"Knowing" Giveaway - Your Favourite Sci-Fi or Disaster Film (Entries now open)
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IceInSpace is fortunate enough to be able to give away 10 "Knowing" prize packs to lucky IceInSpace members.
Each prize pack includes:
- A double in-season pass to "Knowing" (valid nationally from March 26th)
- A 'Knowing' carabiner key-ring torch
KNOWING
Only at the movies 26.03.09
Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure 2, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, the next gripping action-thriller of global proportions from Australian visionary Alex Proyas (I, Robot, The Crow).
When an Astrophysics professor stumbles on a set of coded numbers, written in 1959 and buried in a time capsule at his son’s school, he makes a startling discovery. The cryptic message predicts every major disaster of the past 50 years and holds chilling predictions about future catastrophes—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale.
Rose Byrne (Troy, Two Hands), Ben Mendelsohn (Australia, ‘Love My Way’) and Chandler Canterbury (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) also star in this riveting feature about a father’s desperate battle to save his child—and the world.
To be in the running for the giveaway, all you have to do is post a reply to this thread with your favourite science fiction and/or disaster movie.
The members who have replied will go into a draw and 10 lucky winners will be pulled out of the virtual barrel. And no, posting multiple times won't help your chances You will only be entered once.
You have to post your reply between Monday 16th March 5am, and Saturday 21st March 7am.
Rules and Conditions
IceInSpace offers this promotional giveaway as a service to its loyal and active members.
The giveaway is open to registered IceInSpace Forum members including the moderators. The moderators are volunteers and have had no involvement in organising this competition, so they are eligible to enter. The administrators (mojo and iceman) are not eligible to enter.
Valid for Australian residents of IceInSpace only
This thread will be open for 5 days, starting from 5am Monday 16th March until 7am Saturday 21st March 2009.
On Monday 23rd March 2009, the 10 winners will be drawn out of a virtual barrel and will be contacted via forum Private Message and may have their names displayed on this site. Make sure your profile is setup to receive PM's and ensure your email address is valid so that you can be contacted!.
All winners must acknowledge their prize within 3 days of the draw. In the event that a winner cannot be contacted, a new name will be drawn from the barrel.
For sci-fi I was going to say "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" movie but when Mike mentioned Star Wars, well I have to admit they are up there too for me (but I like the original episodes IV,V and VI more than the remastered ones. The new ones are somehow sterilized).
There are so many to choose from as well as the usual ones that everyone knows of but just to be different I think one of my favourite ones would definately have to be 'Event Horizon'.
Back in late high school at the end of the 70's, we were given the choice of studying this movie or go the dry road and study the original Shakespeare play "The Tempest". We took the movie and it's been my favourite sci-fi ever since. The fact that its premise is based on the Tempest just serves to reinforce my respect for it. The Tempests' main character, Prospero, employed magic to control his environment on the island, where Forbidden Planet's Morbius utilised technology. Wonderful parallels that really work. Technology, taken to its ultimate conclusion, will be indistiguishable from magic. Thanks for that observation Arthur C. Clarke
Some good ones coming out already, but for a SciFi with a difference "The Quiet Earth". Saw it once during the early 80's at the Valhala in Glebe and I've never found it since.
Some good ones coming out already, but for a SciFi with a difference "The Quiet Earth". Saw it once during the early 80's at the Valhala in Glebe and I've never found it since.
Fantastic flick indeed Paul. A classic from UnZud. I haven't seen it on DVD anywhere, and I know it's not the same, but it can be found on YouTube in 11 parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAmQGSsKVe4
Alien
A friend who had seen it suckered me into going so he could watch my reactions
When the beastie poped out of John Hurts guts I stood up in movie and yelled.....set half the theatre off!
Never forget it...
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Classic sci-fi drama with a message... stars Michael Rennie as Klaatu, an emissary from the stars who arrives on Earth with his robot companion, Gort, to warn mankind about the danger of nuclear warfare. Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray also star; Robert Wise directs.
"Klaatu barada nikto!"
I like all of the films listed so far and they would be in my "top picks" but for my money you gotta go with the original Klaatu and Gort.
Favoutite is probably 2001: A Space Odyssey
But close second would be Silent Running with Bruce Dern
If anthropological dramas count as SciFi, I'd also include A Quest for Fire.
Favourite all time Sci Fi, has to be the original H.G.Wells The Time Machine with Rod Taylor, a true classic, followed by the classic 1960's TV series Lost In Space, (just for the record I never said "Danger, Danger Will Robinson")
"Knowing" Giveaway - Your Favourite Sci-Fi or Disaster Film (Entries now open)
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