Favorite Science Fiction Movies

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

[mmercier]

Blade Runner.

[Cruising Speed]

"Day of the Triffids" is a cautionary tale and pure sci-fi at the same time. Genesis does a great musical rendition of this theme on their Nursery Cryme album--its called "Return of the Giant Hogweed".

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Day of the Triffids is good SF...although it doesn't follow the excellent book very well! John Wynham had another book made into a movie. It was called the Midwich Cuckoos, which was made into Children of the Damned (made twice). I saw the original as a kid and the images from it stuck with me for some reason.

Day of the Triffids was also made into a British series which follows the book very faithfully...good to see as well...

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, it's like watching an oil painting. Moving pictures are supposed to move. 201 doesn't. That impression hit me at last in that scene on lunar station where Floyd is sitting there with those other mannikins and no one is saying anything.

[tortoise]

Oddly enough, I found The Fifth Element to be a marvelous movie. Campy? Yes. But very well done on many levels.

[SunkenCiv]

Another one I watch from time to time is "Stargate" (the movie). Plot makes absolutely no sense at all, regardless of the technological angle, until the nimrods get to the planet.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I admit a perversion...I liked Starship Troopers.

I love Heinlein, and although the movie's a weird interpretation of the book, I liked it anyway, maybe because they played it so campy....

I also admit to liking the latest attempt at Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...perhaps I grew up watching Attack of the Mushroom People and such movies too many times as a kid....

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I prefer it to "Silent Running" and "Soylent Green". (':

[Smedley]

[quantim]

Star Trek IV. Although campy, it suggests 'civilization,' is not a bad word.

Unlike most sci-fi crap, you don't feel denegrated to be human. Whales are more important than locusts.

[SunkenCiv]

Spaceballs -- the only times I laughed were the silly scene where the villains ran the tape forward, and the scene where the female aide videophoned Mel Brooks in the can. And of course, Pizza the Hut, and near the end where we learn the real name of Barf.

[RightWingAtheist]

Same here. Most of my favorite actors are people like Fritz Weaver, Don Gordon, Warren Oates, and the like-people who have never been big stars, but have never stepped wrong in a performance.

[softwarecreator]

which was made into Children of the Damned (made twice). I saw the original as a kid and the images from it stuck with me for some

Wasn't there also one called "Village of the Damned".

I remember "Children of the Damned" and those kids were creepy.

[SunkenCiv]

Attack of the Mushroom People -- I was hoping I wasn't the only one. ;')

[trubluolyguy]

Stargate SG-1, 1993 movie.

[endthematrix]

Glad somebody mentioned THX1138! The chrome faced cops could double in T2. Plenty was said in that little film.

[tortoise]

I admit a perversion...I liked Starship Troopers.

Although you have to admit, the movie could have been titled "Ken and Barbie Go To Bootcamp".

[PoorMuttly]

THE CRAWLING EYE....of course!

Even has excellent Forest Tucker Winchester 1894 .30-30 scenes, and lots of dry ice.

How can ya' beat that ???!!!!!

[softwarecreator]

Another one I watch from time to time is "Stargate" (the movie). Plot makes absolutely no sense at all, regardless of the technological angle, until the nimrods get to the planet.

Saw this a while back and ... it's forgettable.  I never watched the series either.

[RightWingAtheist]

A lot of people crapped on The Postman, and while it's a heavily flawed movie, I have a lot of respect for Costner in trying to make a faithful adaptation, in both spirit, and, er, letter, of the original David Brin book. It's no masterpiece, but it isn't a disaster either.