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Favorite Science Fiction Movies
inspired by sleeper-has-awakened | Sunday, August 14, 2005 | all interested FReepers

Posted on 08/14/2005 8:45:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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


TOPICS: Hobbies; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fantasy; sciencefiction; scifi; swordandsorcery
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To: SunkenCiv

21 posted on 08/14/2005 8:58:47 PM PDT by kenth
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To: Cruising Speed

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. (':


22 posted on 08/14/2005 8:59:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv
the andromeda strain
23 posted on 08/14/2005 8:59:29 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, "To Serve Man", it's... it's a cookbook!)
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To: SunkenCiv

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!)


24 posted on 08/14/2005 9:00:06 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Clash of the Titans
25 posted on 08/14/2005 9:00:28 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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".
26 posted on 08/14/2005 9:00:56 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
AND THE #1 SCI-FI FILM IS...(cue the Queen bass line)

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


27 posted on 08/14/2005 9:02:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Cruising Speed

Dark Star was good.


28 posted on 08/14/2005 9:02:44 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

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.


29 posted on 08/14/2005 9:04:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

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


30 posted on 08/14/2005 9:04:27 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: kenth
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?

31 posted on 08/14/2005 9:04:39 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: RightWingAtheist

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


32 posted on 08/14/2005 9:04:55 PM PDT by Cruising Speed
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To: Clemenza

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


33 posted on 08/14/2005 9:05:07 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Professional Engineer; Mr. Mojo

2001: A Space Odyssey? Ick.


34 posted on 08/14/2005 9:05:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Old version War of the Worlds


35 posted on 08/14/2005 9:05:35 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Advertisments contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper)
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To: SunkenCiv
Independence Day

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

36 posted on 08/14/2005 9:05:57 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: decal
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 ?
37 posted on 08/14/2005 9:06:07 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

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


38 posted on 08/14/2005 9:06:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv
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.

39 posted on 08/14/2005 9:07:51 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: RightWingAtheist

"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. :')


40 posted on 08/14/2005 9:08:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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