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So, I am bored and don't feel like working on other things I should be, so I am going to recommend some movies that in my mind are the greatest ever in one aspect or another. I'm not going to number them because they tend to flip flop for me. I feel that placing a number on the first and second greatest movies in my opinion isn't fair because there's not that much difference in my mind to place one as second best. These are movies that I have watched countless times and a lot of them are gonna be sci-fi and 80's and 90's films.
The Thing is a classic 1982 science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. It infiltrates an Antarctic research team, taking the appearance of the researchers that it kills, and paranoia occurs within the group.
Ostensibly a remake of the 1951 Howard Hawks-Christian Nyby film The Thing from Another World, Carpenter's film is a more faithful adaptation of the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. which inspired the 1951 film. Carpenter considers The Thing to be the first part of his Apocalypse Trilogy, followed by Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. Although the films are unrelated, each feature a potentially apocalyptic scenario; should "The Thing" ever reach civilization, it would be only a matter of time before it takes over the Earth.
The theatrical performance of the film was poor. The poor opening has been attributed to many factors, including Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which was released at the time and features a more optimistic view of alien visitation. However, The Thing has gone on to gain a cult following with the release on home video. It was subsequently novelized in 1982, adapted into a comic book miniseries published by Dark Horse Comics, and was followed by a video game sequel in 2002, with a movie prequel currently in the works.
My Opinion: The Thing is one of if not the best horror movie ever. And it certainly has the best special effects of any horror movie ever. There is no one that can beat Rob Bottin's work on The Thing even by the best movies made to this day. Rob Bottin literally almost worked himself to death making the monsters and effects for this movie. He was hospitalized from over working.
It has some of the greatest atmosphere ever in a horror. It draws in the watcher and puts them into the world of the characters as they struggle for trust on one another because anyone could be The Thing. It is most certainly a must see for any John Carpenter fan or any fan of horror.
In the year 2047, a signal from the starship Event Horizon is received on Earth. The ship disappeared beyond Neptune in 2040; her loss was considered the worst recorded space disaster. The ship has reappeared in a decaying orbit around Neptune, and the rescue ship Lewis and Clark is dispatched. The ship is commanded by Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) and carries the Event Horizon's designer, Doctor William Weir (Sam Neill).
When the Lewis and Clark arrives, Dr. Weir briefs the crew that the Event Horizon was built to test an experimental gravity drive. In layman's terms, the drive would create an artificial black hole, and would use that power to bridge two points in spacetime to reduce journey time. The ship was on its initial test flight, intended to reach Proxima Centauri; it subsequently vanished. Weir plays the only signal received since the ship's reappearance, spoken by Captain Kilpack: a series of confusing screams and shouts embedded in which is thought to be the Latin phrase liberate me ("save me").
My Opinion: Event Horizon was one of the first movies to give me nightmares. I have watched my fair share of horror movies along my years and this one hit home hard on the psychological front. This is Laurence Fishburne's best movie to me even beating out The Matrix.
The film starts out with a scene at a demolished roadside diner, with everything inside slaughtered by a malfunctioned secret project by the codename Hardman, invented and manufactured by Chaank, a megacorporation producing various military hardware. Public outcry ensues, and Cale is introduced as the company's investigating Chief Executive. Ridley, head of the board of directors, tries to cover things up, but she gets the wind of all the illegal activity going on in the company. Cale demands immediate and full public disclosure, along with Dante, who works on numerous projects, including the Hardman, being fired. This does not seem to get much of a reaction from anyone besides Dante himself who takes an eerie interest in Cale, confronting her on a few occasions with knowledge about her finances, past life, and ID information.
Meanwhile Cale wants to know what project Dante is currently working on in vault 10 (apparently mechanical shops in the building are designated as vaults), as he never submits reports and is being less than cooperative. Ridley, scared, refuses to help, telling her outright that her recently deceased predecessor who took interest in Dante's work ethics soon met with a grisly death right in the corporate headquarters, most likely by the very project Dante is working on. During the conversation she steals his access card in order to investigate on her own.
At the same time a trio of stoner pacifist eco-warriors are planning an infiltration of the company's headquarters in order to destroy its digitally stored assets and put Chaank out of business.
Somehow, Dante finds out that Cale has the card now, and confronts Ridley on the issue, soon after killing him by what the viewer can assume is his invention. Carpenter calls up Cale the same night after finding Ridley's mutilated body by means of implanted life-sign transmitter that everyone in the corporation has. She arrives, and finds out that whatever it was that killed him came out of the infamous vault 10, and taking matters in her own hands, terminates Dante's employment and seals the vault. Dante is about to shoot her when the trio of eco-warriors show up and take them hostage. They need to gain access to the secure areas of the building in order to destroy the company's digitally stored bonds, but Cale refuses to cooperate. Raimi, apparent leader of the gang, goes to an alternate plan to cut through the doors and the bulkhead leading to the containment. Dante, sensing his chance, "helps" them by suggesting to cut through one of the vaults surrounding the containment instead, leading them to what is revealed to be vault 10.
Once the vault is open, he jumps in, activates his invention (he calls it the Warbeast, or Frontline Morale Destroyer as that seems to be its official designation and purpose), which promptly kills off one of the teammates, Weyland. Raimi flees for his life, meeting up with Yutani and subdued Cale and Carpenter, when Dante broadcasts his demands on the monitor, demanding his employment reinstated, and Cale "interfacing with him on a regular basis". Raimi and Yutani terminate the operation and attempt to get out of the building, with Carpenter and Cale tagging along.
My Opinion: This is a very poor movie in terms of acting, plot, effects and just about every other aspect. all of that however doesn't matter because the true star of this film is the Death Machine. It has to be one of the greatest killer robots in movies. I have never seen another that looks so badass and terrifying. The actors are just there for substance, the Machine is all you will care about through this film because it's the only thing interesting. It is so interesting that it makes up for the movies other drawbacks and weakness that it definitely deserves to be watched.
Five Michigan State University students venture into the hills and mountains of Tennessee to spend a weekend in an isolated cabin. There they find the Book of the Dead (a Babylonian and Sumerian text, unrelated to the Egyptian Book of the Dead), otherwise known as the Naturon Demonto (renamed the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis in the sequels). While searching the basement of the cabin, the students find and play a tape recording of demonic incantations from the book, unwittingly resurrecting "Kandarian" demons. Later Ash gives Linda a necklace. The characters are then possessed one by one, beginning with Cheryl Williams (Ellen Sandweiss), after she is lured into the forest by the Evil Dead at night. Alone and far from the safety of the cabin, the trees come alive in a snake-like fashion and proceed to brutally rape her. Cheryl makes it home to the cabin but nobody believes her. Her brother, Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell), decides to drive her into town where she can stay the night. They discover that the only bridge is completely destroyed and the supports are bent into the shape of a cupped hand.
My Opinion: Old school horror with Bruce Campbell (only man who should play these rolls) and it is terrifying. This has a sequel which isn't so much a horror, but we will get to that later. This one is the one any true horror fan should definitely watch.
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I agree with your statement KLoWn, which is one reason I didn't name this thread "Greatest Movies", but simply my recommendations. You know as well as I do that the Machine is very badass. I mean this movies budget was like 20 bucks. If this movies actual budget was even 100 grand I would be quite surprised. Everything about the movies sucks, there are even fuck ups in the movie like when they open the vault and the Machine comes out and they start firing at it despite him mentioning earlier that their guns have blanks in them. You watch Death Machine for the Machine and that's it.