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Spiderfan
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 17. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
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IamSpartacus posted:
You should be! Run out and rent a copy.
I'm a big Kaufman fan, so I was excited to see this movie when it came out. Michel Gondry was the perfect fit to direct it. Though it's kind of become an example of how annoying it is that director's get all the credit for things writers do  Because lots of people talk about Gondry, but only the buffiest of film buffs tend to talk about Kaufman when they bring up this film...
Well I think its the brilliant quirkiness of Kaufman and the brilliant quirkiness of Gondry working in perfect unison. Kaufman has that way of twisting reality on the page that you would think would be next to impossible to achieve on film and Gondry has such a twisted visual style. Its like taking two great tastes that are fantastic on their own (chocolate and peanut butter) and gently but forcibly smashing them together in a strange almost psychedelic exploration of one man's decaying memory and warped mind as he struggles to hold on to something he tried to hastily throw away.
It took me a few viewings to wrap my head around much of it, because though its almost in-your-face about somethings, other elements are so incredibly subtle that you are too lost to recall them.
I can't honestly think of anything I don't like about this movie.
BTW sj I tend to talk about Kaufman's script more than anything relating to this film because it is very much the backbone of everything there. Everyone else makes the movie whole but the concept is no where without the brilliant script. And you know I am not a guy who usually go gaga for writing but I can't help myself in this instance.
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 17. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
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Well good on you, then  The thing is, the stuff with the erasing of books in the library, etc... I can almost guarantee you that was in the script, not a choice of Gondry's. I'm not putting down Gondry's beautiful style for the film, I just hate director's getting all the credit for things that are often the ideas of good writers.
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 17. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
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IamSpartacus posted:
The thing is, the stuff with the erasing of books in the library, etc... I can almost guarantee you that was in the script, not a choice of Gondry's.
The copy I have vaguely states that the scene is disintegrating around them, nothing specifically about books that I can see (at least during the "I'm not a concept" speech). Oh and its Barnes and Noble.
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i love this film and would like to comment on it 
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 17. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
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16. TOTAL RECALL (1990)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
''If I'm not me, whodahell am I?'' Excellent question, Mr. Schwarzenegger. Science fiction has always been a genre steeped in pretzel-logic story lines, but this adaptation of Philip K. Dick's ''We Can Remember It for You Wholesale'' is so Escher-like in its twistiness, you'll have to watch it more than once for all the pieces to snap into place. Arnold plays a futuristic regular Joe who gets a memory implant to simulate a Mars vacation. But messing with his noggin triggers an unknown cloak-and-dagger past involving bullet-riddled double crosses, a three-breasted Martian prostitute, and a rebel leader named Kuato — a Yoda-ish homunculus growing out of some dude's chest. It makes sense...honest.
POP CULTURE LEGACY The mating of big-action heroics and heady philosophical musings in a movie that went on to make a fortune paved the way for other Thinking Man blockbusters like The Matrix.
THE BEST BIT It's tough to top Schwarzenegger mind-melding with the shriveled Kuato...but Arnold pulling a tracking device out of his skull — through his nose — comes close. —Chris Nashawaty
Never seen the movie, no basis to judge.
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3/8 6:53pm
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Consider this a divorce.
Love this movie. More Verhoeven greatness.
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Mastadge posted:
Consider this a divorce.
Love this movie. More Verhoeven greatness.
It's good, but it is not as good as Starship Troopers.
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And neither is as good as RoboCop!
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Mastadge posted:
And neither is as good as RoboCop!
I didn't really like RoboCop as well as the others.
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I haven't actually seen this but I would like to.
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 17. "Total Recall" (1990)
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"Hey Louie- screw you!"
Love how the movie doesn't answer the question of if the whole Mars adventure is part of the memory implant or was actually triggered by it.
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15. FIREFLY/SERENITY (2002/2005)
Created by Joss Whedon
In 2002, Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon attempted to reinvent the space opera with a rough-and- tumble vision of the future set in an Earth-colonized galaxy. Part Western, part sci-fi, wholly unique, Fireflystarred Nathan Fillion as the captain of Serenity, one of those dumpy old ships that don't look like much but get the job done. The TV series tracked the misadventures of his morally ambiguous crew as they tried to make an occasionally honest living by hauling cargo, stealing stuff, and accidentally helping their fellow man. The show was smart, funny, and wonderfully human, and because this is Joss Whedon we're talking about, it also had a highkicking, superpowered wonder woman. Firefly was strange. Firefly shouldn't have worked. And it didn't. Firefly was canceled after 11 episodes...
POP CULTURE LEGACY...only to be revived in 2005 as the feature film Serenity (pictured), thanks to the tenacity of Whedon, the surprise success of Firefly on DVD, and a small army of Internet-based supporters.
THE BEST BIT Saddle up for the show, to see how it all started, and the movie, to see the ending. Then pray that someday, some studio exec will have the guts to make more. —Jeff Jensen
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RE: Sci-Fi's top 25 movies and TV of the past 25 years: 15. FIREFLY/SERENITY (2002/2005)
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I saw both the TV show and the movie, and when you think about the awful drek that is successful, the the ratings of the former and the box office take of the latter was a terrible disappointment.
Of course, Fox sabotaged the series by showing the dullest episode of the lot first instead of the pilot.
Great cast, of people who should be stars and aren't.
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I liked the Science Fiction episodes, I was bored by the western episodes in order words this show utterly fails as a space western luckily it had a good cast and the movie was good.
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Zaz posted:
Great cast, of people who should be stars and aren't.
It's nice to see some of these people are still rising. Summer Glau and Adam Baldwin are both involved in successful shows, and Alan Tudyk has been on Broadway. And I didn't even know he could sing.
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