Name a sci-fi film that's better than Serenity- if ya can, that is... by chrisisall

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Name a sci-fi film that's better than Serenity- if ya can, that is...

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 04:15
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Sunday, December 11, 2005 8:41 AM

I'm happy to see some mentions of BRAZIL on here. This flick always struck me as the love child of George Orwell and Monty Python. It's as frightening as it is funny. I heard that during it's whole controversy, a few people at Universal saw the film and it really affected them. Like a lawyer wouldn't come out of his office for days on end, and a secretary had burst into tears after watching it.

The one scene that really stuck out in my mind was when Sam first arrives at Information Retrieval and he's swept up in that crowd of lackeys swarming around the boss who keeps interrupting his welcome speech with "YES", "NO" and the like. And when they get thos his "office" he goes. "Your very own number behind your very own door. And behind that door your very own office. Congratulations, DZ-019. Welcome to the team." And then his office is more of a broom closet with only half a table, which keeps moving to the other room.

It was that moment that made me forever determined never to take an office job and become an office drone.

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"YES!!!I'm a man posessed by many demons....Polite demons that would open the door for a lady carrying too many parcels...BUT DEMONS NONETHELESS!!!! Yes. I have walked along the path of evil many times, it's a twisting, curving path that..actually leads to a charming plot garden, BUT BEYOND THAT EVIL!!!"

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:59 AM

XEROGRAVITY

Strangely enough, I've never seen "Brazil". Always been meaning to, but never got around to it.

Orwell's "1984" and the film version of it creeped me out to no end. I suspect this film will probably be more of the same.

I hate "1984" but I watch it the same way a person stares at a carwreck when they are passing it by. Don't want to see it, but can't take their eyes off it. Didn't want to see Brazil up until now.

I find myself compelled to rectify things, and will go watch it in short order.

Hell... one of my alltime fav flicks is "A Clockwork Orange". Not cuz I love the gratuitous ultraviolence! I just love the "X" rating. We nicely did away with it by inventing "XXX" ratings.

XG ~ droogan brother

http://www.filmsite.org/cloc.html

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:15 AM

ANDRE83

Wouldnt say better, but they are up there;

Dark City
Pitch Black
Abyss
Terminator 1+2
Matrix (Lets just pretend for a second that no other movie was made)

Jayne: All those years of preacher training, getting knocked out by one bounty hunter
Book: Oh, dont get me wrong. I gave him a hell of a fight
Jayne: Epic i'm guessing
Book: There'll be poems and songs!

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