P-List traffic/sci-fi flicks

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I've seen Primer, and I agree that it is a very interesting movie--the 
overall experience is enhanced by the limited budget and inexperience of 
the director and actors and crew==like DaVinci's "sketches"on napkins 
from the all-night De Medici coffee shop

and I also want to say that whatever else Brazil may be...the vision is 
evocative, human and humorous and I consider it as formative as 
Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 (the books), a cautionary tale...but I was born 
in 1959...so

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Gordon, Alex wrote:

>Anyone seen Primer?? That's the best modern sci-fi film I've seen...
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>From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of David Casseres
>Sent: 08 November 2006 17:20
>To: Dave Monroe
>Cc: kelber at mindspring.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Re: P-List traffic/sci-fi flicks
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>Now that's a hell of a fine list.  I'm going to annotate it with my
>opinions -- hope that isn't too parasitic.
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>On 11/7/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Top 10 (alpabetical order):
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>>2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
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>Well duh.
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>>Blade Runner (Scott)
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>Masterpiece.
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>>Brazil (Gilliam)
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>Overrated.
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>>Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Speilberg)
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>Give me the scissors, I'll make a good movie out of this.
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>>The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
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>Brilliant, a great classic.
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>>The Empire Strikes Back (Kirshner)
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>Good, for a StarWarsSequel.
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>>Last Night (McKellar)
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>Say what?
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>>Metropolis (Lang)
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>Gotta see it one day.
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>>Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
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>Oh please.
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>>Solaris (Tarkovsky)
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>Bloated and hokey.
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>>Runners up:
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>Here I'm skipping the ones I haven't seen.
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>>1984 (Radford)
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>Waste of Richard Burton, read the book instead.
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>>2010 (Hyams)
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>An embarrassment.
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>>Alien (Scott)
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>Major classic.
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>>Aliens (Cameron)
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>Olympic shark-jumping.
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>>A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
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>Not really SF, but....
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>>Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)
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>Wonderful, heart-rending.
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>>Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
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>Classic.
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>>Gattaca (Niccol)
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>Very smart movie.
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>>Godzilla (Honda)
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>Yeah, but you have to join a cult.
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>>On the Beach (Kramer)
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>Not really SF.
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>>Silent Running (Trumbull)
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>True SF, very poignant.
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>>Sleeper (Allen)
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>Major Hoot!
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>>Soylent Green (Fleischer)
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>Hoo boy, does that one ever stick in your memory.
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>>Star Wars (Lucas)
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>The only Star Wars movie worthy of real admiration.
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>>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Meyer)
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>Pretty good, for Star Trek.
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>>THX 1138 (Lucas)
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>You can tell it's some smart guy's Masters thesis.
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>>The Time Machine (Pal)
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>Not too bad.
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>>War of the Worlds (Haskin)
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>Terrific.
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>Stargate (Emmerich)
>Starman (Chenault & Dahlin)
>Destination Moon (Pichel)
>E.T. (Spielberg)
>The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg)
>Back to the Future I, II, III (Zemeckis)
>Buckaroo Banzai (Weller)
>Repo Man (Cox)
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