h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

28 March
It was recently suggested to me that it would be a good idea to add to the journal entries every once in a while so that I won't have to keep reading the same thing over and over. So, that's what I'll do, and we'll see how long my page can actually get! Thanks J-T-G!

Hmmm; topic, topic... I know! What is everyone's favorite all time science fiction movie? Mine is 'Them' about the giant ants created from nuclear bomb testing. It's so intense, with great early days special fx.

I think i've seen that one. Is the nest in Mexico or there abouts?

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Cheers, Linus

Thank you so much, Linus!!!

My pleasure

See you out there.....

Great one. topic drift after 2 replies .
I was about to say that I was in doubt about the SF movie. I have to choose between '2001' and 'Event Horizon', but I'm not sure if the question is valid anymore...

I haven't seen Event Horizon. I saw 2001 when it was first released in 1968. Went to Chicago to see it with a professor of mine. We were blown away by it because the special effects were so realistic. Up until then space ships in movies looked like toys being pulled along on wires.

Since I'm only 23 atm, I was unable to goo see the original release of the movie. However, I was still struck by the way the movie was made, even though I had see newer SF's at that time.
Event Horizon is great though. It stars Sam Neill & Laurence Fishburne, and is a mixture of Alien, 2001 and a bunch of other movies.

I love Sam Neill. I'll look for it on video. Thanks!

Be prepared ~grin~. You may be in for a surprise ~evil grin~.

I gotta say without a doubt and for sure, Matrix is my fav. Or is it Starwars? Or.... hmmmmmm... Mabey I will sleep on this one

I just saw The Sixth Sense. HOLY MOLEY!!! What a great movie! The end really sneaks up on you!! I want to see it again and again.

Bladerunner would have to be up there near the top (i wish they would make A Scanner Darkly into a movie though)

2001, I would love to see that on the big screen, I missed a Kubrick season at the National Film Theatre in London and was most dissapointed as 2001 was one of the movies shown.

Star Wars, A New Hope. Total epic in a different way to 2001 a space western on a grand scale.

Blade Runner, A dark tale of a decayed society questioning what can be classed as human.

The Matrix, Special effects and a half. Fast moving sequences, interspersed with questions on what is real and what is an illusion made real in the mind.

As for a best ever I don't know they're all the best in their different ways.
Do I have to choose just one?

Choose one today, then change your mind tomorrow; ! I know, its hard to pick. Alien scared the wits out of me when I saw it for the first time. (If you find them, let me know.)

I quite liked 2001 and the sequal, not sure how many sequals they made, although there are the books 2010, 2061, 3001(?), has have you read them I'm thinking about it,

Like event horizon, I have the video but its not the kind of thing my girlfriend likes, I did get her to watch starwars which she did like.

Planet of the apes I quite like, haven't seen the series though and the matrix I also liked ant then..........

I don't know if I could pick a favorite though.

Yes, I've read those sequels. They were good.

I heard there was another -the lost worlds of 2001? have you read that?

I've seen the film of 2010, don't really remember it much, and I don't know if i saw 2061? if they made a film of it?,

I'm in two minds about reading the books, I've been reading a lot of terry pratchett lately, I glanced (very quickly) through the books the other day, not sure if I'd like them, do you know if you can get them all in one book.

In 2010 Dave comes back and 'haunts' people he knows telling them something wonderful is coming. Meanwhile, the Russians and Americans are at each others throats on earth while they each have their own space ships racing to Jupiter to investigate a large black spot on Jupiter's clouds. The ships have to learn to cooperate in order to achieve their missions.

No, I've never heard of Lost Worlds of 2001. As far as I know, no film of 2061 either.

Don't know about the Terry Prachett series, either. I wish films would be made of the Julian May books of a Pleiocene Earth, and also Ringworld.

Yeah I do remember 'My god its full of stars', I'd like to see it again.

2061-the film, I only knew about the books reciently, but I did know something of 2061 before, so who knows if there a film of it.

haven't read the julian may or ringworld books, it would seem I havent read much, something to which I trying to rectify

I would ask if there good but I'd guess that they were!.

Try them!! I thought the Julian May books were wonderful. I know that they are out in paperback. I also think that Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap series is excellent; very gritty and disturbing, and you can't stop reading them because the characters are so compelling.