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draganm
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 8:48 pm Post subject: Best Sci-fi of 2014 |
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I actually haven't been to a commercial theater this year and I blame Peter Jackson and the emotionally scarring Hobbit 2 garbage I suffered through last X-mas eve.
Looks like I might have missed some good stuff and maybe some more coming up in November. Anybody see Edge of tomorrow with tom Cruise, or Maze runner, or Transcendence (last one with Dep looked bad , family might have rented it don't remember).
anyone going to see Interstellar next month?
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: Best Sci-fi of 2014 |
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| draganm wrote: | I actually haven't been to a commercial theater this year and I blame Peter Jackson and the emotionally scarring Hobbit 2 garbage I suffered through last X-mas eve.
Looks like I might have missed some good stuff and maybe some more coming up in November. Anybody see Edge of tomorrow with tom Cruise, or Maze runner, or Transcendence (last one with Dep looked bad , family might have rented it don't remember).
anyone going to see Interstellar next month? |
LOL! You mentioned "emotionally scarring", "garbage" and Tom Cruise in the same paragraph. Most of his work is garbage.
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What Nash said !
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Guardians of the GALAXY was pretty good
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: Best Sci-fi of 2014 |
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| paw wrote: | | draganm wrote: | I actually haven't been to a commercial theater this year and I blame Peter Jackson and the emotionally scarring Hobbit 2 garbage I suffered through last X-mas eve.
Looks like I might have missed some good stuff and maybe some more coming up in November. Anybody see Edge of tomorrow with tom Cruise, or Maze runner, or Transcendence (last one with Dep looked bad , family might have rented it don't remember).
anyone going to see Interstellar next month? |
LOL! You mentioned "emotionally scarring", "garbage" and Tom Cruise in the same paragraph. Most of his work is garbage. |
That statement just demonstrates how much tastes vary from one peron to another.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: Best Sci-fi of 2014 |
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| km987654 wrote: | | paw wrote: | | draganm wrote: | I actually haven't been to a commercial theater this year and I blame Peter Jackson and the emotionally scarring Hobbit 2 garbage I suffered through last X-mas eve.
Looks like I might have missed some good stuff and maybe some more coming up in November. Anybody see Edge of tomorrow with tom Cruise, or Maze runner, or Transcendence (last one with Dep looked bad , family might have rented it don't remember).
anyone going to see Interstellar next month? |
LOL! You mentioned "emotionally scarring", "garbage" and Tom Cruise in the same paragraph. Most of his work is garbage. |
That statement just demonstrates how much tastes vary from one peron to another. |
I agree. Further, he's posting something that's clearly a subjective and personal opinion, but stating it very matter-of-factly. I'd be much less inclined to take objection if he'd said something like, "I really don't like Tom Cruise," or "I really don't enjoy films with Tom Cruise in them - personally, I think they're usually garbage".
I think Tom Cruise, like most actors that have been as prolific as he, has done a lot of really good work, and yes, has done some crap. That's pretty much true of any of my favorite actors; they've all done outstanding work on excellent projects, and crappy work on sh*t projects.
Personally, I thought he was great in movies like Jack Reacher, Collateral (excellent movie), Vanilla Sky, Rain Man, and going way back to one of my all-time favorite coming-of-age movies, Risky Business. There are more, but those are just a few. Yes, he's probably done plenty of crap movies, but like I said, so has every other actor that's done as many movies. Al Pacino is one of my all-time favorites, and even he's done some less-than-stellar work. Not every movie can be Scarface or The Godfather.
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This hasn't been a banner year for true Sci-Fi. These days we see many films that are Sci-Fi/Fantasy so the lines are somewhat blurred. I thought Captain America was the best of the summer films. While a comic book character it had far more of a cloak and dagger feel than any of the other previous Marvel productions and certainly had elements of sci-fi mixed in.
Oblivion, Prometheus and Elysium are the last really notable full bore Sci-Fi films that come to my mind. Was thinking to put EOT in my rental queue.
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draganm
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| paw wrote: | | LOL! You mentioned "emotionally scarring", "garbage" and Tom Cruise in the same paragraph. Most of his work is garbage. |
you didn't like Oblivion? Hard to imagine anyone not liking that unless you just hate sci fi? One of my favorite art movies ever was Eyes wide shut, I thought he was pretty dam good in that too.
| jbmeyer13 wrote: | This hasn't been a banner year for true Sci-Fi. These days we see many films that are Sci-Fi/Fantasy so the lines are somewhat blurred. I thought Captain America was the best of the summer films. While a comic book character it had far more of a cloak and dagger feel than any of the other previous Marvel productions and certainly had elements of sci-fi mixed in.
Oblivion, Prometheus and Elysium are the last really notable full bore Sci-Fi films that come to my mind. Was thinking to put EOT in my rental queue. |
Actually skipped Capn America since the first one was not very good but I'll put it in my Queue. Prometheus was good, although I think the average person missed the back story and nuanced philosophical argument of the film (made obvious by the deleted scenes and commentary if you watched them on the DVD).
Elysium was good but didn't really make sense if you looked past the face value of it.
Anyone see "the signal" with Laurence Fishburn?
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