Four Science Fiction Movie Reviews...

I'm a big science fiction fan, so it was good to see some more movies from this genre. I recently rewatched "Flight Of The Navigator" which is an absolutely awesome movie about alien contact which, to my mind, absolutely eclipses Spielberg's rather more famous efforts (though admittedly the 80s soundtrack is VERY dated, albeit still kinda catchy). Did these four films meet the same level of quality?



Repo Man (1984)
This really surprised me, not least because I thought the more recent "Repo Men" (about men who repossess people's organs when they fail to pay medical bills) had some kind of connection to it. In actual fact, "Repo Man" has more in common with "The Big Lebowski".

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The Last Starfighter (1984)

This is one I never finished watching when I was younger, though the premise always struck me as quite intriguing. I don't remember paying much attention to start with, when I did start paying attention to it two particular special effects freaked me out completely and I decided I wasn't interested in continuing with it.

Watching the film all this time later, I think my intincts when I was younger were right.

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The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

This seemed like a wonderful film that I was sure I'd probably be giving an 'A'. And then we reached the last five minutes...

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Contagion (2011)

Where was all the praise for this film? I mean, sure it wasn't widely panned, but it didn't seem to get particularly highly praised either. The performances are great, the ideas are explored in an interesting way, the tension mounts up consistently and the new directions are often a surprise. I was consistently gripped from beginning to end.

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