Great Scifi movies

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I have a vacation coming up soon. But I need an escape now.

Help me out here, what are your favorite sci-fi movies?

Bladerunner?
Return of the Jedi?
Hell Comes to Frogtown?
 
Mad Max series
Original Dune uncut
2001
Alien
Terminator
Predator

I like the old Bw's too. Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the body snatchers, etc.

You know, the Science fiction movie is up for a breakthrough. That is one genre they've made lots of but few brilliant works.

I like A ClockWork Orange
almost forgot, Night of the Living dead is a classic, buy you might find that in Horror category. All the sequels and rip-offs are entertaining, but one is a cult classic and I'm blanking on the name- Josh will know- shoot up the flourescent green fluid and live again!!

munk
 
The Fifth Element - somewhat mindless, but I always enjoy it.
Event Horizon - it's nice to see an unhappy ending now and again. That one gave my brother nightmares. :)
Alien. And, while the purists may deride it, Alien 2. (Hey, I liked it.)
You already mentioned Bladerunner. If you like that sort of thing, you may enjoy Nemesis as well.

I don't know if anime is your thing or not, but the Ghost in the Shell series (first movie, second movie, Stand Alone Complex) are all uniformly excellent.

THX-1138 is a bit of an art film but it's worth watching and will give you an idea of what George Lucas is capable of. This one will be hard to find.

Edit: and what Munk said.
 
Satori said:
The Fifth Element - somewhat mindless, but I always enjoy it.
Event Horizon - it's nice to see an unhappy ending now and again. That one gave my brother nightmares. :)
Alien. And, while the purists may deride it, Alien 2. (Hey, I liked it.)
You already mentioned Bladerunner. If you like that sort of thing, you may enjoy Nemesis as well.
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Nemesis? Is that Star Trek Nemesis? Or this Nemesis?

I wonder if I still have 2010 on tape, I really liked that one.
 
..oh- re-animater?

The first part of A Boy And His Dog was brilliant. I think it set up the standard post apocalyptic earth that everyone uses today.


munk
 
BillTheCat said:
Screamers ...when your tired of the mainstream SciFi.
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Saw that one, good movie.

I really want one of the dead movies (zombies have to make an appearance) but with more thought and scope to it...

Better get munk to write a screenplay huh?

editted to add: Can't find 2010, Return of the Jedi, Blade runner, or any of the aliens movies in the cabinet. Nor can I find Pitch Black.

Wife is asleep or else I'd have to ask if she's been loaning again...
 
Satori leaked the only one I can think of at the time with, The Fifth Element. I love that movie.

How about "The Goonies?":rolleyes: :p ;) :D

Didn't the powers that be make The Tommyknockers by Steve King into a movie and if so was it any good, as in really worth watching?
I almost always enjoy the book better than I do the movie afterwards but they've done King's books into movies pretty good.
Two I'd like to see if they were really done up right are "IT" and "The Stand" by King.
The Stand would be a helluva long movie without doing a lot of cutting though.:(
 
Pretty much everything mentioned so far is great. Blade Runner is a personal favorite of mine, as is Day the Earth Stood Still. I'll add a few more that haven't been mentioned so far (I think) in no particular order:
  • Logan's Run
  • Silent Running
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Saturn 3
  • Soylent Green
  • Omega Man
  • The Arrival
  • Starship Troopers
  • Solaris
  • Day of the Triffids
  • This Island Earth
  • The Angry Red Planet

I'll add more as I think of them.
 
Lots of good stuff already mentioned, trying not to repeat.
Zardoz is a very underlooked one. Sean Connery stars and it is from the early 70's. A bit dated maybe, but some great stuff in it.
The original Planet of the Apes falls in the same category for me.
The Matrix original is great, but I think the others lack a bit.
I'll add other as they occur to me.
 
I would suggest that Close Encounters of the third Kind be removed from this category as it is not fiction, but rather a recreation of actual events.
Mr Spielberg was given a top secret clearance to view gun camera films and photos by the airforce in the 70's. Disney was going to make it at first, but the govt decided to go with Spielberg.
(It was a commissioned piece, so to speak)

The Abyss is also one such film. The Navy has reported underwater UFOs moving at unbelievable speeds and matching the same basic description as those seen in the air. Now, that movie took a fanciful turn, but the basic premise is, according to our Nuclear Fleet, correct.
 
not SF but,

I just watched:

The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca

and in the category of "Tapes I re-watch many times":
The Hunt for Red October
Braveheart
Henry V, with Branaugh


Odd, for all their fidelity to the books (more or less), I don't re-watch the Lord of the Ring Trilogy much. But I've read the books countless times over the past 40 years.

enjoy.
 
Yvsa said:
Didn't the powers that be make The Tommyknockers by Steve King into a movie and if so was it any good, as in really worth watching?
I almost always enjoy the book better than I do the movie afterwards but they've done King's books into movies pretty good.
Two I'd like to see if they were really done up right are "IT" and "The Stand" by King.
The Stand would be a helluva long movie without doing a lot of cutting though.:(
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Yvsa:

All three were made for TV multi-night miniseries back in the 80s or 90s.

Jimmy Smits was in Tommyknockers.

Jon Ritter, Harry Anderson (Night Court), and Richard (John Boy) Thomas starred in IT, with the incomparable Tim Curry as IT.

The Stand (1994) was a four or five-nighter and had quite a cast, led by Gary Sinese, Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, Ray Walston, others.

I made VCR tapes off of the TV for each of them, but it's been years since I watched them. I enjoyed these three. Critics usually always pan a film made from a King story, although they seemed to like Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile.

Noah
 
Josh Feltman said:
  • Logan's Run
  • Silent Running
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Saturn 3
  • Soylent Green
  • Starship Troopers
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ditto

plus others already mentioned
  • bladerunner
    I much prefer the 'director's cut'
  • the 5th element
  • terminator series
  • predator I & II
  • underworld (vampires/science, 'better' than blade series)

    also
  • shawn of the dead (for zombie hilarity british style)
  • dune (scifi ch prod, with william hurt)
  • time after time (hg wells follows jack the ripper to modern day)
  • the one (jet li)
  • the dark crystal (surprising)
  • the indian in the cupboard (more fantasy/majic)
  • gulliver's travels (newest, with ted dansen)
  • Highlander (#1, see both cuts)


good resource:
" the Internet Movie Database, the biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet. "
http://www.imdb.com/

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Most of the good classics have been tossed in -- but I thought 12 Monkeys was a great modern Sci-Fi movie.
 
Man, lots of good suggestions already. Lemme see, is there anything that I can add to this list. I really liked Minority Report. It has its plot holes to be sure, but it's still pretty neat. "I, Robot" was a better movie that I thought it was going to be. Will Smith has turned into quite the actor. Are you into rubber monster alien worms? Check out "The Deadly Spawn" also known as "Revenge of the Aliens". A disturbing but entertaining movie from the B&W era is "Freaks". Not really sci-fi, but interesting to see the deformations that the human body is capable. Many of which were fairly common until modern medicine figured out a way to hault the problem less than 50 years ago. Not exactly a PC movie, but you can tell that the actors, all of whom were really afflicted with their birth defects, really enjoyed being the heroes of the film. How about the Rowdy Roddy Piper classic "They Live" where he has special sunglasses that allow him to see the hidden messages that aliens have plastered across our planet...as well as the aliens themselves. Famous for the line " I've come to chew bubblegum and kick @$$....and I'm all out of bubblegum." :D great stuff.

Jake
 
Steve McQueen's first starring role in a film.



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