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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Assenpfeffer" data-source="post: 856477" data-attributes="member: 9061">I agree on T2 and Aliens.  Possibly Total Recall as well - I thought that film did a great job at the kind of Sci-Fi/Action blend we're so used to seeing today.  Also, I though Contact was a great film.  (In fact, it's one of the five best Sci-fi films ever, in my book.)  The Fifth Element is another personal favorite of mine that I'd put up there.Back to the Future, while a good film, isn't the kind of movie I think of when I'm mentally comparing Sci-Fi films.  I guess I consider it more of a teen comedy (even though it's indisputably sci-fi.)  For similar reasons, while I love (and own) Trek 6, I have trouble directly comparing it to other Sci-Fi films - Trek is kind of its own thing, to me.For obvious reasons, though, Dark City is the most interesting film to compare to The Matrix.  In many ways, it's a movie which is thematically similar but opposite in approach to its theme.  Where The Matrix has a really strong hook but cops out in the end, Dark City has less of a hook but builds much more strongly, to a remarkable and satisfying conclusion.  Dark City has some failures in imagination in the first half that prevented me from admiring it as much as I might have.  (The Strangers' presence, for example, seems too physical - they can reshape reailty at will, but they need to personally, manually rearrange people's clothes, poses and effects when doing the night's change?  This didn't seem to fit with their stated abilities or with the visual representation of the city itself reshaping by their will.  I also thought they looked too much like Pinhead - a serious distraction at first.)Overall, I think the two films are about equal.  I can argue in favor of either one.</blockquote>

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