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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

i recently saw two scifi/thriller/horror films on video/DVD that i had not seen in theaters: Pitch Black and Final destination. Both are pretty good films, in fact, they're verey good, considiering that i was not expecting much from either. I just wanted to pass on my recommendations for a weekend movie rental. anyone have any suggestions as to what is a good movie that's worth borrowoing?

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

PIFFLE. I say again, PIFFLE.

Screw rental, spend an extra buck or 2, & shag ass to the theater to see "Dancer In The Dark." Then pick up the CD. You'll thank me later.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

'Blade' and 'Event Horizon' come to mind. 'Cube' is also one worth checking out, although this is a very low budget movie (only 5(!) digits) I liked it very much. And Nicole DeBoer is playing in this movie

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I've got seven words for you that will make your night:

"Flying boobs and nuts: Muffy's road trip"

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Altair: What a coincedence, I was just going to recommend him "Sphere"!!
That's a good sci-fi/horror flick too, the fast-changing plot really surprised me.

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

:::bludgeons Nimrod's skull until it turns into a pinkish pasty pulp:::

How DARE you mention "Sphere" in my presence?!? Do it again & I'm turning this car around & we're heading BACK to Winnipeg!

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Blade?

Blade was okay. Hmmm. Let's see: beings who live forever until they get their heads whacked off by a sword.

For me, I'd prefer to watch "Highlander" or some episodes of the TV show.

Not saying Blade was a bad movie ... but it could've been a great Highlander flic with a few changes. Ah well.

"Pleasantville" is a good movie. Not sci-fi.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I haven't seen "Pleasantville", although I've heard some nice things about it, but I think the movie "Gangbanged In Turkish Prison" starring Shik is very interesting.

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

Supernova wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be, if I wanted to a f***flic I would have rented one....
The blurb I read for Cube wasn't anything like the movie really was, so I was expecting more out of it...
Now I only rent movies for the kids.....
Poke mon, digi mon, mice and pigs that talk......
I guess it beats a guy talking with his ass though...

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

HEY!! For the last TIME, dammit...it was NOT a TURKISH PRISON! It was a CYPRIOT one!

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Ah yeah, Vampire stories ripped off the idea of immortals who can die by having their heads chopped off from Highlander, didn't they?

Isn't Farscape just a rip-off of Blake's 7? And poor old Tolkein for stealing all of JMS's ideas.

(The Bible was based on Dragon Ball Z. Honest. People die. And then come back.)

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

The vampires in Blade died if they got impaled, shot or stabbed with a sword too, so the rip-off isn't really there.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

I didn't mean "rip-off" ... poor choice of words.

But there was one preview for Blade that could easily have said "HIGHLANDER" and I wouldn't have noticed a difference.

I can't really remember what preview it was, but it was a couple years ago.

Ah well.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Besides, everyone knows that Farscape is an attempt to do a serious ripoff of Red Dwarf.

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Blade Runner. Not only first rate sci fi...am I human or a replicant and are you my "father" (Freud would have loved this film), but also a first rate film noir.

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