Sci-fi Supremo

Rating: 9/10 (11 November 2005)

This is my favorite sci-fi film. This is quite possibly the most visually stunning film of all time. I consider it a tragedy that this film gets shown on TV in Pan and Scan. If there was ever a film that needed to be shown in widescreen, this is it. Showing this movie in Full screen is like playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony without the brass section. It would be like showing the "Mona Lisa" only from the neck up. It is like reading the Cliff Notes of "Hamlet". It is a cinematic sin. Those who commit this sin are anathema. A mark of a good film is how often it gets imitated. This film has been imitated by too many people to count. No one has come close to the visual aura of this film.
This film also contains one of the finest monologues of film history. The "Tears in the rain" scene equals the "I cuda been a contender" scene from "On the Waterfront", the Ferris wheel scene in "The Third Man", the scene in "The Godfather" were Michael disowns Fredo. It is great.