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Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 1. "The Matrix" (1999)
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Zaz
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8/3 3:35pm
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 7. "E. T." (1982)
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6. BRAZIL (1985)
Directed by Terry Gilliam
"A slapstick version of 1984 sounds like a bizarre hybrid, but the frantic tale of ambition-free drone Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), who takes on the totalitarian government for the sake of his fantasy woman (Kim Greist), is a perversely devastating mix of hilarity and shock. Gilliam creates a depressing, shoddy futurescape of tubes and wires, where the creativity that was supposed to give us robots and jet packs has been channeled into expanding an oppressive bureaucracy that charges suspected dissidents for their own torture.
POP CULTURE LEGACY Echoing the film's David-and-Goliath plot, Gilliam won the fight to release his original version of the movie only after an epic struggle with Universal, the unhappy studio that had repossessed Brazil, cut over 40 minutes from it, and added a happy ending. (Both versions are now available on Criterion's superb three-DVD set.) Like Lowry, who dreams of being a brave knight battling evil, the iconoclastic director would repeat this underdog clash against his backers on many of his later pictures, although never to such thrilling results."
THE BEST BIT In a quintessentially dark comic moment, Lowry visits the office of his genial chum Jack (Michael Palin), who, in a blood-smeared smock, babysits his cherubic daughter while putting the screws to some rebels. —Josh Wolk
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Mar17swgirl
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8/4 1:23am
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 6. "Brazil"
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I love Brazil. It had a very "1984"-esque feel to it, with stunning visuals so typical for Terry Gilliam.
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Vengance1003
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8/4 10:51am
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 6. "Brazil"
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Brazil felt like 1984 with some comedy attached to it. The ending is messed up though.
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Zaz
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 6. "Brazil"
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5. STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982)
Directed by Nicholas Meyer
"Klingons. Romulans. The Borg. Over the better part of four decades, the crew of the Starship Enterprise has tangled with many a pesky intergalactic foe. But none had as much genetically bred wit, wiliness, and... well, wrath as Ricardo Montalban's Khan. Abandoned years earlier by Captain Kirk (William Shatner) on a barren planet (for trying to shipjack the Enterprise), Khan survived, sustained by his hunger for vengeance. The parallels between Montalban's leathery-pec'd Khan (Corinthian leather, of course) and Moby Dick's maniacal Ahab elevate what could've been just a bloated Trek episode. If revenge is a dish best served cold, then this movie is one chilling feast.
POP CULTURE LEGACY The genesis of the ''even-number theory'' (e.g., the only good Trek flicks are the even-numbered sequels), Khan is the benchmark against which all Trekfilms are measured.
THE BEST BIT The prize goes to an outwitted Shatner, frothing at the mouth and bursting with rage, bellowing ''Khaaaannnnn!'' at the top of his lungs. —Chris Nashawaty"
This is my favorite of the ST movies...good script, good performances, witty execution.
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JediPrettyBoy
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8/18 7:36pm
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 5. "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan"
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My favorite part is the reference to Marla McGivers by Khan who is the woman that he took as his wife to Ceti Alpha 5.
The dialogue goes something like this...
"I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I'll leave you the way you left me; the way you left her; marooned for all eternity at the center of a dead planet. Buried alive. Buried alive."
Great acting because it shows you two things about Khan. He is an evil, vindictive bastard, but he also is not a complete psychopath. He does have loyalties and feelings towards others besides himself.
One of the best villains ever; regardless of the film genre.
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Zaz
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 5. "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan"
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Yes, I forgot to mention, great villain. 
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JediPrettyBoy
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 5. "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan"
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Zaz posted:
Yes, I forgot to mention, great villain.
 Love the sarcasm.
Years ago, one of the popular Sci-Fi magazines did a rather large article about the top ten Sci-Fi villains of all time. I can't remember which magazine it was, but I remember that Zod from the Superman movies was number 9 and, of course, Vader was number 1. Anyone who makes it to number 3 on the AFI list for villains falling just behind the two Anthony's for Lecter and Bates is bound to make it to the top of any Sci-Fi list.
Anyway, what I found most interesting was that Khan was number 2. I would have to agree. I have always felt that he was right up there with Vader. Although, they both might get bumped now that we have Ledger's Joker to throw into the mix.
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 5. "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan"
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the worms part freaked me out when I first saw it when I was young, but a great movie. The best Trek film so far.
wish James Horner would of come back and scored the rest of the films after Search for Spock. His score in Khan was perfect.
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gonzoforce posted:
the worms part freaked me out when I first saw it when I was young, but a great movie. The best Trek film so far.
wish James Horner would of come back and scored the rest of the films after Search for Spock. His score in Khan was perfect.
Boy you hit the nail on the head with that one! It WAS perfect.
I think that's one of the (many) reasons that Wrath of Khan was a much better feature than the first. The score was great!
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Jedi_Keiran_Halcyon
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JohnWesleyDowney posted:
I think that's one of the (many) reasons that Wrath of Khan was a much better feature than the first. The score was great!
Hey now. Goldsmith's score in ST:TMP was fantastic, too.
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dp4m
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 5. "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan"
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What's funny about the James horner score for Khan is that... he got super-lazy. You find those same chords popping up in both Krull and The Rocketeer.
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The2ndQuest posted:
I never liked the movie as a kid, but I finally saw it during the 20th anniversary rerelease in theaters...and I was blown away. What an amazing film. Everything- the tone, the acting, the moments, the magic, the music- brilliant. The last 15 minutes or so is a Williams/Spielberg tour-de-force that builds to an incredibly emotional moment- if you don't have tears in your eyes at the end of this, you either have no soul or are Soontir-Fel (granted, it's a subtle distinction...  ).
Hey! I have a soul. It's just one that delights in others suffering and misery.
And I'm going to need you to take a step back and literally **** YOUR OWN FACE
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Zaz
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4. "THE X-FILES" (1993-2002)
Created by Chris Carter
"Once upon a time, the FBI sent no-nonsense special agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) to debunk the crackpot theories of special agent Fox ''Spooky'' Mulder (David Duchovny). What they got instead was a conspiracy-fighting team so powerful it threatened to bring down the shady men who'd infiltrated the highest levels of government with their dreams of alien/human hybrid technology. What did we get? One hell of a TV show — even if we never quite got the truth.
POP CULTURE LEGACY For the first time since The Twilight Zone, viewers could ponder the mysteries of the universe and get scared silly. From inbred mutants to satanic cults, Mulder and Scully's darting flashlights lit up some seriously freaky darkness. And like Twin Peaks before it, Files made conspiracy-theorizing an addictive couch-potato pastime.
THE BEST BIT For the perfect balance of mythology and monster-of-the-week, pick up season 3. You'll get plenty of geeky goodness — the black oil, the Cigarette Smoking Man, the chip in Scully's neck — but you'll also get brilliant stand-alone episodes like ''Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose.'' When guest star Peter Boyle, playing a winsome psychic, tells Scully she'll never die, it's hard not to wish the same could have been said for this show's heyday. —Whitney Pastorek"
It veered from brilliant to terribly self-indulgent, and the movies are not helping. But an iconic show, yes.
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Zaz
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 4. "The X-Files"
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3. BLADE RUNNER (1982)
Directed by Ridley Scott
"Blade Runner follows cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) — who may or may not be human — as he attempts to terminate four bioengineered androids, called replicants, on the streets of 2019 Los Angeles. Adapted from a novel by noted writer and nutcase Philip K. Dick, the film, particularly in its Director's Cut incarnation, asks big questions — namely, ''Are you really who you think you are?'' And it does so against the backdrop of a stunningly designed near-future worldscape whose many nods to globalization make it seem more prescient with every passing day.
POP CULTURE LEGACY Scott's rain-lashed, dystopic film offered a hugely influential vision of a future. In subsequent films, this, more often than not, is what the future looks like.
THE BEST BIT The genuinely heartbreaking pre-death speech by the replicant played by Rutger Hauer (''I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...'') is also the most geeked-out, hardcore sci-fi sequence in the pantheon of all-time great movie moments. —Clark Collis"
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Possibly one of the greatest films of all time - as mentioned, the speech by Rutger Hauer is amazing, still can`t quite believe he did that off-the-cuff.
"All these moment sill be lost in time..........like tears...in rain."
"Time....to die."
I still prefer the version with the voiceover, I know that not many people will agree with me.
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