Habitat

Rating:
Summary: Intelligent Sci-Fi
Review: Okay, here's my theory of why so many people don't like this movie: Perhaps someone hears about the three nude scenes (don't forget the science lady who's clothes get ripped up just right)plus some nice see-through outfits. So they're thinking, Hey! there's no good T&A flicks on Cinemax tonight, so let's go get that movie! They go rent it, and lo and behold, it actually has this really deep story that lays on the science pretty heavily, where you have to be very alert and somewhat intelligent to understand everything the characters are talking about. Well, if you're just watching it for a few nude scenes, then you're going to be really upset and disappointed with the rest of it!
This movie is very well thought out, the special effects are very convincing (the house really does give you the creeps), the script is beautifully written,and the actors pull it off splendidly. I love some of the lines in this movie, such as when Clarissa (Alice Krige) tells the bully that comes into the plant-infested house, "Young man, you don't go barging into the animal den. You may end up on the wrong side of the food chain." Another favorite line is "Through the bonds of matrimony, copulation is no longer fornification. It's procreation." These aren't direct quotes-I'm going from memory. Anyway, this is indeed one of those forgotten gems in which a small budget was used to make a great piece of work, much like The Wraith or Sleepwalkers (another with Alice Klige at her best). Give this movie a try when you're in the movie for some serious, yet highly entertaining sci-fi that really makes you think.

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Summary: UCLA Urban Planning Program shows Habitat to teach ecology..
Review: Professor Hecht's "Environmentalism Past, Present and Future" Film series Kick-off Event

Theme: "Understanding Environmental Change" Primary Reference: "The Forgiving Air" by Richard C. J. Somerville, Secondary References: Kindred Nature by Gates, Requiem for Nature by Terborgh and The Death of Nature by Carolyn Merchant

Film: Habitat Director: Renee Daalder

Imagine a world in which "the forgiving air" has decided NOT to forgive our trespasses, a world in which "The End of Nature" has arrived. Imagine a world in which the average soccer mom and dad don't particularly care that the ozone layer is gone. Imagine a post-apocalyptic suburban California where life goes on, albeit expensively and with ever diminishing quality, because the majority of the hopelessly bourgeois population still operates under paradigmatic assumption that "civilization" and "nature" are dichotomous spaces, and can be as decoupled in practice as they are in theory.

Into this world come two passionate, renegade environmental scientists and their teenage son, the former with a vision of completely and anthropogenically integrating wilderness, agriculture and domestic suburban life before it's too late, the latter with an abiding hatred of environmentalism and the desire to "just fit in" to his new high school, where bullies intimidate anybody who seems "nerdy" by threatening to expose them to the deadly sun.

This is the world of "Habitat", Monday night's avant-garde speculative fiction film about an environmentally dysfunctional future and the extraordinary reactions of ordinary people within it. The fun begins when the scientists, fed up with bake sales and barbecues in full protective gear, start considering other, post-modern epistemological methodologies in their search for a bio-technological solution to the problems of food production in the post-ozone full-on greenhouse-gas afflicted world.

Showtime: 7 p.m. Room 4573, Immediately following the Environmentalism, Past Present and Future Class.

Professor Susannah Hecht will provide commentary and answer questions after the film.

Genetically modified Bacillus thurigensis enhanced popcorn will be served.

Unsure about attending? Read what the critics have to say about this marvelous film:

"Marvelous - it really made me marvel. Honest!"

"Stimulating! - it was as if acetylcholine was constantly crossing my synaptic junctions as I watched!

"Irresistible -- I found it very hard to resist!"

"Great! - much bigger and more important than smaller, less important films!"

"A winner - it's as if this film could beat other films with which it is in competition..."

"A tour de force - it kind of moves about with a certain energy in a very french way..."

Rating:
Summary: UCLA Urban Planning Program shows Habitat to teach ecology..
Review: Professor Hecht's "Environmentalism Past, Present and Future" Film series Kick-off Event

Theme: "Understanding Environmental Change" Primary Reference: "The Forgiving Air" by Richard C. J. Somerville, Secondary References: Kindred Nature by Gates, Requiem for Nature by Terborgh and The Death of Nature by Carolyn Merchant

Film: Habitat Director: Renee Daalder

Imagine a world in which "the forgiving air" has decided NOT to forgive our trespasses, a world in which "The End of Nature" has arrived. Imagine a world in which the average soccer mom and dad don't particularly care that the ozone layer is gone. Imagine a post-apocalyptic suburban California where life goes on, albeit expensively and with ever diminishing quality, because the majority of the hopelessly bourgeois population still operates under paradigmatic assumption that "civilization" and "nature" are dichotomous spaces, and can be as decoupled in practice as they are in theory.

Into this world come two passionate, renegade environmental scientists and their teenage son, the former with a vision of completely and anthropogenically integrating wilderness, agriculture and domestic suburban life before it's too late, the latter with an abiding hatred of environmentalism and the desire to "just fit in" to his new high school, where bullies intimidate anybody who seems "nerdy" by threatening to expose them to the deadly sun.

This is the world of "Habitat", Monday night's avant-garde speculative fiction film about an environmentally dysfunctional future and the extraordinary reactions of ordinary people within it. The fun begins when the scientists, fed up with bake sales and barbecues in full protective gear, start considering other, post-modern epistemological methodologies in their search for a bio-technological solution to the problems of food production in the post-ozone full-on greenhouse-gas afflicted world.

Showtime: 7 p.m. Room 4573, Immediately following the Environmentalism, Past Present and Future Class.

Professor Susannah Hecht will provide commentary and answer questions after the film.

Genetically modified Bacillus thurigensis enhanced popcorn will be served.

Unsure about attending? Read what the critics have to say about this marvelous film:

"Marvelous - it really made me marvel. Honest!"

"Stimulating! - it was as if acetylcholine was constantly crossing my synaptic junctions as I watched!

"Irresistible -- I found it very hard to resist!"

"Great! - much bigger and more important than smaller, less important films!"

"A winner - it's as if this film could beat other films with which it is in competition..."

"A tour de force - it kind of moves about with a certain energy in a very french way..."

Rating:
Summary: Avoid at all costs
Review: Unless you're into self torture skip this one. Being a Sci-fi/horror fan I picked it up one day to watch. Big mistake. This is one of the worst, if not THE worst, movies I have ever seen. It's two hours of your life you won't ever be able to get back!

Rating:
Summary: Avoid at all costs
Review: Unless you're into self torture skip this one. Being a Sci-fi/horror fan I picked it up one day to watch. Big mistake. This is one of the worst, if not THE worst, movies I have ever seen. It's two hours of your life you won't ever be able to get back!

Rating:
Summary: For Sci Fi Lovers Only
Review: Yep! It's me again. You must think all I do is sit around and watch movies. You're right. In a stressful job this is the best therapy. At work I earn every penny of my salary. At play (home) I indulge in my love for film.

So what did I think of the Science Fiction thriller "Habitat"? It's definitely for Sci Fi folks...only. It is a bizzarre tale of what happens when the ozone layer is destroyed and mankind must shield itself from the microwave effect of sunlight.

So why is it called "Habitat"? An obsessed scientist and his beautiful and sexy wife, create their own environment inside the confines of their home...a vegetation filled fantasyland of plants and flowers that literally ooze with life.

This one plays out like an expanded episode of "The Outer Limits"...but it is definitely "R" rated for the seductive passions of mom and girlfriend. Quite bizzarre. A definite 8 on my 10-scale for Sci Fi. Many people did not like this flick. I was intrigued and thoroughly entertained. A great Friday Night flick...in early November...alone in my own HABITAT. Paul

Rating:
Summary: For Sci Fi Lovers Only
Review: Yep! It's me again. You must think all I do is sit around and watch movies. You're right. In a stressful job this is the best therapy. At work I earn every penny of my salary. At play (home) I indulge in my love for film.

So what did I think of the Science Fiction thriller "Habitat"? It's definitely for Sci Fi folks...only. It is a bizzarre tale of what happens when the ozone layer is destroyed and mankind must shield itself from the microwave effect of sunlight.

So why is it called "Habitat"? An obsessed scientist and his beautiful and sexy wife, create their own environment inside the confines of their home...a vegetation filled fantasyland of plants and flowers that literally ooze with life.

This one plays out like an expanded episode of "The Outer Limits"...but it is definitely "R" rated for the seductive passions of mom and girlfriend. Quite bizzarre. A definite 8 on my 10-scale for Sci Fi. Many people did not like this flick. I was intrigued and thoroughly entertained. A great Friday Night flick...in early November...alone in my own HABITAT. Paul

Rating:
Summary: Redeemed only by the nudity
Review: Yup, Alice Krige and Laura Harris showing their gorgeous bods is the "best" thing about this film.
There's really not a whole lot to say about a film that seems like it was probably originally an exciting-sounding concept to its creators, but ended up being somewhat....blah. I'm not sure how they could have pulled off a film in which a family's house turns into a living jungle, and the Dad turns into some sort of weird creature which can break down into little green molecules and fly around because of his science experiments. The neighbors who dislike them get killed trying to put a stop to the house's growth. Okay. BUT...
Laura goes for a nice skinny-dip, which makes this essential viewing for any Celeb skin collector.

Rating:
Summary: Redeemed only by the nudity
Review: Yup, Alice Krige and Laura Harris showing their gorgeous bods is the "best" thing about this film.
There's really not a whole lot to say about a film that seems like it was probably originally an exciting-sounding concept to its creators, but ended up being somewhat....blah. I'm not sure how they could have pulled off a film in which a family's house turns into a living jungle, and the Dad turns into some sort of weird creature which can break down into little green molecules and fly around because of his science experiments. The neighbors who dislike them get killed trying to put a stop to the house's growth. Okay. BUT...
Laura goes for a nice skinny-dip, which makes this essential viewing for any Celeb skin collector.