No-one’s yet mentioned these classics:
Quatermass and the Pit (AKA Five Million Years to Earth)
The Day of the Triffids
This Island Earth
Alien.
Sunshine.
Moon.
‘’Them’’. 1954.. Any Fifties sci-fi with giant bugs in it is always a favorite with me.
Timecrimes
Primer
Moon
Impostor
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS.
20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH.
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA.
EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS.
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD.
DARK CITY
I did not say this. I am not here.
2001 (for its time)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Rennie) (also, for its time)
Fahrenheit 911 (j/k)
Serenity
Bladerunner
The Matrix
Some background music for this thread...
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Forbidden Planet!
for the sci fi ping list
I notice no one has said Men In Black
Forbidden Planet.
Good robot, Had interesting weapons and force fields. Good plot of a super machine that eventually kills the population soon after activation via creatures of the ID.
2001.
First really detailed, realistic space movie followed by 2010 to fill in the questions.
Alien.
The first truly believable scary monster in a situation that keeps getting worse.
All of Startrek and Stargate.
SciFi for the dreamer of tomorrow.
Independence Day.
It makes you feel good.
Alien
Pandorum
Independence Day
1. Starman (1984). Still my all-time favorite movie.
2. Aliens (1986). Yes, I like the second in this series best. Great action movie that perfectly continues the story. I’ve seen it many times and it still makes my heart race.
3. It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958). Cheesy 50s sci-fi that still manages to be frightening. Perfect movie for a 10 year-old watching Creature Features.
Agenda 21.
I wish there was both a big screen series of “Bolos” and “The Man K’zin Wars”.
Bolos being the evolution of the very first AI in a main battle tank, basically a near future Abrams, and then of and beyond a period spanning a thousand years the advancement of the Bolos AI, the hellbore guns, the anti grav tanks and eventually global siege tanks capable of space flight.
The Man K’Zin Wars is about homo sapeons encountering a felinoid race with better technology intent upon interstellar domination.
Now in as such as recent sci-fi I would say one of the most disappointing was Prometheus, the better was Battleship.
And I must bring up Avatar, arguably controversial but fundamentally a masterpiece.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Serenity
Enemy Mine
Take your pick some of these are so bad they are worth watching lol. We own all of these Public Domain so you can download copy do whatever you want. One of my Favs Rocketship X-M (1950)
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