Your favorite Sci-fi movies?

psikeyhackr said:
Got that right! Even the producers said that in 1977.


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2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Aliens [I think this is horror rather than sci-fi but it is so damn good]
Planet of the Apes (Heston)
The Abyss *Special Edition*
The Matrix Trilogy [I consider The Matrix to be unique. Metaphysical science fiction? LOL]

psik

PS - The first Alien movie is so much like It: The-terror-from-beyond-space it cracks me the hell up.
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It: The Terror from Beyond Space was a great movie!
Has anyone mentioned the original War of the Worlds?
 
Galaxy Quest
Minority Report
Seconds
The Blue Yonder
The Ipcress File
The Manchurian Candidate
Village of the Damned
The Absent-Minded Professor
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Escape to Witch Mountain
A Matter of Life and Death
Time After Time
La Jetée
The Matrix Reloaded
Stargate
 
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Bond said:
Galaxy Quest
Minority Report
Seconds
The Blue Yonder
The Ipcress File
The Manchurian Candidate
Village of the Damned
The Absent-Minded Professor
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Escape to Witch Mountain
A Matter of Life and Death
Time After Time
La Jetée
The Matrix Reloaded
Stargate
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Actually, I didn't like Stargate very much. It was first as I started watching the series (especially SG-1) that I fell in love with the concept. The seasons starring Richard Dean Anderson are my favorites.
 
So Many!

Gattaca
The Quiet Earth
Silent Running
Dark Star
Phase IV
Solyaris
The Creation of the Humanoids (a 1950s SF movie based on a real book!)
The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Кин-дза-дза (Kin-Dza-Dza)
Tron
The World The Flesh and The Devil
Doppelgänger (aka Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun)
Alphaville
Ikarie XB 1
Repo Man


And for different reasons other than any inherent goodness:
Spermula
Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle of Death
Horror of the Blood Monsters
The Apple
The Giant Claw
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity
Space-Thing
 
Has anyone mentioned The Fifth Element yet? Or Stalker by Tarkovski?

I saw Charly in one list, it gets my vote too.
the rest are the usual suspects:

2001: A Space Oddyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Alien
On the Beach
Solyaris
Blade Runner
Brazil
12 Monkeys

a special mention to the tv series from the sixties that pointed me in the sf direction: The Time Tunnel, UFO, The Planet of the Giants, Lost in Space...
 
Star Wars III-VI (lets not get too picky whether it is true Sci fi or not)
Alien
Aliens
Blade Runner
2001
Spaceballs
Terminator 1 & 2
Solaris (original)
 
The longest movie

Well we could regard Babylon 5 as a 100 hour movie.

I would add it to the list. :D :D

psik
 
Star Wars
Matrix Trilogy
Star Trek - The Wrath of khan and Search for Spock
Blade Runner
Logans Run
Terminator and T2
2001 a Space Odyssey
The Last Star Fighter
Tron
Alien (all)
Predator 1 and 2

This list could go on and on.
 
psikeyhackr said:
Well we could regard Babylon 5 as a 100 hour movie.

I would add it to the list. :D :D

psik
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Apart from the last couple:

Lost Tales of the Babylon 5 Rangers or what ever they were called. They were pretty dire.
 
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While we are on the topic I am hearing good things about District 9, hopefully I will be able to add it to the list in two weeks.
 
Michigan said:
While we are on the topic I am hearing good things about District 9, hopefully I will be able to add it to the list in two weeks.
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I'm with you on this one! I have high hopes for D9... too high perhaps. I'd hate for it to turn into another Sunshine. :mad:

I did see Moon the other night and it was pretty good. Not a lot of action and it had a deliberately slow pace akin to 2001. Great production values, effects and story with some excellent acting by Sam Rockwell which is good cause he's practically the only person in the movie.
 
Seeing the number nine reminded me. . . I'm looking forward to 9, which comes out 09 09 09.
 
And District 9 easily makes the list for me.

And what was so bad about Sunshine? I guess you have to suspend some disbelief about the captain still being alive and being superhuman but besides that?
 
Michigan said:
And what was so bad about Sunshine? I guess you have to suspend some disbelief about the captain still being alive and being superhuman but besides that?
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Off the top of my head:

- Exposure to the sun makes you insane? Who's the first to go insane? The Shrink of course.
- The Human Torch's hand freezes in the liquid coolant after a split second's exposure in one scene, but later he goes swimming in it, not once, but twice with his eyes open and retains dexterity in his fingers long enough to save the ship.
- The guy makes an error in his calculations, which nobody double checks, not even the AI built into the ship, that could endanger the entire mission to save Earth? (Don't forget about the previous scene were we learn that the AI will not allow them to jeopardize the mission in any way.)
- Only 1 guy on the ship knows how to detonate the bomb that is the sole hope of survival for the entire human species? Then, they send that one guy out on the surface of the ship to fix a mechanical problem? The science geek? AND the mission commander? Who's coming back from that outing?
- When outside, they fix the nearest broken panel first and walk away from the safety of the only hatch on the whole bloody ship, towards the terminator line that will kill them if they're exposed, which incidentally is moving towards them and their only escape?
- They detour to go to the other ship why? Well, Insane Man is there! One lame plot device among a plethora.
- Insane Man gets aboard their ship and the AI does not bother to tell the crew until somebody thinks to ask? Even after he stalks and kills 3 crew members?
- When Hero Guy finds out about Insane Man he tells nobody else then goes to find him himself with no weapons?
- He finds Insane Man in the solar room and with the blazing intensity of the nearby sun shining through the window, blinding him in the presence of a homicidal madman, what does he do? Tell the computer to opaque the glass so he can deal with Insane Man and complete the mission? No. He puts up his hand to ward off the sun and squints so he can see the guy that's trying to kill them all, and by extension, the human race, and then he runs away.
- Insane Man shuffles about but can still outpace his victims. (Thanks again Hollywood cliche.)
- Insane Man has the strength of 5 men because insanity in Hollywood lends preternatural strength to the deranged just as dogs, mute children and American Indians have a sixth sense that grown adults lack.
- He can hold our hero straight armed over an abyss even as his muscles are rotting off his bones?
- Why is there an abyss inside the spaceship? What's with all the extra space? Oh, I get. It's a SPACE ship.

I could go on. So much promise and hype and so much failure in Sunshine. It was supposed to be a "smart" SF film. "Not just another summer block-buster." Instead it was a cliche ridden heap rife with stupid plot devices, throwaway characters and crap dialog. What was good? Special effects were top notch and the soundtrack was spacey and ominous as needed. Hey, it was a summer block-buster after all! Bah! :mad:
 
Michigan said:
Producers, and directors, say lots of things, doesn't make them true.
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ROFL

Sure, you know better than the people that created the stuff.

You can call it something different years later and tell yourself you are correct. Anybody can think and say any nonsense they want. How old were you in 1977 and how much SF had you read before that?

psik
 
I'm curious about this. When was the first time anyone asked whether Deckard was a replicant?

I may be wrong* but I don't remember this idea being in the book (apart from PKD's normal "How real are any of us?" phobias) and I don't remember the idea being tossed about at the time of the movie's release. So. If the idea only came into being after the making of the film, and Ridley Scott did not consider it when he was making it, then his post-hoc interpretation of his own work is surely just the same as anyone else's. He says Deckard was a replicant. I say he wasn't. We can both argue our cases (if we have nothing better to do) but neither of us can 'proove' it. If, on the other hand, Scott 'knew' that Deckard was a replicant when he was shooting the movie, then yes, Deckard is a replicant. No question.

Just because a director, or a writer, or an actor knows certain things about a character they don't have a duty to make those facts explicit to the audience.

On the other other hand if Harrison Ford knew at the time that Deckard wasn't a replicant - then he wasn't. No Question.

Isn't Art wonderful?




*I usually am
 
Michigan said:
While we are on the topic I am hearing good things about District 9, hopefully I will be able to add it to the list in two weeks.
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I am going to see the movie in about an hour. Also heard that it was good, got 9/10 on IMDB.com ranking.

Favorite Sci-Fi Movies:

1. Total Recall (it is on right now)
quotes from the movie...
"get your a** to Mars"
"Consider that a divorce"
"see you at the party Ricktor!"
"get ready for a surprise!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/quotes

2. Aliens
3. Dune
4. Screamers
5. T2
 
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