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The Best SciFi Movies?

Posted on 11/19/2012 7:55:53 PM PST by MNDude

What are your three favorite science fiction movies?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies; scifi
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To: mrsmith

You are so very right.

I think it was Jules Verne that read dozens of publications every day.

This is and was an exercise in extrapolating possibilities.

I’ve held for some time now, that if it “can” happen, it will.


161 posted on 11/19/2012 9:48:06 PM PST by Zeneta (Why are so many people searching for something that has already found us ?)
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To: MNDude
Young Frankenstine! (Pronounced “Fronk-en-stene”
162 posted on 11/19/2012 9:49:34 PM PST by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: Getready; Bubba Ho-Tep

Name him, ping him...


163 posted on 11/19/2012 9:52:50 PM PST by null and void (America - Abducted by Aliens...)
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To: mrsmith

Yes. I’ve read Ringworld, and unfortunately, no movies yet. Not that a flick could do justice.


164 posted on 11/19/2012 9:55:03 PM PST by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Kirkwood
First saw Fantastic Voyage, in 1966 at San Ramon Auto Movie
165 posted on 11/19/2012 9:56:16 PM PST by Dstorm (Palin 2016)
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To: abishai

Dune: great book, lousy movie. Maybe someone should take Dune and make it a trilogy.


166 posted on 11/19/2012 9:56:26 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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The Thing..1951

Them!......1954

Day the Earth stood still..1951


167 posted on 11/19/2012 9:56:50 PM PST by basalt (1)
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To: Nachum

Yes, Galaxy Quest is a gem. Very clever.


168 posted on 11/19/2012 9:57:31 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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To: Fiji Hill

First movie, but Chapter IV. lol


169 posted on 11/19/2012 9:58:39 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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To: chris37

Hauer ruled that movie.


170 posted on 11/19/2012 10:00:30 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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To: Walkingfeather
>> I have no idea why people list bladerunner. Saw original, in 82 snoozer, then the directors cut came out, went to hollywood to watch that, because certainly it had to be better.... Ummmmm Nope. The only thing I can think of is that there is another movie out there called bladerunner that is this classic tale.... I just keep seeing the bad one. <<

Ditto. To this day I don't know why people claim this is a "sci-fi classic". It seemed like an incoherent mess with Harrison Ford to me. They claimed the "Director's Cut" was better because it removed the "unnecessary voiceover", but that made the movie even MORE incoherent. I've tried to watch it twice now and found the movie boring and annoying.

Another recent addition to my "why the hell did this get such rave reviews" in 2006's "Children of Men". For a sci-fi story, I give it a 2/10. Interesting premise, horribly executed.

171 posted on 11/19/2012 10:02:05 PM PST by BillyBoy ( Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: crazydad

That movie was an indictment of the Reagan years.


172 posted on 11/19/2012 10:02:36 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republic is Dead: Collapse the system. Let the Dems destroy the economy!)
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To: MNDude

Alien.

Sunshine.

Moon.


173 posted on 11/19/2012 10:05:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: MNDude

‘’Them’’. 1954.. Any Fifties sci-fi with giant bugs in it is always a favorite with me.


174 posted on 11/19/2012 10:06:06 PM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: chris37

i was looking forward to it but unfortunately i don’t think he did as well as he should have. disappointing given the caliber of Scott and how well he did Alien. for example after the gal had the gut surgery, there’s no way she could have been able to move so well and so fast with a few grimaces thrown in here and there, anesthetics or not. muscles do not just work 100% normal when lasered in half and your skin is stapled back together.

all this did was set up another prequel sequel. no big questions answered or even attempted to be answered. and the whole movie spent an awful long time targeting the one crewperson who had a small amount of faith into giving it up - visually, and verbally.


175 posted on 11/19/2012 10:12:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: chris37

and as i said he isn’t going to do remakes. he’s doing prequels to fill in the story of where the aliens came from and the mystery of the pilot alien from the first movie of the storyline, that he directed. he’s doing backstory. and he’s left himself room to do another sequel prequel.


176 posted on 11/19/2012 10:14:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: mylife

brazil is futuristic dystopian.


177 posted on 11/19/2012 10:16:27 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Nowhere Man

best thng about that movie was its title song, “Hooray for Santa Claus”. actually it was a quite good little song.


178 posted on 11/19/2012 10:20:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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Kronos


179 posted on 11/19/2012 10:20:49 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
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To: Blackirish

only the first 8 minutes of Pitch Black.


180 posted on 11/19/2012 10:21:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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