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Wired magazine has published its list of their top 20 sci-fi films, with each movie chosen on its power to excite (Adrenaline), how well it depicts the world in which the story takes place (Vision) and whether the science works well or not (Precision). Check it out. (Click on the titles from the main page for individual write-ups on the films.)
A credible list, if little more than a catalogue of received opinion. It would have been nice to see write ups that embodied the qualities specified in the designated criteria though – these comments do little more than ensuring receipt of said opinions.
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Originally posted by bonnee:
A credible list, if little more than a catalogue of received opinion. It would have been nice to see write ups that embodied the qualities specified in the designated criteria though – these comments do little more than ensuring receipt of said opinions.
Bonnee, did you just swallow a dictionary?
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More a thesaurus actually Sloppy – more tasty.
Hmmm, thesaurus.
[ 23-05-2002: Message edited by: bonnee ]
Yeah I personally think whoever wrote that list took some deep hits off the crack pipe.
The other 19 movies aside….
(Warning R-Rated information ahead)
One thing thats always bothered me about “A Clockwork Orange” is that the film got so much praise and the book didnt????
That never made any sense. The book by Anthony Burgess is so far superior to the film remake which was filled with pornography and underemphasis of the main story about how society was heading. Most dont even realize the title is a literal for Alex. How a human becomes mentally trained against their own nature hence Clockwork Orange, an organic machine.
Instead the film focused more on sexual gratuity and violence. Quick example of how they failed the book so terribly and why no one got the real point of the film:
In the book its told that Alex can only have orgasms when listening to Beethoven. This is why the training on him failed. They used Beethoven as a sensory aid during his mental training which corrupts it. Later in a fantastic chapter and unfortunatly only a 30 second scene in the movie Alex attempts suicide while being tortued with Beethoven music, thus finally breaking his conditioning. The final words of the book as Alex leaves the Hospital was “I was really cured now” so chilling and so perfect, but the movie ended on such a comedic tone it was sickening. And I love Malcom McDowell, dont get me wrong. No one else could’ve played Alex but him.
The movie failed by showing Alex having sex with 2 girls from the Music Shop, then later raping some woman at her home which is also in the book but you are told through constant narration that Alex doesent truly “get off”. Then later on they do show the right scene from the book, where Alex is masterbating listening to Beethoven and staring at Christ(they only show Christ for a second, didnt want to **** off too many people in the film) What isnt said anywhere in the film is how attatched Alex is to this music other than the true to the book scene where Alex screams “This is sin!”
A Clockwork Orange was also in the top 100 of all films of all time by that list they released at the end of the century in Time and several other publications.
And not a single rant or rave for the book exists
Which is possibly some of the best literature of the 20th century.Im glad to see Gattica so high, terrible actors aside this was quality Sci-fi in an age where no one has a clue how to write Sci-Fi.
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