Best sci-fi movies...
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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
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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
plan 9 from outer space
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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
Ender's Game[\[^\]](https://youtu.be/2UNWLgY-wuo) I watched it at my son's place a few weeks back, then read the book. The movie is reasonably true to the book.
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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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I think "Logan's Run" (1976) and "Lucy" (2014) belong on the list. Also I think we should mention The Green Slime[^] (1968). It's a Japanese movie with a mostly American cast. Strictly B-grade cheese but when you watch it, it becomes obvious where the ideas for "Alien" & "Armageddon" came from. Loads of B-movie fun.
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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.
Actually, the movie was written from the novel "Colossus" by D F Jones, and that novel has two sequels. I was unable to finish them, however: a little DULL.
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I think "Logan's Run" (1976) and "Lucy" (2014) belong on the list. Also I think we should mention The Green Slime[^] (1968). It's a Japanese movie with a mostly American cast. Strictly B-grade cheese but when you watch it, it becomes obvious where the ideas for "Alien" & "Armageddon" came from. Loads of B-movie fun.
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Logan's Run - excellent film. Lucy was ok
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
One of the all-time worst movies ever. I recently watched it for the first time and I couldn't believe the end was like, "Humans, don't nuke each other." What!?! I watched 93 minutes of this crap so you could lecture me at the end?! X| Yes, it's a good idea not to nuke each other. Thanks. :laugh: And pick up all your trash too. PS - Just trying to create some controversy for discussion but I'm serious about it being the worst.
The flying saucer. One of the 3 or 4 best robots ever. (Separate list: Klatu, HAL9000, Robbie, T-1000, and pick a solid pair from the current crop of cute / AI-take-over-the-worlders.) Hilarious scenes in today's context (trash fling; light up while saying wonderingly, "He's over seventy!"). Opening music's piano riff. Scary philosophy in today's context: Give the robots absolute power and say "It's a system and it works." i.e. "Advanced peoples are Soviets." "All units deploy using Plan B." Channel your inner kid when you watch this great movie.
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The flying saucer. One of the 3 or 4 best robots ever. (Separate list: Klatu, HAL9000, Robbie, T-1000, and pick a solid pair from the current crop of cute / AI-take-over-the-worlders.) Hilarious scenes in today's context (trash fling; light up while saying wonderingly, "He's over seventy!"). Opening music's piano riff. Scary philosophy in today's context: Give the robots absolute power and say "It's a system and it works." i.e. "Advanced peoples are Soviets." "All units deploy using Plan B." Channel your inner kid when you watch this great movie.
Hey that is great analysis of that movie and you've honestly made me reconsider a lot of the stuff. I really like the "give the robots the power and blindly follow them" idea. I do like the flying saucer and the robot. One of the best robots ever. Great laser-beam eye. :)
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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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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
One of the all-time worst movies ever. I recently watched it for the first time and I couldn't believe the end was like, "Humans, don't nuke each other." What!?! I watched 93 minutes of this crap so you could lecture me at the end?! X| Yes, it's a good idea not to nuke each other. Thanks. :laugh: And pick up all your trash too. PS - Just trying to create some controversy for discussion but I'm serious about it being the worst.
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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
Enemy Mine (1985) - a little corny in the middle, but overall a great move. The Stuff (1985) - definitely corny, but fun to watch. Electric Dreams (1984) - A sentient PC that tried to write love songs, a young Virginia Madsen and most of the music done by Culture Club; what's not to love. Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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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
I'll watch any Sci-fi movie once. However I have considered the following to be intellectual (no in any particular order). 1. The Abyss (1989) 2. Sphere (1998) 3. Mission To Mars (2000) I know you said Movies only, but I found some of the episodes in Star Trek (TV Series) to be equally intellectual. I don't find Star Trek movies to be so.
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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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