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Screamers (1995) (feddit.nl)

THE LAST SCREAM YOU HEAR WILL BE YOUR OWN.

SIRIUS 6B, the year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.

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[-] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 20 points 3 weeks ago

I love this movie. The action is fun but it also has a deeper subtext about consciousness and whether machines can think, etc. It is based on the short story Second Variety by Philip K. Dick.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Being a Philip Dick story gives it a little more credibility, especially if they followed his ideas pretty closely.

I have a love/hate with bad B movies. Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck in slow-mo, wondering if it'll come through and actually be a better story than expected. Like "They Live".

Edit: Looks like PK is one of the screenwriters?

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's really shocking how many Philip K. Dick stories have been made into films. Off the top of my head, the ones I can remember are:

Total Recall (two versions)

Blade Runner

Screamers

A Scanner Darkly

Paycheck

Imposter

The Man in the High Castle (a streaming series, not a film)

The Minority Report

...And I'm sure that I'm missing at least some. If he hadn't died so young, he would have been insanely wealthy from how many times his stories have been adapted into major films.

[-] LaurenceWolse@feddit.nl 15 points 3 weeks ago

A bit of Tremors, a bit of The Thing, with some Aliens sprinkled in there as well. Starring RoboCop himself, Peter Weller.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's some sick miniatures and matte paintings

[-] pinkystew@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao yeah I'm talking about the set pieces.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

A bit of Tremors

Okay I’m sold

a bit of The Thing

Even better!

with some Aliens sprinkled in there as well

Let’s go!!

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

This movie is a weird classic for me. Haven't seen it in YEARS but I miss it.

[-] LaurenceWolse@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

Go watch it again! :)

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Aside from a few inexplicably bad robot bits, this is a really good and underrated movie.

[-] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Fkn love this movie

[-] BlackAura@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Watched this as a kid in 1997 or so. I was probably 12 years old. Scared the shit out of me and I had nightmares every now and again for a while.

Great movie.

[-] Maven@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Bezier@suppo.fi 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Holy hell that looks utterly awful.

Just my kind of awful B movie though!

[-] EnderLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I see those videos online off Russian soldiers running for their lives and think of this movie.

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