clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Darren New schrieb:

> >> Event Horizon has some great SF in it, 
> > 
> > I have no idea why everyone liked that movie. I thought it was awful.

> Not /everyone/ did. I think it was one of the worst "SF" movies ever: 
> You go to the theater expecting some nice decent science fiction (in 
> broadest sense) action movie, and all you get is some horror thriller.

> "Contact" was equally "disappointing", but it was easily able to make up 
> for it by being ingenious in its own right.

> I think "Alien" was just as bad as "EH", but as I never went to the 
> theater to watch it, I'm more willing to forgive.


> In this respect - i.e. regarding expectations being met, "Independence 
> Day" was probably the best Sci-Fi-Action movie I've ever seen, both at 
> the theater and at home.

> It promised straightforward action and special effects in a Sci-Fi-esque 
> setting, and hit that mark 100%. The plot was just an adaptation of "War 
> of the Worlds", but it never claimed to have an original plot in the 
> first place.

> Ah, thinking about it, I must say that there's another movie that fully 
> met my expectations, /and/ had an intelligent plot: "I, Robot". It 
> actually /exceeded/ my expectations, in that it managed to amalgamate 
> multiple of Asimov's short stories and their plot devices into a 
> consistent single storyline.

  Wait a moment. You base your opinion about movies solely on whether they
meet the *expectations* you had about the movies before seeing them (rather
than judging them in their own right, without any prejudices)?

  I'm sorry to say this, but that sounds just crazy.

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                                                          - Warp

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