Guessing (totally) Dan's categorization: The masterpieces: Khan and Blade Runner. The crowd-pleasers: Poltergeist and ET. The flawed 3: Tron, Thing and Conan. The rip-roarer.... Road Warrior. The first movie I ever saw on VHS--only 3 months after it came out (Dad got a bootleg, what can I say? It was 1982!).
Book of the New Sun is sort of like if you want a cooler version of the Bible - Hyperion is some of the best pure sci fi I’ve read. I’d recommend both.
Blade Runner is looking more and more like an accurate prediction of the future. A bored and cynical elite safely cruises above teeming, urban squalor. Sound familiar?
Notwithstanding Arnold’s very quotable answer to the question, “Conan, what is best in life?” A line that my nerdy adolescent friends and I went around quoting…
The Thing. The alien wasn't a guy in a costume. The best!
Star Trek Wrath of Khan also awesome in the ST series. These for me still are watchable. Blade runner out of the box and had to pay attention to the story line. Yes a good one.
Guessing (totally) Dan's categorization: The masterpieces: Khan and Blade Runner. The crowd-pleasers: Poltergeist and ET. The flawed 3: Tron, Thing and Conan. The rip-roarer.... Road Warrior. The first movie I ever saw on VHS--only 3 months after it came out (Dad got a bootleg, what can I say? It was 1982!).
Hey Dan, have you ever read Book of The New Sun or Hyperion?
I'm afraid I have not. Should I?
Book of the New Sun is sort of like if you want a cooler version of the Bible - Hyperion is some of the best pure sci fi I’ve read. I’d recommend both.
Yes, especially Book of the New Sun.
Blade Runner is looking more and more like an accurate prediction of the future. A bored and cynical elite safely cruises above teeming, urban squalor. Sound familiar?
Oh Dan. Conan was dreck.
Notwithstanding Arnold’s very quotable answer to the question, “Conan, what is best in life?” A line that my nerdy adolescent friends and I went around quoting…
The Thing. The alien wasn't a guy in a costume. The best!
Star Trek Wrath of Khan also awesome in the ST series. These for me still are watchable. Blade runner out of the box and had to pay attention to the story line. Yes a good one.