Posted on 08/09/2014 12:34:57 PM PDT by EveningStar
In these days of seemingly weekly science fiction blockbusters (which are usually SF in name only they're actually just big gun actioners that take place in the future) and the hype that surrounds them, it's easy to forget that once such films were the low man on the totem pole. Stuff fit for kids and juveniles but not serious adult audiences. Thus, in past decades, except for a few A list films like Them and The Day the Earth Stood Still in the 1950s and Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, and Logan's Run in the '60s and '70s, many SF movies slipped under the radar or were simply shrugged off by the critics...
With the foregoing in mind, we come to our list of the 10 most underrated classic science fiction films which will be rated not strictly from least underrated to most underrated, but from good to best of the bunch. All of them, in any case, are films that never really took the screen world by storm, nor the SF community for that matter, but that offer elements that deserve the attention of any SF film fan. All are solid little films each with surprising angles that will reward the patient viewer willing to look past production values and embrace the singular worlds they bring to life...
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A recent one I liked was Pandorum. It was a pretty original storyline with an interesting twist at the end.
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I recall Kronos. Some kind of giant battery or accumulator sent to earth to steal all our electric power. Liked it at the time.
Here’s your chance to refresh your memory with regard to “Kronos”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_oA-1dZCTg
I liked it, and yes.....an underrated sci-fi film.
Zardoz!
Repo man with Harry Dean Stanton
I thought 2001 was a lousy film.
I liked the first two “Creature From The Black Lagoon” (Gill Man) movies but the third was not so good.
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” was over rated but still OK.
Agree with “I Married A Monster From Outer Space” It was pretty good.
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In no particular order:
1. Zardoz
2. Dark Star
3. Silent Running
4. Dark City
5. Event Horizon
6. The Day the Earth Caught Fire
7. Creation of the Humanoids
8. Atomic Submarine
9. Colossus - The Forbin Project
10. Galaxy Quest
They Live.
1. This Island Earth 1955 - Faith Domergue and Rex Reason. Great story, decent special effects
2. Forbidden Planet 1956 - Walter Pigeon, Anne Francis. A real classic
3. Moon - 2009 -Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey. Very simple but gripping story
4. Outland - 1981. Sean Connery Frances Sternhagen - High Noon on one of Jupiter's moons but better.
5. War of the Worlds 1953. The Classic and still good - Gene Barry and Ann Robinson
In high school, I took my girlfriend to the drive-in movie and I saw The Twonky. I’m not sure what movie was playing. The first time you see The Twonky, you kind of lose track of everything else.
The article is about underrated films. The ones you list are not underrated.
Honorable mention:
— This Island Earth
— Gog
— Gattaca
Zardoz, The Chronicles of Riddick the Last Starfighter.
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