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liliumscribe

Serenity: The Best Scifi Film?

Apr 04, 2007 12:36

Apparently Serenity has been voted the best scifi film on a SFX magazine poll, beating out Star Wars of all things. The BBC has even published an article on it ( Read more... )

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firstanointed April 4 2007, 03:26:45 UTC

WHAT?? BSG didn't make the list??? I'm shocked.

I watched a bit of Firefly when I still had cable. I don't really see the hoopla...

liliumscribe April 4 2007, 05:12:01 UTC

I think it was just movies...

firstanointed April 4 2007, 21:43:27 UTC

Ohhh.

....*iz a little slow, y'know* :P

'course BSG's almost a movie. It should be, anyway. :P

hatusu April 4 2007, 03:43:12 UTC

"The Day the Earth Stood Still", "On the Beach", "Day of the Triffids", "Star Trek, the Wrath of Khan", "Metropolis"...but I did like "Serenity"

liliumscribe April 4 2007, 05:13:11 UTC

Haven't seen TDTESS yet but I bought it recently and looking forward to it. What's On the Beach about? It sounds familiar. Is that a Neville Shute story?

hatusu April 4 2007, 19:22:48 UTC

liliumscribe April 5 2007, 04:34:29 UTC

Did you say something... ;)

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ness_va April 4 2007, 08:38:04 UTC

I saw that article in MX in the past day or so... Ben & I were both surprised by it ... not that I've seen it yet.

joesmom92 April 4 2007, 12:44:48 UTC

I liked Serenity, but I wouldn't call it the best ever. I also would put The Matrix, and the director's cut of Blade Runner as some of the best. I also just rented Children of Men last weekend and found it incredible. It is a very violent, futuristic setting, but the message was about hope in a hopeless situation. I also have a fondness for War of the Worlds (the one with Gene Barry, not the Tom Cruise bomb). For outright SciFi/Horror, John Carpenter's The Thing, and Alien/Aliens are probably the scariest scifi ever.

liliumscribe April 5 2007, 04:35:29 UTC

I also just rented Children of Men last weekend and found it incredible.
I've been eyeing that at the video store the last few days...

hatusu April 5 2007, 05:43:56 UTC

Oh, yes! "War of the Worlds". I liked all the versions, but the first was definitely the best.

I disliked John Carpenter's, "The Thing". It was touted as being closer to John W. Campbell's wonderful novella "Who Goes There?" than Howard Hawk's version, but it was just gory. I liked that the original novella focused more on paranoia and that it was a subtle commentary on McCarthyism. The only decent version, in my opinion, was "The X-File" version. It was more of a rip-off, but true to the spirit.

hatusu April 5 2007, 05:55:44 UTC

I forgot "2001, A Space Odyssey"! *Head desk* That HAD to have been on the list.