Hmmm, freaky sci fi shit


Hardware (cyberpunk thriller, gory killin, drugs)
Tesuo Iron man (you prolly already seen it. cyberpunk freakout of high order)
Event Horizon (horror sci-fi outer space killins)
Solaris (russian one space out to it, let it soak you in, no sound in space)
fifth element (what all filmed versions of Heavy metal stories wish they were)
Primer (low-budget film about time travel. very cool)
Titan A.E. (don bluth sci fi animation. cool if hokey at times. not so much killins)
Naked Lunch (not really sci fi but weird enough to mess ya up)
Galaxy Quest (spoof/satire of Trek/fandom in general. very funny.)
Tron (so dated it's new again. watch it for kicks)
The Adventures of Buckaroo banzai in the 8th dimension (weird movie, weird story, not yr normal sci fi. weirded me out as a kid)
Brazil (dystopia and totalitarian madness from themind of Gilliam)
They Live (near-future bleakness, humanity controled, roddy piper saves the day with an 8 minute fight scene.)
Pitch Black (spare story of peopel stranded on planet where the suns never go down, or does it? Violence. tension,. vin diesel)
The Cube ( harsh gory story of people trapped and tortured by their surroundings)
Ghost In The Shell (anime about how much remains human when the body is replaced slowly by machine)
Strange Days ( not perfect but crazy flick about near future where people's experiences are downloaded to sell to others so they can relive them)
Twelve Monkeys (dystopian future tries to prevent itself by tim travel back to our time. bleak and tense)
Dark City (man wakes up in the middle of the night to find his city rearranging itself around him.)
Pi (man's obsession with numbers drives him to insanity)
Gattaca (Eugenics drives humanity to new heights in which the wrong DNA can mark you for death)

just a short list of some I enjoy

i'd seen it before, years ago... but... wow. bleak.

^ Hate.

^ no, i love aronofsky's movies... but they're pretty bleak.

Different strokes. Requiem for a Dream is one of my most disliked movies.

I cannot enjoy Requiem myself.

i hadn't seen it since early 2002, the weekend before the police took me to the psych hospital in restraints on a monday morning.

Requiem = 1/10

I just wanna mention Hard Candy again. Cuz it was so fucking good and nobody said anything about it to me.

Yeah Hard Candy's alright. I'd probably give it a 7. I love Ellen Page, and the acting's great... love how minimal it is (2 people in a room for almost the entire film). Felt a bit letdown by the ending, and it's not that great of a film to watch a second time. Good film either way.

I loved it. And loved Ellen Page's acting. And thought it's minimalism both in execution (2 people, could've been a low budget play as you pointed out) and in it's horror (I've never been so freaked out at something I DIDN't see -- you KNOW what loooooooooong fucking scene I'm referring too.) PLUS, Ellen Page is super-cute, but then you feel WRONG and SCARED for thinking so. Brilliant film.

I'd bone Ellen Page all day, every day.

hahaha

Great film. Although I watched it because I LOVED Le Circle Rouge, and read that the heist scene in that was Mellville's response to the one in this (which he was originally supposed to direct instead of Dassin), and I have to say that of the two, although they're both classics, Le Circle Rouge is easily the one that blew my mind more...

The Orphanage.

it was pretty cool and creepy, but not scary at all like i thought.

Once Upon A Time In The West

Oh my god Dr. Eugene. One of my absolute top-25 favorite films ever. Fuck!

Been re-watching some stuff with the new old lady


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this brilliant beast I just got in the mail:



seriously, both seasons of the best show ever for like $15 (on amazon).

excellent. you should check out zizek's take on they live. in the mouth of madness is also another fantastic john carpenter film. i haven't seen tesuo, dark city, hardware or primer, will check them out soon.

if you haven't seen it already la jetee is a short black and white film that 12 monkeys was based on.

what about Scanners, eXistenZ, Videodrome, etc ?

scanners and videodrome I like tooooo

I don;t need to use Extenz

I'd take eXistenZ over the Matrix any time.

existenz is good too.

you know what grosses me out in the Matrix?
when they show Keanu Reeves in the matrix, his fucking 5 o'clock shadow is fucking green! it looks so gross. like he is a diseased candle.

the Matrix was pretty yawn. eXistenZ is the shiz. Remember when they made those guns out of the skeletons of those little aliens? That was badass.

rice gun

it's chicken bones! chicken!!

i roasted a turkey this past weekend that i could have made a whole cronenberg arsenal from it. i'm talking shotguns, rocket launchers, antiaircraft guns.

bones it was.

 

Never gets old, beautiful film.

eXistenZ is cool but definitely not my 'go to' when in the mood for Cronenberg.

yeah that's his worst film, I'd rather watch fast company honestly. Jude Law is awful.

Re: Rob's list. I hate Hardware and Strange Days so much. Some of those aren't sci-fi.

If you're into stuff like Tetsuo-ish cyberpunk stuff, check out DEATH POWDER, RUBBER'S LOVER, and especially PINNOCHIO 964.

bones, see:

yeah we heard ya. It's been a while since I've watched it.



fondue

i have a touch of the ocd. it's an itch i MUST scratch.

it was pornographic and had no title but i guarantee it was better than any movie already mentioned on this page.

adam, you don't like Hardware? The fuck?

I like eXistenZ quite a bit. Though I'm in the minority. I certainly think it's better and more rewatchable than say History of Violence. Not that that's a bad movie, but... jeez, even Spider is kind of boring to me in comparison.

Spider is great, though it feels like a ripoff of Clean, Shaven (one of the best films of all time).

Yeah, Hardware sucks. Didn't know it had any fans... Boring and pointless, felt like an extended version of the end of the first Terminator movie. Really just one of the most dull movies I've ever seen, only reccomendable for the weird atmosphere, the odd colors, and Iggy Pop's voice cameo.

I also hate that director's other film DUST DEVIL. Aside from a few nice experimental sequences, that has to be one of the most boring films of all time.

never saw/heard of Dust Devil.

Well, heh, you might like it, since you like Hardware.

Dust Devils is far better than Hardware, although considering how shit Hardware is that's something that could be said about almost any film.

Totally! His analysis of that film is brilliant.