Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews » dark city http://openbooksociety.com Read, Review & Discuss Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:07:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 TOP TEN ALIEN ABDUCTIONS http://openbooksociety.com/article/top-ten-alien-abductions/ http://openbooksociety.com/article/top-ten-alien-abductions/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000 Dawn http://openbooksociety.com/?p=9004

Classic Ten – Alien Abductions

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10. Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), The Last Starfighter (1984)

9. Sam Phillips (Philip Sayer), Xtro (1982)

8. Everyone’s Parents (various), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

7. Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp), The Astronaut’s Wife (1999)

6. John (Rufus Sewell) and Emma Murdoch (Jennifer Connelly), Dark City (1998)

5. Whitley Strieber (Christopher Walken) Communion (1989)

4. Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

3. David Freeman (Joey Cramer), Flight of the Navigator (1986)

2. Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney), Fire in the Sky (1993)

1. Barry Guiler (Cary Guffey), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

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I haven’t seen the majority of the movies on this list. Have you?

OMG The Astronaut’s Wife freaked me out. Johnny Depp was very believable in that movie.

Do you agree with this top 10? What would you add or take away from the list?

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screenhead.com has compiled a list of the top 10 sci-fi movies that should NEVER be remade:

Iconic sci-fi movies stay iconic only until they’re remade, and since the remakes are usually far inferior, the new movie going audience (which in many cases wasn’t born when the original movies were released), will only remember the remake. Which are, in most cases; mediocre movies that do the original more harm than good. Here are ten sci-fi movies that should never, under any circumstance, be remade. They’re called “classics” for a reason.

10: Minority Report

9: Close Encounters of The Third Kind

8: A Clockwork Orange

7: Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

6: ET: The Extra Terrestrial

5: Gattaca

4: Dark City

3: Stalker

2: Blade Runner

1: 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Interesting list, although I don’t like over half of them. Do you agree with this list? Why or why not? Which movies would make your top ten list?

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