I thought about A Scanner Darkly this morning and I too am sorry I didn't get a chance to nominate it.
I thought about A Scanner Darkly this morning and I too am sorry I didn't get a chance to nominate it.
I used to love Akira as a kid. Revisted it a few year back and couldn't even finish it. I couldn't get into Ghost in the Shell either. Just can't watch anime like I used to. It was the shittiness of Metropolis (same creator of Akira) that really soured me, I think.
A Scanner Darkly isn't really animated, they just digitally painted film.
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I think you're thinking of Defiance.
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I thought you may have been confusing the similar names lol
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Na, Renaissance isn't well known and both films are pretty mediocre.
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Defiance had a bad ass sountrack....I haven't seen the movie but I listened to the soundtrack lol
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The problem with Despicable Me is the simple fact that since it’s animated, they can basically throw out the laws of reality and do a lot of the Looney Tunes type things like literally pulling a freeze ray out of nowhere.
At least a movie like Wall-E attempted to be a little more realistic.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
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12 Monkeys is another movie I've seen in the double digits since it was released. A lot of my childhood favourites in this tournament. I'm hoping The Arrival is in a weaker group, that's a unsung classic.
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And Melancholia keeps sliding back
By the way, Renaissance is really cool.
Voted for Melancholia and Looper. Sad to see that it doesn't look like Melancholia will make it (but it doesn't surprise me).
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This is a pretty good group but I still feel Melancholia should be in the top six. A beautiful and haunting film.
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Woohoo! Just need one more now to tie for sixth!
Sure, it is beautiful and haunting, provokes the heart and the mind, but, I don't know; just didn't seem like great science fiction.
Well we are trying to decide the best film that's sci-fi so foremost we have to judge it on the filmic aspects (direction, acting, cinematography, score, script, etc) and not simply how science-fictiony it is. Melancholia has a rogue planet crashing into Earth, how is that not sci-fi!
I'm just saying I don't feel it's a great in the category. I watched it the other day for the sake of this contest. It's just an impression of mine, to try to say why I didn't vote for it. I know that's vague, but please don't assume I've decided that it is just not science fiction or that I'd reject it out of hand as not science fictiony.
Seeing whose in Melancholia makes me want to see it a little more. I assume they needed Jack Bauer to stop that planet from hitting earth.
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