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Well, Jonathan Nolan did Person Of Interest (not HBO and not really SF). I watched a few episodes but found it kinda boring. I'm not so much of a fan of theirs as other people though, so your mileage may vary, although I like The Prestige and Batman Begins.
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Interesting, I haven't watched Person Of Interest. Yeah I think people have different tastes which is to be respected, what I respect about the Nolan brothers is their consistency when it comes to producing really good movies.
Yeah The Prestige & Batman Begins are great.
Personally I loved Inception & Memento as well, Memento was another low budget production
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District 9 was great and benefited from being relatively low budget and having an original/different setting.
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That film blew me away, last time I was that impressed by Sci-Fi was probably in 99 when The Matrix came out!
FYI
Neill Blomkamp's new Sci Fi film is coming out in August
Elysium (2013)
Looks pretty good
I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with a bigger budget!
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Oh, does Dredd count as science-fiction? I think it was also made in South Africa, and for a low budget, and very enjoyable. I haven't read the comics but the fact that Judge Dredd gave us Robocop is reason enough for him to be my favorite comic-book character.
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Comic book genre I guess
I didn't see it
Which I regret now because apparently in 3D it looked fantastic!
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I thought Oblivion looked promising, but while it looked nice and had some good aspects it was too monotonous, and lost its way I think when other characters, the "scavs" or whatever, showed up.
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I've not seen that yet either, your review of it sounds like a 7/10. If films are rated 7/10 or below in IMDB I usually give them a miss, love watching great films & TV Shows but I can't stand watching anything now that's just ok. I don't like watching things that are just average
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Prometheus had the potential to be a truly great movie, and it's ridiculous just how badly they blew it with such abysmal writing and 'plotting'.
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I won't even start on how bad that film was, totally agree!
I'd honestly put it up there with Terminator 3 for how lazy and retarded the plot was! When I pay good money and see crap like that in the theatre I understand why a lot of people download films for free.
I see James Cameron is Directing/Writing
Terminator 5 or as I will strictly refer to it, Terminator 3!
He better not fuck it up
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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Moon is rated insanely highly by apparently everyone, but I personally found it tedious and unimaginative
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Well I gave it an 8/10 but I understand where you're coming from. I originally gave it a 7/10 but when I considered it's $5 million budget and the fact that it's really more of a drama than Sci-fi I thought it was pretty good, plus Sam Rockwell is one of my favourite and IMO one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood.
I think another reason why people gave it a higher rating is because Duncan Jones is David Bowie's son. It shouldn't have any weight whatsoever but I think sometimes if critics gave films a good review (like they did with Moon) then people already have a positive opinion in their heads before seeing the film themselves.
His second film
Source Code (2011) I thought was a better film personally
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LOL Nah just sounds like you have high standards!
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and the most absurdly over-rated movie ever, until Drive, a movie that took monotony and tedium to previously unimaginable levels.
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I cannot put into words how I feel about that film and I trusted IMDB with it's great rating when I watched that 90 minute music video. I think this image describes how I felt after watching Drive!
