Morning Discussion

by Chris Faylor, Mar 16, 2009 7:06am PDT

Monday, already? It seems like I barely got anything accomplished this weekend.

Really, I just played an hour or two Resident Evil 5, co-created and tested a Peggle drinking game, cleaned the apartment, watched some Wire, and read a few chapters of Snow Crash. The rest of the time, I was either sleeping or doing something here.

There were also about five minutes spend on a hammock. Hammock weather, at last!

On the plus side, um, I've got another chance at the weekend here in a couple days?

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I saw Sunshine last night.

Why does every sci-fi movie feel the need to turn in to a fucking cliche sci-fi horror film? You don't need a goddamn monster to have conflict! There was plenty of conflict in the crew interaction and the mechanical problems and all that. Goddamnit why did they do that. :(

Overall I give it a big thumbs up but man what a last one third.

Mar 16, 2009 2:26pm PDT

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  I thought it was fine. There would be no way to explain the mechanical problems without the bad guy they : sigpro
  - well that and the crew being fucking morons : mindshot
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    Do you honestly feel that there is no possible way that a huge experimental mission to the sun could fail... : OverloadUT
    - being given monster as a choice, all other possibilities pale in comparison. therefore, monster = win. : get_navi
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      In the way the movie was written, yes I do feel that way. : sigpro
      
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      Well yeah obviously if I am saying they should have changed a major part of the movie I am saying it shou... : OverloadUT
      
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      I don't see how after the air locks got fucked up while they were on the original ship you could explain : sigpro
      
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      The problem was that the crazy guy was *magic*. Magic had no place in the movie given them trying to be s : terath
      
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      I don't understand how he was magic. I must have missed that part. : sigpro
      
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      Well, surviving without food with major burns all over his body for.. months? Years? The time between the : terath
      
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      He didn't survive without food though. They specifically talk about how there would only have been 3 year : aaarrrgh
      
      Well, I'd have been more likely to have bought it if he wasn't super strong and so badly burnt. It'd h : terath
      
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      This makes absolutely no fucking sense to me. Have you ever written something ever? I mean you're saying : OverloadUT
      
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      Gotta run to my kids parent teacher conference and I will try to think other ways to make it work, but I ... : sigpro
      
      The thing about Sunshine is how the sun was the central theme, not only as the thing they had to go re-ig : aaarrrgh
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  Also in this subthread we name sci-fi movies that don't turn in to action/horror movies. My friends and I : OverloadUT
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    that movie isnt scifi, its like fantasy with some space tree. : mindshot
    - its like pure awesomeness in film form. : mwasher
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    Blade runner? 2001? A scanner darkly? : daedraug
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      Blade Runner has action and 2001 has horror. : dirge23
      
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      2001 has horror? I don't think conflict = horror. While HAL does kill the crew, it's not done in a "hor... : aethyr
      
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      My "action/horror" qualification was a poor choice of words. I am really more looking for sci-fi movies w... : OverloadUT
      
      2001 still fits then, as does Blade Runner in many ways. : daedraug
  - Donnie Darko (I'm reaching a bit with this one) Brazil 12 Monkeys : smacknca
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    Gatacca? : Utopia
    - Ah, excellent suggestion! The "villain" in that is really more like society itself and it's a story of a ... : OverloadUT
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    Gattaca Solaris 2001 Contact : action wombmate
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      Contact is definitely another good one! I've never seen Solaris; is it worth seeing? : OverloadUT
      
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      Absofreakinglutely. Both versions are great but I'm actually partial to the newer one because it's more ... : action wombmate
      
      and an awesome soundtrack : Geoffrois
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      Is Solaris any good? I'm yet to give it a whirl. : Bamtan
      
      i'm fucking stupid : Bamtan
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    Red Planet? I know, they end up fighting the robot dog thing or whatever but it's not horror or crazy act... : sparkly
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      Yeah, it's not a great movie but it is a true SciFi film. Also Mission to Mars (though it's worse than Re... : mn3m0n1c
      
      IAWTP : action wombmate
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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind. : sigpro
    - Man, I love that movie. : action wombmate
  - Contact, The Arrival : owtwerd
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    Primer : Modica Sol Solis
    - This is was my first thought. Gotta support one of my favorite sci fi movies of the last few years. : nodge69
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    Does Stalker have horror elements in it? : Rag and Bone Man
    - nope, it's just a very tense movie where you're constantly waiting for something horrible to happen : pukerat
  - The past 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. :( : exigence7
  - Wall-E : deathofrats
  - The Prestige : spiderfill
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    Mission to Mars *almost* : Sailor of Fortune
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      that movie was complete shit though : mikecyb
      
      Red Planet was worse. At least MtM had some semblance of keeping the sci-fi on the low end for the humans... : Sailor of Fortune
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  I totally dug it. Reminded me of Solaris with Clooney. : get_navi
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    ...which also sucked ass. : SlamDunk
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      fuck you. : coolbreezr
      
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      feelings = hurt : SlamDunk
      
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      They should be. Solaris was a great flick. : action wombmate
      
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      i meant his feelings, and it's a mediocre watch-it-once-then-forget-it movie. : SlamDunk
      
      It's been brought up many times thus it's not at all a "forget-it" movie. Can't argue with facts! : terath
      
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      Yes, Solaris was an awsome, creepy sci-fi thriller. Section Eight studios is cool, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana and A Scanner Darkly among others. Soderbergh and Clooney baby!
      
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      Yes, Solaris was an awsome, creepy sci-fi thriller. Section Eight studios is cool, Good Night and Good L... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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  I agree with you here. That last bit is totally regrettable : kainen1
  - Yep. Great cast and setup, then it just went to shameless shit. : node
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  I just couldn't get past the dumb, arguing crew. I don't mind conflict, but I just couldn't follow why th... : byorn
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    Well, they were a couple of years into the journey at that point. : aaarrrgh
    - Cabin fever is a bitch. : action wombmate
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  Rose Byrne is hot but I watched two movies with her back to back (the other being 28 Weeks Later) and the... : Sailor of Fortune
  - God yes she was so hot in Sunshine : OverloadUT
  - I've met her in person. I'm good friends with her cousin, but he won't let me talk to her anymore :( : Goblin au

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