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Moon - really good psychological element and great acting.
Pandorum - fun (and a bit hammy) action horror romp.
Twelve Monkeys - really tight and suspenseful plot with great acting.
Being John Malcovich - not sure if this fits in, but a great mind-bender of a sci-fi movie.
Man, Moon is such a good movie. Sam Rockwell absolutely killed it which I was quite impressed by considering the last thing I saw him in was as Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hitchhikers. Quite a different set of acting chops he exercised.
Being John Malkovich is easily one of the weirdest most different interesting movies I've ever seen. The writer, Charlie Kaufman, also wrote Eternal Sunshine, another great one.
Adaptation is worth watching too, with Nicolas Cage playing two roles, based on the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orleans.
Pandorum was a damn good film, a little goofy sure, but a really interesting idea based around what would happen if someone in that situation really did go off the rails and turn a colony ship into their own personal fantasy/hell for everyone else.
Yeah I watched it several times and it's so cheesy and silly but also... yeah people huddling up to the nuclear reactors for warmth seems about the way that would go looking at human activity today
I mean it's a fusion plant, it's not radioactive like the uranium fission we use today. They mutated because of the drug they were given in stasis.
Wellllll.... guess it's time to rewatch Dennis Quaid ham it up in an empty room again cause I forgot some of the plot points.
I love that Shepard from flight team 3 is played by a somewhat before he got big Norman Reedus.
If they'd cut the kung fu stuff, it would have been better, in my opinion. But it's not a terrible film.
Kung fu stuff? Did we watch the same movie?
The sequence where the Asian dude fights the head cannibal mutant toward the end, then gets suckered in by the cannibal mutant child. The whole thing is unnecessary, and taints what could have been a semi-serious scifi/horror flick. Don't get me wrong, it's one of my guilty pleasures. It started out strong, then turned into a Paul W. S. Anderson flick. The same dude who cheapened Event Horizon, which could have also been awesome, instead of Hellraiser in Space, part 2. But I'm sure the producers on both flicks had a lot to do with them.