Sentences with phrase «of science fiction flicks»
After combing through a vast library of science fiction flicks both sublime and ridiculous, your intrepid Bad Astronomer sat down to explain the best and worst of movie science.
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Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?
But amazingly for a 50's space flick its a very intelligent and deep adventure which has become a full top level cult and the quintessential science fiction film up alongside the likes of» 2001: A Space Odyssey».
The old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials were not science fiction, the «alien invaders» flicks of the 50s were likewise fantasy, and it continues today with such non science fiction films as Independence Day, Red Planet and Event Horizon trying to claim a genre title of which they are not worthy.
Tremors is a great action flick with the perfect balance of action, science fiction and comedy.
After fellow Koreans Kim Ji - Woon and Park Chan - Wook launched their English language debut films (The Last Stand and Stoker, respectively) the most nuanced of the trio of directorial superstars, Bong Joon - Ho is delivering the largest in scale, the nuclear - winter bound science fiction flick, Snowpiercer.
Rather than hold The Happening to the standards of the art house, or Shyamalan's earlier films, it's fairer to compare it to the B - grade science - fiction flicks of the 1950s.
Sounds like the trappings of a decent science fiction flick, right?
It's that slipperiness of creation and that psychosis that finds us repeating ourselves by repeating images of ourselves (Multiplicity is a trickier flick than given credit for) which informs a trio of new science - fiction films reaching North American movie screens simultaneously (though only one is American in origin)-- we are the world's new cultural / emotional wasteland and the films of our new millennium reflect that status.
Not unwatchable but often boring, Surrogates may hold the interest of those accustomed to watching made - for - basic - cable cheapie science fiction flicks, but those expecting the next Minority Report may find themselves restlessly wondering how a 90 minute movie can seem like three hours.
Caught between straight science fiction and a monster flick, Europa Report is about a team of scientists sent to one of Jupiter's moons in search for signs of life.
Six years ago there spiked an irregularity in the heartbeat of the contemporary science fiction flick.
Though the Westerns eventually made way for science fiction flicks to be Westerns in space (the «new frontier»), unfortunately, at least in the case of Cowboys & Aliens, the elements cancel out one another.
A lot of noise has been made this year over how fans of Science Fiction should go see some of the larger studio - produced Sci - Fi flicks like Jupiter Ascending and Chappie if they want to see more «original» science fiction films in theaters in the Science Fiction should go see some of the larger studio - produced Sci - Fi flicks like Jupiter Ascending and Chappie if they want to see more «original» science fiction films in theaters in the Fiction should go see some of the larger studio - produced Sci - Fi flicks like Jupiter Ascending and Chappie if they want to see more «original» science fiction films in theaters in the science fiction films in theaters in the fiction films in theaters in the future.
Birth director Jonathan Glazer returns with a deeply creepy film that, despite its science - fiction premise, is just as much a horror flick of disassociation.
It is recommended for fans of post-apocalyptic science fiction, zombie flicks, and those who have been disillusioned with the paltry amounts of intelligent horror films to come out in recent years.
A critic once remarked of George Romero's seminal 1968 zombie flick Night of the Living Dead that it is a science fiction movie pretending to be a horror movie.
Think of it as a science - fiction slasher flick or a deep - space old - dark - house thriller with a crew of likeably blue - collar mopes facing off against a shape - changing menace that's part axe murderer, part wild grizzly, and part serial rapist.
The new movie, which held its premiere here Tuesday night ahead of its Paramount release this weekend, is alternatively an abduction thriller, monster flick, science - fiction reverie, character comedy, horror pinprick, apocalyptic drama, duct - tape - and - chewing - gum chamber piece and alien - invasion movie.
; other classic mid-century science - fiction flicks like When Worlds Collide (1951), It Came from Outer Space (1953), and The Time Machine (1960) were marketed similarly, as Lumière-esque marvels of film technology.
Among these amazing stories are heart - pounding science fiction fairytale retellings like CINDER by Marissa Meyer; hilarious adventure flicks such as MY LADY JANE by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows; contemporary romances like THE PRINCESS DIARIES by Meg Cabot and even nonfiction, with VICTORIA: Portrait of a Queen by Catherine Reef.
The Festival program will screen all genres of films: action, adventure, comedy, family movies, chick flicks, science fiction, thrillers, true stories, animations, documentaries, there is something for everybody!