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An error has ocurred. Please try againThe best independent films here are Defendor, Super, The Crow, Darkman and Robocop.
As for the big budget films, my preference goes to The Matrix, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Sin City and Constantine.
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Post-apocalypse. Mutants. Nuclear war. Space travel. Absurdism. A.I. Dystopia. Robots. Androids. Mutants. Futurism. Cybernetics. Time travel. Aliens. Utopia. Supernatural.
You can have it all. †1924-1988 selection.
As Vladimir Lenin said, “that of all the arts the most important for us is the cinema.”
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One Point O (2004)
hypnotizing surreal cyberpunk
Has it ever happened to you to spend days while you are trying to get a certain information or a document? The office rats send you from one office to another ("Sure, ask my colleague from room 867 on the 16th floor"), you spend hours on the phone, then from one building to the opposite side of town ("Yes, we are open on Tuesday from 16.00 till 18.00 and on Thursday from 10.00 till 12.00"), and days pass and you feel being sucked in some insane surreal bureaucratic vortex. I experienced it more than once and - while I hope it didn't happen do you - I bet you went through this too.
For a low budget sci-fi flick it does a smart move - the film captures you straight from the first frames due to a very unusual texture - sinister camera angles, eerie close-ups and noir-like lightning aren't just guests here. You're their guest.
The colour solutions of "Version 1.0" remind me of an amazing robot horror movie by Richard Stanley, "Hardware" with its dominant dirty yellow and red shades. By the way, if you loved that robot horror dystopian film, you'd definitely enjoy "Version 1.0". The monotone decay atmosphere is present in both.
The cast deserves a special mention. Jeremy Sisto and Deborah Unger in the main roles were perfect, not some outstanding performances, but the film's secondary characters really gave it a particular savour. Lance Henriksen (Bishop in "Aliens", Alien 3"), Bruce Payne ("Passenger 57", "Necronomicon"), Udo Kier (secondary roles in "Suspiria", "Blade", "Armageddon", "Dogville", "Grindhouse") - all these guys are amazing character actors, but I particularly loved Lance Henriksen's role as basement dwelling bum.
"Version 1.0" is a hypnotizing surreal cyberpunk brilliantly portraying monotone paranoid decay, woven of many elements like Dadaism, Kafka, Lynch, Cronenberg, noir, surrealism, consumerism, corporations, depression, sex addictions and, finally, turns up to be a very satisfying science fiction. I would love to watch it again and it's the best compliment a movie can receive. For any science fiction fan I'd surely say it's a must-see.
Parad planet (1984)
made of an unknown light and invisible matter
"Parade of the Planets" gives you an illusory airy, gauzy feeling. It's woven of a light and some invisible matter - hard to catch, yet impossible not to feel. It's late in the afternoon, the sky is still crystal, but you feel the air is thicker, there's a sense of doom all around... the thunder is coming. The storm that will wash away everything. We won't even see it, probably, but the feeling itself is overwhelming.
The film, a continuous surreal metaphor shot in the everyday life style, may seem a little hard to interpret without knowing the context, but everyone can appreciate the incredible sense of weightlessness and doom it manages to combine.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
John ''The Rock'' Goodman.
10 Cloverfield Lane will beat you up, drag down the stairs and then suddenly act like an old friend who will tell you some good jokes and offer a few beers. Just to beat you up to death again 10 minutes later. And with all due respect to Dwayne Johnson, it's John Goodman who should be called The Rock. Damn. It's such a relief to finally see a great thriller, one of the most abused genres probably. And a good sci-fi thriller is even a more rare specimen.
The film feels way more powerful and will scare the hell out of you more than any of its big scale rivals, even though it's mostly set in an apartment with just three characters. No cheap tricks or limb amputation. The thrill feels more like a Hitchcockian kind of suspense. You don't know what's happening – just some clues, most of which will be wrong. You have no idea where the story will turn now – the amount of jaw dropping plot turns is incredible. Mary Elisabeth Winstead (still a very underrated actress) deserves the highest appraisal too.
An exemplary thriller - smart, tense and well-crafted. The less you know about "10 Cloverfield Lane", the better. The script will keep you nervous all the time like a Russian roulette, but it's the performance of the cast that makes "10 Cloverfield Lane" much more than a one-trick pony.