mario! :(!
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited April 2006
    Actually, I liked Armageddon.









    When I was five! Zing!
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    We should watch Omega Man at some point.
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    Sorry, I thought B-movies were going to be standard fare in this SCIENCE! movie-watching group.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    It looks like you've been outvoted on that one though.

    Omega Man is definitely worth a look. We can run mysterious virus month with that, The Andromeda Strain, 28 days later and something else I can't think of right now.
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    In that case, I insist that we watch The Day The Earth Stood Still.
  • Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
    edited April 2006
    The only movie that comes to mind when I think mysterious virus is "Outbreak". But I don't know, that might be a bit too entertaining in it's own right for the group.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    Looks good to me. In an incredibly bad sort of way.

    EDIT: That was in response to Mario, but a monkey running around with a deadly virus may just work too.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    Would the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra be too obscure for this?

    And I think the "The Stand" miniseries would count as a "mysterious virus" movie.
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    I hope not, I love that movie!

    Jon, you don't like my suggestion? It's about as classic and important-to-the-genre sci-fi as they come! Plus, it's where the phrase "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto" comes from (seen later on in the not-quite-as-classic Army Of Darkness).
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    Is this what you're talking about?

    Mario, I'm all about the watching of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Because the premise seems hilairous.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    We should also watch Forbidden Planet and count the number of things the Star Trek people totally ripped off from that movie.
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    Forbidden Planet is another excellent classic sci-fi film. Turns out Leslie Nielsen used to have roles that weren't in genre parodies!
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    Yeah, it was weird seeing him with not-white hair too.
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited April 2006
    What about the movie version of Farenheit 415?
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited April 2006
    Takeru wrote:
    What about the movie version of Farenheit 415?
    I back this up because I always kinda wanted to see that movie.
  • LangLang
    edited April 2006
    Is it a prequel to Farenheit 451?
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    Farenheit 415: The temperature at which paper smoulders.
  • FangédFaerieFangédFaerie
    edited April 2006
    We should do that on a banned book holiday. You know, when libraries across the country display banned books, etc...

    Or not.

    Yes, I'm alive. Just a bit worn out. :)
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    I have no idea what anyone is talking about anymore.
  • godgod
    edited April 2006
    banned book holiday? what does that have to do with SCIENCE! movies?
  • FangédFaerieFangédFaerie
    edited April 2006
    I'm referring to movies based on banned books. Such as Farenheit 451, 1984, etc...

    I thought crazy, spur-of-the-moment ideas were WELCOME here? Sigh.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited April 2006
    Farenheit 451 was banned? We had to read that for English class four years ago.

    It was also one of the worst books I've ever read, but everyone else seems to like it, so maybe I was just distracted. Or maybe my English teacher was trying to hard to make up symbolisms and having us memorize them.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    Maybe we should watch Equilibrium instead. It's basically Farenheit 451 with kung-fu gunfights anyway.
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited April 2006
    A lot of people say Equilibrium is about 1984, but I think it's a lot more like Farenheit 451. Perhaps Farenheit 451 is essentially the same as 1984.
  • WafflesWaffles
    edited April 2006
    I liked the kung fu gunfights.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    All I know is that Equilibrium is a completely kick-arse movie.

    But for now I pretty much have enough movies to last us through until the end of the year.

    I'll organise and post them at some point this week.

    Feel free to continue discussing movies in general over here though. I do like a good posting-spree.
  • WafflesWaffles
    edited April 2006
    Some parts of equilibrium are really good. But the last 20 minutes really lost me, no matter how much gun kung fu they put in there. I felt like it pandered to me in a way that I was ultimately really dissatisfied with.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    In the sense that it all turned out all right in the end?

    Or the fact that the fight scenes went up to absurdo-death-brawls during that last part?
  • WafflesWaffles
    edited April 2006
    both!

    it clearly didn't turn out right in the end, he just killed some dude. There had to be a bunch of people waiting to take his place.

    also, he was dressed up in a white uniform and had a ninja sword, and they were serious about it.

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