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Ever since I first caught part of
The Terminator as a young kid on cable, I have been obsessed with the sci-fi genre. That obsession has only grown over the years, and whenever I upgrade my home theater experience, I always test out the new tech with some of my favorite movies (
2001: A Space Odyssey my first 4K Blu-ray). Along with the upgraded visuals and dynamic sound, I also like to dig through the bonus features to learn all the sci-fi movie secrets to find out how all those iconic scenes came together.
So, it s easy to imagine how excited I was when I was tasked with coming up with a list of behind-the-scenes secrets from classic sci-fi movies. To share my love of the classics, how they came together, and the genre as a whole, Iâve put together eight crazy facts about the making of everything from
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Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin
Douglas Trumbull had previously brought his VFX experience to film on such groundbreaking classics as 2001, but Silent Running – a sort of proto-Wall-E, with humanity facing the demise of its natural resources – let him loose as a director. Bruce Dern plays Freeman Lowell, one of several crew members on a greenhouse vessel that carries some of the few remaining plants from a ruined Earth. But when his ship is ordered to destroy the vegetation and return, Lowell mutinies and continues to tend his foliage with the help of three memorable robo-assistants. It s by turns dramatic, quiet, and reflective, an environmental warning that refrains from throwing its message in your face.