Science Fiction Movies: Reviews & Discussions

But the Cubs didn't even win!

I really hope that's loose denture slurring and not old age cognitive difficulty slurring.

Marty looks like he's forty on that poster.  Is that a foreign market poster, or a reject?

Makes sense.  The idea behind the poster's layout sounds great if you're a marketing team bouncing ideas around, but the end result is too bland.  Even if Marty looked right, the poster still wouldn't be good enough.  They made the right call in rejecting it.

METEOR (1979)



Before Armageddon and before Deep Impact there was... METEOR. Remember all the Nova Awards you gave this movie, Jibbs ? Remember... Nova Awards? Anyway, Sean Connery plays a guy who has to stop an asteroid from hitting the earth. Does he put on a space suit and go into space like Roger Moore did in Moonraker? Of course not. The man has too much dignity. He stays on earth and remotely sends a shitload of nuclear bombs to destroy the asteroid. The movie is basically Connery trying to get the American and Soviets to join forces for the greater good. To keep the audience awake there's a series of smaller asteroids that hit different parts of the world. It's more of a 70's disaster movie than a post-Star Wars science fiction movie. It's okay for what it is, but Roger Moore went into space in 1979 and Sean Connery didn't. Fucked up, man.

While Dracula and PG Cooper continue to debate how many awards Arrival should win, let's take a beat to discuss...

THE ARRIVAL (1996)



Charlie Sheen, in possibly the best acting of his career, stars as a wacko scientist uncovering the truth about aliens on Earth. It starts as Contact, with Sheen trying to prove that the strange radio signals coming from space are of aliens trying to communicate with us, and ends as Men in Black with Sheen discovering that aliens disguised as humans are responsible for global warming. It sounds batshit crazy, but as thebtskink will verify, it's a-may-zing. It's unarguably better than Arrival.

God, those backwards-bending knees...

Fun discussion. Makes me wanna rewatch the film.

The Second Arrival (1998)



I hope they make a sequel to the Amy Adams movie and also call it Second Arrival. It's a direct-to-video sequel starring the douchebag who broke up Zack and Kelly on Saved by the Bell and Ross' lesbian ex-wife on Friends. It shares a similar plot to the original but it's a lot more straightforward. It's whatever.

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)



That's what they thought accessing the Internet would be like in 20 years.

I saw it when it came out and was mostly bored. 22 years later and not much has changed. The plot is something about people uploading information to their brain and getting diseases because of it and corporations denying access to the cure in favor of ongoing medication. Nice social commentary, I guess, but Keanu Reeves is terrible, the action scenes are lame, the cyberpunk stuff is whatever and Ice-T is in it for no reason. I'm sure there's unintentional humor to be found, but it's 420 and I haven't gotten high yet so I couldn't tell you. Only amusing anecdote I can tell you is that when The Matrix came out I remember watching the commercials and thinking, "didn't Keanu Reeves already make this movie?" Yes, I dared to compare The Matrix to Johnny Mnemonic. In my defense, there's a scene where they upload information to his brain and he says, "I know Kung Fu." How am I not supposed to assume they're both the same shit? Anyway, gonna get high. Hit me!