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gary wrote:I think also it is reasonably safe to say that many of you also enjoy a little (or a lot of) science fiction from time to time.
If you do decide to watch it I would strongly suggest you do not read any "spoilers" (like wikipaedia) before hand as part of the interest in the plot is to see if you understand it on the first iteration - it is quite challenging.
If anyone has already seen this movie I would be interested in reading about what you thought of it.
Viewmaster wrote:I'm a great Ray Bradbury fan myself
Viewmaster wrote:Remakes of old sci fi films are normally inferior to the original films .
"The Thing", and "War of the Worlds," being two examples for me.
Viewmaster wrote:Well Gary, I have just bought a copy of Primer (2004) from eBay and will let you know how it aggles my brain.
Viewmaster wrote:What has all this got to do with NBTV I ask?
gary wrote:PS: Just to be controversial, I regard The Thing (From Another World) to be a (space) horror movie rather than a science fiction movie - but I like horror movies too, so a combination of the two works well for me.
gary wrote:Although I did enjoy the remake I love the original too much (heeelp meee heeelp meee) to agree it was superior. Don't you check every house fly for a white head?
Brundle fly indeed....
Viewmaster wrote:Maybe we need a 'lounge' section.
Viewmaster wrote:I always felt rather dissapointed in the original version. Both creatures, fly and man, had human intellect as one could write english and the other speak it. If the fly had human intellect then why not stay in the relative safety of the house? I accept that this double intellect version was required to fit the story but I never did like that much.
Now in the new version the slow conversion because of fly DNA seemed much more plausible for me, and was handled brilliantly, starting with just those few stiff hairs on his back. Creepy, creepy.
gary wrote:But you talk about plausibility - how plausible is it that a geek like Brundle would end up with a gorgeous doll (actually two of them!) sitting on his lap? huh?
gary wrote:If anyone has already seen this movie I would be interested in reading about what you thought of it.
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