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kalato
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 13:24 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 13:50 Post subject: |
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Contact is imo the closest and best. Well, Carl Sagan wrote the book its based on that explains everything.
It would've been a great movie without this shitty romance subplot. And I don't really like Jodie Foster that much.
And some others:
eXistenZ
Westworld
Pi
K-Pax
Idiocracy (hehe)
Signs
Andromeda Strain
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 15:27 Post subject: |
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| kalato wrote: | | SycoShaman wrote: | | scarfacew3 wrote: | hmm Timecop? I think it will be possible in the far future, and I like the idea of time traveling.
Only the problem is that it can get in the wrong hands...
Terminator? The Japanese will make a super intelligent roboter who will evolve, make another roboters and kill us all, damn. |
i was thinking about that you know. Timecop. But i dont see how it could be viable. I mean, we'd have ppl disappearing in mid air (that scene where the guy jumps out the window and van dam goes after her) and stuff like that would be recorded.
Still, other aspects do make sense  |
Wouldnt we have people going back in time now? If anything is made in the future we would notice it now? Unless they dont want to come back now since they know we are going to have a World War3 soon  |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 15:28 Post subject: |
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| GeordieRacer wrote: | | WaldoJ wrote: | a lot of his books were good. Next was a bad movie. But book was good.  |
I prefer his short stories, but sometimes you can tell he was a lazy writer. Next is a prime example of Hollywood taking a story and not really getting to grips with the concept of it and just trying to blag it, even if it was only loosely based. That was a brilliant story.
I thought they did really well with all the bigger films such as Minority Report, Total Recall, Bladerunner and A Scanner Darkly though. |
A scanner darkly....never scene it. Imdb link or a brief description perhaps?
PS
And I do agree Contact is the most plausible way of aliens contacting us. But, being the hopeful I am, I hope something happens along the lines of Signs...just not the take over the world part you know.
Personally, i think Stargate may have some truth to it. It would explain alot. Like every year or 18 months significant advances are made in technology. Maybe the Gov's of this world dont have a device like the stargate, but perhaps some other device that allows people to travel to different planets. I know its a long shot, but it could, in theory, be possible |
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Star trek's spin on spirituality religion ect was pretty realistic ie no worship or dogma just prayer for the maintenance of reverence & unity. Seems to me once we make contact with other sentient races & establish colonies in space spirituality & religion will become more of a unifier & manner of keep'n perspective, than a way of manipulating the masses.
KPAX represented some very sensible notions about space travel, like traveling within light & assuming the form most appropriate to the world you travel to, rather than attempting to move your body to the other planet across billions of miles you just transport your consciousness into a host body that suits the world your visiting best. Which also rolls on to the notion echoed in some Sci-fi stories that birth & death are a form of space travel un to themselves. That the traveler is the unique consciousness a person has within them, which simply inhabits a human body while on earth. Passengers on earth rather than spawn of it.
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 15:43 Post subject: |
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| ChinUp wrote: | Star trek's spin on spirituality religion ect was pretty realistic ie no worship or dogma just prayer for the maintenance of reverence & unity. Seems to me once we make contact with other sentient races & establish colonies in space spirituality & religion will become more of a unifier & manner of keeper perspective, than a way of manipulating the masses.
KPAX represented some very sensible notions about space travel, like traveling within light & assuming the form most appropriate to the world you travel to, rather than attempting to move your body to the other planet across billions of miles you just transport your consciousness into a host body that suits the world your visiting best. Which also rolls on to the notion echoed in some Sci-fi stories that birth @ death are a form of space travel un to themselves. That the traveler is the unique consciousness a person has within them, which simply inhabits a human body while on earth. Passengers on earth rather than spawn of it. |
good answer bud good answer |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 15:59 Post subject: |
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| ChinUp wrote: | | When your view on reality is that its always going to be stranger than any fiction humans can dream up its not difficult. After all what is fiction if not an attempt to explore uncharted realms, to boldly go where no one has gone before |
thanks for the info picard lol  |
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 17:40 Post subject: |
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| zipfero wrote: | | Sedolf wrote: | Contact is imo the closest and best. Well, Carl Sagan wrote the book its based on that explains everything.
It would've been a great movie without this shitty romance subplot. And I don't really like Jodie Foster that much.
And some others:
eXistenZ
Westworld
Pi
K-Pax
Idiocracy (hehe)
Signs
Andromeda Strain |
I don't get why Contact and Signs are good examples of a realistic future. They are occuring in the now with some ficticious events taking place(in both cases close encounters of extra-terrestials).
Besides for this to be realistic, we must assume that aliens capable of traveling through the space-vortex and time continuum(and all those other fancy physical borders we can't cross) will be interested in us as a cultural equal, because on a technological level we are vastly inferior. That is if you believe in aliens, of course
Idiocracy is just stupid. I liked it but something like Code 42 or similar birth-restraint programs will be set in motion before anything like it happens. |
I was thinking the same thing - as well as Kpax, Andromeda, Pi.... |
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 18:22 Post subject: |
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Its a great movie, and I actually dont hate you know who in it.
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 18:25 Post subject: |
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| Phluxed wrote: | | Its a great movie, and I actually dont hate you know who in it. |
Robert Downy? Why... he's fantastic in it! 
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 18:49 Post subject: |
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| Phluxed wrote: | | Heavy Metal |
Yes!
Flesh Gordan was pretty funny.
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 18:55 Post subject: |
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thanks geordie and nouse
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 18:58 Post subject: |
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Realistic sci fi movies are hard to come by.
Firefly (the movie and the show) are good.
The background of alien series is also quite realistic (greedy corporations etc.)
StarTrek would be a fantastic future for humanity, (not sure if it's realistic though)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider.
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In all your remembering, remember that you have choices
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jul 2008 20:25 Post subject: |
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Alien.
A perfect example of how our curiosity and greediness could kill us all.
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Jul 2008 06:10 Post subject: |
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I love how all the actors in A Scanner Darkly all have bad marks on their reputation anyway, brilliant casting, RDJ done time for various stuff, Woody only wears hemp clothing lol everything about this film, just class.
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| Posted: Fri, 25th Jul 2008 06:38 Post subject: |
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| KaiKo wrote: | Gattaca, Brazil and 1984.
discuss... |
Gattaca definitely; it's just a shame the transitional period will be a rough one.
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