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Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:50 pm**

Water world cost something like 100 mil what a waste

Posted: **Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:53 pm**

$175 mil
$1.3 mil a minute

Posted: **Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:54 pm**

waterworld has actually made a lot of money now tho before everyone laughs too much, and in actual fact isnt all that bad... battlefield earth on the other hand....

Posted: **Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:26 pm**

andy_g wrote:bl.oody hell, john! apart from alien that's a rubbish selection!

bladerunner (the director's cut)
2001
the fifth element
invasion of the body snatchers
the day the earth stood still

are all better films

earth versus the flying saucers

god i love those 50's B films

Posted: **Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:18 pm**

The Return of the Judge wrote:
andy_g wrote:bl.oody hell, john! apart from alien that's a rubbish selection!

bladerunner (the director's cut)
2001
the fifth element
invasion of the body snatchers
the day the earth stood still

are all better films

earth versus the flying saucers

god i love those 50's B films

What about the original Metropolis? After all, it is the first Sci-Fi film ever!

And concerning 2001, did you know that HAL got his name from moving the letters of IBM one character forward each (I becomes H, etc...). Should help in a few pub quiz comps.

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:49 am**

The Ace1983 wrote:And concerning 2001, did you know that HAL got his name from moving the letters of IBM one character forward each (I becomes H, etc...). Should help in a few pub quiz comps.

And there was me thinking it was because at the time you could buy a computer for your spaceship from HALfords .

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:15 am**

seriously bad use of puns here boys

, especially from you woof :laugh:

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:31 am**

I thought Blade Runner was a classic. Shame abou the narration, that was only added because the yanks didn't understand the film.

Starwars is part a film history and is the Alien Quadrilogy.

As for the thing, john carpenter is a master of shock!
Fave line has to be the ending Kurt Russel " Yeah, and f**k you too " Classic!

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:18 am**

Here is some more trivia for you. George Lucas really wanted to be Luke Skywalker, but when he realised he couldn't be the young Jedi, Lucas came up with the name Luke S. Cheeky.

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:20 am**

Luke was always going to be called Luke Starkiller but the name was dropped before filming started!

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:55 pm**

Lord of the rings what a movie, Characters , Beautiful settings i felt absolutely engrossed watching all the chapters i was second to none

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:46 am**

ckay wrote:I thought Blade Runner was a classic. Shame abou the narration, that was only added because the yanks didn't understand the film.

Starwars is part a film history and is the Alien Quadrilogy.

As for the thing, john carpenter is a master of shock!
Fave line has to be the ending Kurt Russel " Yeah, and f**k you too " Classic!

the thing was a re-make of the original 50`s film the thing from another world. the 80`s one was a lot more gory but the 50`s one has much more atmosphere and is ten times better imo.
the films made in the 50`s were made in an atmosphere of atom bombs, ufo sightings and anti communist reds under the bed type paranoia and you can almost feel it in those old movies.
interesting you mention the last line of the film, in the original the survivors get the radio working and they tell the world of their plight, and the bloke warns - watch the skies, keep watching the skies. much more subtle and ominous and it doesnt need a swear word for effect either.

Posted: **Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:57 pm**

How could we leave out Ghostbusters!
Okay, so it may not strictly be Sci-Fi, but it's such a good film, and the sequal is worth a shout too. It's a bit more :ghostface:

than

, but it definatley deserves a mention.

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