Best sci-fi movies...
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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?
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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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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?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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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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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.
The ending makes it more like an SF novel. Movies from that era tended to go for the triumphant ending or the end of the world. Something I'd like to see: The humans pull the "I am lying" trick, and the AI replies "That is merely a paradox, and a childish one at that." and zaps them.
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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.
It means boring. Too long and slow, a meandering mess of self indulgent film making. In other words, not enough wham, bam, thank-you-mam, blood and guts action. :-)
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I'd add: Edge of Tomorrow Gravity And I'd remove a lot of yours... sorry! For example, I'd remove A Clockwork Orange. Disgusting movie, and I'm not easily disgusted.
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A Clockwork Orange. Disgusting movie, and I'm not easily disgusted.
Pretty tame by today's standards and you have to bear in mind that most movies are of their time, in other words they often reflect culture and society at that time. On top of which Kubrick. Alos, disgust is in the brain of the beholder - I can't disqualify because your stomach turns! :-)
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TNCaver wrote:
A Clockwork Orange. Disgusting movie, and I'm not easily disgusted.
Pretty tame by today's standards and you have to bear in mind that most movies are of their time, in other words they often reflect culture and society at that time. On top of which Kubrick. Alos, disgust is in the brain of the beholder - I can't disqualify because your stomach turns! :-)
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That movie was of my time (I was in high school in 1971), so I get the context. And yeah, it's tame by today's standards, and I try to avoid similar movies regardless of when they were produced. I understand that the original novel by Anthony Burgess had a different ending that helped some. I've never read it. Maybe it's my age and the way my life philosophy has developed over the years, but I find the world is full enough of real evil that I don't wish to experience more of it in the fiction I watch. Hey, other folk love that movie, and hail it as a classic. That's cool, I don't judge people for their tastes, we're not clones, it just isn't for me.
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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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How you missed Battlestar Galactica, I have no idea.
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How you missed Battlestar Galactica, I have no idea.
Because it's a TV show with no general release movie attached - all broadcast on TV or straight to Video, AFAIK. You could always start a best TV sci-fi show list...
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It means boring. Too long and slow, a meandering mess of self indulgent film making. In other words, not enough wham, bam, thank-you-mam, blood and guts action. :-)
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Long, slow, yes. Boring, yes. Self indulgent, no. Is boring bad? Not all good science fiction books are full of wham, bam, thank you mam action either. The book it's based on isn't really full of action for that matter. I like the trance like state it can induce. My advice is don't try Mirror then as it's Tarkovsky unleashed...
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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