I remember liking the look of that
also Moon. I'm all about the bleak dystopia on the whole. Brazil is my favourite film, I reckon.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:12, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Brazil is good I think
not seen it in ages, but found it m=by the road side recently on VHS along with nearly all of Twin Peaks and it's on my pile to watch.

If you're only looking for Sci Fi I think I'll duck out of recommendations as with the exception of classics like Alien, there's a bit of a shortage of good SCi fi on screen IMNSHO.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:16, Reply)

i agree
film sci fi is always miles behind books. Everyone was all OMG! at matrix, even though cyberpunk in literature had been around for ages.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:19, Reply)

This^
also they almost always cut out the intelligence, which is the best bit and leave in the action and other big-movie-shit. I went to see Source Code recently and was nearly physically ill there were dso many plot holes and I went with prety low expectations, and that has god some really quite good reviews.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:22, Reply)

they usually miss the point of sci fi and just go
Hey! Guns! Woo! Kill the Red Menace!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:23, Reply)

you'll be fine then
I suggest you watch Avatar, it has pretty colours.

Edit: Whups, sorry I read "they" as "I" for some reason, sorry, it's late
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:25, Reply)

I think I should be insulted by this or something

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:28, Reply)

probably
but it's late and when you get to my age you'll be a bit vague after 11PM young lady. I think i'd better go to bed before I get crotchity.

*re-reads posts to Zozimus*

oops, too late.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:33, Reply)

it's OK
we can tell from your foolish opinion that you must be getting delirious
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:36, Reply)

don't talk back to your elders and better young lady.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:37, Reply)

+, and

tenuous, but it is nearly sleepy time
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:39, Reply)

have you watched Children of Men?

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:17, Reply)

I have.
Bloody hell that's an incredible film.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:18, Reply)

if you ignore the fact that the ending made no sense

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:19, Reply)

that was the only bit that let it down.
But the rest of it I loved.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:20, Reply)

I just like movies is all.

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:20, Reply)

fairy snuff
I will restrain my vitriol and you are a girly and likely have boobies, but that ending was a killer for me, and I seem to remember there were problems with the main film too, but I can't remember what they were, probably that it was trying too hard to be all allegorical an shit. I've seen worse films over all, but i'd not recommend it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:24, Reply)

Ha. I do love how my boobies save me.
I can't watch the Alien or Predator movies though. They scare the living daylights out of me. Always have.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:25, Reply)

it's not logical
it's not like I'll ever see them, or likely even want to, but I have a harder time shouting at someone who has them, so there you go, enjoy your unearned power.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)

For me, the ending was also bleak
there was no evidence that the boat was the one they thought it was, nor that even if she got on with her kid they'd ever be able to fix the human race. It was just a glimmer of faint, hopeless hope in a dying world.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:26, Reply)

there was nothing wrong with it
I like films with ambiguous endings.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)

You're an ambiguous ending.

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:30, Reply)

:D

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:34, Reply)

it wasn't ambiguous it was meaningless
and not in an arty, No Country for Old Men, we-did-it-on-purpose way, in a shit we-don't-have-brains-to-do-sci-fi-properly way
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:30, Reply)

what would you have had happen?
she gets on the boat, everybody smiles and hugs, they sail off to France for cheap booze and fags and some epilogue text appears on screen to tell us all how her magic fanny saved the world. howzat?
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:37, Reply)

you really don't know me do you?
OK, hands up and apologies I'm being a cunt coz I'm tired.

How would I have ended it? Everyone dies.

Which to be honest is what I recon happens anyway. it's the idea that somehow one random pregnant bind could possibly save the world as it was in that film that I find insulting above all, it works if you view her as some sort of symbolic Eve figure, but scientifically it's toss.

That's my 2p apologies for being insulting about it, you seem a decent bloke.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:44, Reply)

I think that's what the ending was, though
they got out, but there was no real sense that everything was going to be perfect for humanity now
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:45, Reply)

it's not that I think there was any sense of stuff being perfect
but as I recall, and this was a while back when it came out, there was some feeling that there was meant to be some kind of hope. But there wasn't, there couldn't be, in fact I think I realised that really early on and that may be what spoiled the film for me.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:48, Reply)

oh, I just felt like there wasn't meant to be real hope
long term. I felt the whole film was about hopelessness and how humans will still have a crack at trying to survive even if there is no chance
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:50, Reply)

I might try re-watching it one day with that in mind
but I doubt I'll change my mind, I'm pretty harsh on these things
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:52, Reply)

Anti-recomendations on the other hand
I am full of
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:18, Reply)

you, sir, are wrong
it was bleak and dystopian and great.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:21, Reply)

I loved it
it's one of my 10 dvds - woo!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:20, Reply)

that one left me rattled for days/weeks afterwards
but on the other hand you thought The Road was meh. What gives Crunchylala?
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:25, Reply)

Oh I read The Road
it was shit, I spent the whole time wanting them to just get the hell on with it and die. I shan't watch the film.

what gives?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)

see this is where we differ.
I read The Road when I was 16 and it was pretty powerful for me for some reason. I can still remember specific scenes in it because they either scared me so much or just struck a chord.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:30, Reply)

i was told by people who loved it that it's because I don't have kids
or have a maternal instinct. I think it was because it was shit
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:31, Reply)

Yeah, but people with Kids
like to trot that shit out to justify every damn thing.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:34, Reply)

I've noticed

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:36, Reply)

I should add that to the year's age difference to use against you
If you had a kid, like I do, you'd totally see why Children of Man is a bit Wank.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:38, Reply)

if you had guinea pigs
you'd understand that people with kids who are a year older are wrong

plus, I reckon it's not even a whole year
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:40, Reply)

May 30th 1975
and I bet I've owned more gerbils than you've ever had piggies.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:45, Reply)

no way
1 year and 2 days :(

6 guinea pigs, something like 14 hamsters
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:47, Reply)

1 year and 2 mother fucking days child
*does victory dance* at least 6 adult Gerbils, 4 of which formed breeding 2 pairs which had many, many babies, thus ensuring that I do, and always will, know more than your about everything.

In you face Cavy.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:51, Reply)

ummm
...i have boobs? You can't understand the world until you've had boobs
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:52, Reply)

Fuck
The trump card.

Not sure I can get out of this.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:54, Reply)

It's all I have, but it's a killer
right talking of boobs, time to sleep, I have to get the pigs fixed in the morning and spend the rest of the day hoping no one in work asks me to do anything before end of term

nighty night old 55378008 one
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:56, Reply)

yeah same here
night, but don't forget tradition
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:58, Reply)

Sorry to interrupt
But you go to THE LEFT and mention BREASTS if you're going.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:59, Reply)

done!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:59, Reply)

seriously?
wow.

Edit: I'm being a cunt, aren't I? The film wasn't that bad and Micheal Cain was ace as ever, I think I'm just tired,
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:31, Reply)