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BarkAtTheMoon
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| Gerard wrote: | | I liked "the Andromeda strain". Late sixties I think. Book was by Michael Crichton I think. Chrichton 's gone a bit potty I'm sorry to say, but I like some of his books. |
He has gotten a little weird lately, but I also like many of his novels. |
His older books are good. I think he started going downhill when he did ER and then seemingly wrote The Lost World as a sequel to the movie rather than the book of Jurassic Park. Thing I like about his books is that they're generally fairly well researched and while some of the storylines are unlikely and exaggerated they tend to be in the realm of somewhat plausible scientific theory.
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Kalvan
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| Several that I like a lot have already been mentioned. Forbidden Planet is great. I like Soylent Green. Really like George Pal's The Time Machine, as well as his War of the Worlds and Atlantis, the Lost Continent and When Worlds Collide. Buckaroo Banzai is a favorite. The original Planet of the Apes was very good. Both the original and the Carpenter remake of The Thing are excellent. Carpenter's Escape From New York and They Live are also good. A really old one I liked was World Without End. I liked Logan's Run. Flash Gordon (with the Queen soundtrack) is a hoot. The Road Warrior, The Terminator, and Aliens are all good. Yes also to Silent Running, Invaders from Mars (the original), Them and Day of the Triffids. Dark Star and 2001 too. THX 1138 is OK, not one of my favorites. Tremors is hilarious. |
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| Kalvan wrote: | | Several that I like a lot have already been mentioned. Forbidden Planet is great. I like Soylent Green. Really like George Pal's The Time Machine, as well as his War of the Worlds and Atlantis, the Lost Continent and When Worlds Collide. Buckaroo Banzai is a favorite. The original Planet of the Apes was very good. Both the original and the Carpenter remake of The Thing are excellent. Carpenter's Escape From New York and They Live are also good. A really old one I liked was World Without End. I liked Logan's Run. Flash Gordon (with the Queen soundtrack) is a hoot. The Road Warrior, The Terminator, and Aliens are all good. Yes also to Silent Running, Invaders from Mars (the original), Them and Day of the Triffids. Dark Star and 2001 too. THX 1138 is OK, not one of my favorites. Tremors is hilarious. |
Those are all good ones. I must say though,as for Soylent Green, the book is way better. Much more of a dystopian society. Make Room, Make Room by Harry Harrison.
I have seen all of the others mentioned. All good picks. I want to add The House on Haunted Hill, The Masque of the Red Death, The Last Man on Earth, and The Abominable Dr. Phibes. All Vincent Price. All Classics.
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was the tv show Space 1999 any good? (Starring Martin Landau) I can't quite remember.
Six million dollar man is hillariously sucky in retrospect. Clips are available on youtube.
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Kalvan
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| Quote: | | was the tv show Space 1999 any good? (Starring Martin Landau) I can't quite remember. |
IIRC, it started out OK but as time went by the screwed it up. |
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Day of the FECKING triffids! yeah great book, good film, awsome series.
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A friend told me the other day that Michael Crichton is 6'9, which I thought seemed abnormally tall for anyone, much less someone his age. Sure enough, he really is that tall. 
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Let's see...
"Logan's Run" is my all time favorite. They were going to do a remake but they made "The Island" instead (Damn you Michael Bay!). I have all of the olde timey episodes of "The Outer Limits" which is just fantastic. As well as the complete "Twilight Zone" collection. I am sure there are others but I will have to really sit and think about it. And since I am at work, it is not required that I think at all.
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| Kalvan wrote: | | Several that I like a lot have already been mentioned. Forbidden Planet is great. I like Soylent Green. Really like George Pal's The Time Machine, as well as his War of the Worlds and Atlantis, the Lost Continent and When Worlds Collide. Buckaroo Banzai is a favorite. The original Planet of the Apes was very good. Both the original and the Carpenter remake of The Thing are excellent. Carpenter's Escape From New York and They Live are also good. A really old one I liked was World Without End. I liked Logan's Run. Flash Gordon (with the Queen soundtrack) is a hoot. The Road Warrior, The Terminator, and Aliens are all good. Yes also to Silent Running, Invaders from Mars (the original), Them and Day of the Triffids. Dark Star and 2001 too. THX 1138 is OK, not one of my favorites. Tremors is hilarious. |
I mentioned Forbidden Planet before, but I just got the 50th anniversary and watched it again. It is a truly fantastic SF film and was the obvious direct ancestor of Star Trek. All the George Pal films are good.
John Carpenter made a few good films but then dropped off badly. It's clear he's a fan of HP Lovecraft, as am I. Both the Thing and The Fog show it.
I liked all the Mad Max films for some reason. They somehow managed to stay a step above mere genre.
THX1138 is one of my faves, but Lucas is on my shitlist these days. It's a classic utopian/dystopian theme filmed in a minimalist and abstract style.
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