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killykavekommando wrote:The part of the book 'Gunheads' when Sgt. Wulfe beats the gap out of Cpl. Lenck. I wonder if any of you have read this book, even though it is part of the 40k universe.
Love that book. Also, when Katz is killed by the Magos in the Necrontyr city. In addition, Serenity and the show it was based on, Firefly. I know that's broad, but it had a great storyline and is possibly the most "realistic" sci-fi series out there. And another one: "Thank God for cold fusion!" "Hey, are we really gonna blow this place?" "Only if we see a Zerg!" "Yeah, I gotcher Zerg right here, hehehe."
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Redbeard wrote:I love the scene in Aliens, where they've set up these auto guns to guard the corridor, and all you see is the ammo counters on the guns cycle down to zero.
First thing that came to mind.
Funny story about that.
My all-time favorite movie is Aliens, hands down. I first saw it when it aired on network TV. It had a huge impression on me - it aired about a year after it was in the movies, so I was around 11 or so. While it's a pretty great movie on it's own merits, I simply had never seen anything like that, ever, and atop that, I got to stay up late to watch it, so it really was a big deal to me. For many children of my generation, it was Star Wars, but I never got into that. For me, it was Aliens.
So, like I said - I saw it on TV. I think it was a special CBS airing (or maybe channel 11 WPIX, although they were more into sunday afternoon movies) - anyway, apparently they decided to cut some of the movie violent scenes for TV. This is back in the day, obviously. Doing so left them short on running time, and so they added in the scenes with the Sentry guns (which were not in the theatrical release). After I saw it, no one I spoke with had any idea what I was talking about when I talked about the sentry gun scenes. Everyone apparently watched it on tape. So, for years, I thought I was crazy - remember, no internets yet, and the only releases, other then on TV, were the theatrical and the VHS releases, which did not have those scenes. They DID exist on Laserdisc, but I knew not a single person that owned a laserdisc player - apparently at this point in time, they only had a 1% saturation rate in the US. I didn't even know someone who knew someone who had a Laserdisc player, and the disc itself was like $100. So, no one knew what I was talking about, and it stayed that way.
It wasn't until Aliens SE was released on DVD in 2004 that I was finally vindicated. Feels good man. I agree with the decision to have cut those scenes for pacing reasons, BTW, just like cutting what happened to Ripley's daughter - and I also agree with adding them to a SE release for people who want a more extensive, slower moving release as well.
So, on-topic. I'd probably pick, movie wise, when the elevator opens, and it's Ripley in the loader. Get away from her, you bitch!
I also really loved when River Tam opened up a can on those Reavers in Serenity.
I also liked Sucker Punch, even though it was stupid as all hell.
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On the subject of Special Editions, the special edition of T2 contains a segment in the garage where Sarah is pulling the bullets out of the termiator's back where - in order for the terminator to start learning instead of being ROM - pulls the chip out of his head and sets it to "learn mode".
She and John have a fight about killing him by smashing the chip, John wins and they keep the terminator.
There are several other little bits that follow on from this including John teaching the terminator how to smile and eventually it is because of this setting being changed that the terminator is able to make the noble sacrifice.
My favourite bit though is when the terminator picks up the minigun and smiles, John says "that's really you".
In the standard film it seems that John means the minigun but in the SE it is the smile he is commenting on based on the terminator's prior failure to smile properly.
T2 was on a lot over xmas and I was hoping that it would be the SE but no luck for me...
On the subject of Special Editions, the special edition of T2 contains a segment in the garage where Sarah is pulling the bullets out of the termiator's back where - in order for the terminator to start learning instead of being ROM - pulls the chip out of his head and sets it to "learn mode".
She and John have a fight about killing him by smashing the chip, John wins and they keep the terminator.
There are several other little bits that follow on from this including John teaching the terminator how to smile and eventually it is because of this setting being changed that the terminator is able to make the noble sacrifice.
My favourite bit though is when the terminator picks up the minigun and smiles, John says "that's really you".
In the standard film it seems that John means the minigun but in the SE it is the smile he is commenting on based on the terminator's prior failure to smile properly.
T2 was on a lot over xmas and I was hoping that it would be the SE but no luck for me...
T2 special edition for the win, i dont think there is any other film i truly enjoy more than this. Even with my Arnie marathon (every Arnie film from hercules in new york to the expendable in a row!) this came up tops! Also is it bad that when i watched the predator i went out and bought a catachan army
How has it gotten to 7 pages with no Farscape....Some key moments.
This is my favorite point of the series...You may not get all the references but there is a certain level of balls needed to walk into a room filled with people who want you dead with a nuke strapped to your hip.
I've not gone through everything but I'm seeing lots and lots of Star Wars and Star Trek and aliens and all the usual suspects, which is good.
However I would like to add the final set piece of District 9 for awesome sacrifice/redemption vibes. Another scene with a similar feel is the bit toward the end in Sunshine when Capa has to get to the airlock in the unwieldy suit and the music builds up.
The opening scene in the original Ghost in the Shell film is rather epic.
Personally, though, I think the most moving and awesome sci-fi film (and indeed book) is Children of Men. The set piece in the slum when it changes from total carnage army vs insurgents to utter silence as the baby starts crying is a work of genius.
Plus lots of bits in the Culture books by Banksy.
Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!
I can't believe people didn't like Suckerpunch! Gotta be one of my favourite movies, the way it tells its story is great, and the visuals are outta this world!
Favourite sci-fi moment has to be pretty much all of BSG. Greatest TV show ever made? I say yes.
"Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?"
"I've done far worse than kill you, I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her. Marooned for all eternity, at the center of a dead planet. Buried alive."
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Ripley's over the head basketball shot from halfway down the court in Alien Resurrection.
It was originally going to be a CGI ball which went into the basket but Sigourney Weaver actually made the shot (on the first take, too) much to the amazement of the rest of the cast and filming crew.
The rest of the film was meh but that moment was great as it comes as she's just walking out the court after beating up Johner.
Predator 2: Glover: You are one ugly....... Predator: MOTHERFRAKKER!!!
ROTJ Imperial admiral: Intensify forward firepower, don't let anything through!
[..]: INTENSIFY FORWARD FIREPOWER! Too late!.....
ROTJ (again) The bit where luke has vader on the defensive and just starts wailing on him, no fancy cheography just WOMP! WOMP! WOMP!, knocking him on to the rail and eventually breaking his guard slicing is robotic (parallel) hand off. The best fight scene (well section of a fight scene) in the series, forget that ball numbing ballet crud in the phantom menace.
Big Iain M Banks guy right here.
The epilogue of Look to Windward. Lesson: dont screw with the culture.
The entirety of Use of Weapons, Cheradanine Zakalwe
Spoiler:
Well, technically, Eletheomeil
is probably my favourite character ever.
The part in player of games when Mawrain Skell shows the main character (forgotten his name lol) what the Azad really like to watch on television is also a great moment but pretty shocking.
Consider phlebas: When Horza starts destroying the Mind (read AI) of the shuttle after escaping the Cannibals. All the while with it politely asking what he is up to.
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Mary Sue wrote: Perkustin is even more awesome than me!
The one where Picard has to weigh out the risks of violating the prime directive versus trying out his new dune buggy.
Moments later Picard is doing doughnuts on the alien world with an android and a Klingon riding shotgun, violating the prime directive quite badly by tearing up a field on the alien world, and then gets some sweet airtime as he ramps his dune buggy off a cliff and into the back of a hovering transport ship before flying away, ensuring that nobody from the pre-warp alien civilization who witnessed this will ever be the same again.
Yeah, it's from the 50s and it's Leslie Nielsen LONG before he became a comedic actor. But it's STILL one of the greatest and creepiest sci-fi scenes ever.
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ROTJ (again)
The bit where luke has vader on the defensive and just starts wailing on him, no fancy cheography just WOMP! WOMP! WOMP!, knocking him on to the rail and eventually breaking his guard slicing is robotic (parallel) hand off. The best fight scene (well section of a fight scene) in the series, forget that ball numbing ballet crud in the phantom menace.
Also the music during that section is amazing. A really dark piece which makes it that much more powerful as Luke is at that moment attacking out of anger and fear. None of the full orchestra pompousness of the Prequel fights, just strings and a choir which goes to show that sometimes less really is more.
The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
ROTJ (again)
The bit where luke has vader on the defensive and just starts wailing on him, no fancy cheography just WOMP! WOMP! WOMP!, knocking him on to the rail and eventually breaking his guard slicing is robotic (parallel) hand off. The best fight scene (well section of a fight scene) in the series, forget that ball numbing ballet crud in the phantom menace.
Also the music during that section is amazing. A really dark piece which makes it that much more powerful as Luke is at that moment attacking out of anger and fear. None of the full orchestra pompousness of the Prequel fights, just strings and a choir which goes to show that sometimes less really is more.
Yeah, that scene is amazing. Too bad most people don't understand how important it is. I wouldn't if I hadn't read the novelization too. That shots are the beginning of Darth Vader's redemtion, who would be the first to come back from the Dark Side. But it actually say a lot more about Luke, as according to the novel, in that moments he has fallen to Dark Side too. The threats about her sister were too much and he couldn't help himself. And when he sees Vader's arm and stops... he manages to go quiet, in peace, and leaves Dark Side. So actually Luke would be the first, and all by himself. But that was the novel so...
Wrath of Khan He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
Firefly Tracey: When you can't run, you crawl. And when you can't crawl, when you can't do that...
Zoe: ...you find someone to carry you.
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"If you really want to know what it was like, to fight in the air in the great War, then go up to someone you have never met and who has never done you the slightest harm and pour a two-gallon tin of petrol over them. Then apply a match, and when they are nicely ablaze, push them from a fifteenth-floor window after first perhaps shooting them a few times in the back with a revolver. And be aware as you are doing these things that ten seconds later someone else will quite probably do them to you. This will exactly reproduce... the substance of First World War aerial combat and will cost your country nothing. It will also avoid the necessity of ten million other people to die in order for you to enjoy it."
Mordiggian wrote:Wrath of Khan He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
Admittedly, from a series where it's pretty much a given that ships will make contact by floating in space on the same 'plane' with the same orientation, so I can't blame Khan on this one. The whole megalomaniacal genocide stuff, sure, he deserves the blame for that.
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