I like "They Live" - a John Carpenter flick, and "Prince of Darkness" and this other movie "The Wicker Man." As well as "Zardoz."
----- Original Message ----- From: "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Blade Runner (was Re: Do you know the name of this movie?) --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > What makes both "Blade Runner" and "Alien" remarkable films is that > > their science-fictionyness is really secondary; what the director > > does in both films is concentrate on atmosphere and mood and > > interweave a great story, dialogue and characters within the > > atmosphere he has created. The futuristic stuff really is just > > props that serve to support all the important stuff. > > Exactly. > > For a science fiction future to feel real, it has > to feel "lived in," as if the characters were living > in it and interacting with it the way we live in our > time, with almost no thought to the surroundings. I > agree with you completely about Blade Runner and Alien; > that's part of the secret of why they're such good films. > > That's why Firefly/Serenity is so cool. Serenity (the > ship) becomes almost a tenth character, the "glue" that > holds them together. It's old and patched-up and barely > does its job, but it does its job. It's the machine > counterpart of the outlaws who live in it, all of them > trying to find some meaning in living outside the law > on the fringes of an oppressive universe. > > Sometimes you don't even need many props or special > effects to create a believable, "lived in" SciFi universe. > "A Boy and His Dog" Gosh! I haven't thought about that movie in about 25 years! It's the movie that made Don Johnson famous. > springs to mind, as does "Twelve > Monkeys" and the film it's based on, "La Jetée." ...loved "12 Monkeys". Although Netflix, to their credit, has "A boy and his Dog", they don't have "La Jetee". > If a > SciFi film has to rely on its special effects to reach > an audience, it probably won't. Case in point, the fourth > Star Wars film, of which one wag of a critic said, "You > know you're in trouble as a director when your CGI actors > are more interesting than your human ones." > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
