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I have one word for you guys:
GATTACA.
The thing that made this SF movie great, was that it broke totally new ground. It was an entirely new theme of SF, creating a new kind of plot, and a new view of where our technology is taking us. It was original.
U GOTTA C GATTACA.
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I know science fiction is deadly serious and all that, but I can't resist
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I have one word for you guys:
GATTACA.
The thing that made this SF movie great, was that it broke totally new ground. It was an entirely new theme of SF, creating a new kind of plot, and a new view of where our technology is taking us. It was original.
U GOTTA C GATTACA.
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Great flick Pyro, I am ashamed I forget GATTACA, has to be one of the best flicks of all time, my son turned me onto it, I was blown away.
Nobody liked the penisaurus... really?
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Well, Mooman,
I loved it the first and only time I watched it straight thru. Back in... what? ... 1975? But you have to admit, the special effects were cheez-ola! The plot was secondary to the sex gags. The actors were having too damn much fun to remember their lines. I have tried to watch it twice since then, but found it too slow, silly and dull. Oh well. Times change.
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Well, Mooman,
I loved it the first and only time I watched it straight thru. Back in... what? ... 1975? But you have to admit, the special effects were cheez-ola! The plot was secondary to the sex gags. The actors were having too damn much fun to remember their lines. I have tried to watch it twice since then, but found it too slow, silly and dull. Oh well. Times change.
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Of course you are completely correct, you have to remember the movie was a sex/comedy/parody of a show that was already about as bad as they come. It was really difficult to make any of the special effects any worse than the original Flash Gordon, and acting in the original wasn't exactly "C" grade much less grade "A" It has been a great many years since I saw it but i last saw it with my sons as teenagers and they thought it was hilarious which is the audience it was really aimed at. (and us teenagers at heart!)
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Speaking of comedies...
This is a classic from Woody Allen.
Warning: Rated R (for language and subject matter)
Fave or flop?
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"Forbidden Planet" Horribly dated and still magnificent. Compare the timestamp for when they come out of warp to the serial number on Captain Kirk's Enterprise.
"Dark Star" Worth the price of admission merely for teaching Bomb #20 phenominology. The alien!
"2001 A Space Odyssey" "The Thing From Another World" (original. "Mythbusters" showed thermite really does go BOOM on ice) "Star Wars, 4-6" "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (original) "Blade Runner" "Alien" (remade "Dark Star") "Terminator" "Robocop" "The Matrix"... "A Boy and His Dog." Gotta do Harlan Ellison or you are not in a state of grace.
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"Dark Star" Worth the price of admission merely for teaching Bomb #20 phenominology.
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It just came out on DVD, and we've been loving this campy horrible classic (that we have to give the Mystery Science Theater treatment to) The Starlost:
Delightfully dreadful! 
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I don't think "Twelve Monkeys" has been mentioned. I haven't seen it since it came out, but I recall it being very good. "Total Recall" is another good one.
On the bad side, I was not impressed by "Johnny Mnemonic". 
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