Planet of the Apes and 70s Sci-Fi

www.imdb.com/title/tt0080010/reference
its a pretty good movie based on story by Lem.
when i watched it as a kid one scene scared the shit out of me

Turek wrote: www.imdb.com/title/tt0080010/reference
its a pretty good movie based on story by Lem.
when i watched it as a kid one scene scared the shit out of me

Wow! As a big fan of Lem I am flabbergasted that I've never even heard of this movie. I'll be watching this one soon. Thanks!

Then check this out: if you haven't seen it before.
Made by Germans (and as everyone knows they have no sense of humour), but funny.

"I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston, stranded on a primate planet..." ~Fat Mike

Gregarius wrote: The Omega Man
Soylent Green
Silent Running
Logan's Run
Colossus: The Forbin Project
THX-1138
West World

Omega Man was awesome, but it wasn't as good as "Last Man On Earth". Can't really trump Vince Price.
Soylent Green was good, but the best part was the trailer. Hilarious.
The rest are classic, aside from Colossus, which I can't comment on.

5 pages in and no one has mentioned 2001, the greatest FILM of all time. YOu all lose.

2001, the book ideology by Clarke is brilliantly envisioned by Kubricks genius, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME KUBRICK WAS MAKING A FILM ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE AND FUCK ALL TO DO WITH THE AWESOME SCI FI BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING STORY THAT CLARKE WAS.

Kubricks film, with his ideas in parallel and completely separately and externally to Clarkes interpretation put down in literature is about the awakening of mankind through media, and specifically film. I had the pleasure of discussing a truly brilliant PHD done at Liverpool which demonstrated that in almost every single scene Kubrick had signposted his intent in ways that are (totally, and kind of embarrassingly in some ways) obvious in retrospect but fucking mindblowing when pointed out for the first time.

That his film on its own merits is a candidate for the best film of all time beggars belief when added to the fact that it flawlessly and without any inconsistency mirrors precisely the vision of Clarkes non Hollywood version of how we might fit into a universe of limitless size and scope is just staggering. (Solaris was also great in this regard)

If you ever get the chance to get hold of the PhD (I will try to find the online link) just do yourselves a favour and read it

2001 is the greatest film of all time. You don't need to justify that shit with any genre label.




here was an interesting article but not the one I was thinking of, but gets your appetite going
www.collativelearning.com/2001%20analysis%20new.html


heres another interesting clip


www.youtube.com/user/robag88/search?query=monolith

(cant find part 1, only 2 and 3, weird)
pt 1

ldsdbomber wrote: Kubricks film, with his ideas in parallel and completely separately and externally to Clarkes interpretation put down in literature is about the awakening of mankind through media, and specifically film.

Could you retype that with auto-correct turned off please?

I don't know, could you stimulate your own prostate with a condom wrapped frozen turd from your wifes ass as a display of sci fi space docking?

An essay I read ages ago (80's?) offered that Forbidden Planet was the first film whose plot was as sophisticated (plot-wise) as written SF at the time. 2001: A Space Odyssey was the second. I guess there's been a few since then. Inception, maybe. Soylent Green off the list would be one. Or Prometheus right up to the point where it goes to shit.

ldsdbomber wrote: 5 pages in and no one has mentioned 2001, the greatest FILM of all time. YOu all lose.

Shellhead on page 3.

Edit: Plus the fact 2001 is a 60s movie and the thread's about 70s SF.

ldsdbomber wrote: I don't know, could you stimulate your own prostate with a condom wrapped frozen turd from your wifes ass as a display of sci fi space docking?

Could you retype that with auto-correct turned off when you're sober please?