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5th February 2012, 06:04
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Sci-Fi Movies
I've watched a lot of them, looking for some recommendations!
Recently scrapping the barrel, watched 'Mission 2 Mars' and 'Red Planet', 'Outland' with James Bond and 'Stargate' with Kurt Douglas, I'm not sure I can give 'The Core' another attempt. Have the original 'Solyris', 'Dark Star' and 'Hardware' in the queue, but I'm running out of ideas! Here's some I've seen already: Aeon Flux Alien Aliens Akira Armageddon Barbarella Bladerunner A Clockwork Orange GATTACA Ghost in the Shell Escape from New York Escape from LA Contact Cube Dark City Deep Impact Demolition Man District 9 Dune Event Horizon Freejack Fortress Highland[s] Howard the Duck I Come in Peace I Robot Independence Day Inception Iron Man Johnny Mnemonic Jurassic Park Mars Attacks Men in Black Minority Report Moon Pitch Black Planet of the Apes[s] Predator[s] Robocop Rollerball Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Southland Tales Soylent Green Spiderman[s] Stargate Star Trek[s] Star Wars[s] Strange Days Superman[s] Terminator[s] The Abyss The Avengers The Core The Day the Earth Stood Still The Fifth Element The Fountain The Incredible Hulk The Last Starfighter The Matrix[s] The Omega Man The Running Man THX 1138 Timecop They Live! Tron[s] Total Recall Twelve Monkeys Ultraviolet Virtuosity War of the Worlds X-Men[s] Anything left? |
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5th February 2012, 06:47
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Serenity (you don't have to have watched Firefly first, but I'd also do that) (it's only 14 episodes)
Equilibrium The Lost World (ie JP2 - don't bother with 3) Battle: Los Angeles (competent alien invasion action) Skyline (fucking awful although worth a watch for a laugh) Cloverfield (not strictly sci fi but then neither is Iron Man) Cowboys v Aliens (not seen it personally but have heard it's decent) Transformers (the 2007 one - dear god don't bother with the other two) The One (has Jet Li in it - it's decent) |
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5th February 2012, 06:50
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Titan AE is also quite good if you are in the mood for something animated.
Joss Whedon was involved so it's a bit scatterbrained and not really that focused (I swear the only good thing he's ever given us is Firefly) but it's not an out and out kids film. |
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5th February 2012, 06:56
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My fav type of film.
The Core is a good film , well I like it. Cowboys and Aliens is rubbish , it is a film that does not know what it it , a western wanting to be a Sci-Fi film. I also like all the Transformer films but I will agree that 2 and 3 are pretty bad. There are loads of crappy Sci-Fi Channel made for TV films , I love the cheesy ones List of Sci Fi Pictures original films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Take your pick , but be warned some are just bad , even worse than Skyline. If you want to watch an excellent Sci-Fi series you wont get better than Babylon 5, possible the best Sci Fi series ever. |
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5th February 2012, 07:15
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Ah, I forgot to list Cowboys and Aliens...boy what a pile of crap.
And I have to say I never really liked the Transformers movies, that kid cannot act to save the earth. 'Battle Los Angeles' was good, forgot that one and 'Cloverfield'. I'll have to see 'The One' again I haven't watched it since it came out. I'll check the others out, thanks! |
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5th February 2012, 08:31
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5th February 2012, 08:38
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5th February 2012, 08:54
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5th February 2012, 09:51
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Whats with "kids movie" being the criticism of choice this month....almost every film thread seems to have it in it. Who really cares....unless were talking about Pegga Pig the movie or something. If people on this forum are watching it enough to review it, it's not really a kids film anyway.
I still thought Super 8 was a bit crap though, but more because of constants flares and the monster(yep used it on purpose) flaws in the story, especially the ending. Actual good sci-fi is a pretty small genre to complete really. Especially the essentials. Might as well follow Dark Star with more Carpenter though, Starman and well The Thing unless you just forgot or just take it as a Horror. Alphaville too. |
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5th February 2012, 10:37
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When you become really desperate, and willing to watch more movies like 'I come in peace' and 'Freejack' that I noticed you've listed, there's a couple films to consider.
Impostor 2001 Split Second 1992 Then there's a couple of absolute classics in the 'so bad they're good' category which you'd be mad to miss. R.O.T.O.R 1988 Eve of Destruction 1991 Both movies can be described as 'poor man's terminator', but that phrase only explains the basic premise. Their hilarity is something that needs to be seen. I'm guessing you forgot to put A.I. there? 'Children of Men' and 'A Scanner Darkly' I also recommend as genuinely good films. Last but not least, if you wanna watch a good movie with a Sci-Fi premise that has 'no fancy special effects' that's based on good dialogue and acting(something I think 'A man from Earth' lacked), look no further than K-Pax 2001. It's just a spellbinding take on a classic believer-unbeliever dynamic, beautifully shot, featuring two great performances from Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges, and a great score by Edward Shearmur. |
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5th February 2012, 11:24
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I've never generally been massive on sci-fi films, but Star Wars would have to be top of the list for me. It set the bar for quality special effects. Before it came out, most films with special effects looked fake and rubbish. Star Wars changed all of that.
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5th February 2012, 11:25
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2001 looks and has aged better than Star Wars imo. Although it was crazy watching all 6 in a row on blu-ray and feeling that the prequels looked worse than the originals...too much green screen fail in the prequels.
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5th February 2012, 11:55
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Metropolis (1927) - where sci-fi began.
Invaders from Mars (1953) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Thing from Another World (1951) Forbidden Planet (1956) - amazing film with a great blu-ray release. Is it the (brilliant) original Day The Earth Stood Still that you've seen or the (dreadful) remake with Keanu Reeves? How about Woody Allen's Sleeper? |
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5th February 2012, 12:37
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Sunshine Dark Star Hitch Hikers Guide Watchmen Original versions of Village of the Damned and The Day the Earth Stood Still BTW Just bought bluray Battle: Los Angeles - it's a complete pile of shit! |
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5th February 2012, 13:04
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My strongest recommendation would be to watch Firefly, then watch Serenity. Just watching the film by itself is no where near as good as having the full experience / back story. People seemingly dislike it for it's third act, but I still think Sunshine is one of the finest Sci-Fi films of the past 5/6 years. It's between that or Children of Men, which is also fantastic. From last year there was Source Code which was great, and there was also Adjustment Bureau which was pretty good. A Scanner Darkly is probably one of the better Philip K Dick adaptations you'll watch. For poor B-movie adaptations, there's also Imposter and Screamers (1995) Oh and I don't think anyones mentioned Brazil yet, which is a bit of a classic. Oh, and it's TV, but there's also Battlestar Galactica if you missed the boat on that. |
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