They misspelled “The Thing.”
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It is, the Gun is just Naked (the OG trilogy.)
You know what a gun is. A lethal weapon
It’s not so much a sci-fi film as a horror film in a sci-fi setting.
Is that like saying Star Trek is more of a Western show with a sci-fi setting?
I fucking hate this but it's true. God dammit.
Event Horizon is a horror film in a sci-fi setting. Alien is a sci-fi set in a horror situation.
What makes something a sci-fi film?
The science in the film is fiction. Like jump drives, FTL, or interstellar travel in general, laser zappers and swords, consciousness transfer, etc.
This really depends. Are we talking about “hard” science fiction (where the science is the main driver of the story, like much of Star Trek where attempts are made to explain the fictional science) or “soft” science fiction (like Dune, where the science is not really explained, more assumed, and serves as the background for the film)? I’d argue Alien falls into the former because the biology of the xenomorph is the major focus of the story.
I'm perhaps way off, but to me sci-fi is pretty much any narrative that mirrors our own world but with specific differences that have an effect on the story. Eg a story that's a regular setting but everyone has to pay for oxygen, or a story set in an alternate history where the British empire never faded. The differences are variables that can be used to view humanity from a different perspective.
To me Star Trek and Dune are essentially fantasy settings. Star Trek though obviously has sci-fi stories. Eg depicting a broadly post-racial society but using aliens as a tool to explore racism in our own culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_(video_game)
It was reasonably successful for its time.
I remember it being the better of the two open world cowboy games that came out that year.
"Shoot em Up". ?
It's always bothered me that someone went and called their band "Death", but I find it difficult to articulate why.
Death kicks ass, though.
Politicians in my eyes!
Sharknado is exactly what it says on the tin
I can never get in to Sharknado.
It just… sucks.
Like I get that it’s supposed to be corny and stupid, but I like my corny and stupid to be a function of the creators incompetence and a $257 budget most spent on aluminum foil.
Like the movie “Independents Day” (yes, ents and not ence).
In fairness, so is Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”.
Sharknado VR was worth the money I spent on it (it was on a 50% sale, so I only paid 50 cents)
best science-fiction film ever made
Idk about that buddy
We can debate the top rankings, but Alien is in the pantheon for sure. It's practically flawless as a movie. You could argue for 2001, or Blade Runner, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But you would have to at least compare those to Alien to prove they're better in some way.
All of those except Alien could be argued to have pacing problems.
Pfft no, 2001 is perfect. Every time I’ve watched it I’ve been high af, and I fall asleep for a few min at a time throughout it, and I don’t miss anything at all!
I certainly wouldn’t want to watch it sober, though.
Upvoted simply for the concept of "it's only good if you're high" that was a ridiculously boring, shitty movie.
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Honestly, there's also "The Thing" which is also as simple as it gets.
Here's The Thing...
Nah man, that's just a dog.
This is my vote as well. And it fits the prompt!
Yeah but that was actually good.
It's certainly in the running, the first two are basically perfect movies
Chase!
Bullet was a pretty good movie.
I heard it was Top Gun. :^}
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