Science fiction war movies with Michelle Rodriguez
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If you like science fiction and you like war movies, you'll love this. It's amazing in both genres with an amazing cast and amazing action sequences as well with lots of suspense.
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Roy Batty: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in the rain..." This 1982 production was Ridley Scott's first film (this third overall) after his breakout film, "Alien" in 1979. Taking a break from his Han Solo and Indiana Jones roles, Harrison Ford is perfect as the Blade Runner, Rick Deckard; and Rutger Hauer costars as the chief Replicant...it was his favorite role and probably his best. The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019 in which genetically engineered Replicants (visually indistinguishable from adult humans), are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation. Their use on Earth is banned and Replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial, or leisure work on off-world colonies. Six Replicants have defied the ban and returned to Earth in an attempt to extend their short life spans. They are hunted down and "retired" by special police operatives known as Blade Runners. The plot focuses on the escaped replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) and the burnt-out expert Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Ford) who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down. This is a sci/fi actioner, with awesome special effects (especially for 1982) but on many levels it is indebted to film noir conventions...the femme fatale, rainy atmospherics, dark and shadowy cinematography; and the questionable moral outlook of the hero. Speaking of special effects, my favorite is the "Spinner", the term for the flying cars used in the film, primarily by law enforcement personnel...they can be used as a ground based vehicle or a flying VTOL vehicle. In addition to Ford and Hauer, look for Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, and Daryl Hannah in key support roles. Among the best of Ridley Scott's work, it is among my favorite sci/fi films!
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I enjoy folklore,science fiction, and futuristic movies. But I love old stories  renewed with plenty of action, advanced weaponry, and a excellent plot. Enjoy!!!
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The action sequences were amazing. The comedy was it's wacky usual blend of genre-bending sci-fi classics & current, modern humor. Each movie in the Trilogy has it's running themes: growing up, friendship, & the truth that you can't relive the past. World's End is a worthy closer to this series of movies. The sci-fi elements are handled with great care with wonderful homages to the body snatcher & robot takeover stories of old. Everyone is at their level best, but out of all the performances, Nick Frost shines in the role of Andy Knightley. This is a great movie & definitely worth checking out.
1520117
This movie is so much fun.
It has enough explosions to satisfy science fiction fans and the blast to the past music helps keep the story together
I will be watching it again.
397205
This movie was well crafted, an action science fiction classic that makes the Arnold version look like a Bugs Bunny cartoon - not forgetting that that film was classic SF fare back then.

 Intense chase scenes in the new Total Recall are as good as the best Kung Fu Cinema, beautiful set design that pick up where Blade Runner, an over rated movie, left off! The best and most realistic looking version of the future I can remember seeing.

Kate Beckinsale is awesome as the Bad Guy boss and kicks ass! And Colin Farrell is perfectly cast in the role of the protagonist.

IMO as good as the last two Star Wars movies in every way.

When you watch a movie, don't go in with expectations or when you are not ready to watch a movie. Improves your chances enjoyingment.
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Side A:  Movie themes from Blade Runner, 2001-A Space Odyssey, Alien, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars, E.T., Black Hole, Silent Moon, and Die Unendliche Geschichte

Side B:  Movie themes from Battlestar Galactica, Das Arche Noah Prinzip, Raumpatrouille Orion, Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Close Encounters, War of the Worlds, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Frost.
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Fabulous movie.  Sci-fi and action movies are a favorite of mine, but... they don't often offer the highest quality acting or writing, so generally I have lower standards for them.  But this movie was head and shoulders above most sci-fi invasion pictures I've ever seen - tight writing, terrific acting, even had strong women characters (Michelle Rodriguez and others).  And Aaron Eckhart was amazing, I'll be checking out his other movies now.

Strong story, great acting, lots of action, engaging characters - what more could you want?  Plus, the portrayal of marines and inner rank relationships was credible and compelling.  At the end, I actually jumped up and cheered - for our military, for the brave civilians, for people everywhere banding together to defend our families, our countries, and and our world. So inspiring!
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This is the soonest any science fiction movie has been blown out of the noisy vacuum by Science.  Many such movies were only trashed for their scientific mistakes decades after they appeared.  NASA just announced that water is in the soil, and just heat to extract.  Super windstorms do not happen on Mars with its thin atmosphere--certainly not ones of 1000 mph hurricane speed.  Read almost any encyclopedia of sci-fi and you will find pseudo-learned critiques of such 1950's classics as RXM.  Most of those critics had not seen the movie-in-question in years and so got many plot points horribly wrong.  But now we have a new movie-- I just watched the 2-D Blu-ray-- whose director and star DARE US to disagree that THE MARTIAN is a Great ORIGINAL Story.  Well, apparently those Hollywood insiders never saw ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS or RED PLANET or any of a dozen or so other Mars invasion movies.  Okay, maybe they just did not know of written science fiction, such as FIRST ON MARS whose original cover art shows an astronaut riding a self-made bicycle across the Martian surface.  Yes, things break, but here we have Hollywood puffery taken to new heights with Matt Damon in the EXTRAS and the script tagged with I'M GONNA SCIENCE THE SH*T OUT OF THIS PLANET.  Sorry guys, all 10,000 workers in several different countries, but the real Mars is a lot less bright and colorful.  It took years for NASA to admit that they too faked the Red Planet to look a lot redder in the first photos from Viking so that The Public would not be disappointed.  (I worked on the Viking landing radar.)  But that is okay.  RXM put a red filter in front of the projector during the Mars sequences.  (The clouds looked gorgeous.)  I have no gripe with the incredible CGI and wirework and cameras--GoPro is fantastic, I find as a user--and appreciate the tropes and memes too.  Every Mars movie has to have Comic Relief in the form of a joking sidekick.  Must have one or more beautiful women, smart and now in the Commander rank.  (RXM was way ahead of its time with its female chemist onboard who was better at math than the Captain.)  Finally, this is a movie whose main shock is NOT that Murphy's Law still works in space, but that bragging from The Star and The Director are so in-your-face.  Maybe Murphy's Law is in effect there too:  if anything CAN go wrong, it WILL go wrong, and at the WORST POSSIBLE TIME.  This is no 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY:  the sound effects of rockets in space really go back to the ancient-movie scientific error of LOUD ROARING SOUNDS TRAVEL IN VACUUM.  No, not an OOPS, just homage to STAR WARS to let the audience know what to think.  But at least there is no giggling unseen aliens and/or discovered lost civilizations.  2001 went against the author's wishes about having an evil computer on board.  Here the author of the book is pleased-as-punch at what Hollywood has done.  Admittedly, it would be hell to go back, as was done with CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, and NOT fix things that are bad science but just tack on a new ending.  But maybe the Studio could edit the B.S. about Science and the Great Original Story.  Another possibility is that THE MARTIAN might be sued.  It happened to ALIEN and K-PAX years ago.  Settle out of court, anyone?
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Pretty good action scenes.  I have read about Lt, Crap and he was a real hero.  Why do they always have to put a women in these movies.  She added nothing.
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Great Science Fiction with Two Great Actors - Kurt Russell & James Spader, not to Mention Jay Davidson of "Crying Game" Fame
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A good sci fi film on advanced AI human like robots. Good storyline. Kept my interest.
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What do you get when you take fantastic voice talent, a kick ass jazz rock fusion soundtrack, and the most unique visuals you will see this year? Strange Frame! Starring Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ferngully), Claudia Black (Stargate SG1, Farscape), George Takei (Star Trek, Heroes), Michael Dorn (Star Trek, Transformers), Ron Glass (Barney Miller, Firefly, Serenity), Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Serenity, Transformers), Juliet Landau (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ed Wood), Cree Summer (Rugrats, Drawn Together, Transformers), Tara Strong (My Little Pony, Rugrats, Princess Mononoke) and Claudia Christian (Babylon5, Starhyke)

Its like Heavy Metal, Barbarella, Blade Runner, Fifth Element all rolled down a neon candy colored walk through the red-light district of the future. The beginning is a little slow, but Dorlan Mig (Tim Curry) seduces you, Parker (Claudia Black) pulls you through to the otherside and there is no looking back!
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There' a dimensional rift and earth is invaded. So where are the ICBM'S, Grand Slam bombs, aircraft and 16" -18" rifles, and neutron  nukes? We get Rock-em Sock-em Robots, and the only thing missing is Sly Stallone and Burgess Meredith saying, "I can't let you go back in Rock." Giant Robots piloted by a two man team, and they are punching monsters? They look like invertebrates, so its like punching jello. They finally do get some other weapons , but Olympic team Earth has only a few Robots left.
And no story would be complete without some jealous  mano y mano  "I';m the top robo fighter;" "all you did was get your brother killed," which leads up to a fight where the hero wins. Then he is paired with a woman, who nobody knows if she can overcome her childhood demons of the monsters, and do her share of the work to make Mega Godzilla work.(of course their is a big romantic angle which culminates in falling in love-she already has, just waiting for him;)
 Weak on plot big on sci-fi  wanna be Rocky Balboa action eye candy added to 3D. I think it would have been more palatable if some robot team had lost it and gone berzerk and attacked another robot ala "Real Steel"-the boxing would have made sense. At least they didn't use the device of the cam-corder from Cloverfield. And our stalwart hardy heros save the day, "with a hardy hi ho silver!"(and some private time, of course after!)
Its a twist, squirm and drudge to get through it, but I'm sure the kids will love it. I can understand why del Toro's "vision" of "The Hobbit" was just too far out of sync with Wing Nut and New Line Cinema to risk a lot of money on a change in a guaranteed money making machine. I think del Toro is at his best on his own projects most of which are a big success, and maybe, this was aimed at the younger audience most of which will probably love it.
And that is really who should be writing the reviews-be interesting to get their take. Well I have it, in 3D, but its sure to be seen, in a normal rotation of a LOT of movies unless the kids come by-then they will burn it up. (I'm waiting for pt. 3 of "Hellboy) Just a new twist on "Transformers"-with people inside.
A little better than Average at best.
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Great science fiction movie.  The price was good and I would recommend this for anyone who enjoys the old 50's space movies.
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Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise do some solid work in this Sci-Fi Groundhog Day. The music is great and the story of a coward becoming a hero is fun to watch. I hear a sequel is coming and that's exciting as long as they don't soil the original. This is a war movie with a science fiction twist that we've all seen before. It's fun and entertaining. Just my opinion.
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Good action movie with the latest 2012 happenings  --  drone attacks, government agencies violating the Constitution with its citizens, outsourcing pharma manufacturing to the Philippines, etc. so we can fight our enemies, both foreign and domestic, more effectively.  As another reviewer said, Aaron Cross has a "pathetic" beginning but he is now confident and enhanced by some blue pharma pills so he can think and fight better and endure pain, enabled by an amoral research MD/PhD serving the country who knows Aaron Cross as "Number 5" after drawing blood and checking his vitals 12 times over 12+ months (my Chinese take-out place calls me "Mr. XXX" via caller ID after my 2nd order) . . .  the Rachel Weisz character is very bad with names, I suppose.
Now, Cross needs the pills several times day . . . will he be raiding the Philippines plant every 6 months or so . . .  can he handle Outcome II "assets" taking green pills in hand-to-hand combat when they're sent to "close down" the operation, now that the CIA knows Cross can hear drones launching TV guided missiles . . . stay tune for Bourne Legacy Penultimate - the Cross Strikes Back.