Badger Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 There was only one Matrix movie, and it was awesome. Re complaining about movie theaters: I must live a charmed life, or maybe it's just another way that Denver is awesome, but I've almost never had those sorts of problems. Aside from the cheapo 2nd-run theaters, most of the theaters here are relatively clean and they take their No Talking Or Texting rules pretty seriously. I think I can remember having to shush someone once in the last decade. And we have theaters that sell BEER! Well, we have 2 theaters in the county, and I was talking about the better one**. I have gone to theaters in some nearby towns in my youth, that were better. But, 2 counties over, well it seems hardly worth taking almost more time driving to the theater than watching the movie itself. **Actually the "other" one probably was the better one (or at least cleaner one, if you were willing to wait an extra week to see it) back in the 80s, but it got run down pretty bad starting in the 90s. Too bad they used to in my childhood show an old Disney movie a few Saturdays a year for the kids at low prices (heck in Nov/Dec for a can to go to the food drive) saw a lot of classics for the first time. (well, thinking on it most of those Saturdays were in the summer and Nov/Dec for Christmas time) bigdamnhero 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech priest support Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 I think rogue one was the best Star Wars movie since the first one. Does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 No everyone regrets the prequels. Some people will not like the Empire winning and there are some people who hate the Ewoks. So question of taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 I wouldnt know who would hate the Ewoks? *sees Ewok* "Damn you, damn you all to hell" *starts firing* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 I will say Revenge of the Sith wasnt all that bad, once I did finally get around to watch it. Unfortunately, the first 2 prequels had completely destroyed the mystique. But, the 3rd I'll at least watch if I find it, with nothing else to do, the first 2 I would cut off the TV and stare at the blank screen first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 I will say Revenge of the Sith wasnt all that bad, once I did finally get around to watch it. I would agree it was better than the first two prequels, but that's a pretty low bar IMO. Tho I do have a friend who still gives me grief because he saw Sith based on my "recommendation" and hated it, said recommendation consisting of "It's mostly watchable, at least compared to the previous two." He hadn't seen the previous two, so he didn't understand how faint that praise was meant to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 Reason to watch The Phantom Menace: Liam Neeson. Reason to watch Attack of the Clones: Christopher Lee Reasons to watch Revenge of the Sith: The space battle at the beginning, Samuel L Jackson vs Ian McDiarmid, the death of the Trade Guild head, the first appearance of Darth Vader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 A lot of the people in this thread are actually building their geek credentials, rather than destroying them. I don't know how many people have said things like "I hate all the popular sci-fi movies and shows, I only like things you've never heard of". Or "I refuse to watch the new Doctor Who, because it can't live up to the one from the '70s." That really just makes you look like more of a geek. bigdamnhero 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 Gotta be careful about that, though. At some point you're just getting old, not backing into a corner of harder-core geekdom. Trust me on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 1, 2017 Report Share Posted August 1, 2017 I've been considered old since I was a teenager, even had they gray hair in my late teens to prove it. In any case, I am a historian of sorts, and prefer to live in the past (well in my mind, of course) Note: I am watching I Love Lucy on TV as I type Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 I think Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are hacks. I've only read one Asimov short story that I liked--"The Bicentennial Man"--and one Asimov novel that I liked--The Caves of Steel. I haven't read anything by Clarke that I enjoyed. In fact, 2061: Odyssey Three is on my list of worst books ever because Clarke takes some amazing ideas and makes them dull and boring. More recently, I don't get the hype surrounding Neil Gaiman. I loved the movie Stardust so I decided to read the book. I got two or three pages in before the stilted writing style overwhelmed me and I had to run to the bathroom to puke. Seems to me that he's another writer with great ideas and poor execution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 The only Asimov I willingly read was a Book of Facts he put out in the 80's. Had to read "I, Robot" and "Nightfall" & Clarke's "Childhood's End" for college though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Most of my reading of Asimov and Clarke was done no later than 1975. Compared to other stuff that came out in the 50s and 60s, it was ... good. OTOH, I have occasionally assigned Clarke's The Star in classes here. It's only four pages or so, and being an astronomer at a Jesuit university, my students get a bit more zing from it than many would. Especially when I couple it to a discussion of GRB 080319B, which was observed a few hours before Clarke's death, and it's the most distant known object to have reached naked-eye brightness. That linked Wikipedia article leaves out some speculative results about that event; making some easy assumptions, if that burster had been 1000 parsecs away from us in our Galaxy and we were in one of its beams, it would have (a) had a peak apparent brightness several times that of the Sun, and ( b ) the gamma-ray and X-ray burst from it would have killed everything on the half of Earth where it was above the horizon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 With the exceptions of Project Moon Base, Forbidden Planet, and Star Trek, there was no good Science Fiction movies or TV shows until Star Wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 What?!? You don't like "The Three Stooges go to Mars"?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 With the exceptions of Project Moon Base, Forbidden Planet, and Star Trek, there was no good Science Fiction movies or TV shows until Star Wars. Can't agree. The British series UFO, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet were all good. The Day The Earth Stood Still was a very good film and should not have been remade. Also Barbarella, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dark Star, Westworld and Solyent Green which all predate Star Wars. As does The Thing from Another World, Them !, various of the Godzilla films including Destroy All Monsters !, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Earth vs The Flying Saucers, The Blob and the first two Quatermass films which were originally on TV as serials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 With the exceptions of Project Moon Base, Forbidden Planet, and Star Trek, there was no good Science Fiction movies or TV shows until Star Wars. Certain Twilight Zone episodes would challenge that assumption I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Robert Jordan? Wheel of Time? No thank you. bigdamnhero and Burrito Boy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Most SF movies in the 60s & 70s were intended to be cheesy B movies; it wasn't really until 2001 that Hollywood started taking the genre seriously. Can't agree. The British series UFO, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet were all good. The Day The Earth Stood Still was a very good film and should not have been remade. Also Barbarella, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dark Star, Westworld and Solyent Green which all predate Star Wars. As does The Thing from Another World, Them !, various of the Godzilla films including Destroy All Monsters !, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Earth vs The Flying Saucers, The Blob and the first two Quatermass films which were originally on TV as serials. I'd definitely agree with the Day The Earth Stood Still and The Thing From Another World. 2001 I never really got in to personally, tho I can recognize the achievement. Maybe Westworld, Soylent Green & Body Snatchers, if we're grading on a curve. The original Planet of the Apes was cheesy but entertaining. Silent Running suffered from That 70s Syndrome, but had some good bits. Also: Metropolis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Robert Jordan? Wheel of Time? No thank you. You're dead to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 2, 2017 Report Share Posted August 2, 2017 Again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Ditto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Robert Jordan? Wheel of Time? No thank you. High five! Hmmm. We've agreed on a couple of things lately. Could it be that we were separated at birth? Could our rivalry be... sibling rivalry? Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Ditto which, Baz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted August 3, 2017 Report Share Posted August 3, 2017 Wheel of Time is a series that could benefit from fat trimming in the way Game of Thrones has on HBO, so actually a pretty good candidate for a TV treatment. A competent crew could pull a pretty good story and world out of WoT, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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