Nice turns of phrase here.

What would have made this
movie all time epic great would
have been if it were just 17
minutes shorter ;)

A Good Day To Die Hard.

Probably shouldn't have been made, to be honest. The first 3 are better and even the 4th one is more enjoyable than this.

Star Wars

Empire Strikes Back

Return of The Jedi


Had not seen them in about 15 years. Really enjoyed the first two, and was a bit bored with Jedi at times, but I still dug it.

As my Star Wars geek friends love to tell me, Empire was the best because Lucas didn't direct it...

I think the suckitude in Jedi is experienced directly first when Jabba's Band starts playing that horrible fucking music. (in the extended, director's cut, edition)

Fuck that shit makes you instantly remember you are watching a movie. I hate that shit so bad After that shit, all the corny shit really glares,.

Sometimes I think Lynch's Dune is the only valid sci fi move. I enjoy star wars the star trek, battlestar galactica, but Dune has some real imagination in it and it doesn't devolved into a cliche zombie monster movie.

Logans' Run is good, Planet of The Apes I will always like...ok there are a few, but for space ship, off world vision, Dune is the nads even if it does have a few cornball LYnch moments

Please tell me you're kidding. The only valid sci-fi film? I can ream off many sci fi films that are better than that.

BTW how do you mean valid?

I dig Dune. I had to explain it as it went along when I screened it for my friends in the 90's. I had read the book and they had not.

Jedi's definitely the weakest of the three but I always really enjoy it, whereas long stretches of Empire, despite thinking it's a better film overall, really bore me. Mainly the scenes with Yoda, who I've never been able to stand. Besides everything else, making him such a key character was the last straw with the prequels for me.

Star Wars though is just brilliant from beginning to end.

I've not read the book and I quite like Dune. I don't try to make too much sense of the plot when I watch it, which might be the best way.

Moon is a great sci fi film if anyone cares.

I have to grit my teeth when the ewoks are on screen but I like the rest of Return of The Jedi a lot. I have the original versions on VHS, I wouldn't even entertain the thought of watching the updated expanded versions or whatever they are.

Anywho, Star Wars isn't Sci Fi, it's Space Opera.

Moon was awesome indeed.

The Prophecy.... How does Chris Walken make
terrible movies so fucking awesome? A sem-fallen
Angel with swag?? Maybe Walken and Nicholson
should have a swag battle, it would be epic.

once I worked out what they were trying to achieve with the highly histrionic acting and everything I really enjoyed this. typical allen, but fundamentally very, very dark (ie every single character is a dick, inarguably in most cases.)

sam rockwell has some of my favorite roles. he was AWESOME in Galaxy Quest

The Ipcress File (1965) early Michael Caine, a mind control espionage movie with a notable soundtrack, they use crazy noise to erase memory and self control.

I like Viggo Mortensen in that as Satan. The followups aren't too bad...you are right about walken.

I thought the Satan was a perfect balance to Chris Walken, in fact, Walken probably could have played either role interchangeably, but casting Viggo was a plus. He was seductive yet menacing, threatening yet cordially. The perfect devil. He wasn't a horror villain like the Lord of Darkness in Legend, who is the other proto-typical devil, but he is the more realistic rendition.

Still, Walken takes the cake in that movie, his delivery perfectly portrayed the swag filled angst of a quasi-divine being. That, and subtly, it wasn't emphasized but neither Gabriel nor Satan were unlimited or all-powerful, they were clearly limited in many ways, which was an added theological touch of realism.

That little girl did a pretty stellar job of going back and forth between a cute little girl and insanely psychotic war criminal.

I think if this flick were done by nothing but an A cast, it would have been a blockbuster, but then again, I liked the more obscure casting, it added to the value. Thriller and horror flicks work so much better when you don't know the cast, that way you don't project or compare their previous roles, the film you're watching gets to stand for itself.