Best Sci-Fi movies

[videodrome]

Originally Posted by mordred888

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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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'.

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.

[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]

Originally Posted by videodrome

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]

Originally Posted by Satiros

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.