P-List traffic/sci-fi flicks

[Dave Monroe]

We're all of course entitled to our opinions, but ...

--- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now that's a hell of a fine list.  I'm going to
> annotate it with my opinions ...
>
> > Last Night (McKellar)
> Say what?

Best end of the world film ever, note David Croneberg
as a Toronto gas company executive calling all his
customers to thank them and assure them of continued
service to the bitter end.  Also, Genevieve Bujold,
plus 15,000 people playing "Taking Care of Business"
along with Randy Bachman ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156729/

> > Metropolis (Lang)
> Gotta see it one day.

You'll have the advantage of seeing the most complete
version in existence, at least, albeit, alas, without
either a Giorgio Moroder and/or Queen sdtk. ...
 
> > Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
> Oh please.

Heretic!
 
> > Solaris (Tarkovsky)
> Bloated and hokey.

I've gotta google to see if ANYONE'S ever applied the
adjective "hokey" to a Tarkovsky film before ...
 
> My additions:
> 
> Stargate (Emmerich)

Speaking of cults ... I hear the plug's FIANLLY been
pulled on the Scientologist propaganda series.  As
with The Hitlery Channel, SciFi might still as well
change its name to The Stargate Channel ...

> Starman (Chenault & Dahlin)

Would I be a wiseguy to suggest, might as well include
Coccon then also?  Okay ...

> Destination Moon (Pichel)

Sorry, accidentally cut that one trying to bring it
down to fifty total ...

> E.T. (Spielberg)

Now there's where I get incredulous, and I LIKE the
film (albeit NOT to Bowdlerized rerelease) ...

> The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg)

Sorry, another victim of my simply not paying
attention to hat I was cutting, definitely should have
ben in there with Destination Moon ...

> Back to the Future I, II, III (Zemeckis)

Again, enjoyed the first one greatly, but ...

> Buckaroo Banzai (Weller)
> Repo Man (Cox)

Ditto these, on eleven, but ... well, inconsitently
applied my SF/not SF heuristics here, will revise. 
But taht may mean I gotta include Frankenstein ...




 
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