Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "WatchMojo.com" channel.

  1. 2:09 Hill Valley ... was that near Canyon Mountain?
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  2. Any love for “Thunderbird 5”? Yes, we had electricity back then, too.
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  3. Dang, beat me to it. So what do you think of these young whippersnappers, eh? They don’t know they’re born...
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  4. If you want to know what the future will be like, imagine Donald Trump as President, for ever ... and ever.
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  5.  @jamesf791  It’s stationed in space, isn’t it? And it doesn’t go anywhere.
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  6.  @jamesf791  Only if you don’t change them!
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  7. Metropolis is certainly a classic. It’s one movie from the silent era still worth watching. See how actors had to convey emotion with much more dramatic facial expressions and bodily gestures, back when you couldn’t hear them speak.
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  8. “It happens sometimes. People just explode.”
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  9.  @jamesf791  Leaves don’t float for very long. Space stations are built to stay in space for a long time, and Dyson spheres just as much so.
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  10.  @jamesf791  Duhhh ... the fact that it’s an artificial structure, stationed in space?
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  11.  @jamesf791  Are space stations not stationed in space?
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  12.  @jamesf791  You live on the structure. The structure offers millions of times the surface area of any planet, so there’s plenty of room to live in.
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  13. You should see the scene where Diane Keaton acts Jewish to pretend to be Woody Allen’s mother, to try to jog him into regaining his memories.
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  14. Another one worth mentioning is The Thirteenth Floor , about a company that creates a simulated reality. Then discover that they themselves are part of a simulation. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
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  15. 5:46 Portrayal of these crime-ridden urban districts would be more realistic if they looked at actual present-day examples like the slums of Mumbai or the favelas of Rio De Janeiro. You will see that, far from living completely hopeless lives, there is a lot of, shall we say, “informal” economic activity going on. Yes, there is crime and there are gangs. And a lot of the violence in Rio, for example, comes from police storming in and engaging in shooting matches with the gangs. In short, a lot of these situations could not exist if the police truly were competent, honest and above-board.
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  16. 4:20 Who does the cooking and cleaning?
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  17. 4:11 Due process ... don’t run a civilization without it!
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  18. 7:42 I read a description in Starlog magazine about how Paul Verhoeven directs his movies. In the prep for this scene, he took the part of the ED-209 and chased the hapless executive right round the boardroom, making the appropriate shooting noises. That way, the guy knew exactly what to do and where to go. ;)
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  19. 12:48 Syd Mead’s brief as concept artist was to picture a future where most people couldn’t afford to build or buy new, so they had to make do with what they had, repurpose, reuse, cannibalize and adapt parts, tack newer bits onto older ones, and generally improvise. So you end up with this amazing combination of advanced technology (antigravity vehicles) and general shabbiness.
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  20. Which had the best cuisine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxX7QCll3oc
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  21. 4:13 CG animation could do a smoother collapse than that. Just sayin’. This is why I find a lot of this Japanese animation barely a step above Hanna-Barbera in quality.
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  22. Yay, I was wondering if you were going to mention Buckaroo Banzai ...
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  23. 9:01 Hang on--nobody starts murdering anybody until Leslie Nielsen and his crew arrive! Prof Walter Pidgeon and daughter Anne Francis were quite happily minding their own business up to that point. How long has it been since you last saw Forbidden Planet , by the way?
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  24. There was mention of a “scientific team”. And the mission of the C-57D was to look for survivors and interview them. Morbius mentions that all of the team, except he and his wife, succumbed to some “dark, terrible, incomprehensible force” within a short while of arriving. But that was 20 years earlier. And nobody came to investigate then. So there was no suggestion of any spate of “murders”.
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  25. I thought we were talking about “murder”.
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  26. What, no mention of The Day The Earth Stood Still ? (The original 1951 version, of course). The first SF movie where the aliens were not the bad guys, and the giant robot turns out to be a cop?
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  27. Yup. https://vimeo.com/143551882
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  28. 11:10 No CG. All those explosions were real. (Though not real bullets, obviously...)
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  29. 10:38 Ah, late 1970s CG. Took quite a lot of effort to produce that, back in the day.
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  30. 12:22 Watch out for the old AN/FSQ-7! Also seen in Sleeper in the android repair workshop.
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  31. 0:56 Science recognizes no boundaries. There is no “supernatural”, there is only “natural”. As the Ghostbusters know only too well.
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  32. 10:26 If it’s a “space station”, then how does it move?
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  33. Yup, can’t argue with putting Blade Runner at the top. Syd Mead’s concept designs were just amazing. And you get points for rating Metropolis at all. For those who haven’t heard of it, go see it! It may be a silent film from 1924, but it’s still a classic.
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  34. 10:44 That was not CG, by the way.
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  35. Ah, the old Anglo-Saxon hangups ... squeamish about showing titties 5:01, but no qualms about revelling in blood and guts and gore and a hapless victim being ripped apart 7:42.
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