The SKMB (Inaugural) January Sci-Fi Movie Marathon!

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Hey folks. I meant to post this before the new year, then again on NYD. Still, 'tis still early, so here goes...

I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that January can be the longest month. It's also (for me) usually a time when I'd rather look back at the good times just passed than forward to the year ahead. The blank slate of a new year is almost as awe-inspiring/terrifying as a blank page replete with blinking 'Write something!' cursor.
So with that in mind, I thought it might be fun to do something along the lines of the October Horror Movie Marathon (because boy does October seem to fly doing that), and I chose sci-fi because...well, as I say, this time of year is supposed to be about looking forward, and SF is just about the most forward-looking genre you can get.

No rules, just fun, and anything goes. If you like your SF with a dash of comedy, great. If near-future dystopias are your thing, go for it. Space opera? Classic hard SF? Sure, it's all there. Whatever floats your boat (or powers your starship, or squashes your bugs).

My list so far:
1) Blade Runner (Final Cut) (early hours of Jan 1st :laugh:)
2) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3) Demolition Man
 
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Oh, very good. I don't watch as much straight sci fi, even though I really do love the old ones. Not so much the new ones.

And, I've already watched some!

Black Mirror:

The Entire History of You
Be Right Back
USS Callister
Black Museum

The Twilight Zone:

People Are Alike All Over
The After Hours
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
The Trade-Ins


I would so love to see what Rod Serling would make of our world today. What creative amazing stories he would come up with. Such a creative loss.
 
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Kin Dza Dza! Funny and insightful...

Plot

The film is set in 1980s Moscow. Uncle Vova, a generic but gruff construction foreman is relaxing at home after a stressful day at work. His wife asks him to buy some groceries so Vova goes out to the nearest store. Standing right in the city centre on Kalinin Prospekt, a barefoot man dressed in a tattered coat appeals to anyone with a strange request: "Tell me the number of your planet in the tenture? Or least the number of your galaxy in the spiral?". Uncle Vova and a young Georgian student with a violin (The Violinist), stop and talk to the strange man. During a short conversation the stranger shows them a teleportation device – "traveler". Uncle Vova decides to test the veracity of the stranger's story and, despite the stranger's warnings, presses a random button on the device. Suddenly Uncle Vova and the Violinist find themselves transported to the planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy.

The natives of the planet appear human, with deceptively primitive-looking technology and a barbaric culture, which satirically resembles that of humans. They are telepathic; the only spoken words normally used in their culture are “ku” (koo) and “kyu” (kyoo), the former stands for everything good, the latter being a swear word or stands for every bad thing. However, the Plukanians are able to quickly adapt to understand and speak Russian and Georgian. The society of Pluke is divided into two categories: Chatlanians and Patsaks. The difference is ascertained only by means of a small handheld device (visator), similar to flash drive in appearance; when pointed at a member of the Chatlanian group, an orange light on the device comes on; when pointed at a member of the Patsak group, a green light comes on. It is also noted that the social differences between Patsaks and Chatlanians are not constant: Pluke being a Chatlanian planet, so Chatlanians are privileged, and a system of rituals must be followed by the Patsaks to show flattery; but there are Patsak planets where Patsaks hold the upper hand and Chatlanians are subservient. The visator shows that Uncle Vova and the Violinist are Patsaks.

The only group allowed to use weapons (“tranklucators”) and enforce their will are the etsilops ("police" spelled backwards in Russian). Outside being a Patsak or Chatlanin, respect towards others is determined by the color of their pants; different shades require those of lower social standing to "ku" at them a predetermined amount of times, displaying their submission. The nominal leader of the Plukanian society is Mr. P-Zh; everybody makes their best to display fervent worship to him and disrespect is severely punished; but, when encountered in person, P-Zh appears harmless and dumb. The fuel of Pluke is called luts and is made from water. All naturally present water has apparently been processed into luts, so drinking water is a valuable commodity (in fact, it can only be made from luts).

A good deal of the plot is based on the fact that ordinary wooden matchsticks (ketse) (or, rather, the chemicals of the match head) are considered to be extremely valuable on Pluke. Uncle Vova and the Violinist meet two locals, Uef and Be, who at various points either help or abandon the duo from Earth in their quest to return to Earth, which at various times involves repairing Uef and Be's ship or raiding P-Zh's private compound.

Uncle Vova and the Violnist finally encounter the man from the film's beginning, but he disappears, making it uncertain if he took them with him. The film then jumps back to the very beginning, as Uncle Vova heads outside however there is no man at the city center, where he runs into the Violinist, however they do not recognize each other. Suddenly, a passing tractor with an orange flashing light reminds them of the ecilops and they both reflexively squat and say, "ku!" as was required on Pluke. They immediately recognize each other. Uncle Vova, looking at the sky, hears the sound of a song performed by the Uef and Be.
 
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Mr Nobody said:
Hey folks. I meant to post this before the new year, then again on NYD. Still, 'tis still early, so here goes...

I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that January can be the longest month. It's also (for me) usually a time when I'd rather look back at the good times just passed than forward to the year ahead. The blank slate of a new year is almost as awe-inspiring/terrifying as a blank page replete with blinking 'Write something!' cursor.
So with that in mind, I thought it might be fun to do something along the lines of the October Horror Movie Marathon (because boy does October seem to fly doing that), and I chose sci-fi because...well, as I say, this time of year is supposed to be about looking forward, and SF is just about the most forward-looking genre you can get.

No rules, just fun, and anything goes. If you like your SF with a dash of comedy, great. If near-future dystopias are your thing, go for it. Space opera? Classic hard SF? Sure, it's all there. Whatever floats your boat (or powers your starship, or squashes your bugs).

My list so far:
1) Blade Runner (Final Cut) (early hours of Jan 1st :laugh:)
2) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3) Demolition Man
Click to expand...


Damn good Idea :applause:

My List (so far)

Arrival
Sunshine
In the Pale Moonlight (Star Trek:DS9)
Datas Day+Lower Decks (Star Trek:TNG)
Dredd
Interstellar
Aliens
 
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mal said:
Kin Dza Dza! Funny and insightful...

Plot

The film is set in 1980s Moscow. Uncle Vova, a generic but gruff construction foreman is relaxing at home after a stressful day at work. His wife asks him to buy some groceries so Vova goes out to the nearest store. Standing right in the city centre on Kalinin Prospekt, a barefoot man dressed in a tattered coat appeals to anyone with a strange request: "Tell me the number of your planet in the tenture? Or least the number of your galaxy in the spiral?". Uncle Vova and a young Georgian student with a violin (The Violinist), stop and talk to the strange man. During a short conversation the stranger shows them a teleportation device – "traveler". Uncle Vova decides to test the veracity of the stranger's story and, despite the stranger's warnings, presses a random button on the device. Suddenly Uncle Vova and the Violinist find themselves transported to the planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy.

The natives of the planet appear human, with deceptively primitive-looking technology and a barbaric culture, which satirically resembles that of humans. They are telepathic; the only spoken words normally used in their culture are “ku” (koo) and “kyu” (kyoo), the former stands for everything good, the latter being a swear word or stands for every bad thing. However, the Plukanians are able to quickly adapt to understand and speak Russian and Georgian. The society of Pluke is divided into two categories: Chatlanians and Patsaks. The difference is ascertained only by means of a small handheld device (visator), similar to flash drive in appearance; when pointed at a member of the Chatlanian group, an orange light on the device comes on; when pointed at a member of the Patsak group, a green light comes on. It is also noted that the social differences between Patsaks and Chatlanians are not constant: Pluke being a Chatlanian planet, so Chatlanians are privileged, and a system of rituals must be followed by the Patsaks to show flattery; but there are Patsak planets where Patsaks hold the upper hand and Chatlanians are subservient. The visator shows that Uncle Vova and the Violinist are Patsaks.

The only group allowed to use weapons (“tranklucators”) and enforce their will are the etsilops ("police" spelled backwards in Russian). Outside being a Patsak or Chatlanin, respect towards others is determined by the color of their pants; different shades require those of lower social standing to "ku" at them a predetermined amount of times, displaying their submission. The nominal leader of the Plukanian society is Mr. P-Zh; everybody makes their best to display fervent worship to him and disrespect is severely punished; but, when encountered in person, P-Zh appears harmless and dumb. The fuel of Pluke is called luts and is made from water. All naturally present water has apparently been processed into luts, so drinking water is a valuable commodity (in fact, it can only be made from luts).

A good deal of the plot is based on the fact that ordinary wooden matchsticks (ketse) (or, rather, the chemicals of the match head) are considered to be extremely valuable on Pluke. Uncle Vova and the Violinist meet two locals, Uef and Be, who at various points either help or abandon the duo from Earth in their quest to return to Earth, which at various times involves repairing Uef and Be's ship or raiding P-Zh's private compound.

Uncle Vova and the Violnist finally encounter the man from the film's beginning, but he disappears, making it uncertain if he took them with him. The film then jumps back to the very beginning, as Uncle Vova heads outside however there is no man at the city center, where he runs into the Violinist, however they do not recognize each other. Suddenly, a passing tractor with an orange flashing light reminds them of the ecilops and they both reflexively squat and say, "ku!" as was required on Pluke. They immediately recognize each other. Uncle Vova, looking at the sky, hears the sound of a song performed by the Uef and Be.
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You lost me at "plot."

:laugh:

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Demolition Man
Total Recall
Blade Runner
Robocop
The Terminator
Terminator 2
Soylent Green
2001: A Space Odyssey
Logan's Run
THX-1138
The Matrix
The 6th Day
Latitude Zero
The Mysterians
Sayonara Jupiter
Virus (1980)
The Running Man
The Omega Man
Solaris (1972)
Escape from New York
Mad Max
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cyborg
Iceman

 
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All such good stuff from you guys! One thing that tickled my funnybone,TCM was doing a scifi day yesterday or the day before,and they had two movies,Forbidden Planet,and Queen of Outer Space..I noticed that they repurposed a dress that Ann Francis wore in Forbidden Planet,and had a girl from the other movie wearing it! It was funny,it is like a gold kind of dress with spangles on it,if you ever see those movies..guess saving money back in the day was on their radar,so to speak! ;)
 
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The List:
1) Blade Runner (Final Cut)
2) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3) Demolition Man
4) Black Mirror - 'Fifteen Million Merits' and 'The Entire History of You' (yep, I've gone back to the beginning...though I opted to leave out ep.1)
5) Starship Troopers

Thangs. Stuff:
Dana Jean - Agree re: Serling, though I think if he were here to see the state of the world today, he might say something along the lines of 'This is what I was trying to warn you about'. But yeah, it's been a long time since I saw the old Twilight Zone eps. The effects weren't up to much really - at least not by the standards of the time I saw them (mid-90s), let alone today - but the stories...

GNTLGNT - That made me laugh, probably more than it should have. :grinning:
 
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