Best sci-fi movies...
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Ok, I know this has been done to death but I need to chill today and this was in my head. In no particular order: Serenity (ok, this and Forbidden Planet are my joint number one) Stargate 5th Element Silent Running The Man from Earth Idiocracy The Andromeda Strain Oblivion Dawn of the Dead (best Zombie film - EVER!) Terminator I and II Metropolis Planet of the Apes (original) Forbidden Planet 2001 The Matrix Star Wars - A New Hope Blade Runner The Thing (with Kurt Russel) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) RoboCop (1987) Alien Total Recall (1990) Predator They Live Escape from New York Galaxy Quest Star Trek: First Contact A Clockwork Orange District 9 Ex Machina Back to the Future SpaceBalls 28 Days Later Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan Capricorn One Soylent Green The Omega Man Moon Pitch Black Phew! That feels better. Any to add to the list?
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You forgot [Idiocracy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/) It was originally released as a Sci-Fi/Comedy, but seems to have become a documentary in recent years. :sigh:
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Akira was hugely influential, but I found it to be a snoozefest. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987), while not popular in Japan, is worth a watch. It's about the first space launch on an alternate Earth- pretty much "The Wrong Stuff" because the effort has no prestige and the government expects it to fail.
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Ok, I know this has been done to death but I need to chill today and this was in my head. In no particular order: Serenity (ok, this and Forbidden Planet are my joint number one) Stargate 5th Element Silent Running The Man from Earth Idiocracy The Andromeda Strain Oblivion Dawn of the Dead (best Zombie film - EVER!) Terminator I and II Metropolis Planet of the Apes (original) Forbidden Planet 2001 The Matrix Star Wars - A New Hope Blade Runner The Thing (with Kurt Russel) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) RoboCop (1987) Alien Total Recall (1990) Predator They Live Escape from New York Galaxy Quest Star Trek: First Contact A Clockwork Orange District 9 Ex Machina Back to the Future SpaceBalls 28 Days Later Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan Capricorn One Soylent Green The Omega Man Moon Pitch Black Phew! That feels better. Any to add to the list?
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Solaris Stalker Metropolis and for the lighter moments The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
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Definitely should be on the list. I know a lot of folks didn't enjoy it but what about Event Horizon?
Didn't like Event Horizon.
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Independence Day (I) And my favourite recent sci-fi: The Edge of Tomorrow
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Mark TwainNot bad but not classics - ID4 would have been a better film if it hadn't been so cheesy.
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Existenz - ok it's Cronenberg so it's bound to be a bit yucky in parts, however I thought the ideas and story line were done well and it's layers within layers are interesting. TimeCrimes - perhaps the best time travelling movie I have seen where everything actually hangs together and makes sense. The Man From Earth - like Gattaca its more like a play than a movie. The movie is a long conversation between a group of friends, one of whom has an interesting secret they reveal within the movie. The interesting part is seeing how people respond to what he reveals. Avalon - a Polish Japanese collaborative film about a distopian future and a VR game. Stalker - ok it's long and boring, actually no it's not! It's a brilliant film!
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Ah yes, The Man from Earth - an excellent movie based on a great story. Will add it. TimeCrimes also pretty good.
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Soylent Green (wonder what that is?)
Of course and Omega Man.
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You seem to be missing: Aliens Blade Runner 2049 Dredd Flash Gordon Gravity Guardians of the Galaxy Inception Looper Moon Pitch Black Starship Troopers Sunshine Twelve Monkeys
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Perhaps Moon and Pitch Black.
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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (both the 50s and the 70s versions) Might be more horror than SF. Silent Running Maybe someone's already suggested them (i'm catching up with the thread)
Silent Running - great film. The other 2 - meh - not so much.
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This is CodeProject, and no one mentions Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I think you all should get a down-vote of 42!!
The books were great - the movie - not so much.
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Solaris Stalker Metropolis and for the lighter moments The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Again, Solaris == :zzz: Metropolis - mmm - ok, it's in. :)
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You forgot [Idiocracy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/) It was originally released as a Sci-Fi/Comedy, but seems to have become a documentary in recent years. :sigh:
Indeed! This is a worth entrant as sci-fi as social commentary.
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Ok, I know this has been done to death but I need to chill today and this was in my head. In no particular order: Serenity (ok, this and Forbidden Planet are my joint number one) Stargate 5th Element Silent Running The Man from Earth Idiocracy The Andromeda Strain Oblivion Dawn of the Dead (best Zombie film - EVER!) Terminator I and II Metropolis Planet of the Apes (original) Forbidden Planet 2001 The Matrix Star Wars - A New Hope Blade Runner The Thing (with Kurt Russel) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) RoboCop (1987) Alien Total Recall (1990) Predator They Live Escape from New York Galaxy Quest Star Trek: First Contact A Clockwork Orange District 9 Ex Machina Back to the Future SpaceBalls 28 Days Later Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan Capricorn One Soylent Green The Omega Man Moon Pitch Black Phew! That feels better. Any to add to the list?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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Ok, I know this has been done to death but I need to chill today and this was in my head. In no particular order: Serenity (ok, this and Forbidden Planet are my joint number one) Stargate 5th Element Silent Running The Man from Earth Idiocracy The Andromeda Strain Oblivion Dawn of the Dead (best Zombie film - EVER!) Terminator I and II Metropolis Planet of the Apes (original) Forbidden Planet 2001 The Matrix Star Wars - A New Hope Blade Runner The Thing (with Kurt Russel) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) RoboCop (1987) Alien Total Recall (1990) Predator They Live Escape from New York Galaxy Quest Star Trek: First Contact A Clockwork Orange District 9 Ex Machina Back to the Future SpaceBalls 28 Days Later Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan Capricorn One Soylent Green The Omega Man Moon Pitch Black Phew! That feels better. Any to add to the list?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Of the more science than fantasy kind: Aliens Guided bullets: tested in Afghanistan Man-portable RADAR to find enemies behind cover: tested in Afghanistan VTOL dropship: V-22 Osprey Wheeled APC for the US: M1126 Stryker
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Colossus had some interesting ideas. It and the Soviet computer communicated starting with simple math and developing their own undecipherable language. And at the end it appears that its only goal is to prevent war, but we don't see where the line between war and any violence is. What happens next, assuming the computer is unbeatable, would make an interesting SF novel. Or maybe it leads to ST:tOS?
I think the ambiguous ending is part of reason why most people have never seen or even heard of it. It's not a triumphant 'man over machine' ending that is very common even today, and we never find out what ultimately happened to humanity in general or Forbin in particular.
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Again, Solaris == :zzz: Metropolis - mmm - ok, it's in. :)
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Sleepy? No but you may be confused by its deliberate dream like quality. Best watched slowly, I find an intermission helps.
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Of the more science than fantasy kind: Aliens Guided bullets: tested in Afghanistan Man-portable RADAR to find enemies behind cover: tested in Afghanistan VTOL dropship: V-22 Osprey Wheeled APC for the US: M1126 Stryker
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Ok, I know this has been done to death but I need to chill today and this was in my head. In no particular order: Serenity (ok, this and Forbidden Planet are my joint number one) Stargate 5th Element Silent Running The Man from Earth Idiocracy The Andromeda Strain Oblivion Dawn of the Dead (best Zombie film - EVER!) Terminator I and II Metropolis Planet of the Apes (original) Forbidden Planet 2001 The Matrix Star Wars - A New Hope Blade Runner The Thing (with Kurt Russel) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) RoboCop (1987) Alien Total Recall (1990) Predator They Live Escape from New York Galaxy Quest Star Trek: First Contact A Clockwork Orange District 9 Ex Machina Back to the Future SpaceBalls 28 Days Later Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan Capricorn One Soylent Green The Omega Man Moon Pitch Black Phew! That feels better. Any to add to the list?
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Silent Running - great film. The other 2 - meh - not so much.
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You remember that movie where Bruce Dern is crazy? That's not narrowing it down! I cringe at the song in Silent Running. Hate that singing style. The interior scenes were filmed in an aircraft carrier, as I remember, and there were humans inside the three robots. Though if the domes were capable of running on their own, they could have stuck them on a mined-out asteroid and not tied up the freighters in the first place. Suspension of disbelief.
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Rubbish Rubbish is why... :-)
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