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Forum: Movie Reviews 04-10-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
My secret was I really WANTED Blade Runner to be...

My secret was I really WANTED Blade Runner to be number one, which meant that virtually guaranteed it would be number two.
Forum: Movie Reviews 04-05-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
John Carpenter’s iconic, creepy, tension-filled...

John Carpenter’s iconic, creepy, tension-filled The Thing was number ten on my own list. While I am teeny bit surprised it climbed so high on the group list, I’m not shocked. It is certainly very...
Forum: Movie Reviews 04-05-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPNQ82Sq4E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPNQ82Sq4E
Forum: Movie Reviews 04-05-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
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Alien was fourteenth on my list and could have been higher, but I knew it didn't need my help to place way up on the collective list. The three remaining flicks are in my top ten.

MY LIST
2....
Forum: Movie Reviews 04-03-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
Back to the Future was on my list at number...

Back to the Future was on my list at number twelve. It's a pretty perfectly executed high-concept fun blockbuster that, ironically enough for a time travel movie, is timeless. The sequels are OK,...
Forum: Movie Reviews 04-02-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
And A Clockwork Orange placed at number seven on...

And A Clockwork Orange placed at number seven on the MoFo '70s List, too. Though with 870 points on fifty-two ballots.

Clicky HERE...
Forum: Movie Reviews 04-02-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
You can viddy A Clockwork Orange on my list at...

You can viddy A Clockwork Orange on my list at number seventeen.


MY LIST
2. Solaris (#23)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (#27)
6. Children of Men (#20)
7. 12 Monkeys (#14)
8....
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-30-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
I have little to no use for any of the sequels,...

I have little to no use for any of the sequels, including the one most people love, but the original Terminator still holds up and is still a lot of fun. Saw it on the big screen again last year and...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-28-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
* * * P R E D I C T I O N * * * 1. 2001: A...

* * * P R E D I C T I O N * * *
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Blade Runner
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Alien
5. Star Wars
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7. The Thing
8. Back to the Future
9....
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-28-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
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Yup. I have about six-hundred LaserDiscs left. Used to have a couple hundred more, at the height of my collection when DVDs took off.
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-28-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
12 Monkeys got Universal's deluxe Signature...

12 Monkeys got Universal's deluxe Signature Collection box set treatment. Three discs, in addition to the audio commentary track the highlight of the extra features is the really wonderful doc "The...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-27-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
"Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls?!?"...

"Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls?!?" Brazil is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece, but in genre terms 12 Monkeys is his best Sci-Fi film. For my money, anyway. This is the first movie I ever saw...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-27-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
The list on the first page is updated, but not...

The list on the first page is updated, but not always immediately. #16 was WALL·E (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1675989#post1675989) and #15 is The Fly...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-27-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
You don't have to remember. The list is updated...

You don't have to remember. The list is updated on the first page, for reference sake.

Clicky HERE (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1643122#post1643122).
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-27-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
I love Close Encounters but didn't make room for...

I love Close Encounters but didn't make room for it on my list, and WALL·E is super enjoyable but didn't make my cut, either. But David Cronenberg's gory, unsettling, philosophical, body-obsessed...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-25-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
I love Children of Men for the filmmaking and for...

I love Children of Men for the filmmaking and for its ideas, both of which are absolutely top notch. It was sixth on my list, and on another day may have climbed even higher. And that does it for the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-24-17
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Posted By Holden Pike
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That is him, walking into the classroom. Then they go to his office for the cut scenes. But it was designed that you never saw his face.
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-24-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
A year after he was Indiana Jones for Spielberg...

A year after he was Indiana Jones for Spielberg in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ford played the school principal, in an uncredited cameo, where he was only shot from the back. But the two brief scenes...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-23-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
Stalker was on my list, too, at fifteen. It...

Stalker was on my list, too, at fifteen. It doesn't move me as emotionally as Solaris, but it is a beautiful and haunting film with some of Tarkovky's most unshakeable images (which is saying a lot)....
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-22-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
Tarkovsky's adaptation of Stanslaw Lem's Solaris...

Tarkovsky's adaptation of Stanslaw Lem's Solaris was all the way up at number two on my ballot! I know many prefer Tarkovsy's other Sci-Fi entry, which is why it is placing higher here on the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-22-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
Two weeks ago, Jack. ...

Two weeks ago, Jack.

https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1659980#post1659980
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-21-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
Another of my top ten, Spike Jonze's Her was on...

Another of my top ten, Spike Jonze's Her was on my list at number nine. It's our need for love and connection in an increasingly digital world where even artificial intelligence may soon be a...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-20-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
I did not put RoboCop on my list, Citizens, but...

I did not put RoboCop on my list, Citizens, but obviously it's a classic. However, Charlie Kaufman's funky and wonderful Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was definitely on my list. All the way...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-19-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
Ex Machina and Arrival are both great and would...

Ex Machina and Arrival are both great and would easily make my list of best of the 21st Century, thus far. But for an all-time top twenty-five, there simply wasn't room. Moon, on the other hand, is...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-19-17
Replies: 2,577
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Posted By Holden Pike
Gilliam's masterpiece Brazil was number eleven on...

Gilliam's masterpiece Brazil was number eleven on my list. As an overall film it would place higher, but in genre terms the dystopian satire doesn't push enough hardcore Sci-Fi buttons for me to...