Re: Puzzlement and Sci-fi

"James Cook" <james.cook32deletethisbitplease@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> reduced
the crowd to uncontrollable tears by saying
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> See, I'm not too sure about it. The original series was awesome and
> still stacks up today much better than the original series of Star
> Trek for example.

To be honest, I don't remember too much of the original BG as I was
never a massive fan. At the risk of making it sound like pretentious
***, the remake has interesting ideas about artificial intelligence,
religion and moral absolutism.

As alluded too, the continuing story arc is strong, and I don't believe
the special effects are overegged. They're quite impressive, don't get
me wrong, but rather than Independence Day vapidity, they add to the
atmosphere.

The Gaius Balthar character is funny, wicked and sad all at the same
time (a bit like Kullrad) and has some great dialogue with the Cylon in
his head, while most of the other characters have something interesting
going on too.

And it's also got Tricia *wanks* Helfer in it, so help me God.

> Like many remakes and modern sci-fi I think it
> suffered from CGI obsession. I watched War of The Worlds the other
> night, the recent one, and as good as the effects were and the DTS
> was decent in places (that's right, we both looked over our shoulders
> when they were in that basement at one point) I was left wondering
> what actually happened to the story line.

Did you check behind...blah blah? I haven't seen War of the Worlds, but
I'm fully aware it doesn't contain the strange 80's album. I've been
told WotW is basically Tom Cruise hiding in a field for 90 minutes.

Much like David Ginola when he played for Everton.

> I'm not a mega Sci-Fi geek but films like Forbidden Planet, Silent
> Running, 2001, Alien, Blade
> Runner, Close Encounters, Logan's Run *** on pretty much everything
> turned out nowadays (I will acknowledge the Matrix - hated it in the
> cinema, loved it when I watch all 3 back to back). I'm sure they were
> just as obsessed when making those films with wowing the audience with
> the cutting edge effects of the day - but they didn't appear to do
> that at the expense of all else.

Forbidden Planet kicks ass...well, apart from having to suspend
disbelief at Lesley Nielsen playing a straight acting role. The amount
of times 'Shirley you can't be serious' comes into my head watching that
film is criminal.

Have you seen The Omega Man (a Brad Pitt remake is in the pipeline I
think)? It's a cracking, if slightly dated film, based loosely on an
even more cracking novel (I am Legend by Richard Matheson).

I'm doubting it very much whether you'll have heard of this, but if
you're into reading sci-fi, Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem is a
darned good read and very Matrixey in its concept.
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