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This site is devoted to those great science fiction movies we like to see again and again. Enjoy!
Dark Star |
Blade Runner |
Silent Running |
Escape from New York |
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| Starring
Brian Narelle and
Dan O'Bannon Directed
by John Carpenter
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| Dark Star is a hilarious parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the year 2250, the crew of the spaceship Dark Star must carry out the tedious work of clearing solar systems for colonization. They spend their time traveling through space, locating and destroying unstable planets. Apathetic and bored with their routine work, the astronauts irritate and amuse each other in various ways (at one point, they accidentally eject their entire supply of toilet paper). As in 2001 , some of the leading characters are non-human: Mother, the ship's computer, and Bomb 20, a prissy know-it-all who is determined to detonate against orders. The "Lesson in Phenomenology" scene with Bomb 20 and crew member Doolittle is legendary. John Carpenter wrote Dark Star while he was still a film student. His co-author, Dan O'Bannon, later wrote the screenplay for Alien. | ||
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| Silent Running is a touching and gentle science fiction film; it's a nice, restful change from the usual action and hardware. The hardware in this movie is cute and named Huey, Dewey, and Louie. The movie depicts a time in the future when earth has been devastated by nuclear war. Bruce Dern stars as Freeman Lowell, a botanist working in the spaceship "Valley Forge". His ship is one of a whole fleet that carries the last of earth's plant and animal life. Entire ecosystems exist in gigantic domes attached to the ships' outer hulls. Tragic consequences result when the fleet receives an order to destroy the domes and return to earth. Here is a brief review from the Edinburgh University Film Society. Silent Running was one of Douglas Trumbull's first films. | ||
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| In 1997, Manhattan Island has been turned into a maximum security prison full of convicts who are armed and have nothing to lose. Air Force One crashes there while carrying the president. As Snake Plissken (Kurt Russel), a war hero turned criminal, is going to prison, he is given a choice: save the president in exchange for his freedom. The theme music by John Carpenter is unforgettable; it's a major highlight of the movie. I acknowledge that Escape from New York can just barely be categorized as science fiction. If it did not involve any futuristic technology (and there is some), it would probably have to be categorized only as an action/fantasy movie. | ||||
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Snake Plissken receives as he enters prison: "You
now have the option to terminate and be cremated on the premises.
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| Blade Runner has many serious flaws, but it's still a great science fiction movie. The special effects are great, the theme music by Vangelis is beautiful, and the overall atmosphere of the movie is perfectly suited to the story line. Harrison Ford stars as Deckard, that famous replicant hunter. He is tired of killing and wants to be left alone. However, the replicants on one of the off-world colonies stage a rebellion, and the rest is history. Deckard is an interesting character. There is speculation that he was a replicant himself. Read more about him in this review titled "The Clearing of the Mist". dBlade Runner is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. | ||
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Dark Star |
Blade Runner |
Silent Running |
Escape from New York |
More to come!! |
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updated May 30, 1999