Science and fiction!

[sinvraal]

A dose of both science and fiction for your Thursday:

We've discovered some tiny little frogs that live in pitcher plants. Like, unbelievably tiny:

Comments

[gr33n]

Out of all those listed I haven't seen:

The Day the Earth Stood Still
ET
Primer
Children of Men
Moon.

I feel weird at never having seen E.T. of all the ones listed (I keep telling myself to pick up Moon).

[latin_lunatic]

I've only missed three of those films. Forbidden Planet, Mad Max 2, and Ghost in the Shell.

It's a good list but I fail to see how they're CLASSICS when three of them are from 2009/10.

[gr33n]

I think it's due to the lack of good sci-fi movies in the last 7 years or so that aren't Pixar movies.

[latin_lunatic]

Hmm. *looks up films he liked from 2003 to 2010)*

2003: Code 46, Timeline
2004: Casshern, The Final Cut
2005: Island, V for Vendetta
2006: Children of Men, Paprika, The Fountain, Ultraviolet
2007: Sunshine, Timecrimes
2008: 9, Hellboy 2, Push
2009: Avatar, District 9, Star Trek

I don't know how many of these would be CLASSICS but at least enjoyable for me.

Of course only 1/3 didn't bomb in theaters.

[gr33n]

I think the article is mostly about well received, critically loved movies which have a enough speculative fiction to make people think. I liked Ultraviolet as well, but man oh man it was not a good movie.

[fifmeister]

Eee! What a tiny adorable frog!

[zikadee]

omigod those frogs are so fuggin adorable.

Wow, I've seen 13 of those movies. I expected WAAAAAY less, like, 3. Or 5. I'm not hugely into the sci-fi movies. (Shame shame, I know. Throw your vegetables now.) Probably because I wouldn't classify a lot of those as sci-fi, but. I'm not an expert.

[saeori]

I wouldn't mind one of the tiny frogs as a pet, but then with my luck I'd end up losing it.

And then never finding it. Ever.