Favorite Science Fiction Movies

inspired by sleeper-has-awakened | Sunday, August 14, 2005 | all interested FReepers

[SunkenCiv]

There's an old topic by this name, and it seems like it would be of some interest in casual moments.

[kenth]

[SunkenCiv]

I love to watch Blade Runner, love the look of it all, but it's really bad. :') I plan to get my old VHS of the release version made into a DVD one of these days. (':

[InvisibleChurch]

the andromeda strain

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Let me add an oldie but goodie:

Forbidden Planet (1956) Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon.

I also really like Bladerunner, Enemy Mine, The Fifth Element, The Postman (probably mostly cause I liked the book), Tron, THX1138, Farenheit 451 (and a number of others!)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Clash of the Titans

[softwarecreator]

RoboCop ... hand's down!!  Love the humor and the action.  Plus the guy from "That's 70's Show" is still the best villian ever, after Hans Grubber in "Die Hard".

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

AND THE #1 SCI-FI FILM IS...(cue the Queen bass line)

"Flash! Uh-huh....savior of the universe!"

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Dark Star was good.

[SunkenCiv]

Back to the Future, yeah I love that series. Just pure entertainment.

Independence Day, another I've got on disk and watch periodically. Like the comedic, send-up stuff in it, but it's also inspirational.

Men in Black, another fun one, although I really was disappointed by the sequel.

Total Recall, also have that one, really enjoy it, but it's lousy dialogue, the plot falls apart at a touch, and the three or four page PKD story on which it's based blows it away.

Running Man, also fun, like RoboCop, a bit of a poking of fun at a lot of things.

Demolition Man, lots of fun, lots of gore, humorous.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Forgot about Tron...that movie was way ahead of its time. (and the video game was not so bad either).

[softwarecreator]

HAHAHAHAHA ... I just tried to download this move (it's free because it's public domain) but couldn't find it anywhere.  Internet Archive had removed it for some reason.

Is "Day of the Triffids" a Sci-fi or thriller?

[Cruising Speed]

Thanks for the info--James Hong is a wonderful character actor. I like character actors better than stars by a long shot.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Soylent Green was based on a novel by SF writer Harry Harrison called "Make Room! Make Room!"...I would absolutely call it Science Fiction.

[SunkenCiv]

2001: A Space Odyssey? Ick.

[clamper1797]

Old version War of the Worlds

[softwarecreator]

Independence Day

Very good.  Have it on DVD and watch it often.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

You know ? this looks so much like something from the movie Sky captain and the World of tomorrow, did they intend for parts of Sky Captain to look like the movie Metropolis ?

[SunkenCiv]

Starship Troopers? Awful, but if seen as a send up of sci-fi, somewhat okay.

[softwarecreator]

2001: A Space Odyssey?

I'm with you ... I didn't like this movie at all.  I rented it a few years ago, because of all the hype and I found it pretty boring.  HAL was cool though.

[SunkenCiv]

"Colossus: The Forbin Project" -- the only time before this that I'd heard of it, and the only time I've seen it, was for a film appreciation class in college. Interesting deviation from, say, James T. Kirk's many confrontations with engineered societies. :')