Oh hell yes, Videodrome (And pretty much anything by Cronenberg) is awesome.
And John Carpenter too. Okay, he's not that "out there", but The Thing and Escape From New York are pretty damned iconic.
Given the name and premise, that's based off Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, which is a fantastic short story. Didn't know a version was filmed, I'll have to look into it.Originally Posted by farplaner
Yes! That's it, Vonnegut! It was released as a TV movie (after some momentary research) in 1995; it retains Vonnegut's title.
I need to pick up some more of Vonnegut's work. Last time at the book store, I picked Breakfast of Champions basically at random. It was enjoyable for all of its "dismissiveness of social niceties" (if that makes any sense) like his picture, for example, that looks something like this *. I won't say what it's supposed to represent...
I vaguely remember seeing Slaughterhouse 5 & others...?
Another movie just came to mind: "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (sp?) Awesome movie for fairy tale/adventure fans.
Brian: "If I remember correctly, this is the Physics Department."
Chris: "That would explain all the gravity."
For the record, any of you people that keep talking about The Matrix as being original? Stop. Please cease. Give up any ideas you have about that movie being original, and go watch dark city. The matrix is the most UN EXPOSED ripoff i have ever seen. Honestly, i have no idea HOW there hasn't been a lawsuit. Whole scenes are shot near word for word, with the same lighting,props, and camera angles. it's insane.
Aside from that rant... Donnie Darko was Surreal, and ANYTHING by David Lynch is... incredible to say the least. Watch Lost Highway before a roadtrip, scariest thing ever... Also, Romeo + Juliet. Long before all the other "classic play, modern remake" films started popping out, there was Romeo + Juliet.
Uhhh... I've seen Dark City, and I've seen The Matrix. The only real similarities I recall are in the sets used, because... well, because the same sets were used.
The Matrix isn't original in story terms anyway, but in cinematic terms it did some crazy <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif">.
Matrix, despite terrible dialog, does deserve some credit for being innovative in the realm of technique.
Lost Highway is a good one, with an awesome soundtrack to boot.
Anybody seen Zardoz? It was made in the 70's and was a distant landscape for Sean Connery, coming from the world of James Bond.
--the wiZARD of OZ.
Brian: "If I remember correctly, this is the Physics Department."
Chris: "That would explain all the gravity."
Ghost in the Shell, it made me think about being human.
"Reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away".
Philip K. Dick
Uh huh, and what did it make you think about being human?
Brian: "If I remember correctly, this is the Physics Department."
Chris: "That would explain all the gravity."
What makes him human, probably. That's what it made me think of. If our brains are just computers with programs running on them, what's the difference between us and them? Except that we're (still) a bit more advanced, and they're not made of flesh. If our consciousness is just data, why can't a machine have one?
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
Right. When it comes down to it, what makes anyone human is that undefineable aspect. There are a million names for it: consciousness, soul, ego, "ghost," etc.; they can define the "what" and the "how" but never the "why" (although many believe otherwise). If that makes sense.
Getting off topic a bit: Personally, I think it's inevitable (it might take a couple hundred years or more, but...) that autonomous machines with the ability to "think" and "learn" will someday be given rights alongside people. I probably sound like a crackpot, but robotic computers are already being taught how to learn and behave like humans. Given the exponential rate at which technology is advancing, it wouldn't surprise me to see the scenarios presented in so many sci-fi movies become reality.
Let's just hope writers like Frank Herbert, the "Matrix brothers" (can't spell their name), etc. aren't proven to be as prophetic as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells were.
Brian: "If I remember correctly, this is the Physics Department."
Chris: "That would explain all the gravity."
I just saw the movie Elephant, yesterday and I thought the shots the director used were pretty unique in it's own right. Also, the fact that he hired a cast of non-actors and told them to improv most of the scenes was very unique.
Jaws also gets a noteable mention, because of the fact that it created a new type of shot all on it's on. Today, many directors try to copy that "Jaw effect" shot that is seen in the movie.
Office Space. Tell me, how many movies stress the red stapler?
Silly to you but enough people would easily disagree. And you can say that certain types of action movies are of the same style. You can easily point out a blow'em all up action movie from a martial arts movie. They are styles of action movies. Their styles of CG are very similar.They were both the same style because both aimed for realism. Uhh... That'd be like saying all live actions are the same style because they all look equally realistic.
There's more to a movie than it's graphics. Labelling them solely based on how they look graphically is just silly.
I think AC has a completely different atmosphere, it's got a completely different story, different setting, the music isn't anything like what was in TSW either. In short, not the same style.
By the way, they didn't aim for total realism in AC, like they did in TSW.
From what you said about atmosphere...I can say any movie is completely different from any other movie because you could come up with at least enough aspects to say that. I could even say that about remakes if I really wanted to. The cinemtography is different, the music is different, the actors are different, the story isn't exactly the same. This makes it a completely different movie to the point where it isn't the same style? NO!
This battle is far from over...you made it personal
I saw Elephant a few weeks ago. It has a slight documentary feel aside from using that technique of splicing together the same scenes from different perspectives at different points in the movie).
For some reason I really like the scene where the kid is walking across campus; it's a single shot with the famous first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata playing from start to finish on the soundtrack- something kind of ghostly and foreboding about it.
Brian: "If I remember correctly, this is the Physics Department."
Chris: "That would explain all the gravity."
You stole mine!
road trip for some reason
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