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Best SciFi movies
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Although bad stuff happens in these movies, I don't consider them bleak so much as they're about encounters with entities we don't understand:
"2001" for sure, and it's never looked better than in it's latest 4K remastering.
I'd also been meaning to re-watch Andrei Tarkovski's "Solaris".
Ditto "The Arrival"
Entertaining movies that I don't care to watch so much of right now, because I want to the future to be less broken!
Brazil
Blade Runner, BR 2049
The Matrix
Ready Player One
Soylent Green
Rollerball (James Caan)
Fun fluff for our tech-obsessed times:
Next Gen
Also can't wait to see how "The Three-Body Problem" is adapted for the small screen: Cixin Liu's trilogy was a mind-blower.
"2001" for sure, and it's never looked better than in it's latest 4K remastering.
I'd also been meaning to re-watch Andrei Tarkovski's "Solaris".
Ditto "The Arrival"
Entertaining movies that I don't care to watch so much of right now, because I want to the future to be less broken!
Brazil
Blade Runner, BR 2049
The Matrix
Ready Player One
Soylent Green
Rollerball (James Caan)
Fun fluff for our tech-obsessed times:
Next Gen
Also can't wait to see how "The Three-Body Problem" is adapted for the small screen: Cixin Liu's trilogy was a mind-blower.
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A lot of good recommendations here. I will go with
GATTACA
Arrival
Dark City
City of Lost Children
and a real classic:
GATTACA
Arrival
Dark City
City of Lost Children
and a real classic:
A couple of last recommendations from me tonight:
This is a masterpiece of storytelling:
and this surprised me as a terrific movie, taking place in the Bay Area (I lived for years in Santa Cruz CA):
This is a masterpiece of storytelling:
and this surprised me as a terrific movie, taking place in the Bay Area (I lived for years in Santa Cruz CA):
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I loved the 1951 classic too
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In alphabetic order:
- Alien (1979)
- Arrival (2016)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Enemy Mine (1985)
- Ex Machina (2014) *my top pick
- Mimic (1997)
- Oblivion (2013)
- Stargate (1994)
- The Arrival (1996)
- The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
This calls for a musical tribute...
"FZ: "Cheepnis." Let me tell you something, do you like monster movies? Anybody? I LOVE monster movies, I simply adore monster movies, and the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheepnis in the case of a monster movie has nothing to do with the budget of the film, although it helps, but true cheepnis is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to the jaw of a giant spider."
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"FZ: "Cheepnis." Let me tell you something, do you like monster movies? Anybody? I LOVE monster movies, I simply adore monster movies, and the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheepnis in the case of a monster movie has nothing to do with the budget of the film, although it helps, but true cheepnis is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to the jaw of a giant spider."
lyrics
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You could say the same about Soylent Green. And for a movie about food, that is rare.
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Many excellent sci-fi movies already listed in previous posts. Here is one of my favorites. The Hollywood remake does not reach the heights of this original, despite a valiant effort by the leads. Elisha Cuthbert alas left most of the sass of The Girl Next Door behind for her lead role in the remake.
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For me
1. 12 Monkeys
2. Highlander
3. Bladerunner
4. The Omega Man
5. Lucy
6. Close Encounters
7. Alien
8. The Fith Element
9. Guardians of the Galaxy
10. Village of the Damned
11. Scanners
12. The Time Machine
1. 12 Monkeys
2. Highlander
3. Bladerunner
4. The Omega Man
5. Lucy
6. Close Encounters
7. Alien
8. The Fith Element
9. Guardians of the Galaxy
10. Village of the Damned
11. Scanners
12. The Time Machine
Prometheus (excellent sound effects too, great sound stage), Star Trek (2009), Aliens, Terminator 2, and I'm sure there are more because Sci Fi is one of my favourites, but my mind has gone blank! Ah, District 9 was good, very different & funny too in parts! Maybe I'll add some more as my mind clears!
Under the Skin was super good, helps that Scarlett Johannsen is very hot in it! But that again was a very different and quite emotional film in some ways.
Ah, Moon (2009 film) was excellent, great atmosphere and acting performances.
Under the Skin was super good, helps that Scarlett Johannsen is very hot in it! But that again was a very different and quite emotional film in some ways.
Ah, Moon (2009 film) was excellent, great atmosphere and acting performances.
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In no particular order:
La Jetee (Marker, 1962)
Hard to Be a God (German, 2013)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017)
A Visitor to a Museum (Lopushansky, 1990)
World on a Wire (Fassbinder, 1973)
Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)
On the Silver Globe (Zulawski, 1988)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Alien (Scott, 1979)
Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
Akira (Otomo, 1988)
Fantastic Planet (Laloux, 1973)
The Face of Another (Teshigahara, 1966)
La Jetee (Marker, 1962)
Hard to Be a God (German, 2013)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017)
A Visitor to a Museum (Lopushansky, 1990)
World on a Wire (Fassbinder, 1973)
Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013)
On the Silver Globe (Zulawski, 1988)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Alien (Scott, 1979)
Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
Akira (Otomo, 1988)
Fantastic Planet (Laloux, 1973)
The Face of Another (Teshigahara, 1966)
There's 2001, then there's everything else.
If I've been drinking, just about anything with John Agar will be fun. Fahrenheit 451 is weirdly prescient.
And if TV shows can count, there were a few episodes of The Outer Limits that could stand with any SF movie: Controlled Experiment, Demon With a Glass Hand, and most of all, The Inheritors, which was actually movie-length. @scott wurcer is right, adaptions are generally awful, not just Bradbury. And I shudder to think of how Hollywood can ruin Stranger In A Strange Land as thoroughly as they did Childhood's End (my two favorite novels).
If I've been drinking, just about anything with John Agar will be fun. Fahrenheit 451 is weirdly prescient.
And if TV shows can count, there were a few episodes of The Outer Limits that could stand with any SF movie: Controlled Experiment, Demon With a Glass Hand, and most of all, The Inheritors, which was actually movie-length. @scott wurcer is right, adaptions are generally awful, not just Bradbury. And I shudder to think of how Hollywood can ruin Stranger In A Strange Land as thoroughly as they did Childhood's End (my two favorite novels).
Serenity is one of my all-time favorites
The 2009- Star Trek movies
Pan's Labyrinth
When I am looking for a movie, I go to the list of Hugo and Nebula winners on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_joint_winners_of_the_Hugo_and_Nebula_awards
The 2009- Star Trek movies
Pan's Labyrinth
When I am looking for a movie, I go to the list of Hugo and Nebula winners on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_joint_winners_of_the_Hugo_and_Nebula_awards
