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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  I think that's the one i've seen least of all followed by the overlong Aliens.
I can appreciate the Giger production design for Alien but bugger all happens for fifty minutes so when you've seen a group of astronauts bicker and marvel at a grounded space ship once then that's enough.
I know that's contrary to popular opinion but they don't really grab me and never have done. Prometheus was good but follow up Alien: Covenant was dreadful.
I've said before on the forum, think it was to B_e. I'm not really the biggest sci-fi movie fan.
Of more recent films i thought Gravity was okay, Passengers was dross, but Ender's Game (basically a reworking of Full Metal Jacket) was good.
I hated the remake of Solaris so won't go near the original which is probably so arty farty i'll be nodding off. |
Wow, you really don't like sci-fi! I think
Alien is a masterpiece of suspense and claustrophobic horror. The world building and design, from the Nostromo to the Xenomorph, is superb.
I loved
Gravity at the cinema and when I've seen it at home – it's one of the few films which really benefited from a 3-D presentation (
Avatar was another) and has quite exceptional sound design and music, and the use of CGI never fails to impress.
I didn't like Steven Soderbergh's
Solaris when I first saw it, but it's grown on me over the years and I may actually prefer it to Tarkovsky's version. They are very different films because of how they have adapted the source material.