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architecture

Scifi Movie Locations in the Real World

With movies like Speed Racer and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow creating entire scifi landscapes from CGI, it's easy to forget that some of the most futuristic settings for scifi movies are borrowed from the real world. Today Oobject has a terrific collection of photographs of the architectural marvels (and subtle background buildings) that populate scifi movies. Here you can see the BMW building that appears in Rollerball. Check out a few more below. More »

10:58 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Annalee Newitz
4,426 views, 30 comments

Latest by zenpoet: @brentbent: I was going to mention the same thing. I love the scene with that four handed woman being put into the bottom of the pool. Isn't that a humane society type building? more »

found footage

Worst Postapocalyptic Game Of Death Ever

A nuclear holocaust has caused a new ice age and all but wiped out humanity... and the survivors kill time with pointless murder games. Robert Altman's Quintet has two of the greatest movie concepts in history jammed together, in a quintessentially 1970s blend of apocalypse and wacky death game. No wonder Paul Newman is excited! It's like stumbling into Rollerball, Death Race 2000, Jericho and the Sci Fi Channel's Ice all rolled into one. (And check out the proto-Bartertown sets, complete with weird slogans.) Sadly, the seemingly innocent game of Quintet hides a dark secret, as you'll see after the jump. More »

11:20 AM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,910 views, 35 comments

Latest by Captain Valiant: This movie (Quintet, remember? It was mentioned up there above the millions of Newman/Redford corrections) is the only Robert Altman movie I hate. In fact, it's also my least favorite postapocalyptic game of death. It's no Blood of Heroes. It's more »

found footage

Liquid Supercomputer Has A Meltdown

Zero, the supercomputer from Rollerball, looks 10,000 times cooler than most scifi computers of the 1970s, with their giant tape spools. But it suffers from that typical 60s and 70s problem — the crazy monotone freakout — when Rollerball champion Jonathan E. wants to ask for information about the Corporate Wars. It turns out even the "waters of history" get dammed up when they try to address corporate secrets. Click through for a clip of the crazy sports stunts that are what most people remember Rollerball for. More »

12:15 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,448 views, 14 comments

Latest by BlacklistedJoe: What's all the commotion over here? more »

soul code

Tron's Creator Kvetsches Against The Machine

Downloading your brain into virtual reality is so 1982. Soul Code, the new movie from Tron writer/director Steve Lisberger, will be about backing up your memories instead. And unlike Tron's bouncy cyber-liberation theme, the collaboration with IGN diva Jessica Chobot will be a "cautionary tale" about technology, Lisberger says in a rambling new interview. Why has the creator of Tron gotten so pessimistic? More »

8:30 AM on Mon Dec 31 2007
By charliejane
789 views, 8 comments