The Scifi Films of 2013 — Page 2

I'm sure it will probably be good, but I cant hear that title without thinking of this exchange.

• SULU: Where to Captain?
• KIRK: Today we need to go trekking... INTO DARKNESS!!! 

I saw Oblivion over the weekend. I actually liked it quite a bit.

It is a bit derivative, using a number of common scifi tropes we've seen before. But in general it does them either in an interesting way or at least with great visuals that I didn't mind. It also has some rather clunky dialogue at times, but again, nothing so offensive as to ruin my enjoyment.

But the story is really cool and the overall execution is quite good, with several interesting plot twists. The visuals are spectacular and I feel very much worth seeing on the big screen.

Overall this movie has a feel that strongly harkens back to some of the great 60's/70's scifi like Planet of the Apes or Robinson Crusoe on Mars, and I really enjoyed it because of that. It also left me thinking about the story and plot for a couple of days as I realized more details about what actually happened the more I thought about it. I love movies that leave your imagination running after the movie is over and this one did that for me.

I'd give it a solid B, maybe a B+. The one thing I'm not sure about is how well it will hold up to repeat viewings, but my gut says it'll be fun to see again once it hits Netflix.

What film did it rip off, Tobar?

Tobar said:

It's a lot of films...

The Matrix

Planet of the Apes

Independence Day

Moon <--Highly recommended

I've seen all of those, of course. But you seemed to be indicating that there is one recent film in particular that it rips a big idea off of.

There's also the fact that this film rips a big idea from another rather recent film...

Since only one of those films is recent, I have to assume I know which one you are talking about, and have a pretty good idea of what aspect of that film it must be that they steal barrow from. Interesting. But potentially really lame.

For anyone who hasn't seen Moon, do yourself a favor, and go see it. I can pretty much promise you that it'll be much better than any sci-fi film coming to theaters in 2013.

Come on Ducan Jones! The world of cinema needs you to get on with those other two sci-fi flicks taking place in Moon's universe you've talked about. At least then crappy, lesser, yet much bigger budget sci-fi flicks like Oblivion will have better material to rip off.

Yeah not convinced by Pacific Rim. Big Robots remind of Power Rangers and not a fan of Godzilla type monsters. So whatever. Elysium looks promising. Thought District 9 was cool, it was different.

Saw the trailer for World War Z for the second time today. I am convinced that it is a film about some phenomena that turns groups of humans into living tidal waves. 

It looks ridiculous. Every scene with "zombies" in it just depict clearly CG people weirdly and unnaturally pouring over edges and falling out of things. It is a shame. An appropriately R rated zombie movie (or maybe TV mini series) that follows the documentary nature of the book could have really been something. This feels like I Am Legend all over again, a fun and somewhat unique story adapted into a throw away big budget picture.

I hope Europa Report is good but the trailer gives off a 'Prometheus' sort of vibe.