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By: ben

ben — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:51:11 +0000

equilibrium came out before matrix, so it can’t be a matrix rip off

By: Demimo

Demimo — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:54:36 +0000

This is a great list and I agree with most of your ratings. However, sometimes we like movies even if they are not the best and we realize their flaws. I really like Demolition Man, not for its message, but for its dialogues and of course, W. Snipes. Another movie you rated low, Idiocracy is very obvious in its message, I agree. But don’t you think that it is obvious for a reason? Unfortunately not everyone is at the desired intellectual level. I am planning to use it in my unit with my 8th graders because I want them to start thinking about how to live their lives. They need to grow in order to understand anything less explicit.
Thank you for this compilation.:)

By: badbrush

badbrush — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:49:46 +0000

Thanks for providing me with a few more films to have a look at. Try stalker [1979] based on the book a road side picknick. Its a slow film with Andrey Tarkovskiy signature stare into the camera for tension shots, but having said that its thought provoking, just as his brothers books was. Its been the bases of a few games now as well.

By: MelissaG

MelissaG — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:00:51 +0000

Found it, finally!! Melissa, it is the 2002 remake of The Time Machine starring Guy Pearce & Samantha Mumba. Here’s the Wikipedia page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine_%282002_film%29

By: MelissaG

MelissaG — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:08:20 +0000

Hi Melissa,

While Googling “sci fi movie people live on side of cliffs” I stumbled upon this page because of your comment. I’m also trying to remember the name of this movie. You knew many more details than I did. And Cathy, the movie is much more recent than that…maybe from the 1990s? And yes, my name is also (really) Melissa. Hope someone can help us figure it out!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:06:39 +0000

Melissa,

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:33:34 +0000

Melissa

The movie you are thinking of is Lost Horizon.

Here is the link on IMDB…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029162/

By: ericmsteen

ericmsteen — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:33:47 +0000

Hey Melissa,
Sorry to say the movie doesn’t sound familiar at all to me. If you ever find it, please report back and let me know because I’d be interested in watching it.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:27:33 +0000

I stumbled across your list while desperately surfing the net trying to find the name of a movie I watched many years ago. It definitely was a utopian/dystopian/sci-fi film. I hope you can help me figure out the title. Here are the few sketchy details I remember about the movie. I think it was a time travel or possibly a space travel story where the main character discovers a colony of people who live on the side of these massive cliffs in very primitive huts or pods. In this society, they send their elderly citizens away once they get to be a burden, by lowering them down in the great unknown at the base of the cliff. I can’t remember what danger they believe lurkes below, but it was a monster or another colony of evil people or something. Anyway the main character bucks this system of disposing the elderly, and he goes down the clift to prove something. I think in the end, he decides to stay in this world because he falls in love with some chick and he wants to help make a change. Any ideas? I know these details are far-fetched, but I hope something rings a bell with someone!

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:17:49 +0000

You should check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(film)

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:11:33 +0000

Wowowow…guess who is happy now!?
The Time Machine it was, for sure!!!
But I didn´t remember it to be so dramatic and violent..i suppose the static and scary happiness was what made the deepest impression on me when i first saw this gem..
Thankyou Eric, for this invaluable gift, this evening im timetraveling in all senses :-D

By: ericmsteen

ericmsteen — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:30:18 +0000

It’s definitely The Time Machine you are looking for…for sure.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:09:23 +0000

By the way, you might be intrested in reading Uri Dowbenkos “Hoodwinked-Watching movies with eyes wide open”, an intresting disection of movies, some of them sci-fi.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:59:10 +0000

No, I haven´t seen Time Machine, but from what i get from imdb its not the one I´m looking for.
A few fragments of scenes that comes to mind:
In one scene, some of the “happy people” fall into a river and is drowning. The other just watch with a happy smile on their faces, and nobody moves a finger to help the person in need.
Another: The protagonist walks around one of the community houses and finds a library. But when he tries to take up a book and open it, it falls apart as dust. It has not been touched in a very long time.

Been looking for this one for years now, would be very happy if i found it!