Don't take this the wrong way, but...you like Paul Verhoeven?
I've seen most of his films (I missed 'The Hollow Man') in the theater. I have also seen them over and over numerous times on Cable. And all I can say is that Paul Verhoeven seems like one "tasteless" individual.
WOW! I haven't thought of those books since reading them during their initial release when I was in High School!
I would LOVE to see them made into movies! Or better yet (and I feel this way about the DUNE books, as well), limited-run, WELL PRODUCED, TV series. One or two books per season should be good enough to maintain each of the book's rich detail.
With ILM doing the FX and you starring, I don't see how any studio (or, SCI FI Channel) could go wrong!
I must say, I am waiting, with much hope, for the 1st of Tolkein's LORD OF THE RING series to hit movie theaters next Christmas!
I'd like to nominate Peter Weir's "Fearless". From it's dreamlike opening, to its joyess realization of the beauty of life at the end, I find that just the decision to pop that tape in takes me to another place.
Here are some that I am suprised did not make your list:
Blade Runner - Although we're fast approaching the dating of this one, and Los Angeles doesn't look a thing like the movie, it is one of the most imaginatively designed futures ever filmed.
Legend - Another beautiful Riddly Scott film that just takes the cake for most imaginative 'fantasy' world.
A Clockwork Orange - Unusually subtle picture of the future. And did anyone around in 1972 (when this film sparked contraversy for it's violence) ever expect that we would see the middle-class violence it predicted.
A Nightmare Before Christmas - another Tim Burton classic, this time in claymation, that allows his morbid humour come to full light.
I'll have to agree with you on Alien. I believe it is Scott's best film, overall. In fact, I have probably seen it more than any other movie. Second would go to Blade Runner. I recently watched the letterbox version and realized that every frame of Blade Runner is sure photographic perfection. I think that I have only seen two (2) films that were better photographed, Barry Lyndon & Eyes Wide Shut. Personally, I didn't care much for Thelma & Louise. Sure it was kind of fun, but it was also somewhat cartoonish. I can't help it, but Legend (as bad as it is) is my third favorite Scott film. I mean, is it me, or was Tim Curry born to play the horned Prince of Darkness?
Don't take this the wrong way, but...you like Paul Verhoeven?
I've seen most of his films (I missed 'The Hollow Man') in the theater. I have also seen them over and over numerous times on Cable. And all I can say is that Paul Verhoeven seems like one "tasteless" individual.
I would also like to see the following:
WICKED - The Story Of The Wicked Witch
Sorry, can't remember the author's name off the top of my head...Gregory something)
THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE - Umberto Echo
I would have also said FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM, but I understand Eco has finally agreed to a film version (after tunring down everyone--including Kubrick)
GATES OF FIRE - Dramatic story of the Battle of Thermopyle between a crack-band of Spartan warriors and the Persian Empire.
I apologize again, the author's name escapes me (something Pressfield, maybe...)
WOW! I haven't thought of those books since reading them during their initial release when I was in High School!
I would LOVE to see them made into movies! Or better yet (and I feel this way about the DUNE books, as well), limited-run, WELL PRODUCED, TV series. One or two books per season should be good enough to maintain each of the book's rich detail.
With ILM doing the FX and you starring, I don't see how any studio (or, SCI FI Channel) could go wrong!
I must say, I am waiting, with much hope, for the 1st of Tolkein's LORD OF THE RING series to hit movie theaters next Christmas!
Do you have the difficult "Lodger"?
Sometimes that is my favorite, and sometimes its "Low"
I'd like to nominate Peter Weir's "Fearless". From it's dreamlike opening, to its joyess realization of the beauty of life at the end, I find that just the decision to pop that tape in takes me to another place.
Here are some that I am suprised did not make your list:
Blade Runner - Although we're fast approaching the dating of this one, and Los Angeles doesn't look a thing like the movie, it is one of the most imaginatively designed futures ever filmed.
Legend - Another beautiful Riddly Scott film that just takes the cake for most imaginative 'fantasy' world.
A Clockwork Orange - Unusually subtle picture of the future. And did anyone around in 1972 (when this film sparked contraversy for it's violence) ever expect that we would see the middle-class violence it predicted.
A Nightmare Before Christmas - another Tim Burton classic, this time in claymation, that allows his morbid humour come to full light.
I'll have to agree with you on Alien. I believe it is Scott's best film, overall. In fact, I have probably seen it more than any other movie. Second would go to Blade Runner. I recently watched the letterbox version and realized that every frame of Blade Runner is sure photographic perfection. I think that I have only seen two (2) films that were better photographed, Barry Lyndon & Eyes Wide Shut. Personally, I didn't care much for Thelma & Louise. Sure it was kind of fun, but it was also somewhat cartoonish. I can't help it, but Legend (as bad as it is) is my third favorite Scott film. I mean, is it me, or was Tim Curry born to play the horned Prince of Darkness?