Published on 12, July, 2020
Hey.
What are your favourite SF movies ever?
Here are mine, in no particular order:
Moon. Directed by Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son
Blade Runner. The first one, that is, though I enjoyed the 2049 too.
Brooding, noir. The book if anything is even better.
Logan' Run Yes I know, an oldie. But it sticks in the mind. Time is short.
.........and never more so than with Never Let me Go. An idyllic boarding school is where the spare-part clones grow up
Space Odyssey 2001. Yes I know computers evelved way beyond this stage
The Time Machine. Very innovative shooting for the, erm, time.
Alien. Despite all the prequels and sequels, this is still the absolute best
Quatermass and the Pit. Good and spooky.
Solaris The second one. How not to make first contact.
Ex Machina. Here, the CEO who plays Feletto really an absolute jerk, all said and done.
Agree or not? What are your favourites?
Galaxy Quest
The Fifth Element
Star Wars ep.4 - A New Hope
The Day The Earth Stood Still (original one)
Star Trek IV - The Journey Home
Star Trek - First Contact
Star Trek - the reboot with Chris Pine from 2009
Surrogates (Bruce Willis)
The Martian
Moon (Sam Rockwell)
Well I watched The Martian.
There was a Robinson Crusoe element to the story. Potato patches on Mars.
There was a joy in shooting the spaceships and the Martian surface, interestingly all done in Budapest, as with Blade runner Two, though no rowing Hungarian neighbours depicted in this one.
Poo happens, poo was the solution to problems in some cases: it was certainly a very optimistic flick. Less about people messing up and more about working well together. I would rather see humans dreaming of going into space than willy-waving nukes and helping burn up the planet with bush fires, which is what is happening at the moment. I wonder if we will get to Mars in time?
I do enjoy Trek.
One thing I haven't got round to watching is The Martian, I have heard it's good