Heh-heh!
Posted on 11/19/2012 7:55:53 PM PST by MNDude
What are your three favorite science fiction movies?
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.
Check out both SCI FI mini series of both Dune and Children of Dune. The writing and acting in both is superb though the sets in the first can be a little lacking. Much better desert cinematography in the second. The actor that played Xavier in the XMEN prequel movie plays Leto in the Children of Dune(intense acting even then for one so young). The series were shot in High Def and 16:9 and the sound editing in discrete surround(not matrix dolby prologic surround) is a work of art. DTS for Dune and Dolby 5.1 for Children of Dune on the DVD’s and of course the Blue Rays have much higher resolution video and sound!
Agenda 21.
Another movie that was smushed by the Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor. Seem everyone was doing altered-perceived-reality then.
Yeah Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure. Can’t believe no one mentioned Inception. That was good. Lots mentioned Serenity. I’ve never even heard of it. I’m going to check it out.
Now if we could do a film noir thread I’ve been hooked on them for about 3 months now..thing is they didn’t make many and some of the best reviewed ones Netflix doesn’t Carry.
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.
The original David Lynch Dune.
It’s not an easy movie and unless you have an understanding of where it was going before you see it, you’re quite likely to end up confused. Since I had read the book before going to the theater, it made more sense to me.
The SciFi variants were extremely well done and I enjoyed them quite a bit.
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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Ok...what am I missing...I don't remember any of these being made into movies.
My sentiments exactly...a real snoozefest.
Recent movies...I liked Battle Los Angeles even though it had a lot of flaws. Hated Prometheus. Being a hard SF nut and also being very picky I really can't remember many outstanding SF films. Alien was great, but more of a horror film than SF.
That would be a great movie if done right. I'd also like to see Footfall turned into a movie.
Gattica and Inception were quite good. Avatar lost me with “unobtainium”.
Caltiki
The House on Haunted Hill (original)
The Omega Man
Reptilicus
Gojira / Godzilla
Silent Running
Journey to the Center of the Earth (original)
The Blob
The Thing (original and remake)
Anything Star Trek
A Clockwork Orange
The Amazing Colossal Man
Colossus: The Forbin Project
War of the Worlds (original)
Live action only?
Star Wars - A New Hope
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Aliens II
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