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Star Wars (1977)
An absolute masterpiece
This film is absolutely one of the best ones ever thought and made. One could try to describe its astounding special effects (especially those of the original version, but the additions, too), the unforgettable score by John Williams, the fantastic story by George Lucas (influenced both by Akira Kurosawa and by the "Flash Gordon" serials) or his direction (taking inspiration by World War II films and Spaghetti Westerns simultaneously). The film takes us to exotic planets and futuristic spacecraft, lets us experience the characters's emotions and successfully creates a whole Universe by itself (which is soon to be expanded by the various spin-off media, the merchandise and the two sequels). "Star Wars" is absolutely recommended to anyone with a passion for epic films, science fiction and space opera, war films, samurai fiction, knightly romances or mysticism.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
One of my favorite films ever
I first saw this film when I was quote young, maybe four-years-old, and I just loved it. Then I liked very much films, but I could not understand the plots of many (likely most) of them. I completely got the sense of this. I got the plot, the themes, the character's feelings, the emotions. And I still feel like that now. It is really one of the greatest films ever, as I see it: great animation, great plot, great character, great dialogues, great visual effwcts and photography. I just love it very, very much.
Goldfinger (1964)
Review from a Bondian
"Goldfinger" was the third film. Many important film sagas were trilogies and the "James Bond" series risked to be limited to this small number that three is. But "Goldfinger" changed it all. It was not an ending, it was a continuation, and a quite, quite good one: seductive women (also with double-entendre names), bizarre henchmen (quite an... odd job), memorable music, a silver-coloured Aston Martin DB5 coupé filled with gadgets first shown in Q's weird laboratory, a pre-title "mini-adventure" introducing 007 to the audience, an implied communist plot behind a megalomaniac villain's evil plan: it has been described as the stereotypical "Bond" film, well, it has also been the first one to feature all of this...
From Russia with Love (1963)
Review from a Bondian
One is hardly to resist in front of Bond's character, Tanya's beautifulness and decision of leaving the USSR's SMERSH, Grant's insanity, Q's first-appearing sympathy (debuting with his second and probably most famous portrayer, Geoffrey Boothroyd), Blofeld's charisma, Kronsteen's mind, Klebb's stereotyped (but perhaps not so much wrong) personality, Munro's theme and the great adaptation of Fleming's novel (the only book, together with the "Bible", that John F. Kennedy used to always bring with him).
Although SPECTRE and Blofeld did not appear in this novel, the great idea of bringing in their evil plot to avenge Dr. No might have saved the saga from being hated and despised by communists around the West.
Dr. No (1962)
Review from a Bondian
"Dr. No" is a mix of exciting action, glorious adventure, great romance, very good characters, 1960s-style science fiction, clever investigation, fantastic music, impressive visuals and a quite heavy adaptation of Fleming's novel. James Bond's first theatrical adventure is an almost perfect spy story, set in a wonderful British Jamaica, where there were still lots of Englishmen. The film presents us agent 007 as wonderful in doing his job, wonderful with women, wonderful at the steering wheel and wonderful in fighting: almost like the quintessence of the stereotypical spy (which this film inspired).
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Philosophy and science-fiction
This film, perhaps even more tha n the nobel it has been written concurrently with, is both a fantastic work of fiction, and a great work of thought. It explores the deepest instincts of Humanity: violence, insanity, xebophobia, but also the will of discovery and curiosity.
Since our first encounter with the apeman Moonwatcher (for which, especially after reading Clarke's novel, I do feel a great sense of sympathy), we understand that this is young to be the story of the fast, immediate development of Mankind, from the first meat meal to the conquest of outer space. But have we changed that much?
Obviously, it is a film that needs to be understood, and those who call it "boring" just do not catch it's meaning.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
A timeless science fiction masterpiece
Perhaps the first sociological science fiction film, probably one of the best overall. A story like this could have made Kubrick jealous. Spielberg domonstrated the emotional power of an image: thrill and fear in the two Barry kidnaping sequences respectively, the ecxitement of what is unknown in Rory's close encounter, the sadness of the downfall of a family and many others.
This film is a pure mix of the best elements of science fiction pur together.