I love a good sci-fi. Especially ones with cool gadgets and aliens. Preferably ones that don't want to eat me (always a plus). Throw in a sexy space captain or a geeky but sexy scientist (even better - both) and I'm a happy camper.
Alien
Starring: Sigourney Weaver
Original release: 1979
Synopsis: A girl and her cat... oh and a really nasty alien.
A story where the cat knew what was happening way before anyone else and who never got murdered by said Alien unlike everyone else except his owner The Mad Cat Lady who actually did pay some attention (Thank God cause who was gonna fed him if she wasn't around). Even better it ended with the two of them taking a really long nap. The end.
Aliens
Starring: Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn.
Original release: 1986
Synopsis: See below
The Mad Cat Lady returns only this time she leaves the cat behind (rude much) and replaces him with a little girl (even ruder) and a flirty marine (well who can blame her it has been 57 years after all and he is kinda cute and nice).
As usual everyone else dies (sad) because they refuse to listen to Mad Cat Lady and the trio take a nap as they fly back home to be reunited with the cat but only after they've taken out all the aliens.
The End. Again
As usual everyone else dies (sad) because they refuse to listen to Mad Cat Lady and the trio take a nap as they fly back home to be reunited with the cat but only after they've taken out all the aliens.
The End. Again
The Matrix
Starring: Keanu Reeves
Original release: 1999
Synopsis: Reality may not be what you think it is
Dark, moody and twisty and so so good.
About the only thing that ruined it was the romance angle which I could've done without.
Still really good though.
About the only thing that ruined it was the romance angle which I could've done without.
Still really good though.
The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions
Starring: Keanu Reeves
Original release: 2003
Synopsis: I have no idea
You really should just watch the first movie and forget about the rest. Something I wished I had done...
Battleship
Starring: A really annoying guy
Original release: 2012
Synopsis: This is no ET.
I ended up hoping that the aliens would win.
Tomorrowland
Starring: George Clooney (what was he thinking)
Original release: 2015
Synopsis: You really don't want to know
I can't even remember what it was really all about it was so bad. Except that it became preachy as anything. I almost wish I could've asked for my money back.
The Arrival
Starring: Charlie Sheen (before his brain was fried) and Lindsay Crouse
Original release: 1996
Synopsis: Aliens being bad
It's entertaining, moves along at a good pace, has some pretty cool special effects and even a message without being preachy about it.
Lindsay C is seriously underused which is a pity but Charlie S actually manages to do okay, mostly because for once he's not acting like a frat boy.
Lindsay C is seriously underused which is a pity but Charlie S actually manages to do okay, mostly because for once he's not acting like a frat boy.
Contact
Starring: Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey
Original release: 1997
Synopsis: Aliens are calling us
Matthew M is kinda hot, science is cool (I so should have been an astronomer) and the religious bits just ruined it for me.
Good-ish. But could have been a lot better.
Good-ish. But could have been a lot better.
Avatar
Starring: People I've forgotten
Original release: 2009
Synopsis: Marines being bad
There's blue people and they're kind of annoying which makes the whole story just all kinds of blah.
So not the sci-fi for me.
So not the sci-fi for me.
Arrival
Starring: Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner
Original release: 2016
Synopsis: The fate of the Earth rests on a linguist who has to find out if the aliens come in peace or not.
I really should like this more. Language and some of the science and the aliens - it's all just there and I really like those parts but somehow it just doesn't quite do it for me.
The whole experiencing the present and the future as one was nuts (though interesting concept).
Maybe I just like my science a little simpler.
The whole experiencing the present and the future as one was nuts (though interesting concept).
Maybe I just like my science a little simpler.
Stargate
Starring: Kurt Russell and James Spader
Original release: 1994
Synopsis: An archaeologist is hired to break a unique code.
B film it may be but man what a B film it is. Everything about this movie is perfection from stunning visuals to action scenes to some serious drama with just the right touch of geeky humour.
Kurt Russell fills his serious man action role well but it's Spader for me all the way who is the perfect sexy, awkward geek.
Love times 100.
Kurt Russell fills his serious man action role well but it's Spader for me all the way who is the perfect sexy, awkward geek.
Love times 100.
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