Best Sci-Fi movies

[gmcbee]

Didn't see a thread for this... Best science fiction/fantasy movies?

I'll open with:

Happy Accidents (not hard sci-fi, but deals with time travel interestingly)
K-PAX (again, not hard sci-fi, but a good heartwarming flick)

OK, hard sci-fi: Alien and Outland

Funny LMAO sci-fi? Galaxy Quest!

"I know! You construct a weapon. Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?" -- Guy Fleegman

Fantasy: Pan's Labyrinth

?

[tabler]

A film I like but is essentially a kids film 'Flight of the Navigator' it was a bit smaltzy in places but I enjoyed it.

Nice thread by the way.

[Berferd]

Oh wow, being a hard sci-fi fan, I'd have to go with Alien and Bladerunner. I think Star Wars ep. 4 was the most fun--when that came out, I about flipped! Forbidden Planet was good, if you good endure the "music". The Quiet Earth a good movie in the same mode as another movie I enjoyed--Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (the plot was ver different from The Quiet Earth, I should say). I kinda liked The Abyss even though it got a little dry in places (sorry for the pun).

[gmcbee]

ty. For a sec I thought you meant "The Navigator", a strange little medieval time travel jaunt: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095709/

[Satiros]

Love sci-fi movies, prefer literature though:

Solyaris + Solaris
Blade Runner
Alien
Ghost In The Shell + series (this is anime, so one might argue it's not a proper movie)
Akira (same deal applies)
Altered States
Dune (yes yes, even though the general attitude is one of hate, I still love it)
Sunshine (up until its turning point from sci-fi to horror, what a shame)
Tetsuo (maybe more body-horror than sci-fi, but I'm including it anyway)
The Fly (same as the above)

I'm missing out on a ton, but it's hot and my mind is drawing a blank.


Fantasy:

CONAN (of course)

[gmcbee]

Oh WOW! The Quiet Earth! Yes!

There's a real hard-to-find (UK?) post-apocalyptic film called Threads, anyone know it?

[Wendigo]

Amongst my favourites are
Alien - my no 1.
Event Horizon
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Logan's Run
Blade Runner
Planet of the Apes
Galaxy Quest
Gremloids aka Hyperspace

[tabler]

Dont know if you can call this sci fi but another one of my favourites is 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'

Oh and 'Forbidden Planet'.

[eelcat]

I got a whole bunch of 1950's sci-fi movies here and they are all cheaply made garbage with poor acting and laughable special effects.
I love them all :)

[imtrying]

Another vote for "Alien". I also love "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (both the original and the 70's re-make), "The Invisible Ray" (with Karloff and Lugosi), "Planet of the Apes" (and it's four sequels, and the TV series, and the cartoon series...didn't care for the re-make, though), "Soylent Green" and "A Boy and His Dog".

[tabler]

Oh yes, who could forget 'Plan Nine From Outer Space' from the 'great' Ed Wood.

But your right eelcat, I just love those cheesey old movies.

[gmcbee]

"A Boy and His Dog".

Harlan Ellison rocks. Nobody else I've ever talked to likes or "gets" this one.
Must be sheeple. Well, we'll meet them soon just off the Islets of Langerhans.

Better eatin' at Festivus for the rest of us! w00t.

[scoundrel]

Oh yes, who could forget 'Plan Nine From Outer Space' from the 'great' Ed Wood.

The tracking shot through the cemetery in Plan 9 is the stuff of legends. The cardboard tombstones fell over as the camera tracked forward, but Ed Wood carried on filming anyway...Plan 9 From Outer Space is a masterwork of modern cinema.

[foxx]

I never understood the cult about "Plan 9..." for me it's just a bad movie ?!?

Some faves:

Andromeda Strain by Robert Wise
It came from outer Space by Jack Arnold
This Island Earth by Jack Arnold & Joseph Newman
The Forbidden Planet by Fred M. Wilcox
Planet of the Vampires by Mario Bava

[Berferd]

Satiros--did I hear things right? Someone is actually making a teenage Conan movie?! Talk about prequalitis! lol I also heard that someone is making a prequal to Alien of all things. If Ridley Scott weren't involved, I'd say that it's destined for the same scrapheap as Alien vs. Predator. (INHO) Next up: the long awaited prequal to Attack of the Killer Tomatos!

[videodrome]

How about Doppleganger from 1969... goes by various other titles.. its the one about a 2nd earth on the opposite side of the sun in our same orbit so that we can never see it.

[Berferd]

I think liking Plan 9 is kind of a guilty pleasure thing. Like me liking Tom Cruise in Speilberg's War of the Worlds, a totally lousy movie (that succeeded in annoying the living hell out of me but...well, I kinda liked it, too. Only kinda, at best.)

[Joszka]

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Between fantastic and sci-fi, 3 vintage ones I have in mind :
- "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Henry Levin, 1959.
- "The Incredible Shrinking Man", Jack Arnold, 1957.
- "Fantastic Voyage", Richard Fleischer, 1966.

[foxx]

Like me liking Tom Cruise and Speilberg's War of the Worlds, a totally lousy movie (that succeedded in annoying the living hell out of me but...well, I kinda liked it. Only kinda, at best.)

For me Tom Cruise was the only problem in one of the very few good movies Spielberg made in the last twenty years.:D

btw: Close encounters of the Third Kind was a great Sci-Fi movie.

[Berferd]

Doppelganger? Oh yeah, I think I saw part of that as a kid... if I did, it was my first exposure to sci-fi. I remember a spaceship (a lot like the space shuttle now) launched in the near future ... with the nose-cone opening up, splitting to reveal... something, I think machinery or circuit boards. They find another 'earth' exactly on the other side of the solar system. I remember the ending as the spaceship crashing into the launch pad it came from. Is that the right movie?

[Berferd]

For me Tom Cruise was the only problem in one of the very few good movies Spielberg made in the last twenty years.:D

btw: Close encounters of the Third Kind was a great Sci-Fi movie.

Joszka or FOXX--I totally agree with you about Close Encounters. Fine movie! My problem with War of the Worlds was the constant screaming of the little girl. That annoyed me to no end. Journey to the Center of the Earth? wow, that brings back some memories... And Fantastic Voyage was one of the first DVD's that I bought (I liked Raquel Welch...lol).

[mordred888]

my all time favourite si-fi is 2001 closely followed by blade runner
there havent been that many really good ones recently,, a lot of very odd ones thats for sure.

What I cant understand is that what with all the advances in CGI tech, why havent they made some decent films from larry niven novels or amtrak wars or any of the millions of other good si-fi books instead they seem intent on making bad remakes of bad films.


sad :)

[gmcbee]

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- "The Incredible Shrinking Man", Jack Arnold, 1957.



YEAH! Where he takes on the black widow spider with a straight pin?!?!
Beauty!

[gmcbee]

Let The Right One In (original, not the upcoming remake)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/

Wow. Best vampire movie you'll ever see. Very well done.

[videodrome]

What I cant understand is that what with all the advances in CGI tech, why havent they made some decent films from larry niven novels or amtrak wars or any of the millions of other good si-fi books instead they seem intent on making bad remakes of bad films.
sad :)

They are going to make a Tron sequel using CGI i believe it comes out in 2010, i had my doubts but the trailer looks pretty good, and they use the original actor... so maybe they will finally get one right. At least they are not remaking the original it seems like it is a new movie.

[videodrome]

Doppelganger? Oh yeah, I think I saw part of that as a kid... if I did, it was my first exposure to sci-fi. I remember a spaceship (a lot like the space shuttle now) launched in the near future ... with the nose-cone opening up, splitting to reveal... something, I think machinery or circuit boards. They find another 'earth' exactly on the other side of the solar system. I remember the ending as the spaceship crashing into the launch pad it came from. Is that the right movie?

sounds like that is the movie... I'm going to see if i can track it down and watch it again. What I remember was that on the other Earth everything was opposite, and everyone had a counter-part on that planet.. and i believe they had a similiar mission to find another earth going on at the same time.. in the 80s I saw the movie again and they changed the ending to where the main character had imagined the whole thing in his mind, made a bunch of other changes... they basically ruined the movie with edits.

[Sid ney]

Seem to remember that the exterior sets were done by the Gerry & Sylvia Anderson people. Only saw it once a long time ago. Think the first sign of things amiss was when the returned astronaut noticed the reflected tube of toothpaste in the mirror - lettering the right way around.

Aha. Gerry & Sylvia were the producers. imdB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064519/)

[videodrome]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEh1WyKWJ8

seems like a partial trailer here, going by the name of Journey to the far side of the sun... but this seems to be the movie. I think it was the US version that may be edited.. I saw a german dubbed version of the british version.

[snorkie]

Dont know if you can call this sci fi but another one of my favourites is 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
Oh and 'Forbidden Planet'.

Two of my favorites.

Add these:
"The Thing From Another Planet" (the Carpenter version was closer to the story, but not as much fun, IMO)
"2001: A Space Odyssey"
"Alien" and "Aliens"*
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (both the Siegel and Kaufman versions)
"20 Million Miles to Earth" (Cheesy but fun)
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"
"Fire Maidens From Outer Space" (The MST3K treatment)
"The Terminator"

*"It! The Terror from Beyond Space" should be grouped with "Alien." Same basic plot, they dispatch the monster in a similar manner. It's great fun -even if you can see the zipper in the monster suit.
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[anklebiter]

Star Wars (original trilogy)
Planet of The Apes ( if that's considered Si-Fi)

[eelcat]

Favourite part in Plan 9......early in the movie when the police leave the station it is midnight and they get into a '53 ford.....they show them on the way to the cemetery and it is high noon and they are in a '57 ford.....they pull up supposedly at the cemetery but it is in the middle of nowhere on the side of the ride and it is midnight again and they all get out of a '56 ford.
You can't make stuff like this up.

[Satiros]

Teenage Conan? No thanks.

Alien prequel directed by Ridley Scott? Hell to the yes.

[Berferd]

They are going to make a Tron sequel using CGI i believe it comes out in 2010, i had my doubts but the trailer looks pretty good, and they use the original actor... so maybe they will finally get one right. At least they are not remaking the original it seems like it is a new movie.
Good! I'm sick of all the badly rehashed old ideas that goes on there.

[Berferd]

Teenage Conan? No thanks.

Alien prequel directed by Ridley Scott? Hell to the yes.
Well ... I'm only hopful on account of Ridley Scott being involved. His talent should help it avoid being as bad as Alien Res or AVP. If he weren't involved I'd have no hope for the movie at all. Maybe he'll even bring back HR Giger--if there's going to be an Alien prequal, Giger would have to be involved to get the artwork right.

[rad2927]

My 3 favorites are the original Day the Earth Stood Still,2001, and Colossus:
the Forbin Project.

[Davemetalhead]

Serenity. From the superb TV series Firefly.

The original Star Wars - and I mean the original released in 1977, not the updated version from the 90's.

Aliens. Never liked Alien, but then I'm not into horror/suspense movies.

Terminator. Much better than any of the sequels - Arnie was never better.

The Fifth Element. Just plain fun.



I still have a place in my heart for Battlestar Galactica and Battle Beyond The Stars from my childhood.

[Berferd]

Dont know if you can call this sci fi but another one of my favourites is 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'

Oh and 'Forbidden Planet'.
Yeah, I'd call that sci-fi for sure--the original that is, I haven't seen the remake so I can't comment of it.

[JDPuss]

Serenity. From the superb TV series Firefly.

The original Star Wars - and I mean the original released in 1977, not the updated version from the 90's.

Aliens. Never liked Alien, but then I'm not into horror/suspense movies.

Terminator. Much better than any of the sequels - Arnie was never better.

The Fifth Element. Just plain fun.



I still have a place in my heart for Battlestar Galactica and Battle Beyond The Stars from my childhood.

S'funny I cant argue with ANY of these choices :)

But I would add the pilot for the new Battlestar Galactica, Galaxy Quest and the New Star Trek movie to the list


and Gents "Doppleganger" aka "Journey to the far side of the sun" was indeed made by the Andersons to test out how their models would look with live action actors - think of it as a prequel to the series UFO

JD :)

[dohupa]

I was mad with this genre in my teens, but it sort of got old over the years.

All time fave is definitely Blabe Runner (1st screening with Harrison Ford's voice-over).
2001 was a masterpiece, but difficult to digest towards the end.

Another fave, Brazil - hope you Brits remember it.

Also enjoyed Men in Black in recent years - a fun movie.

Someone mentioned Andromeda Strain - indeed a very good thriller, but Crichton's text is even better. A masterpiece of a novel.

[zuckerman]

Still very partial to Dark Star and Silent Running. Also THX-1138.

Another classic: The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Astonishingly sexy scenes with the delightful Janet Munro too.

Can't help watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea when it's shown on a Sunday afternoon!

Indispensable films:

Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
Quatermass and The Pit
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Omega Man
Solaris
Stalker
Planet of the Apes
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Terminator
Aliens
Blade Runner

And if you haven't seen it, go see Moon. One day it will be on most classic lists.

[Berferd]

I totally agree!! I'd like to see Ringworld brought to life, or Clarke's Childhood's End. A number of Niven's other short stories would posibly make good movies. Stephen Douglas's A Dark and Hungry God Arises might make a good movie. The authors would almost certainly need to be involved, in my opinion.

[wrench24a]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7p96aiE32k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVVBctvylU

[wrench24a]

Fantastic Voyage

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(Watching Barbara Eden run around in those hide tight skirts was worth suffering through the rest of the movie)!:>)

2001

2010

The Omega Man

Logan's Run

Forbidden Planet

Conquest of Space

Moon Zero Two

The Cassandra Crossing

I,Robot

Blade Runner

Red Planet

The Andromeda Strain(original)

On the Beach(original) The beach scene with Ava Gardner in a swim suit was
just a bonus in a GREAT movie!

[Berferd]

The apeal around Plan 9... is that kind of a legendary Guilty Pleasure, I think. A movie so horribley bad that it's good, kinda like The Toxic Avenger. I movie you know from the outset is really, really atrocious (like my spelling). To be honest, I haven't seen the movie, but with a reputation like it has, maybe I should...

[haldane4]

The Soviets made some really great SF movies in their time, including adaptations of books by Stanislaw Lem, Asimov and the Strugatsky's. But my favourite is the cool 80's flick The Seven Elements.

[dogod31]

for the serious sci-fi buff (and i am) i liked 'blade runner' without the voiceover, existenz and naked lunch (not too sure if it's sci fi, but i liked em), butterfly effect, donnie darko, casshern (nuts jap stuff), all the cubes (1, 2 & 0), pi, night and day watch, unbreakable (even tho mr willis was in there) plus all the black and white b movies that bbc2 used to show in their attempts to be hip and edgy in their sci-fi seasons.

as for the fun stuff, you can't go wrong with inner space and how about tremmors (well, at least the first 2)

[dbailey]

Inspired by jch48 and snufkin's threads on Sci fi Authors and War Films.

And I have run a search, I do hope that this is not a duplicate thread.

1 I love dark and brooding as shot by Ridley Scott and he has made many fine films but my choice here is Blade Runner.

2 Silent Running

3 The Day the Earth Stood Still..........Klaatu anybody?

(Edit yes, of course I mean the original B & W version which had an englishman in the lead role. I belive that he may actually have been from Yorkshire which is starnage play to find excellent sci fi actors)

[scoundrel]

Sorry I had to merge your new thread dbailey: our search engine is not perfect.:(

As a small gesture of commiseration I'm linking this post I made on anklebiter's ''Favourite Regular Classic Movies'' thread to show I'm totally on side with your pick of The Day The Earth Stood Still just as long as it aint the Keanu Reeves version...

The Day The Earth Stood Still (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showpost.php?p=693084&postcount=39)

[tabler]

Scounds my jaw has just hit the floor, Keanu Reaves did a "The Day The Earth Stood Still"? Is nothing bloody sacred? Please god he didnt try and fill Michael Rennies shoes?

[scoundrel]

I am the bearer of bad news. The unwelcome answer to both your questions here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_(2008_film)

Sorry mate.:mad:

[SwedishEroticaFan]

To restore the balance of positive energy on this thread:

2001: A Space Odyssey - Made the genre respectable in the eyes of the cinema intelligentsia.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - A bit totalitarian in its message but still a fantastic film. Plus they got the calculus right.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Best of the "invaders from outer space" films of the 50's.

Contact - intelligent fiction + we get to see Jodie Foster's boobies

Sleeper - hysterical

Minority Report - major plot hole but it does a great job of creating a believable universe

Westworld - Best SF film of the 70's. The dangers of hedonism run amok.

Forbidden Planet - Leslie Nielson as James T. Kirk; Most intelligent genre film of the era.

Planet of the Apes (1968) - Classic ending. And the hunt scene is one of the best ever put on film.

Aliens - One of the few sequels that was better than the original.

The Thing(From Another World) (1951) - Scared the living crap out of me. Still holds the test of time and gave the world James Arness (Matt Dillon).

The Andromeda Strain (1971) - A science fiction film based on science. Hard to understand for the casual viewer, but a basic review of chemistry clears things up. A film that respects its audience.

Rollerball (1977) - our current lust for violence in contact sports taken to its logical extreme. One of the most underrated films of the 70's. The soundtrack is incredible

[Xexemedes]

I'm a bit of a sound nut. I like to listen to the movies as well as watch them.

Both "The Fifth Element" and "Total Recall" paid close attention to the sound as it interacted with the visuals, for that both of these films rate high on my scale.

Interestingly enough "Jurassic Park", which actually won an award for sound, didn't hold my audio interest; the big "vibrating water glass" scene fell rather flat for me as it was more of a visual effect with a low sub-woofer rumble...yawn...

[Office Boy]

War of the worlds-the original, 1953.

Alien 1979.

Planet of the Apes. 1968

Forbidden Planet. 1956. (After seeing Leslie Nielsen in Airplane I often think there's a gag coming up)

Aliens. 1986

This Island Earth. 1955 (I think)

Devil Girl From Mars. 1954 (If only for the lovely Hazel Court & Adrienne Corri)

[snorkie]

Barbarella

I freely admit that I lose interest after the opening title sequence. ;)

[electile disfunction]

What I cant understand is that what with all the advances in CGI tech, why havent they made some decent films from larry niven novels or amtrak wars or any of the millions of other good si-fi books instead they seem intent on making bad remakes of bad films.

sad :)

The problem is that writers like Larry Niven create actual science fiction and would demand that movies of their work follow the discipline of hard science fiction (including things like: social commentary, technology in conflict with humanity, a lack of impossible creatures, a lack of sound in outer space, FTL travel only if it is not central to the plot, etc.). :)

Unfortunately, most audiences today don't want to see anything more thought provoking than movies like, "Dude, Where's My Plot? ... um, Car?" :mad:

In contrast, most of the movies mentioned in this thread would be referred to by Niven, et al, as sci-fi, pronounced "skiffy", as there is little discipline in them and they do not follow the basic tenets of science fiction. :o

e.d.

[electile disfunction]

I never understood the cult about "Plan 9..." for me it's just a bad movie ?!?


It's so bad it's good--a matter of taste not quality.

You'll have to trust us on this one ... :rolleyes:

e.d.

[martyghia]

Bit of a robot/android freak...

Terminator
I robot
Judge Dredd ( just for the Hamerstein Scenes :ABC Robot & Junior Angel) stallone crap

Hardware :underrated

[chupachups]

hasn't been made yet, but based on xcom - enemy unknown/gerry anderson's UFO :D

[captpike]

Some of mine are

Enemy Mine
The Last Star Fighter Two very good sleeper hits
Starship Troopers
Lost In Space -Didn't think I'd like it but Miss Robinson what a hottie
Silent Running
Most of the Star Trek Motion Pitchers + the new Star Trek movie
+ allot of the older sci fi movies already mentioned here

[GoldisMoney]

Outlander (2008) is a good flick.

[Aubrey]

I love written SF but don't often get excited about SF films; mostly films seem to be a good 30 years behind - Star Wars being a Space Opera that could have been written in the 40s or even 30s, for eg; Bladerunner (a dam' good film, by the way) has all those 50s and 60s identity things, though that's fair enough, coming from a Dick novel.

I really enjoy Forbidden Planet whenever I see it, and a lot of those 50s films as well.

But my favourite, the one I have seen a lot and still want to see again, is The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Fantasy: Spirited Away; and I don't see how The Lord of the Rings could have been done better.

[Fan]

2001 A Space Odyssey
Alien AND Aliens
Forbidden Planet
War of the Worlds (the original)

All Sci-Fi, but all very different films within the genre, and why I like them all.:D

[Ghaleon]

Being a huge sci-fi fan myself I consider the written word far better than the visual representation. I also prefer the classics to the CGI heavy stuff that Hollywood passes off as sci-fi.

That being said, I would have to say a short list would include ...

The Day the Earth Stood Still (50's version)
War of the Worlds (50's version)
The Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (The other 3 are a waste)
Aliens

Now do I consider the Star Wars films sci-fi. In the truest sense, no. They have elements of sci-fi, but, and this is my opinion only, they actually border on fantasy.

I will add one film here that to me presages all the one made about a supercomputer taking control of or destroying mankind. That film is:
Colossus: The Forbin Project.

Ghaleon

[SwedishEroticaFan]

Absolutely. Problem is you never see it on the boob tube. Is it even available on dvd / VHS?

[DrFishnets]

Best Sci-fi movies

Bladerunner
The Terminator
A Clockwork Orange
2001 A Space Odyssey

Doc

[scoundrel]

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The producer of this film, Walter Mirisch, later commented:
People began to read meanings into pictures that were never intended. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is an example of that. I remember reading a magazine article arguing that the picture was intended as an allegory about the communist infiltration of America. From personal knowledge, neither Walter Wanger nor Don Siegel, who directed it, nor Dan Mainwaring, who wrote the script nor the original author Jack Finney, nor myself saw it as anything other than a thriller, pure and simple.
I wonder exactly how ingenuous he was being. Invasion of the Body Snatchers works superbly when watched purely as a science fiction horror film. It is a really gripping psychological thriller which evokes its sense of horror through violence done covertly to the mind/personality/soul of the victims. We never see bloodshed and except in the final mob sequences we see little overt violence. What we see instead is the inexorable leeching away of a town’s humanity and the replacement of individual character by a machine-like and spiritually dead conformity. Eventually, when the town of Santa Mira has been all but entirely conquered by the sinister ‘’pod-people’’, the non-human colony has its’ motions and team-work co-ordinated by the sounding of sirens. The scene where everyone is ostentatiously ‘’normal’’ as the Greyhound bus arrives, then they ambush and arrest the passengers who have dis-embarked as soon as the bus is safely out of sight is eerie, evocative and chilling. I find it impossible not to see the film as an allegory of oppression and dictatorship, essentially an anti-Communist fable.

Resistance to the secret enemies, the fifth column of alien body snatchers, centres on the town’s doctor, Miles Bennell, played by Kevin McCarthy (ironic) and on his newly divorced childhood sweetheart Becky Driscoll, a poised and sexy performance from the excellent Dana Wynter, a British actress who went on to play a good support role for Kenneth More in the classic war movie Sink The Bismarck! Their re-kindling romantic attraction helps to make the collapse of human life in Santa Mira especially poignant. Human passions are being destroyed by the secret attack of the emotionless and sexless pod people, and there is no room for these two and for their mutual love in the society of the robotic invaders.

The film plays cleverly on ancient fears, particularly fear of the dark, of the demons lurking behind the curtain of sleep in our dreams. It is when the people are asleep that the replicant pod people can clone and replace them. It is in the spooky hidden places, caves and cellars, that the pods can germinate undisturbed and turn into spiritless and malevolent pseudo-people, zombies able to replace and then pass themselves off as real human beings. Except for their lack of souls, these doppel-gangers are indistinguishable from their victims. They are shape-shifters, able to perform their predatory deeds camouflaged to look exactly like the person whose soul they are stealing. They do not look like monsters but they are.

Director Don Siegel went on to create Dirty Harry and was a mainstay of 1970s Hollywood thrillers. This is an early work, but he had already cut his teeth on film noirs such as The Verdict and The Big Steal. Invasion of the Body Snatchers has a similar pin sharp visual expressionistic look, very noir-ish in its’ clever use of light and shadows, especially in the night sequences where McCarthy and Wynter are fugitives hiding and running from the replicants. The visual effects are a major component to the spell of brooding paranoia and fear which Siegel expertly casts over the audience in this film.

I see this film, made in 1956, as a fascinating comparison and companion piece to the much more liberal (yet also rather more fascistic) The Day The Earth Stood Still from 1951. This earlier film postulates an alien who comes to earth Christ-like in order to rescue a divided human race from its own hates and fears and bring peace and hope. The later Invasion of the Body Snatchers turns this notion on its head, presenting the aliens, so free of dangerous passions, as evil and soulless, whereas the divided and paranoid humans are still alive, free and capable of warmth, love and spiritual expression. The one film, for all its liberal outlook, ironically asserts the power of rational authority backed by irresistible force: the other asserts individualism and individual freedom, yet with equal irony demands vigilance rather like wild paranoia, intolerant of anything or anyone ‘’different’’ as the price of this freedom. How strangely and yet how neatly these two very different films dovetail together.

[BigBucket]

Alien/Aliens/Alien 3

Star Trek: Wrath of KHAAAAAN!

[ddangla00]

The Original Day The Earth Stood Still.

[tony_grego]

My first SciFi
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My Best
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The most fun/absurd/senseless
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Salut

[biggold80]

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[smallblock]

Event Horizon, bloody scary too!I like Aliens also and Dark star which is more of a comedy I think!

[Mal Hombre]

Dark Star is a great sci-fi comedy,I particularly like the scene where they're trying to convince a bomb not to explode.

[smallblock]

Dark Star is a great sci-fi comedy,I particularly like the scene where they're trying to convince a bomb not to explode.

Yes a good bit for sure' 'I think there for I am' or something like!:D

The scene of the Beach ball alien when the chap is trying to feed it or clean it out makes me howl with laughter!

[Night Haunter]

John Carpenter's THE THING:eek:

[martin222]

John Carpenter's "They live" is a cool sci-fi movie too...

[hoyya]

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[rotobott]

A short film but very thought provoking.

Based on the short story Harrison Bergeron by celebrated author Kurt Vonnegut, 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is finally equal... The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains. It is a poetic tale of triumph and tragedy about a broken family, a brutal government, and an act of defiance that changes everything.


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[blatt]

First proper sci fi i ever saw that stuck with me was empire strikes back.I sat right at the back with my dad who was snoring by the time yoda was eating lukes lunch.Not the best of extra sound effects i know but will always love that film . Pity those new sequels or prequels were so bad really didnt like any of them. Wish lucas hadnt bothered but then it wasnt for us older fans i suppose .Then the same might be said for return of jedi found that one a bit sickly sweet.

[anklebiter]

First proper sci fi i ever saw that stuck with me was empire strikes back.I sat right at the back with my dad who was snoring by the time yoda was eating lukes lunch.Not the best of extra sound effects i know but will always love that film . Pity those new sequels or prequels were so bad really didnt like any of them. Wish lucas hadnt bothered but then it wasnt for us older fans i suppose .Then the same might be said for return of jedi found that one a bit sickly sweet.

I'm at peace with the prequel.Beforehand,I told myself it's history.It may not be wonderful to watch or remember, but it shaped things to come.(think Germany) After that,even though I hated the movie,I could rewatch it.
The second, even though Hayden Christensen is an awful actor, was loads better. The last, I thought was brilliant.

[MaxJoker]

I'm at peace with the prequel.Beforehand,I told myself it's history.It may not be wonderful to watch or remember, but it shaped things to come.(think Germany) After that,even though I hated the movie,I could rewatch it.
The second, even though Hayden Christensen is an awful actor, was loads better. The last, I thought was brilliant.


Got to disagree there as i found nothing of interest in any of the prequels apart for the outstanding performance of Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine. Think Lucas is a true one trick ( I said trick) pony of the highest order , and the biggest re-writer of personal history since Albert Speer .

Still back to those prequels , or should that be merchandise movies :D

The digital effects were cumbersome and obvious , the acting leads mostly deaden and bored . With dialogue as heavy as Chewbaccas first dump of the day and every story line apart from the Emperors embarrassing . Never more so the main one where we're meant to believe Portman would ever find a man with all the charisma of a carrier bag attractive.


Palpatine - " Anakin all seems to be going well with you how is life ? "

Wooden Top Walker - " Great , i have a hot wife , lots of power and respect plus i`m as interesting as a piece of mouldy carpet yet nobody ever notices , life is perfect , i`m truly happy "

Papatine - "Anakin i`m actually evil and mad , please go and kill everyone who respects and likes you , ps while you`re at it go kill a few dozen jedi kids ok as it'll help protect your wife , erm somehow "

Wooden Top Walker - " Sure no probs Pal , brb "


:rolleyes:

[willdollaruk]

Forbidden Planet
Blade Runner
Pretty much agree with a lot of choices others have made.
Moon would have to be the best of the lastest films, a future classic.

[echobravo]

Star Wars original trilogy
Serenity
The Fifth Element
Alien: Resurrection

[BustyEscortLovr]

1 - 2001
2 - Blade Runner
3 - Forbidden Planet
4 - Star Wars
5 - Close Encounters
6 - Galaxy Quest
7 - War of the Worlds (w Gene Barry)
8 - Alien
9 -
10 -

[John C. Holmes]

Star Wars 1977 (it will ALWAYS be just Star Wars
Tron
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Starman
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Alien and Aliens (tie)
The Black Hole (1979)
Space Jam (guilty pleasure)
Blade Runner
Spaceballs
Demolition Man

[tony_grego]

I'm sure this is not the best, but she made me laugh a lot :D

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Salut !

[MaxJoker]

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Got to be the best ever for me , completely visually groundbreaking when released i still think it more than holds up even now . Must have seen it over twenty times since that first viewing many eons ago in front of an old battered telly via the then new medium of video.

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Watched it with two hot Cornish pasties beside me (No i don't mean a couple of west country babes ) a flake ( No once again, as my brother was elsewhere) for afters and to finish it off a can of coke (Although granted 400ml`s of best Columbian white for dessert might now been seen as excessive for a nine year old, but hey it was like the eighties daddio ya know!).

That film blew me away , and no sooner had it ended than i watched it again.

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I mean it has everything , class acting , the legend that is Jeff , superb effects and a story even more relevant today as it was back then.

Plus of course free thinking good finally triumphs over oppressive controlling evil

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What more could you want ?

Can't wait for it to be released on Blue ray :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:

Here's hoping the sequel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_Legacy)stands up :thumbsup:

Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1IpPpB3iWI) :thumbsup:

[Night Haunter]

I really enjoyed this movie, though it was'nt very successful:)


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I think Jim Caviezel is an excellent actor, very under-rated;)

[renno61]

Bladerunner seen i when i first came out ,blow away by imagery, Rutger Hauer performance
is fantastic makes you feel sorry for him,even tho he is killing people,http://pimpandhost.com/media2/image/1/_/_/_/1/8/4/1/a/thumbs/bladerunner__0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/show/id/3746235) http://pimpandhost.com/media2/image/1/_/_/_/1/3/f/e/7/thumbs/roy-batty_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/show/id/3746243) http://pimpandhost.com/media2/image/1/_/_/_/1/e/1/8/0/thumbs/blade1_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/show/id/3746287)
the thing by john carpenter
the empire strikes back
forbidden planet
the power
dune
quatermass experiment
ghost in the shell
akira

[John C. Holmes]

I'm sure this is not the best, but she made me laugh a lot :D

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Salut !

Unfortunately one of the very last times we saw the beautiful and talented Tea Leoni on screen. :(

[snorkie]

Unfortunately one of the very last times we saw the beautiful and talented Tea Leoni on screen. :(

Actually, Tea Leoni has been active at a rate of one around film per year. She was particularly good in the underrated "Ghost Town" with Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear (doing his best Jack Nicholson).

Back to "Evolution" it did have one great line "There's always time for lube." It made me LOL out loud (internet joke courtesy of "Monk"). :)

[wrench24a]

Maybe some don't consider it true "Sci-Fi" but it's one of my favorites
along with the book. Ray Bradbury at his best.:)

[smutwerx]

Bladerunner and Altered States, the latter of which I think is a particularly deep film. As a kid, it really made me want to be smart so I could talk like the actors (who all played scientists). I started reading science books and never stopped. When I was a little older I saw the movie again and really understood the rather profound statements it makes about drugs, love and divinity.

[IronMan]

I always thought Cyborg starring Van Damme was a decent post-apocalyptic action flick. The FX are obviously dated but in a way it sort of reminded me of Fist of the North Star, as far as setting and the fact that there are gangs roaming the land and terrorizing those too weak to defend themselves. Definitely better than that POS Fist of the North star film that was made starring Gary Daniels. :mad:

[stanleysx]

Sunshine. Minus the Alien part

[Originalsinn]

I'm sure its been said 1000 times and is the typical answer but
Star Wars, Empire strikes back.
I want to seduce Boba Fett sooo bad.. LOL

[atomicrooster]

I still like "Aliens 2"


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and



"Silent Running" with Bruce Dern an the robots

[Norbert84]

I tend to appreciate philosophical Sci-Fi movies. Hard to tell what my favourite movies in this genre are but a few come up to my mind:

Letters From A Dead Man (Soviet movie from 1986)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Metropolis (Fritz Lang´s masterpiece)
Blade Runner
Solaris (the Tarkovsky original, although he fucked up Stanislaw Lem´s book)
Konets vechnosti aka End of Eternity (a nice Soviet Isaac Asimov novel adaption)

I don´t know if animated movies count but anime masterpieces like Akira or Ghost in the Shell are worth mentioning.

[oldster]

1. Metropolis
2. Andromeda Strain(original)
3. The Day the Earth Stood still(original)
4. 2001
5. I, Robot(makes me wonder now whether Hollywood will ever go on and do more than just two I Asimov stories on film.)

[scoundrel]

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So far I can find one honourable mention for Starship Troopers and not even that for the excellent and badly under-rated Robocop: I'm talking about the first one of course, not the shucking peas rip-off sequels.

Starship Troopers is mistaken by many for a really vacuous crash-bang-wallop space opera tailored to the special needs of ultra-right wing brain donors: a successor to films like The Green Berets and Red Dawn, but set in space. It is actually based on a semi-fascist novel, also called Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein, which glorifies war, violence and advocates a really harsh code of social control involving public flogging as a routine punishment and restricting the vote to veterans who have either fought or at least risked their necks for their country: paradoxically, it's attitude to women is liberal and progressive and it scorns the stay-at-home house-wife types such as the hero's mother and aunt, praising instead women like Carmen, elusive object of the hero's dreams, and Captain Daladrier, his ultimate CO, who serve and fight with men on equal terms, also mentioning affectionately and honourably the women who inhabit the Rest and Recreation planet, who all have regular jobs but spend their spare time being no better than they should be for the benefit of fighting men on leave. This book praises values I utterly oppose and reject, and I have read it many times: I absolutely love it.

Verhoeven turns all this beautifully upside down in one of the best satirical spoof movies I have ever seen, far better than crap like Hotshots Part Deux: his great gift to the movie was the ability to play all of it almost straight...and yet not quite. The Klandathu invasion sequence is full of superb special effects, lots of very clever battle scenes, and yet the subversive, piss-taking undercurrent is crystal clear in the way the "Bugs" planetary defences consist of energy plasma torpedoes shat out of their backsides and in the ludicrous deaths of various extras extravagantly dismembered by the rampaging Bug infantry hordes. The death of the TV news reporter who forgets he isn't neutral and should in fact be running away alongside the troopers is a fine piece of black comedy and also a really clever cinematic device. In subsequent scenes this guy keeps cropping up on TV or live, interviewing people around the hero's ship: its instant film shorthand to tell us we are in a flashback scene and the reporter hasn't been killed yet.

Starship Troopers bombastically presents itself as a glorification of establishment values, exactly like a non-animated real-actors version of Thunderbirds right down to the ostentatiously heroic musical score. But establishment values are constantly being undermined, even in the clearly fascist uniforms which the heroes wear. Again and again the establishment heroes keep falling on their faces, the Bugs die like Cylons yet, like Cylons, they crush the human opposition by sheer force of numbers. Even comradeship, the classic positive of war movies, is a floating currency: the hero eventually captures a brain bug as a direct result of being sold down the river by his best friend, and never even thinks of feeling betrayed because he himself firmly believes friends and comrades are expendable and that he himself is expendable also. Starship Troopers is high satire, often hilarious, but making a really serious comment against the military-industrial complex and the chauvinistic war mongering spirit which it inculcates in the population upon whose money and blood it feeds itself.


Starship Troopers: Service Guarantees Citizenship... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTz9nIUkGc):D

This post is long enough already: I'll deal with Robocop another day.

[qwerty007]

EVERYONE needs to see the reviews here:


http://www.redlettermedia.com/plinkett.html

[Night Haunter]

A wonderful gentle thought provoking film ;)

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With the Robotic Gardeners Huey, Lewey and Duey :)

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[drewblade]

Some good films in this thread. I'll have my twopen'orth

Mentioned a lot but a great flick Bladerunner
The original Day the Earth Stood Still.
And how about Twelve Monkeys?
And do you remember Logans Run?

[renno61]

i thought i add some movies to the list

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westworld a underrated sci fi movie
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th ultimate warrior
another movie which hardly get shown on tv now,and again stars Yul Brynner.
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE a film which i believe is excellent scifi movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TQGhm2wBsE

[oldster]

One sci-fi I really liked years ago but unable to find a tape or DCD of is "Genesis II" with Ted Cassidy(Lurch from Addam's Family) and Mariette Hartley. Movie is one of those post-nuclear war movies. And was pretty good. with a couple of sub-plots and decent action. Plus it had Mariette Hartley.

[renno61]

them 1954
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one of my favorite 50s scifi movies,considering it was made as a b movie.
the young girl performance at the beginning of the film is convincing and james whitmore as the police sgt set the film nicely.
just imagine how good the film would be with todays special effects

[wrench24a]

them 1954
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one of my favorite 50s scifi movies,considering it was made as a b movie.
the young girl performance at the beginning of the film is convincing and james whitmore as the police sgt set the film nicely.
just imagine how good the film would be with todays special effects



I'd forgot about this classic. One of my favorites also. As for a modern
remake I think it would most likely SUCK. All it would be is special affects.
It's all the movie industry can crank out anymore. Look at "Avatar". All
it is is special effects with a space cowboys and Indians theme. One
difference,the "Indians" are BLUE.:confused:

[wrench24a]

them 1954
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one of my favorite 50s scifi movies,considering it was made as a b movie.
the young girl performance at the beginning of the film is convincing and james whitmore as the police sgt set the film nicely.
just imagine how good the film would be with todays special effects



A piece of film footage from "Them" is used in the music video
of the Hank Williams Jr. song "If It Will It Will".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgK7C4ErHpk

[renno61]

I'd forgot about this classic. One of my favorites also. As for a modern
remake I think it would most likely SUCK. All it would be is special affects.
It's all the movie industry can crank out anymore. Look at "Avatar". All
it is is special effects with a space cowboys and Indians theme. One
difference,the "Indians" are BLUE.:confused:

probably right just seen the wolfman

[PythonPig]

One sci-fi I really liked years ago but unable to find a tape or DCD of is "Genesis II" with Ted Cassidy(Lurch from Addam's Family) and Mariette Hartley. Movie is one of those post-nuclear war movies. And was pretty good. with a couple of sub-plots and decent action. Plus it had Mariette Hartley.

You can get this from the Warner Collection here:

http://www.wbshop.com/Genesis-II/1000116213,default,pd.html

[TheDogThatDidntBark]

A few mentions of Dark Star here - the one with the beachball alien. Some folks found it funny. Many, self included, thought it was utter crap and panned it. The author was very hurt by the s**tstorm of criticism Dark Star received and thought he'd do something radically opposite in a sci-fi movie next time. The year was 1976. The writer... Dan O'Bannon. You know how this ends (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29) ;)

[Rob4]

not too many mentions for Forbidden Planet! The first time I 'noticed' a woman in a movie.

...and as an added bonus has a weird incest subtext.

[forsakkin]

This movie had both unintended laughs and some really good scary parts
In the opening sequence the women on board are also exclusively responsible for the galley -cooking and cleaning- the spaceship is huge and the gauges on board are the size of man hole covers

The lead actor was Marshall Thompson who was the most woooden leading man of all time

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It Breathes. It Hunts. It Kills!

IT! ... Reaches through space! ... Scoops up men and women! ... Gorges on blood!

The revelation shocker of things to come!

$50,000 by a world renowned insurance company to the first person who can prove that "It" is not on Mars now!


GOOFS Include
Continuity: The talk used to distract the monster includes talk from dead characters.

Factual errors: If a spacecraft were to open its airlock to space as depicted there would be a violent explosive decompression and not the gradual buildup as depicted in the movie.

Factual errors: On the way back from Mars we see a meteorite, a "falling star", through the porthole. With no atmosphere for them to burn up in, meteorites are just lumps of rock.

Continuity: The spaceship's different floors are never in order. For instance, Keinholz is on the top floor; he goes down one floor, looks around, then goes down another floor. This floor is the one with Carruthers and Eric playing chess. After Carruthers hears a scream he goes up the ladder to ask Keinholz if he had heard the noise; Carruthers peaks out of the hatch and is on the top floor, skipping the second floor Keinholz had to go through.

Audio/visual unsynchronized: The ship is shown as going up with the stars going down, but in one scene not too long after they take off, a crew member looks through a porthole and the stars are going from right to left. A shooting star can be seen. The next shot is a long shot of the porthole and the stars are going from top to bottom on the screen, then suddenly they just stop.

Continuity: After "It" attacks Van Heusen and tears his left boot and foot to shreds, his boot is clearly unscathed when another crew member drags him away from the hatch.

Plot holes: Bullets, grenades, gas bombs, electricity and even a healthy dose of atomic radiation seemingly fail to harm the creature. But when Lt. James Calder is pinned between the induction pumps because of an injured leg, he manages to hold the creature at bay with a portable blow torch.

Revealing mistakes: The space helmets lack faceplates. When Carruthers and Calder exit the ship, Calder is seen to reach into his helmet and scratch his nose.

Crew or equipment visible: In the scene were Lt.Calder says he left the ''C'' compartment door open, you can see the reflective mono filament pulling the door closed.

Revealing mistakes: In the scene where ''It'' startles Gino, the cigarette sticks to his lip and he takes three tries to push it off with his tongue. The cigarette is supposed to fall out from fright as he is startled by ''It''.

Revealing mistakes: When Van Husen is putting the grenades on the grating, you can see the mono-filament does not even touch at least three of the grenades.

Continuity: When Carruthers and Caulder are going outside the ship, Ed says the time is "0520 hours". "At 0525 hours start making noise. Don't make it sound threatening....", but his watch shows 0535 hours.

[Rob4]

the most interesting fact for It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) is that it was the partial inspiration for Alien.

I also think part of the plot for Alien comes from Dr Who: The Ark in Space (aired around 1975) and the part on the planet/discovery of the spaceship is inspired by Mario Bava's The Space Vampires

[waynus2933]

Can't believe there has been no mention of the 2 Riddick films starring Vin Diesel on here - I loved both films and they should be on everyone's watch list IMO.


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Pitch Black the first film is a low budget affair but with a good story and is very edge of the seat stuff near the end.

Chronicles of Riddick cashed in on the success of Pitch Black and is much more in the mold of big budget action flick ( Judy Dench is in it for gods sake !) but excellent none the less.

A couple of trailers to whet your appetites;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAOqM0Bc6Zs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHva0-ckVMw

[Raymond66]

OK, looking at everyone's list (almost everyone's) I see the sad state of education in the country today. It is not your fault that you don't know classic science fiction, it is the fault of your teachers.

Sigh

Try these if you have not seen them.

Of course the classics, Lost World (silent), Frankenstein (& bride), King Kong (Original, please)

If you want to be a student of science fiction in films please watch Metropolis. It is a difficult assignment I grant you, but you will see what inspired film makers for the next several generations.

Man from Planet X - The first "alien" movie. More character driven than effect driven.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - A classic movie, not just science fiction. A movie made by the casting of Michael Rennie. Pay special note to the name of the original owner of the suit Klaatu takes from the base dry cleaner. Subtle movie making.

The Thing from Another World - Both versions have a lot to offer, with strong charecters in each.

THEM! - Don't let the giant ants fool you. There is good acting in this film.

Forbidden Planet - Already mentioned

War of the Worlds - NOT the Tom Cruse sleeper. The 1953 may be slightly dated, but the FX (special effects) still hold up today.

Day the World Ended (1955) - Cheesy scifi I grant you, but fun and a look at how the 50s saw the "end of the world."

Invaders from Mars (1953) (1986) - Another classic and one to watch with your children. They will remember the experience for the rest of their lives, and it will be a fond memory in later years.

Day the Earth Caught Fire - British science fiction always does better with people than effects. What would you do if the world were spiraling into the sun, and you were the only one who knew?

"Panic in the Year Zero" - OK, a drive-in classic, but a good look at the world AFTER the nuclear war. Made watchable by Ray Milland's acting.

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes - A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences. A Corman classic that uses only a few of the cheap shots they would fill the film with today.

Ikarie_XB_1 - Known in America as "Voyage to the End of the Universe", this Czech production from 1963 is one of the first "serious" looks at the idea of long distance space travel. Many elements in this film were "borrowed" in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dated effects, but good acting and interesting ideas.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars - What waits for the first American on Mars? A blend of hard and soft science makes this an enjoyable film.

The World, The Flesh, & the Devil (1959) - Only SF because the world ends, this movie was incredibly ahead of its time & I am amazed it ever got made in 1959. Staring Harry Belafonte & Inger Stevens as the last two people in all of New York, or the world for all they know. A look at life AND race relations BEFORE every studio was grinding them out buy the dozens.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers See the 1950s version first, THEN see the 1976 one. Note the reflection of current political and social thinking. Trash and burn all copies of the later versions, then thank me later.

Fantastic Voyage (1966) from the era of "serious" science fiction. Effects still hold up today.

Five Million Years to Earth - AKA Quatermass & the Pit - Again, the British do it better when it comes to strong characters and social ideas.

Barbarella (1968) OK, it can't always be vegetables. Sometimes it is OK to have a little candy. Besides, this is what the Italian science fiction does best, sets and costumes and women.

Soylent Green (1973) - Science fiction, both in print and in film, changed radically in the 60s and 70s, and went down hill in a lot of ways. The dystopia became the norm, and we were all doomed and going to die.
Still, there were some gems of movie making thanks to good writing and good casts.

The Omega Man (1971) - see above

The Quiet Earth (1985) - again, western civilization is bad, man is bad, science is bad, yada yada yada . . . But still a cool film about a man who dies, only to wake up and find he is the last man on earth . . .
sort of.

That is enough to chew on for now.:thumbsup:

[squigg58]

OK, looking at everyone's list (almost everyone's) I see the sad state of education in the country today. It is not your fault that you don't know classic science fiction, it is the fault of your teachers.

Sigh



Ah well ... the difference is that some people don't need to be taught what to like ... they have the ability to make up their own minds about something which is purely subjective! :D

[renno61]

moon 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQTJUfqNJts
if ya never seen well worth the watch Sam Rockwell is fantastic
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a great sci fi movie

[scoundrel]

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This film is in the same tradition as Soylent Green, Bladerunner and Robocop: the future is essentially a crap place where the people are oppressed in a spiritually blighted dystopia. The downtrodden masses in Logan’s Run are distracted with shiny decor, readily available sexual distractions, a futuristic version of bread and circuses. They enjoy a seemingly luxurious, emptily hedonistic lifestyle surrounded by 1970s modernistic kitsch in a domed city of the future which rather resembles a giant shopping mall. But the city runs on a special system of rationing. In order to conserve resources, all the citizens are recycled (“renewed”) at the age of 30, in a public ceremony called The Carousel.

One of the most striking images from the film, an image of subtle horror, is the Carousel scene. The citizens have a sort of LED implant in their right hand which emits a flashing red light to tell everyone they are now 30 and must “renew”: the current batch stands in white monks robes, holding up their flashing lights and waiting trustingly as a machine comes forward to use an invisible power beam to raise them high above the heads of a cheering audience, which chants “renew, renew...” Then the 30 year olds are clinically dispatched in front of the whole city, all of whom faithfully believe that they have witnessed a process of re-incarnation, when actually they are witnessing a cull. I found that spectacle eerie and incredibly sinister, more disturbing than a conventional execution would have been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnLU9nyFSA

[renno61]

fantastic planet 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

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remember seeing this years ago on TV , came across it again recently.
really seen sci fi animation which has won film awards

[Raymond66]

moon 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQTJUfqNJts
if ya never seen well worth the watch Sam Rockwell is fantastic
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a great sci fi movie


I have to agree that this is a movie to watch.
And it could have been a great scifi classic.
However, it looks like the director and writer did not know how to make a movie and just did their best. 85% of the movie worked, but the fall flat on the important plot points. In fact, you have to watch the "making of" extra to fully understand the point.

[Derwent]

I think Dark City is pretty good. I watched the directors cut recently, where they don't explain what's happening at the start and it's revealed as the film goes on, but as I'd seen the original release I knew what was going on so I couldn't say if it's better.


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[renno61]

Quatermass 2 1957
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV39bRQGl8o
Brian Donlevy as Quatermass liked his performance as the scientist
let down by the effects but i think the movie is a good example
of how sci fi should be made.
first saw the the film on bbc 2 double bill horror nights years ago in the 70s when i was kid. wish the bbc would bring them back Saturday nights
horror double

[qwerty007]

Quatermass 2 1957
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV39bRQGl8o
Brian Donlevy as Quatermass liked his performance as the scientist
let down by the effects but i think the movie is a good example
of how sci fi should be made.
first saw the the film on bbc 2 double bill horror nights years ago in the 70s when i was kid. wish the bbc would bring them back Saturday nights
horror double


I remember a movie - quite like this one. Also a horror film, about creatures who looked like big starfish and moved along the ground - who when attacked, would split into two...looked like spaghetti on the insides. They would attack humans and all that would remain is a empty human skin casing. Bullets couldn't penetrate them...

This is going back over 30-35 years. Can't remember much more - but I do recall that I was scared SHITLESS for the longest time :eek:

Good fun!

[dorcelfan]

One of the most striking images from the film, an image of subtle horror, is the Carousel scene. The citizens have a sort of LED implant in their right hand which emits a flashing red light to tell everyone they are now 30 and must “renew”: the current batch stands in white monks robes, holding up their flashing lights and waiting trustingly as a machine comes forward to use an invisible power beam to raise them high above the heads of a cheering audience, which chants “renew, renew...” Then the 30 year olds are clinically dispatched in front of the whole city, all of whom faithfully believe that they have witnessed a process of re-incarnation, when actually they are witnessing a cull. I found that spectacle eerie and incredibly sinister, more disturbing than a conventional execution would have been.

Couldn't agree more with you there scoundrel!

This scene used to play havoc with my young and developing mind! It scared me to bits with it's sense of theatre and circus.

To me it was the fact they were hooded and flying.....then all the chearing etc - very wierd and unsettling! :eek:

Gotta also agree with renno61 about Moon - a very underestimated film.

Some others to mull over....

Surrogates
Gattaca
AI: Artificial Intelligence
Mars Attacks!
Predator (great plot pants actors...)

[qwerty007]

I know this isn't a movie - it's a TV series I watched back in the 70's called Space 1999.

THIS is the episode that warped my mind and gave me countless sleepnless nights; wondering if I would be facing the monster...

Enjoy:


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http://rapidshare.com/files/388264820/Dragons_Domain_1.mp4

http://rapidshare.com/files/388275641/Dragons_Domain_2.mp4

http://rapidshare.com/files/388288534/Dragons_Domain_3.mp4

http://rapidshare.com/files/388295769/Dragons_Domain_4.mp4

http://rapidshare.com/files/388304509/Dragons_Domain_5.mp4

[uncleboo]

I'm old enough to still consider scifi and fantasy two different catagories, but my vote is the Cube series (Cube, Cube2(squared), and Cube Prime)) and I would recommend watching them in that order. Good story line with plenty of room to embellish and expand, decent fX, and I've never been able to pidgeon it as a horror or a drama vehicle....waiting for version 4, cause' you know somebody is going to pick up the gauntlet and run...least I hope!

[renno61]

I know this isn't a movie - it's a TV series I watched back in the 70's called Space 1999.

THIS is the episode that warped my mind and gave me countless sleepnless nights; wondering if I would be facing the monster...

Enjoy:


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http://rapidshare.com/files/388264820/Dragons_Domain_1.mp4

http://rapidshare.com/files/388275641/Dragons_Domain_2.mp4

http://rapidshare.com/files/388288534/Dragons_Domain_3.mp4

http://rapidshare.com/files/388295769/Dragons_Domain_4.mp4

http://rapidshare.com/files/388304509/Dragons_Domain_5.mp4

great tv show ,what ever happen to barry morse in the first series.
also the show only got made because of problems making series 2 of UFO,this was going to be set on a enlarged moonbase

[qwerty007]

great tv show ,what ever happen to barry morse in the first series.
also the show only got made because of problems making series 2 of UFO,this was going to be set on a enlarged moonbase


Ah yes, Dr Victor Bergman!!

Apparently, for the second season, an American porducer - Fred Freibeger, was brought on board and changed the series;

Toni and Maya - in
Dr Bergman and Paul - out

If you read about the series a bit, he really dumbed it down - made it happier, campy etc...

Season 1 was darker, more thoughtful, not always a happy ending...etc

[qwerty007]

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Does anyone remember this movie? Great fun...Does anyone have it on RS?

[Mal Hombre]

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Does anyone remember this movie? Great fun...Does anyone have it on RS?
A great movie ,much better than the remake,features a young Sylvester Stallone and the late David Carradine is the star.
mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6LahtrxVhgovie

[MrKinkade]

I agree with Raymond66 just watched Moon it's a good film with interesting sub-plots, but if the mining company was clever as to install signal jamming gear on the moon but left the original Sams home phone number back on Earth still working all I can say is major oversight I'll give it 7/10 for a budget movie done well.

[TexMadrid]

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Does anyone remember this movie? Great fun...

My friends and I snuck into this movie when we were nine. My first R or Pg movie, quickly followed by Jaws!

[renno61]

i know this is not a movie but i believe it deserves a mention
the outer limits demon with a glass hand 1964
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this is the episode Harlan Ellison wrote,in later he sued the movie
company who made terminator for plagiarism.
a great episode from a fantastic tv show

[scoundrel]

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The guilty secret of all futuristic science fiction films (and also of retro historical drama) films is that they are set in another time and another place but they are really talking about the world in which the audience lives, though they have disguised this world as somewhere else. One of the excellent strengths of Robocop is that it doesn’t try very hard at all to keep this secret. It is actually one of the best Hollywood satires of the 1980s, about the 1980s.

Every good satire needs first rate target identification. Robocop has this, even though it fires on more targets than you might think possible. The targets include: corporate greed and corruption, embodied in the slyly named Omni-Consumer-Products Corporation; the deliberate dumbing down of television culture as a way to promote ignorance and make the mass population more easily manipulated ("I'll buy that for a dollar!"); the corporate culture of 1980s America, its’ short-termism and shameless sycophancy . The scene where the OCP board members applaud Daniel Herlihy, the Chairman, like it’s a Communist Party rally, originally struck me as exaggerated, but I have since learned that this custom of applauding in board meeting really went on. Please God that the CEOs of today’s America have forbidden this sinister practise. There is also a wickedly funny sideswipe at General Motors in the adverts for the ridiculously petrol guzzling and technically backward new flagship car, the 6000 SUX, a thinly disguised mocking of the Pontiac 6000.

Robocop, though set in the crap future, is really portraying an exaggerated version of the crap 1980s present, the social decay of an America where the glossy surfaces of corporate and media profit and ostentatious success are a veneer under which the downtrodden ordinary people live in an underbelly world of decaying slums and derelict steel mills, surrounded by the icons of lost prosperity and abandoned by their rulers. This, alas, is very truthful of the post-industrial world I remember as a child and a young man. But in Robocop this idea is pushed just slightly further and made into the engine of a sinister and covert civil war between the struggling plebs and their expensively tailored corporate exploiters, a war in which sides shift and morph depending on the agendas and personal fortunes of the belligerents. It’s a class war, but an American one: in America, class status is based on success rather than birth, which is more egalitarian but also means that everyone is potentially one generation removed from the gutter. In Robocop, the gutter is closer than that.

The central story is that of a classic everyman figure, Murphy (Paul Weller in a really good acting performance), the beat patrolman from a police force which has lost the battle to control its own streets. Poor Murphy is still loyal to a world which has died and, denied the backup of his own police department because they are swamped by crime elsewhere, he is captured by the crime gang he was trying to arrest and then horribly tortured to death whilst his injured and disarmed female squad car partner can only watch. Only, and this is a fascinating theme of the film, not all of Murphy is dead, not quite all...

Naughty OCP executive Miguel Ferrar has a use for the departed Murphy as the necessary human component for his cherished cy-borg project, and so Robocop is born. Supposedly a machine, whose human element is only there to compensate for the limitations of mechanical technology, Robocop is created to fight the morass of crime on the streets of “Old Detroit” and by threat and by brute force to suppress the crime wave. This he does in some bleakly funny action sequences, for example using his smart targeting technology to shoot a rapist in the genitals when the man tries to use his victim as a human shield. Robocop is partnered with Ann Lewis (Nancy Allen), who is fresh out of hospital after losing partner Murphy, and it is Ann who first detects the vestigial memories and habits of Murphy’s human side in Robocop and realises that they are one and the same. OCP has no wish to save Murphy’s humanity: au contraire, they want their cy-borg to be all machine, programmed with protocols which serve first and foremost the agenda of OCP and only incidentally serve the community Robocop is ostensibly protecting. But Ferrar and Cox are thwarted by the lady technician on the Robo project who, like a saboteur, refuses to erase the human memories of Murphy because she pities him, and by Ann Lewis, who could not save Murphy then but hungers to atone for that guilt and save him now.

The film is notable for its’ excellent trio of villains. Miguel Ferrar, a back-stabbing sociopath, ferociously ambitious, is the Frankenstein behind Robocop’s existence. Kurtwood Smith is superb as the bogey-man figure of Clarence Boddicker, an extravagantly bad gangster with vaunting dreams of ruling his entire underworld and victimising all and sundry. Smith has great fun fleshing out this 2 dimensional bad guy with hate, lust, greed, power-hunger and wild, dynamic enthusiasm for the sheer joy of cruelty and destruction. Boddicker has no complex motivations and is scarcely a credible character but who cares? He is a force of nature, an embodiment of the chaos which has overwhelmed the world of Robocop. But best of all is suave, cold and merciless Ronnie Cox as Dick Jones, senior Vice President of OCP and the puppet master who manipulates Boddicker and Robocop as well, who is the deadly rival whom Miguel Ferrar antagonised when he created Robocop and discredited the rival ED209 cyborg in which Dick Jones invested his own credibility. Cox creates a very strong persona for Dick Jones as a man who subordinates all other things to his own personal agenda, who will absolutely stop at nothing. It’s a brilliant acting performance.

Jones knows himself, knows he is a bad guy, and took the intelligent precaution of programming Robocop so that he can’t arrest a board member of OCP. But Murphy/Robocop isn’t the passive and obedient machine whom OCP envisaged and can think laterally around this obstacle. Always he is struggling to come to terms with his own humanity, the hideous pain of loss. The frozen robot face is full of quiet misery when he traces his “widow”, sits in a squad car outside their leafy suburban former family home and sees with his own eyes that she has re-married and their children have a new daddy. But it is this side of Robocop, the side Miguel Ferrar persistently tried and failed to destroy, who is the undoing of Boddicker and of Dick Jones.

The final scene is magnificent, when Robocop secures the dismissal of Dick Jones from OCP Chairman Daniel Herlihy and then puts Jones to death with gleeful overkill. Herlihy, rescued by Robocop from Jones’ attempt to assassinate him, grateful asks his rescuer: “What’s your name, son?” To which, after a pregnant pause, Robocop replied with deadpan dignity, for the first time in the film naming himself, “Murphy.” I saw this one in the cinema and there were cheers in the audience at that word. I felt like cheering myself. It is a moment of victory for the little guy over the bastards grinding him down.

If Hollywood had only wanted a brainless special effects action blockbuster, they shouldn't have given the project to Paul Verhoeven. Made, slickly, as a special effects action blockbuster, Robocop rises triumphantly over the standard brainlessness of this genre. It is a really serious work of art.

[chupachups]

what do people think of the film outland (not outlander) ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/

starring sean connery, a sci fi remake of "high noon"

I hear lots of people hate it, but I quite like it, though haven't seen it in years

[redfive]

what do people think of the film outland (not outlander) ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/

starring sean connery, a sci fi remake of "high noon"

I hear lots of people hate it, but I quite like it, though haven't seen it in years

'Outland' is a brilliant film, stylisticly it's very similar to Ridley Scott's 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner', you get the same feeling of a realistic, grimy near future dominated by big business that's only intrested in the bottom line. o.k. there's no monsters but it's a good story about what happens when one man won't take kick backs and won't look the other way, and it's well acted too. I love it:eek:

[RedRam7]

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[Dumbassgo]

Aliens: Special Edition.

Basically the directors cut of the film. Cameron himself at the intro says he prefers this version, and it's the movie he wanted to be screened. Studio disagreed because they thought it was too long.

It's only about 20 minutes longer than the original cinema release but those 20 minutes make all the difference.

Absolutely amazing piece of film making. For me Cameron is hit or miss. This was a definite hit.

Such a shame they screwed the series up after this. Alien 3 good cast, shit story, shit effects, Alien Res... well, just shit. AvP.... I'll stop now.

I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.


Cheers,
Dumbassgo.

[qwerty007]

Aliens: Special Edition.

Basically the directors cut of the film. Cameron himself at the intro says he prefers this version, and it's the movie he wanted to be screened. Studio disagreed because they thought it was too long.

It's only about 20 minutes longer than the original cinema release but those 20 minutes make all the difference.

Absolutely amazing piece of film making. For me Cameron is hit or miss. This was a definite hit.

Such a shame they screwed the series up after this. Alien 3 good cast, shit story, shit effects, Alien Res... well, just shit. AvP.... I'll stop now.

I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.


Cheers,
Dumbassgo.

Sorry - I'm going to have to charge you for using my trademark line. :D

I thought that a key part, as well, was the added scene of interaction between Ripley and Hicks, near the end. (went something like this)


Ripley: Do you have a first name, Hicks?

Hicks: Duane. And you?

Ripley: Helen.

Hicks: Don't be long, Helen.

It almost as if you start to think, "Hey look, she finally has something good happen to her!"

(and then in 3 they kill him off...)

[Dumbassgo]

Dude, come on.

It's Dwayne Hicks and Ellen Ripley.

Duane and Helen? They sound like a couple of honeymooners.

Get with the program private! ;)

Cheers,
Dumbassgo.

[qwerty007]

Duane...Dwayne....Dwain!!! All the same.

Hellen, Ellen, Melon...what's the difference???

(You secure that shit, private!!!)

Assholes and elbows!!!, Hudson, come here, COME HERE!!!

[TexMadrid]

I would have to pick the obvious: Blade Runner

Saw it when it was released, loved it; Got the Directors Cut, loved it more; and got the extended version loved it about the same. The atmospherics of Blade Runner the music complete and compliment a great story making it a standout. I have the soundtrack, the only soundtrack I own, and I don't get tired of listening.

Logan's Run, Tron, All Star Trek movies except Nemesis.

Trek not Wars!!!

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Vangelis's soundtrack to 'Bladerunner' is an incredable film score, particularly with the vocal talent of Demis Roussos on 'tales of the future' in the market scences, have you seen the final cut of Bladerunner texmadrid?it was releaseda couple of years ago and is imo the best version of the film, the documentry disc it comes with is very intresting too.

Definitly 'the force is strong in this one' and not 'live long and prosper'!

[TexMadrid]

Vangelis's soundtrack to 'Bladerunner' is an incredable film score... have you seen the final cut of Bladerunner...

Definitly 'the force is strong in this one' and not 'live long and prosper'!


I have seen the final cut, but I was more impressed with the rereleased Director's Cut. I missed a lot of the enhancements in the final cut.

456 Fine in the Day; 123 No Way!

[bluetone]

The Abyss is a favorite of mine another from years ago was a black and white film called The Collossus of New York

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[renno61]

total recall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFMLGEHdIjE
i think one of Schwarzenegger's best movies ,good story with some great action
scenes. a groundbreaking movie
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17duGlHEYY
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[Dumbassgo]

Sorry - I'm going to have to charge you for using my trademark line. :D


And pedantic old me notices that your sig is wrong. I missed off the 'You know Burke,' start but my quote is exact.

You got caught.

Right now you're being coccooned just like the others.

Heh. You're gonna be chestbursted. But then you become a xenomorph so not all bad.

Cheers,
Dumbassgo.

[Rogerbh]

Saw Predators - not a bad film, certainly better than AvP or that kin.

A good companion piece to the original.

[qwerty007]

And pedantic old me notices that your sig is wrong. I missed off the 'You know Burke,' start but my quote is exact.

You got caught.

Right now you're being coccooned just like the others.

Heh. You're gonna be chestbursted. But then you become a xenomorph so not all bad.

Cheers,
Dumbassgo.

"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure"

(Pretty soon they're going to tell us to get our own room. In the meantime, I think we should come up with a new thread; "Let me count the ways I love Aliens":D)

[purplecloud]

I would put the original Planet of the Apes at the top of the list. A great film that still holds up.
Others in no particular order:

Colossus The Forbin Project
Planet of the Vampires
The Day The Earth Stood Still (original film)
Soylent Green
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun aka Doppelganger
Five Million Years To Earth aka Quatermass and the Pit
Star Wars
The Empire Stikes Back
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea ( the Disney version)

Now I think I need to go watch some of these again!

[renno61]

mad max2
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a great action movie

[alibabababy]

1. Aliens
2. The Thing (Jonh Carpenter)
3. Pitch Black

On a side note I remember when I was a child and watched an old sci-fi, one of the Quatermass movies late one Saturday on BBC2, where they find a martian space ship in the London underground and the scene where they get a recording of the martians,or something along those lines, scared the bejesus out of me :eek:

[chupachups]

On a side note I remember when I was a child and watched an old sci-fi, one of the Quatermass movies late one Saturday on BBC2, where they find a martian space ship in the London underground and the scene where they get a recording of the martians,or something along those lines, scared the bejesus out of me :eek:

quatermass and the pit

a true classic sci-fi movie

apparently there was a made for tv serialisation, which I have never seen
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051305/

but the true jewel is the 1967 cinema version, highly recommended viewing
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168/

the imdb entry for the movie is really poor, the wiki entry is much better, nb the 1967 movie is a hammer production, truely a classic period in the british film industry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_%28film%29

[mordred888]

dark star
silent running

all time fav is 2001

[redfive]

'Quatermas' from 1979 itv mini series with Sir John Mills as the lead character, scared me silly when i first saw it, particularly when the girl levitates off her hospital bed and then explodes! gave me nightmares for weeks.

[penfold007]

Metropolis. I do hope the complete version reaches the UK soon, been looking forward to it I read the missing reels had been found in a cupboard in Argentina a couple of years back. (edit - and now I've searched it is showing here in September :D )

Of the 50's US stuff:

The Day the earth stood still - stands the test of time and vastly superior to the remake
Forbidden planet
Invasion of the body snatchers. It's better without the last scene, but that version doesn't tend to get shown.

Later:

Star Wars / The empire strikes back
Terminator & Terminator 2
Gattaca
Serenity, but it needs the context of Firefly
Soylent green. It's a preposterous premise when you consider it, of course

La jetee deserves a speial mention, but wont be to everyone's taste. I think it is superb, both in plot and construction.

[redfive]

I love 'Serinity' its a great little scfi action film, lots of humor and some good one liners, does anybody rember a film called 'Ice Pirates' from the mid eighties? now that's a film i would love to see again

[TripleM]

Haha> I remember Ice Pirates. Hilarious. Especially the scene with Robert Urich and Michael Roberts turning old from some aging effect and Roberts has this big grey afro haha.

[Luc_Orient]

As a child: E.T.

Now...fav SF-movies:

- Enemy Mine
- the Forbidden Planet
- Star Wars IV
- SW: The Empire strikes back
- 2001 & 2010
- Moon
- Battlestar Galactica (the pilot Movies - old & new)
- War of the Worlds
- Galaxy Quest
- Dune
- Pitch Black
- Alien & Aliens
- Event Horizon (that was scary)
- The 5th element
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
- Blade Runner
- Outland (Sean Connery was great in that one)
- Buck Rogers (the pilot movie - 1979)
- Capricorn one
- Close encounters of the 3d Kind
- Logan's run
- Saturn 3

Ok...that's all for now :D

[TripleM]

Alien
A.I.
Blade Runner
Minority Report
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Pitch Black
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
War of the Worlds -(original and remake)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Nemesis
Appleseed
The Matrix
Akira
Terminator- I-II-III and the tv series.

[abro]

5th Element - instant classic and some great lines:
~ Look lady, I'm all for a conversation but maybe you can just SHUT UP for a minute.~ (Korben Dallas)

[renno61]

the power 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvCz9FmiIA4
underrated sci fi murder mystery starring George Hamilton about mind powers
sort of like scanners without the gore.
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[Peau Peep]

Empire Strikes Back.

Any other answer is wrong! ;)

[one car]

enjoyed this as a kid. its 'they live' and this picture on the back of the box cover was what caught my interrest down at the video shop. found myself thinking what a good little film itwas at the end.
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[qwerty007]

enjoyed this as a kid. its 'they live' and this picture on the back of the box cover was what caught my interrest down at the video shop. found myself thinking what a good little film itwas at the end.
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Yah...even Rowdy Roddy Piper was pretty good! :thumbsup:

[Derwent]

enjoyed this as a kid. its 'they live' and this picture on the back of the box cover was what caught my interrest down at the video shop. found myself thinking what a good little film itwas at the end.
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"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum. "

[janroren]

I have to go for Blade Runner.A brilliant movie,and has aged very well too!

[friday1970]

Dune (one of the few big fans, I think. But only of the movie and original series of books)
Outland
The Time Machine (original, not the nasty Guy Pearce version)
The Last Starfighter

[Nudist Couple]

I like real, hard sci-fi. Something that hasn't been around for a while because without explosions, a chase scene or whatever, they don't make a lot at the box-office anymore.

But some Sci-fi movies stick out from the rest.

The original Alien is one. Great movie.
Blade Runner is another.
The recent movie Moon was good.
Sunshine was good until it became a standard horror movie.
Forbidden Planet. Ground breaking for it's day and pure Sci-Fi
2001. Does this really need an explanation?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Simply amazing.

there are lots of others. I don't consider the Star Wars movies sci-fi...more fantasy than anything else. Outland was good, but let's face it, it was High Noon just in a different setting..not really sci-fi. Plus there are a TON of action movies that people confuse with being hard sci-fi, but they're just action movies.

[redfive]

I like real, hard sci-fi. Something that hasn't been around for a while because without explosions, a chase scene or whatever, they don't make a lot at the box-office anymore.


Have you watched Solaris?, now that is a great Scifi film imho, very under rated and well worth watching.

[victor meldrew]

Just a few favourites and in no particular order

Barberella
The Thing (Both)
The Wrath of Khan
Alien v Predator
Soylent Green
The Black Hole
Forbidden Planet
Galaxy Quest (Comedy Sci-Fi)
Aliens
Total Recall
District 9
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Fantastic Voyage
Pitch Black
On the Beach
A Clockwork Orange
Dark Star
Flesh Gordan
Dreamscape

[qwerty007]

Nothing like a movie about a dystopian future and a guy named Snake!

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[monogroover]

Alien is a brilliant film; hard to believe it's more than 30 years old now. The Fifth Element is also a superb film.

For some reason there were a few fairly bad sci-fi films in the '90s and early '00s: Mission to Mars, Event Horizon, Red Planet spring to mind.

Films based on Philip Dick stories are usually off to a good start, and there have been some very good ones: Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report.

[parrabol]

i really like Impostor, with gary sinise and vincent d'onofrio. fantastic film. cheers.

[moonsung]

Phase IV, Rome 2043 A.D., Escape From New York, 2084 (Chris Marker)...

[gbt42dd]

Not listed in any order. The bold italic indicates movies or TV not previously listed (I hope):

Alien & Aliens
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version) - Gort scared me!
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
District 9 - Best sci-fi flick in over 20 years!
Soylent Green
Cloverfield
Godzilla(1956 version with Raymond Burr) - My first sci-fi movie!
West World
Creature with the Atom Brain
The Road Warrior
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954 version)
Rollerball (1977 version)
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Contact
The Mist
Coneheads - Yes, I know it was dorky, but I couldn't stop laughing
Space: Above and Beyond - American TV series that was canceled after 23 episodes
Star Wars (1977) & The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Did not care for the other Star Wars movies

Most hilariously bad sci-fi movie: Plan 9 From Outer Space

My recollection of the original Alien (1979) - I took my 16 year old cousin with me to see it when it first came out. We had little or no information on the movie, just that it was a space movie. We were expecting the 1960's Star Trek type fun.

The theatre was extremely dark, and very, very cold that night. Only 4 or 5 people besides us in the theatre. The sound system was bad so we had to strain to hear the dialogue. All of this created an uneasiness and discomfort, which in retrospect, added to to the feeling of emptiness and isolation of space travel.

It scared the crap out of both of us! When the creepy alien creature bursts out of John Hurt's chest, we almost took off running out the door! When the others learned that crew member "Ash" was an android, that was a shocker, too.

I prefer to see a sci-fi or horror movie when I know as little as possible about it beforehand. Hate it when friends spoil the surprises and plot twists.

This is a fun topic and I thank everyone for participating. It brought back many good memories...

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[monogroover]

How could I have forgotten The Day The Earth Stood Still? Not the Keanu remake, of course. Although it's entertaining, I think it's an opportunity missed.

[margaretm]

Around 1962 plus or minus two years i saw a first run sci fi about a fungus from outer space that ended up on earth
government gaenst dressed like fbi types try tracking and destroying it
it thives and grows in oxygen environment but of coursed fire can kill it
In one memorable scene the fungus is on an airplane in someone sluggage and starts to devour eberyone and the government agents and a scietist on board defeat it or control it until they land

I am not thinking of the Blob and i am not thinking of the fungus that took over a space station

If it was a B movie it was well made and I remenber seeing the leading mane in other notable endeavors

It may have had "x' as part of title such as mystery x or fungus x

I just cant remeber but would love to see it again Itwas prety good
thx in advance

[penfold007]

Phase IV

Blimey, that's an obscure one. Good though.

[roaduser]

Was impressed with Moon, and at last a film that I couldnt work any twists out !

http://media2.movietrailertalk.com/trailers/moon/moon.jpg

oh and i thought Saturn 3 was a great film, old but good.

[one car]

more dystopian visions of future that seem on the ball. 'rollerball' 1975. worlds a global corporate state (in a state too) controlling every aspect of life and masses are distracted by men playing with their balls.
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anyhow, always impressed by big TV in the movie. couldnt imagine having one when i first saw the movie. dont think id even heard of plasma/LCD.

[Manny Fagnett]

My fave has got to be 'Blade Runner' Love 'Star Trek VI' 'Dark Star' However 'The cars that ate Paris' doesn't quite get there!

[Double Deuce]

Rollerball (the original of course). Kind of an interesting commentary on how sports heroes are just cogs in a machine to the owners.

[scoundrel]

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It’s quite a short film and a really compact piece of story-telling. It was an MGM production but staffed by British actors and made on location in Britain, giving it a very authentic British 1950s ambience. The film is a bit of a time capsule of social attitudes and structures; only the doctor and the de facto village squire, Professor Zellerby (George Sanders) have cars and the lower orders in the village of Midwich are very insular and implicitly seem backward looking. No-one has a television, not even Zellerby. Despite Zellerby being a London commuter, a scientist at the War Ministry in Whitehall, this place feels a bit like Stepford, isolated from the rest of mainstream society and ripe for the sinister phenomenon of the “Time Out” and the events which follow.

The “Time Out” is nicely done. Zellerby’s brother-in-law, a staff officer at the Army department of the War Ministry, is the first outsider to suspect something is wrong, because the Time Out interrupts a phone conversation he is having with Professor Zellerby. He investigates and raises the alarm; the whole village of Midwich has gone to sleep. An RAF reconnaissance plane sent to look at what is happening is lost when the pilot goes to sleep too. But the army only has time to discover that the zone of sleep is exactly circular before it’s over and the village reawakens.

During the period of sleep, the women of the village have fallen pregnant; all of them, including Mrs Zellerby, played by a very tidy-looking Barbara Shelley. The scene where she tells her husband she is with-child, not yet realising that her pregnancy is an unnatural phenomenon, is very human and touching, and helps to explain Zellerby’s subsequent attitude after the alien nature of this wave of pregnancies becomes known. The Zellerbys are a closely bonded couple in spite of a considerable age difference; the baby is not his, but it is still hers, and that’s sufficient for him. However, most of the other men in the village are much less broad-minded. Women are beaten, spurned, and then there is a wave of superstitious revulsion when the scale and nature of the phenomenon is known. Again and again we see the village pub full of silent, brooding and angry men, palpably not supportive of their women or accepting of the new children. There is bad karma in the air.

The child actors who play the alien children are mostly mute, but their togetherness and the intensity of their eyes express a contained menace which gives this film its real ambience of low key tension. They develop far too quickly and are chillingly intelligent. They never openly exhibit violent emotions, but have deadly power. Zellerby’s new “son”, David, is only a few months old when his mother forgets to test the temperature of the bottled milk and he is scalded; instead of crying, he uses his power over her mind to make her boil her own hand in the kettle until his “father” has to ask him to stop. Already, the children are more powerful than the adults. Zellerby, the observant scientist, devises an experiment which shows that if he teaches one child a new trick, all of them have learned it; they have a collective mind and they pool their resources to intensify the power they can use to control the minds of humans.

Ironically it is Zellerby who tries the hardest to integrate the children and avoid a fatal outcome. Zellerby himself is a remote and withdrawn character, except in his marriage. Only when he is alone with Anthea, his wife, do we ever see him relaxed, friendly and smiling; for her he always has a smile. This is a really fine acting performance by George Sanders, using his charm to show why this gorgeous woman fell head over heels in love with a man so much older than herself and why she remains in love with him. He could and would have loved David as well, just as though David were his own son, simply because David is Anthea’s son. He would always want to love her child. But behind the Sanders charm and surface warmth there is another side to Professor Zellerby; he is a scientist and also a government man who moreover works for the department responsible for defending the country from invasion. This man can be as ice cold as the children themselves and his support and advocacy of the children was double-edged. He has a Plan B.

Plan A, the integration of the children into the community, proves impossible only because the children are too alien, impeccably polite and self possessed, but totally disconnected from ordinary people and capable of extremely ruthless acts of mental force. They read minds and can make people self-harm, as when David compelled Anthea Zellerby to boil her own hand. David Zellerby is their appointed spokesman and his speech is poised, courteous and deadly. Hearing his words spoken in the piping voice of a child of about 9-11 (he is really barely 4 years old but his development is unnaturally fast) is chilling, most of all near the end, when he has learned that all the other seeded alien child groups have been murdered and his group is the last. His plan to disperse the group and have them all adopted by unknowing human families is shrewd, clever and nasty. Zellerby is ordered to arrange this or else there will be deadly consequences for all of Midwich and beyond. These kids aren’t fooling and they aren’t going to wait to be weeded out. Zellerby is smart enough to realise that he himself will be surplus to requirements once the kids succeed in going underground; he’s the one who will know who adopted them. The fate of those who know too much is not hard to guess. It’s time for Plan B.

Zellerby has nothing to lose but a secret he must keep. He has the conditional trust of the monster children. He’s the only one who get close enough to do what has to be done. But no-one must know his plan; no-one at all. The scene where he bids his wife farewell, she all unknowing that it’s their last moment together, is beautifully done. He has engineered a night out for her, accompanied by her brother. Since it’s a formal occasion, she has an evening gown, has had her hair done, and looks great. Complimenting her very naturally on her looks, he plays her favourite tune on the piano, the tune he was playing the first time she laid eyes on him. She is the one who brings that up, charmed and wistful, but totally unsuspicious. It is the note Zellerby wanted to end on. When she shuts the door, he stares at and memorises a brick wall. He is about to go to meet the children and they think their adoption details are in his briefcase. If all they can see in his head is an image of a brick wall, they won’t know what’s really in that briefcase until it’s too late.

What I like about the film is the atmosphere of low key menace and the way it succeeds in turning a really mundane and unremarkable setting into a hidden battleground populated by alien invaders. The alien children convey an aura of power and potential cruelty; they look like children but they resemble one another, dress alike and always group together, and this is what emphasises their unnaturalness. They are supernatural and ominous, a prodigious and deadly thing. It isn’t hard to see why Professor Zellerby, the most gentle, civilised and urbane of men, would turn suicide bomber to prevent this little colony from dispersing and infecting the world at large.

Creepy, creepy, creepy.

[penfold007]

I know this is a film thread, but 'The Midwich cuckoos' by John Wyndham is worth a read for anyone that enjoyed Village of the damned.

[Hazem_zoom]

I liked this movie: PANDORUM_2009

http://img293.imagevenue.com/loc96/th_998103810_pandorum_2009_122_96lo.jpg (http://img293.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=998103810_pandorum_2009_122_96lo.jpg )

And its Official trailer is here if you wanna see it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMEhkTxs3_E


:D:D

[bennie001]

Bladerunner. The original without all the is he isn’t he shit.
Aliens. The colonial marines made the movie,
All Predator movies, Arnie and his bad asses meet a bigger better bad ass. Drug dealer’s bigger bad ass, and finally a shit load of bad asses,
AVP 1. Saw this in the cinema, the whole place burst out laughing when the predator swung the alien about like a rag doll, the weapons that the predator has are great.
AVP 2. Not as good as the first,
Them. A true B movie classic, a remake with the right director and minimum special effects it would work.
Star War 1, 2 & 3. If they’d made these first they wouldn’t have had a franchise, for in the 70’s they would have been shit
I am Legend. Preferred this to the Omega Man
Mad Max. Great just for the car chase at the start.
Mad Max 2. No explanation needed.
Rollerball 1975. A game with roller-skates, motorbikes and a metal ball. Moonpie is god

[4ad]

In no order whatsoever:

Bladerunner
The Thing (JC)
Silent Running
The Omega Man
Alien
The Time Machine (original)
Event Horizon
Metropolis
The Matrix
Dark City
Twelve Monkeys

[wakman11]

Mine are

Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
Forbidden Planet
Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home
Logans Run
Men In Black
Armeggedon

Have fun

[SpermShooter]

In no particular order:
2001
2010
The Alien films
The first Star Wars trilogy
Star Trek 2-4 and the JJ Abrams update
Forbidden Planet
Planet of the Apes, the original
Outland
Stargate
Independence Day

[qball2510]

Alien

[Uninvitedguest]

Aliens

[FOOKLUNKWILL]

http://ist1-1.filesor.com/pimpandhost.com/1/_/_/_/1/w/b/h/J/wbhJ/2001_a_space_odyssey_hello_dave_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/7669879-original.html)

[Dirty Old Man]

The Thing from Another World, 1951
http://img45.imagevenue.com/loc429/th_117777695_TheThing51_122_429lo.jpg (http://img45.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=117777695_TheThing51_122_429lo.jpg)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/

sentimental dribble alert.

great story acting and at the time scary, but mostly because it was my fathers favorite sci-fi film.
when I was a child (the 60's) and it would be shown on tv my house would be in chaos with preperations for this movie.
kids homework done, cleaned, fed dinner in pj's scamppering around trying to lay claim to the best viewing spots.
mom serving soda and yelling for us to settle down while dad makes the jiffy pop.
When the movie begins there is no movement except for the popcorn and dead silence, when a commercial came on the race
to the bathrooms would begin, first one in is first one back (in theory anyway) and can change seating for a better
viewing spot (house rule) parents exempt, later on my sister became exempt because she's a girl, figures.
there have been better films but none bring back such happy memories as this film, so this is the best sci-fi film of
all time, for me anyway.

[scoundrel]

http://img270.imagevenue.com/loc58/th_87849_Them_122_58lo.jpg (http://img270.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=87849_Them_122_58lo.jpg)

Another rarely seen gem. It's a quite subtle and resonant thriller dressed up in schlock-horror clothes. I haven't seen it on terrestrial TV since around about 1976; meanwhile we get to see turds like Face/Off and Broken Arrow every third week.

Rather like Godzilla, Them! ties into nuclear paranoia and externalises the monster within our palpably failed civilisation into a form which we can see and fear and fight and kill. Yet after some extremely taut and well presented action, after the ostensible victory of the authorities over the strain of mutant ants which threatened to promote itself to the top of the food chain above people, we are left with the angst which created the ants in the first place unresolved and waiting to hatch new mischief. The ants are the symbolic rod western civilisation created for its own back; the film comments artistically on the arrogant folly of nuclear weapons testing in a really dynamic and thoughtful manner, all the while purporting to be a B movie.

I think it's time in this age of nuclear proliferation, of failed states owning nuclear weapons and selling the technological knowhow of how to own nuclear weapons to pariah dictatorships for cash, that it's time for Them! (1954), not to mention the original Godzilla, to be screened again on mainstream terrestrial TV.

[shodan2011]

2010: The Year We Make Contact

Whilst 2001 got all the plaudits (and rightly so, even if some of it was as dull as ditchwater), Peter Hyams' film seems to have been overlooked. It's a shame, as it's a cracking sci-fi film that answers questions raised in 2001 (although not all of them) and is also true to Arthur C. Clarke's book.

[Norbert84]

2010: The Year We Make Contact

Whilst 2001 got all the plaudits (and rightly so, even if some of it was as dull as ditchwater), Peter Hyams' film seems to have been overlooked. It's a shame, as it's a cracking sci-fi film that answers questions raised in 2001 (although not all of them) and is also true to Arthur C. Clarke's book.

It's a really good sequel. :thumbsup:

[Dirty Old Man]

Them 1954 http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com/showpost.php?p=1619728&postcount=199

and just as Godzilla began the giant monster craze in japan Them can be credited and blamed for the giant insects of american movies.

The Beginning of the End http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050177/ good god! what were they thinking?
but... it is a good laugh, its not meant to be, but it is.

[otiscleotus]

I watched Moon a few nights ago. I'm not much of a sci-fi fan but I really liked this one, done on a $5 million budget so instead of overwelhming things with special effects they had to focus on the story and dialog - and it worked!

[navvet]

I've always been a huge fan of Sci-Fi movies of the 1950s. It was the era of the early "cold war," and the Sci-Fi flicks of the time played on the fears of average citizens to the mysteries of atomic testing. Due to those fears, a good number of creatures were born from the imaginations of screenwriters. My favorite movies from that time include;

The Thing From Another World
It Came From Beneath the Sea
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Godzilla
X, the Unknown
The Giant Behemoth
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Them
Twenty Million Miles to Earth

Not all of these flicks have to do with atomic testing, or nuclear power, but all are very entertaining.

[jaybyrd]

yes brought back hot summer nite movie watching as a kid with my siblings!
always better to watch with company

The Thing from Another World, 1951
http://img45.imagevenue.com/loc429/th_117777695_TheThing51_122_429lo.jpg (http://img45.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=117777695_TheThing51_122_429lo.jpg)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/

sentimental dribble alert.

great story acting and at the time scary, but mostly because it was my fathers favorite sci-fi film.
when I was a child (the 60's) and it would be shown on tv my house would be in chaos with preperations for this movie.
kids homework done, cleaned, fed dinner in pj's scamppering around trying to lay claim to the best viewing spots.
mom serving soda and yelling for us to settle down while dad makes the jiffy pop.
When the movie begins there is no movement except for the popcorn and dead silence, when a commercial came on the race
to the bathrooms would begin, first one in is first one back (in theory anyway) and can change seating for a better
viewing spot (house rule) parents exempt, later on my sister became exempt because she's a girl, figures.
there have been better films but none bring back such happy memories as this film, so this is the best sci-fi film of
all time, for me anyway.

[maildude]

Westworld: Yul stalks Richard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWzzf-qZdSM&feature=related

[dogsbreath]

Aliens, Blade Runner, Preditor, ....

[scatdelicious]

Around 1962 plus or minus two years i saw a first run sci fi about a fungus from outer space that ended up on earth
government gaenst dressed like fbi types try tracking and destroying it
it thives and grows in oxygen environment but of coursed fire can kill it
In one memorable scene the fungus is on an airplane in someone sluggage and starts to devour eberyone and the government agents and a scietist on board defeat it or control it until they land

I am not thinking of the Blob and i am not thinking of the fungus that took over a space station

If it was a B movie it was well made and I remenber seeing the leading mane in other notable endeavors

It may have had "x' as part of title such as mystery x or fungus x

I just cant remeber but would love to see it again Itwas prety good
thx in advance
SPACE MASTER X-7 (1958)

[renno61]

watched the underrated cypher 2002 not bad movie,low budget well acted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpB2F0r-YA

[Ninjaturtle]

Pandorum is a 2009 German-British B-Movie, but it´s well made :D

http://ist1-1.filesor.com/pimpandhost.com/1/_/_/_/1/A/K/J/o/AKJo/1x_0.jpg (http://pimpandhost.com/image/8759446-original.html)

Here is the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PItZ-qr9jG8

[Ennath]

Galaxy Quest
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Logan's Run
The Last Starfighter
Dark City
Stargate

[karloschaos]

How mad is that? Went to the pub for a pint after the late shift tonight & "The Thing" was on the telly. Awesome!!!

[Ennath]

I've read somewhere that a showing of "The Thing" is a tradition at McMurdo Sound Antarctic base just before they settle in for the winter.

[Norbert84]

German translators surely know how to screw up movie titles. The official German title for The Thing is "Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt", meaning "The thing from another world". I'd say Das Ding was enough and it's even the literally translation. Another glorious examples are:

The Deer Hunter - Die durch die Hölle gehen (Those who walk through hell)
State of Grace - Im Vorhof zur Hölle (In the forecourt to hell)

Now what does the one have to do with the other? You figure out because I can't.

[cuzzyman927]

There are so many great unforgettable sci-fi movies, but some classics which I always enjoyed are:

Them!
Beginning of the End
The Thing (from another world)
The Amazing Colossal Man (and sequel War of the Colossal Beast)
Tarantula
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman (50's Version)
I Married A Monster From Outer Space
The Blob
Attack of the Crab Monsters
First Man Into Space

Some of the special effects in these movies were laughable (some were good), but that is what makes them classics and fun and enjoyable to watch.

I think one of the all-time classics was Gene Barry in "War Of The Worlds"! Its original radio broadcast by Orson Welles created nationwide panic and hysteria. Some people hearing the broadcast, which was excellently presented and sounded true-to-life, had actually committed suicide in fear and in believing that the Earth was really being invaded by Mars!

[sam3fan]

From the 50's, Them!

[kenshabby2000]

For me in no particular order.

Metropolis.The retored Blu-Ray version. Blew me away, Fritz Lang was a ture visionary, made in 1927, the special effects still look good, like the Machine Man transforming into the false Maria.

Bladerunner. One of the last great in-camera special effects movies. Another that looks amazing in HD and the box set has some great extras. Birth of Cyber Punk.

Star Wars, origional trilogy. The effect these movies had on me in my youth was monumental. Pity the later ones did less so. Crazy how Lucas saved the practical special effect industry, only to kill if of with CGI crap. lets hope JJ can help Star Wars to find the force again.

Others include:
Silent Running. The Teminator. Robo Cop. Predator. Alien. Aliens. The Thing.

Noire sci-fi:
This Island Earth. Earth vs the Flying Saucers. Them. The Blob. 20.000 Miles to Earth.

To name a few.

[kenshabby2000]

News Flash. Harrison Ford is set to return as Han Solo in new Star Wars movie, the Mail on-line site say Harrison has signed up but no official annoucement as yet.

Interesting.

[2cheap]

News Flash. Harrison Ford is set to return as Han Solo in new Star Wars movie, the Mail on-line site say Harrison has signed up but no official annoucement as yet.

Interesting.

I guess they will have to give his character kids, or even Grandkids to explain his apparent age.

If they follow the books covering the period after the rebellion, he ends up with 3 kids: Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin.

[Retrovintro]

Fox news
Gilligan's Island
Manos, the Hands of Fate

[goos]

There are so many, but how about Total Recall. The one with Arnold not the new one

[get376]

During my childhood I was came across some interesting space fiction books. This made me to love them and from then I became a great fan of sci-fi movies.
My list of movies is:

1)Dune
2)The Ωmega Man
3)Logan's Run
4)Planet of the Apes
5)Star Trek II
6)The Quiet Earth
7)District 9
8)The Day of the Triffids (1962)
9)Back to the Future trilogy
10)The Matrix

[treehugger]

The Lathe of Heaven, 1979 version.

[Greenman]

I'd like to add an old Disney film called 'The Black Hole' from 1979 starring Maximillian Schell and Robert Forster. It is about a long missing scientist who claims to have developed a way of travelling into a black hole safely but is barking mad because he wants to meet God(or suchlike) It is a pretty intense film for kids, being an A rated film back then but a stellar cast including a non-credited Roddy McDowall as a robot called V.I.N.C.E.N.T The effects are very good even by today's standards and anything that boasts a fine actor like Ernest Borgnine can't be bad either. Try and catch it on the Sky Disney Channel if you can.

[CARLTON BROWN]

Alien
Forbidden Planet
Terminator 2