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Some great movies on this list, I own most of them on physical media. Rollerball was just released in 4k and it looks glorious. I disagree with the commentary t
by pnw 3y ago
Some great movies on this list, I own most of them on physical media. Rollerball was just released in 4k and it looks glorious. I disagree with the commentary though, I think Rollerball still stands up and is quite prophetic in some ways esp with the sports celebrity worship and the AI. Yes, by modern standards it’s fairly slow but all of these films are.
Zardoz is gloriously weird and desperately needs a 4k restoration as well.
Someone should sent Sam Altman a copy of Colossus: The Forbin Project before too long.
Maybe I’m just getting old but I find I far prefer to sit down and enjoy a well restored classic movie from decades ago than the great majority of movies made in the last twenty years.
- slowmovintarget 3y agoPart of that could be that writers tended to work harder to build the world rather than assume an audience familiar with the tropes. Many of the tent-pole movies of the last twenty years are also sequels that rehash the original, rather than continue a story, or tell a new one. The Matrix is more than twenty years old, for example. There are exceptions. But only a few. Sturgeon's Law, perhaps. But I tend to agree with you. (Urge to growl "Get off my lawn" rising.)
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoEverything Everywhere All At Once should be one of those exceptions and is arguably scifi. It's telling that such an original film didn't come from a Hollywood studio.
- pnw 3y agoAgreed, that was one of the few recent SF films that didn’t seem formulaic.