ALL SCI-FI

[Gord Green]

[Bud Brewster]

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GREAT MOVIES FROM THE 1980s!

The 1980s turned out to be a sort of 2nd Golden Age of Science Fiction. This movie is an example. Here's why.
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By the year 1984 the number of total sci-fi releases was up to 16 (at least according our list here on All Sci-Fi), with a bumper crop of "fun" science fiction movies.

The "fun" ones outnumber the more serious ones, with action/adventure movies like these.

~ 2010: The Year We Made Contact

~ The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

~ Dreamscape

~ The Last Starfighter

~ Night of the Comet

~ Runaway

~ Star Trek: The Search for Spock

~ Starman
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What movies do you remember from 1984, and which ones were your favorites?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

In 1984 I enjoyed the following movies (although not all are SF in nature): Conan the Destroyer, Dreamscape, Dune, Firestarter, Gremlins, Indiana Jones & the Temple of doom, The Karate Kid, The Natural, Night of the Comet, The Philadelphia Experiment, Places in the Heart, Red Dawn, Repo Man, Romancing the Stone, Sixteen Candles, A Soldier's Story, Splash, Streets of Fire, Tank, The Terminator, The Last Starfighter, 2010: The Year We Make Contact and Top Secret!

As a Star Trek fan I liked The Search for Spock but didn't love it.
Always disliked that concept they developed and first shown in ST:The Wrath of Kahn that a Vulcan can magically place their essence into another person's brain and later retrieve it. Too far out for even ST, at least for me.
That was like some dopey idea that one of the Irwin Allen SF shows would have.

[mach7]

I just watched this again, it's probably been 20 years since I watched it.

As said, as a standalone hard science fiction film it's very well done, and I enjoyed it!

As a sequel to 2001, it kind of fails. 2001 is perfection, and one doesn't try to follow perfection. What a set Hyams must have to presume to improve upon a Kubrick film.

But he almost pulls it off. Almost.

Too much dialog, too much humanity, too little HAL.

A VERY nice touch, did anyone recognize the US President and Soviet Premier on the cover of the TIME magazine the nurse was reading?

[Bud Brewster]

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I do understand the folks who were disappointing with 2001, and I agree with you that thr reason is that Kubrick made a perfect movie of a certain type for a certain culture, and the sequel was a very good movie of a different type for a significantly different culture.

Even though Kurick's movie was just right for the period and culture in which it was made, movies audiences changed between 1968 and 1984. One reason for this was that Star Wars gave the new ideas about how science fiction movies could be made.

2010 had to wrestle with being the direct decedent of 2001 — but the cousin of both A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. So, the public's taste in science fiction had changed significantly.

2010 tried to satisfy everybody . . . and ended up satisfy practically nobody.

PS: Heck, I give up. Who's on the cover of that magazine!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Gord Green]

Why Arthur C and Stanly K of course!
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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

[mach7]

Yes Indeed Gord!

Star Wars did change science fiction films for sure and 1984 was VERY different from 1968, but for me 2001 ASO exists independent of time. Perfection is perfection. Be it 1948, 1968, or 1988.

[Bud Brewster]

[mach7]

You are of course correct.

But sometimes movies surpass time and generations.

Casablanca

2001

Bladerunner

Dr Stranglove

North by Northwest

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Annie Hall