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[Bugsie]

Recent Sci-fi has been a bit hit or miss. Of the most recent films - Inception and Moon nailed it for me.

I like a lot of old (sometimes cheesy) stuff though. I think my favourite old time Scifi is The time Machine (1960) with Rod Taylor. Other classics I like include:
- Logans Run
- Westworld
- The Andromeda Strain
- The invasion of the body snatchers

[LTD]

Prometheus is a beautiful scifi movie.  Unfortunatelly people who have never seen it usually don't know how to watch it. Find a version dubbed for language you don't know, at all. Subtitles off. This way you miss good portion of stupidity in the movie. Unfortunatelly I am being completely serious here. Movie actually is much better like this. Believe me.

These both are already mentioned but most def. deserve to be mentioned again!
Moon < - Beautiful odd movie about lonelyness!
Blade Runner < - This you must watch in dark room with very good sound set up. It is a beautiful movie and it sounds just about as beautiful.
With bit of stretching you could call Terminators I and II scifi(/action) movies as well. Both very important in their own genre and prolly as close to perfection as humanly possible for action flicks.  First one is actually  quite dark and srs.

Modifié par LTD, 12 septembre 2013 - 01:32 .

[Bugsie]

Blade Runner without the Harrison Ford narration was better - but yeah, great movie.

[Angrywolves]

Apparently they're going to remake Westworld.
Saw a blurb about it recently.

[Bugsie]

I didn't know that. It's a classic, not sure how I feel about that.

[J4N3_M3]

I liked Last Man on Earth though that's more zombie flick than scifi. I Am Legend wasn't bad either. I did like the Hunger Games adaptation. Equilibrium is another favorite of mine.

I will not watch Ender's Game because I haven't read the book, won't read it, and in general think that OSC doesn't deserve any of my hard earned money. I'm curious about Wool though I haven't read Dust yet.

[Tonymac]

Aliens
Bladerunner

[Avaith]

Buggirl70 wrote...

Blade Runner without the Harrison Ford narration was better - but yeah, great movie.

Everyone should watch the director's cut/final cut really. The theatrical version with the narration and forced happy ending was plain horrible imo. But Blade Runner is definitely one my favorite sci-fi movies ever. Maybe even my favorite one.

I also think that both Moon and Inception are the best sci-fi movies of these last couple of years. I had very high hopes for Prometheus too, but I felt really dissapointed by that movie. Other sci-fi movies I like are Sunshine, Equilibrium, The Fountain, Pitch Black and The Matrix.

[Elhanan]

For all of it's flaws, I simply loved the first season of Lost In Space. Also adored Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea and Time Tunnel; the latter series co-starred James Darren who stood behind me at Disneyland. So cool!

[MrFob]

simfamSP wrote...

Seriously?! Where is it!? The Foundation series is a kind of paradox. Massively complex but so simple at the same time: it's pure genius! I wouldn't see the need to make huge changes for time for the books. It would really take a ****ed-up director to screw them up.

However, the plot takes huge jumps in time. So tackling Foundation would need two parts. Salvor Hardin (****ing awesome dude) and then Hober Mallow. Of course, the 'shorter' short stories would need to be included, such as the prologue. Though it'd be a shame, I think Seldon's pwning dialogue would need to be cut out.

Yea, the jumps in time could be hard to handle but I think the prologue with Gaal Dormick's arrival on Trantor would be a perfect opening for a movie. After all, Trantor is the original urban planet and was an inspiration for such places like, say, Corrusant in the Star Wars franchise.
As I said, in the OP, one might have to update some of the tech a little and get a handle on how to implement the jumps in time but apart from that, as you say, it's basically ready to go.

[Naughty Bear]

Elysium has gone to the top for me, the shoot outs demonstrate from Mass Effect should done. The ammunition literally rips someone apart and tears up the scenery. The Chemrail gun he got and fired it upon a sucker was awesome.

Also District 9 as well with its violent weapons.

[J4N3_M3]

I loved the Stargate movie, later when they made the tv show, I became a huge fan of it. Watched all Stargate-related stuff. I thought Moon was really cool. There was a scifi movie with Farah Fawcett in it but I can't remember the name. It was on a space station too if I remember correctly.

I never really got into Dune, neither the original nor the later made version. I read the first book and didn't like it too much. Never read much of Bradbury but do like some of the scifi classics books. Northwest of Earth books by C.L. Moore, a lot of Heinlein's stuff, not so much a fan of Bester from what I have read. Asimov can be a drag at times.

Bookwise I can recommend A.C. Crispin's Starbridge series. It has some great non-human-like aliens in it. David Weber's Honorverse books.Anything by Timothy Zahn, be it Star Wars related or original.

[Elhanan]

Believe the film with Farah Fawcett was Saturn 5 w/ Kirk Douglas. She also was in Logan's Run, I believe.

Fantastic Voyage still remains a personal fave; seemed to be ahead of its time for FX, too.

[mybudgee]

Ridley Scott is making another "Prometheus" and... I can barely type this-- a SEQUEL to "Blade Runner"

 

WHY GOD!?? WHY!!??

[Neoleviathan]

Ridley Scott is making another "Prometheus" and... I can barely type this-- a SEQUEL to "Blade Runner"

WHY GOD!?? WHY!!??

Different writers, but the same director who created a beauty of a film last time. I'd say it's fair to give the sequel a chance. For all it's flaws Prometheus was incredible to look at. New writers means the exposition and the dialog will probably be at least different from the first if not more coherent. At most I could fault Scott for terrible pacing.

As for Blade Runner, Prometheus was close to a prequel for that too. They literally play out pretty close to scene for scene in some moments. Creation looks for it's God in search of more life, when they find God someone looses their head. Some synergy playing out there. I've had an odd feeling Blade Runner 2 & Prometheus 2 were going to be one and the same, but probably not now.

[Faerlyte]

My kind of sci-fi involves space exploration and aliens, although I enjoy all varieties of it. I wouldn't mind seeing some sci-fi where aliens and space adventure figure more prominently in the story, and not as in Aliens aliens. Even though I like Aliens. 

 

District 9 is one of my favorites for that reason - I was rooting for Christopher and his son the whole way. Another favorite of mine is Super 8. Serenity is also up at the top of my list. I didn't find out about Firefly until after the movie came out. 

 

What I liked about District 9 is how they took CGI aliens and made them more genuine than the human characters around them. I sympathized with their struggle and I wanted them to succeed.  That's not easy to do when you're dealing with something that's not human and doesn't possess the same capacity of expression that we do. But I loved them so the movie has stuck with me. To me, that's part of what makes a sci-fi good, but obviously there's a lot more to it than just that. 

 

Sci-fi that explores new territory is always refreshing and there's a lot of untapped potential for it. 

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

hmmm scifi were to begin

Some of my favourites are (I'll link those that some may not be familiar with)

The Matrix (first one only)
Pandorum
Event Horizon (I cant believe how good this film still looks)
Solaris
Alien
Aliens
The Minority Report
Vanilla Sky
Pacific Rim
Star Trek  (2009)
Star Trek into Darkness
Star Trek wrath of Khan
Star Wars IV, V and VI (but damn I hate ewoks)
Close encounters of a 3rd kind
The Last Star Fighter
Flight of the Navigator
Explorers
Total Recall (Get your ass to Mars)
The Running Man
Universal Soldier
Back to the Future Trilogy
The One
Time Cop
Demolition Man
Avatar
Terminator 1 & 2

 

I'm sure there are more I'm just not remembering.

[neon skink]

My top sci-fi movies...

 

Moon

Blade Runner (best movie of all time)

eXistenZ

Star Wars

Empire Strikes Back

A Scanner Darkly

Total Recall (orig)

Alien/ Aliens

City of Lost Children

Primer

Pi

Renaissance

Gattaca

Matrix Trilogy

Animatrix

Appleseed

Terminator

Solaris (orig)

Akira

2001

Brazil

Children of Men

Wrath of Khan

Inception

District 9

Gravity

 

 

Books, anything by...

 

Alastair Reynolds

Charles Stross

Issac Asimov

Paul Di Filippo

Douglas Adams

William Gibson

Jeff Noon

Neal Asher

Neal Stephenson

Hannu Rajaniemi

Greg Bear

[DeathNyx]

Here some of my favorite sci-fi movies:
 
- Star Wars movies especially I,III,V,VI
- Elysium
- Avatar
- Totall Recall both with Arnold and Colin
- Battleship
- Terminator 2
- Ender's Game
- Tron Legacy
- Oblivion
- District 9
 
I'm also looking for the next Neill Blomkamp movie Chappie (2015)

[mybudgee]

@Aotearas: Uh... Ridley Scott directed Blade Runner. So... yeah

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

So what do you Blade Runner fans think of a Blade Runner 2, both Ford and Scott want to make it.

[amggrunt]

So what do you Blade Runner fans think of a Blade Runner 2, both Ford and Scott want to make it.

Waaaay to late to b making this sequel. They should have made, oh, about ten years ago.

[Jorji Costava]

From a cost-benefit point of view, the idea of making a Blade Runner sequel so late in the game seems like a bad one. The chances of it turning into a Prometheus-esque debacle seem a lot greater than the chances of it being a worthy successor.

 

Returning to the original topic, there are too many to count for me, but here are some of the films that occur to me right now:

 

2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
La Jetee
12 Monkeys
Empire Strikes Back
Alien & Aliens
Terminator
Primer
Robocop (1987)