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tom_hobbes

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Just for posting details of films due for release, makes it an easy place to come for genre related film news.<br /><br />To kick things off, this one looks quite interesting:<br /><br />http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/childrenofmen/ <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>
 
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derekmcd

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I'm looking forward to this one:<br /><br />http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thefountain/<br /><br />I like Aronofsky... Pi is one of my all time favorites. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>
 
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tom_hobbes

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Loved Pi, marvelous film, very gritty. From the trailer of <i>Fountain</i>, it looks like it has the potential to be a little stylised for my tastes. Will probably go and see it though. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>
 
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rhodan

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O yes! The Fountain looks very cool! Pi and Requiem for a Dream were very good, though slightly dark films. Just the way I like 'm!
 
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calliann

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<font color="yellow">Just for posting details of films due for release, makes it an easy place to come for genre related film news. </font><br /><br />This is a terrific idea!<br /><br /><font color="orange">I like Aronofsky... Pi is one of my all time favorites.</font><br /><br />Mine, too! And I loved <b>Requiem for a Dream</b> as well. Hard to watch, but what a powerful film.
 
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ditto on Aronofsky's two movies. I raved about Pi to my wife and eventually got her to see it (my 3rd time), but the timing couldnt have been worse: she was suffering a migraine and under medication, so:<br /><br />1. she didnt get the movie<br />2. it annoyed her to be watching a movie about excruciating migraines while experiencing one<br /><br />[apologies for this minor derailment]<br />anyone seen this movie Below? I remember reading years ago that Aronofsky was doing a WWII submarine horror movie, but never knew if and when it came out. turns out it did come and go, in 2002. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>
 
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Rendevous with Rama is still being slated as an upcoming production - but it doesn't look like the production company can get it together --<br /><br />"A movie based on this novel, starring Morgan Freeman and slated to be directed by David Fincher, is in development for Freeman's company Revelations Entertainment. The project was thought to be abandoned for some time, but it's still listed as an actual production on the Revelations Entertainment website. Revelations Entertainment is also still touting David Fincher as director."
 
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derekmcd

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that movie has been in stasis for a while now. I sure hope it materializes. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>
 
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wmdragon

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<i>Ender's Game</i> is scheduled for 2008 (too far in the future for this thread?), to be directed by Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Enemy Mine)<br /><br />whats the word on a <i>Ringworld</i> movie? will the <i>Halo</i> film - also for 2008 - steal that thunder? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>
 
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calliann

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I love <i>Ender's Game</i> and have never been sure I wanted to see it made into a movie. KWIM?? But maybe it will be good. <br /><br />I always thought <i>Enemy Mine</i> was underrated. The special effects were lame but the story is solid. Barry Longyear won several awards for his novella, including the Hugo and the Nebula.<br /><br />
 
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jmilsom

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Just saw a review of 'Children of Men' on Australia's top film critic show. Both gave the film four out of five stars, saying it is original, gripping, immaculately shot and edited. So it just went to the top of my list of films to see. I think it opens here tomorrow. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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jmilsom

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I like the idea of this thread to discuss upcoming SciFi movies in a single place. <br /><br />So what do people think or know about the film <br /><br /><b>SUNSHINE</b> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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jmilsom

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Speaking about the movie <b>Sunshine</b> again, I just saw the movie reviewed by two of Australia's top film critics: David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz. These two usually, deservedly hammer big screen action movies (David gave the movie '300' 2 stars out of five, noting it was a film for 14 year old boys). <br /><br />Both gave the movie 4 out 5, noting it worked exceptionally well, was gripping and visually stunning.<br /><br />It looks like we finally have a new SciFi film worth watching..... I look forward to seeing this now - starts next week! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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The problem with people in newspapers reviewing Sci Fi, is they almost NEVER are chosen because they LIKE Sci Fi.<br /><br />We have a magazine called "the Listener" in New Zealand. The guy that ALWAYS gets the Sci Fi movies, is (Sorry CrazyEddie, but this is VERY relavent) a poofter that HATES anything the least bit NORMAL MALE MACHO, the least bit suggestive that Straight men might actually be inventive, capable, physically competent.<br />Unless the Sci Fi movie has a gay hero, this reviewer ABSOLUTELY cans it. And he has , not once, but TWICE used the term "Sci FI" as a pejorative to describe movies in the twenty years I have been reading his reviews.<br /><br />So you might ask, why do they let him review the movies?. He is an EXCELLENTLY incisive writer, understands a lot about movies technically, and is a first class mind. And no-one else at the magazine has ever seemed to like Sci Fi much, except for the cartoonist. So they say "Send Phillip" when Sci Fi comes up, and we get the same negative reviews.<br /><br />And sometimes, because he is a first class mind, he can twist the interpretation of the movie completely around on its head, so when you look at the other reviews you say "Hang on, I thought Philip Matthews just reviewed this movie, the guy in the Herald sounds like he went to an entirely DIFFERENT movie".<br /><br />It is EXTREMELY frustrating.
 
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jmilsom

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I quite like Stratton and Pomeranz. The contrasting views of a male and female film critic are always interesting. The only big recent disappointment for me was their review of 'A Scanner Darkly'. That enigmatic film, which in the end seems to boil down to personal accepatnce or not of the unorthodox style. I think that is one of the best SciFi films to be released in ages, but they both gave it a low average score. <br /><br />We have the same problem in Melbourne. One of the reviewers in one of the big papers is obviously gay. This was evident when he canned 'Shrek' - whether one likes it or hates it, it was a landmark animation film. The problem was toilet humour, which never goes down well with gay reviewers. The same guy gave 'Evolution' four and half stars. That was a tragic movie. Lots of potential, but not well worked out. Difference: it had the rear end jokes without the toilet humour! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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flynn

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I like Mark Kermode's reviews, you can get them off BBC Radio 5s Pod Casts. <br /><br />I rarely agree with him and I think he sometimes has to disagree and go against the grain on some films just to be different but he does know his films. He wasn't keen on 300 either (I loved it and saw it twice) but he loved Hot Fuzz so he isn't all bad.<br /><br />Some reviews I'd read of Sunshine suggested it was too long, its only 90 mins and although it seems longer it is only because there is so much happening at such a fast pace its 90 minutes without pausing for breath. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>
 
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jmilsom

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I haven't actaully seen 300 yet, but probably will. I went and saw Hot Fuzz and left with mixed feelings. It had some very funny moments. It seemed to me though, that he wanted to do a Rodriguez / Desperado type scene in a small Enlgish village and the whole movie was building up to that. Great material - I just couldn't help thinking that he could've done more with it.<br /><br />Back to Sci Fi, I still don't see why so many people write off Sci Fi and being pure fantasy. I strongly believe it is an important medium for exploring where humanity is going: technologically sure, but politically, socially culturally...... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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docm

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Indiana Jones 4 is shaping up for 2008 and Shia LaBeouf has been rumored to play Indy's son. CNN is now reporting he's been cast.<br /><br />CNN article....<br /><br />IMDB listing....<br /><br />Looks like old home week with the rumored appearances of Sean Connery, Karen Allen and John Rhys-Davies <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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7.4.07<br /><br />TF's!!!!<br /><br />I'm sure you know what I'm talking about <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />I am looking forward to Michael Bay's vision of this story. I'm stoked, can't wait! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>
 
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docm

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More than meets the eye <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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flynn

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You're looking forward to a Micheal Bay film? <br /><br />Didn't you see Pearl Harbour?<br /><br />Didn't you see the Transformers trailer where they showed Beagle II as a rover? <br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>
 
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theriese

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It has been awhile since I have watched a military inspired movie. My favorite genre ever since. I even thought of joining a military school for girls before. Really rare field but mt parents disagree. <br /><br />Any suggestion of a movie I should look forward?
 
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