MOVIES FOR GLPers. A SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

From the bestseller novel in the 70s, "The Sinking of Japan"

The 1973 version:






The 2006 version:




No words...

ABSOLUTE DOOM (from Toho Films)

"The Last Days of Planet Earth" (Catastrophe 1999, 1981)

[link to www.youtube.com]

Textbook doom movie. A MUST-SEE!!!

(with Isao Tomita's MUST-HEAR psychotronic-pop-doom music!)

Damn links!!!

East european countries made a very interesting cinema (and animation) in the 50-60s... This seems to be a real jewel... THANX!

Beyond the container... Beyond body & brain... Beyond mind... ...What remains? May be that particle of individual human essence... the "soul"? the GHOST IN THE SHELL?



Mamoru Oshii cyberpunk/thriller masterpiece.

Absolute DOOM jewel: Peter Weir's THE LAST WAVE (1977)



Great performances of Richard Chaberlain and David Gulpilil, big-big-big script. Of course a MUST-SEE.

Absolute classic. A mindblowing masterpiece & redefinition of cinematic Scifi.

The gradual rendezvous with The Masters...

The ultimate revelation on our nature...

An amazing insight into the godlikeness...

Maybe Monty Python has some clues on THE MEANING OF LIFE

I wonder if somebody can aseverates that there was some theory on reptilians BEFORE this TV series...

Cryptical, esoteric, allegorical, post-Doom, apocalyptical, esthetic masterpiece.

Mamoru Oshii's "ANGEL'S EGG"

"Night of the comet" was pointed out in the first page of this thread. The question of the intrusion of an extrasolar body threatening the Earth as trigger of DOOM is a very fertile theme from long ago in literature, and after in cinema. For example, I remember specially the japanese "Gorath" (1962), directed by the referential Ishiro Honda:



The movie is very compelling and a little bit preposterous (the old japanese style), but inforgettable; if you see the movie, for sure you'll love it, with all its flaws! The most funniest is the way for save the world: just moving the Earth out of her orbit temporally by means of radical geoengineering... This is the same "system" used in other posterior story, in the amazing 80s german-czech TV series "Die Besucher" (The Visitors; Expedition Adam 84) -where, BTW, the guys use a car as time-machine vector, as in Back to the Future, but the european TV production was made before than the Zemeckis movie...

Don't read, don't think...



Ray Bradbury's according to François Truffaut.

Radical demographic control in Zero Population Growth (1972)



Oliver Reed in Distopialand, dudes!

herpes made me strong

Congratulations. What which does not kill you makes you stronger, you know.

BTW, herpes made me strong sounds like the title of a underground movie or something so.

Some visual archeology, and some archeology of UFO mythology too, in Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950). Here we have an evil martian associated with an evil and filonazi earthling businessman, designing new atomic weapons with martian technology for the conquest of the world...

Based on Aldous huxley's book A BRAVE NEW WORLD FULL MOVIE

Red Planet Mars (1952) is a MUST-SEE. The evil soviets design (via an exnazi scientific) a macchiavelic and satanic hoax, making fake radio communications from Mars with the purpose of sinking the economy and society of the free world in havoc & chaos. But, finally, the real and messianic martians make real communication, and the soviet russian regime sinks, and the Old Holy Russia returns so to the religion and good customs, and everybody is happy now. What else?

Not sure if this has been posted yet but here goes anyway -

THX1138

1984 Original version
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

The full uninterrupted movie - I would consider this to be better than the colour remake, which is still an excellent film.

YES! Previously, there was the 1980 mini-series

The Fountain

Ink

13 Assassins

Megaclassic. It was pointed out already in this thread. The production & broadcasting was (live, I think) in 1954, with Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance. The next year another version was filmed in USA, but the BBC version is accepted as simply THE BEST. It is notable that the BBC's was only six years after the publication of the Orwell's novel, I think. The 1984 version of 1984 is anyhow interesting, however, in production values and cast.

No, it wasn't yet! The George Lucas' distopia! Thanx!

Aronovsky's "The Fountain" has been pointed out already in this thread.

I love japanese cinema, and I like very much Takeshi Miike (when he's inspired), and 13 Assassins seems to be a really epic experience, but I don't see the relation with GLP stuff. Miike has another movies much more related with GLPism from my point of view.

Ink seems to be a really interesting, stylized, bizarre and amazing independient movie (at least, this is an interesting trailer). Thanx, Bathtub Shitter!

Takeshi Miike's ZEBRA MAN



Preposterously epic. Ridiculously heroic. Pure miikism.

Holy mountain is the ultimate late night bizzare movie. Heres another Jodorowsky film which is a classic too and Possibly my favourite scene

This is in my top five fave's