Cinema & Movies: Science Fiction
[Under development: 3 June 2005]
I can't help thinking that science fiction and science fantasy reveal one of my failures in taste. However, I enjoy watching well-made science fiction films such as
· The Abyss (VHS)
· 2001 (VHS)
· 2010 (VHS)
· Dune (VHS)
· Stargate(VHS)
· Independence Day (VHS)
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The Fifth Element (VHS)
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Contact (DVD)
Less good, but enjoyable enough, are:
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· Capricorn One (VHS)
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Solar Crisis (VHS)
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Lifepod (VHS)
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The Red Planet (VHS)
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Pitch Black (VHS)
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Lost in Space (VHS)
· Apollo 13 (VHS)
· Until the End of the World. (VHS)
I acknowledge the competence of the Star Wars films, and have on VHS all five that have been released to date. I have also have the three Jurassic Park movies, and Twister. I do not have The Andromeda Strain, which although a little dated, stands up well. Nor do I have any movies of John Wyndham novels, such as Day of the Triffids. I did once have Village of the Damned, based on Wyndham’s The Crysalids, but I found it too unpleasant (I think that it was directed by John Carpenter). Also unpleasant is John Carpenter’s They Live. I have not seen the Matrix films, although thinking about Keanu Reeves, I quite enjoy watching television screenings of Chain Reaction in which Reeves plays a nuclear scientist (yeah, right!). I prefer Minority Report (starring Tom Cruise).
More ‘thrillers with computers’ than science fiction are
· Sneakers (starring Robert Redford)(VHS)
· Enemy of the State (starring Gene Hackman and Will Smith)(television)
· The Net (starring Sandra Bullock)(VHS)
· The Pelican Brief (starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington)(VHS)
