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06-14-2004, 11:12 AM
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70's Sci Fi films
So what are some favorite sci fi flicks from the 1970's?
I liked films from this decade because they seemed more interesting than later sci fi films which seem based more around special effects.
A film like Zardoz is quite strange and the big special effect in the film is Sean Connery in a red diaper but man the film is loaded with interesting ideas...so let's hear what you folks liked...
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06-14-2004, 11:20 AM
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BLASPHEMY!!!!
YOU BLASPHEMER!!!
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06-14-2004, 11:29 AM
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I like the funkyness of them. Plaid suits, polyester everywhere, disco lights, blinking lights and togle switches. Most try to copy 2001/Clockwork Orange.
Logans Run
Westword
Futureworld
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06-14-2004, 11:34 AM
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Let's give it up for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.
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06-14-2004, 11:48 AM
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How about "Soylent Green" and "The Omega Man" for some Heston-goodness?
And "A Clockwork Orange" would be at the top of my list.
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06-14-2004, 12:11 PM
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| I like the funkyness of them. Plaid suits, polyester everywhere, disco lights, blinking lights and togle switches. Most try to copy 2001/Clockwork Orange. |
Yet, 2001 featured truly futuristic elements (flatscreen video displays, accurate space shots, etc.).
Zardoz is "genuine" SF, whereas the rest of it is typical of what Hollywood always passes off as "SF." Of course, with Lucas's fantasy epic ( not SF), the budgetary gloves that limited this genre came off. Now, we make big-budgeted cheesy movies that bear little resemblance and relation to true SF. Most of it is just noisy fantasy.
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06-14-2004, 12:30 PM
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Logan's Run was a sort of quintessential 70s sci-fi flick for me. I think it holds up well, too. I hear someone is planning a remake of it (from the original book as source material).
Even in pessimistic films about the future, there was an optimistism that came through in the art design. Every sci-fi flick made these days is dark, dark, dark, and that in itself is depressing. One need only look at the differences in appearance for Star Trek The Motion Picture (which also gets my vote for cool 70s sci-fi flick) and Star Trek Nemesis. The former was all bright colors and optimistim for the future, while the latter was all shadow and darkness (and depressing as hell for many reasons).
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06-14-2004, 12:37 PM
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[rant]"Don't give me any of that intelligent life crap! Find me something I can blow up!"[/rant]
Dark Star (1974) 
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06-14-2004, 12:55 PM
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Speaking of Futureworld: it still didn't make it to DVD. Which is necessary, because any true collector already owns Westworld of course.
There's an inherent problem with SciFi: the best books aren't filmed or gave rise to rather awful movies, the best SciFi movies were only so-so books (or no book at all, or a "based on the movie" atrocity).
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06-14-2004, 01:02 PM
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No one has mentioned Alien(1979) yet...
But it could arguably be better classified as horror.
Quote:
"Don't give me any of that intelligent life crap! Find me something I can blow up!"
Dark Star (1974)
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One of my favorites. "Time to go sleepy-bye you worthless piece of garbage"
\"I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.\"
\"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don\'t have it.\"
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06-14-2004, 01:10 PM
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Jack beat me to the punch
A few others:
THX1138
The Omega Man
A Boy and His Dog
Death Race 2000
and don't laugh but I loved
Demon Seed
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