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This movie is so incredibly stupid that I love the hell out of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk

Anybody else have this sort of paradoxical attachment to REALLY silly SF?

[djellison]

Maybe I'm in a minority - but I find, on the whole, most SciFi to be, to be honest, crap.

All the Star Trek stuff - didn't like it. Star Wars - all dreadful. Dr Who, Torchwood, bleurgh. I like Lost - but that's about it. Heroes, Stargate, Firefly. I like Stephen Baxter's Voyage and Titan, and to a lesser extent, Moonseed. I've never read a A.C.Clarke novel - and while I have 2001 A Space odyssey on DVD, I don't think much of it. The thing is, via blogs etc, it seems that just about everyone who like science, likes science fiction.

Oh - and Cloverfield - my comments over at Phil's www.bautforum.com :

"It was pure, unadulterated arse gravy of the sloppiest kind from start to finish. Sorry. The acting was dreadful, the dialogue hideously predictable, the direction was self indulgent and the plot line obvious after the first 30 seconds with what is on screen with the opening credits. The hand-held camera was a gimmick, and a nausea inducing one at that ( I had to look away for a minute or so, on several occasions, to subdue the genuine nausea I was feeling ). This brat's got an amazing HD camera that can survive a virtual apocalypse...and it doesn't have image stabilization?

It was too bad to be any good, and it wasn't set up to be tongue-in-cheek like an episode of Dr Who.

On the upside - it was quite short."

Independence Day is made watchable by two great lead characters - but the St Crispens day Henry V speech ripoff by the US President was grating. Armageddon is made unwatchable by Willis and vulgar over sentimentality and nationalism. Space Cowboys was just dire. Deep Impact was OK.

Doug