I saw this weird little film called "The Objective" the other day. It was directed by the guy who did the first Blair Witch. It was low budget but very strange. Liked it.
2001: A Space Odyssey or The Matrix would probably take my top vote. But....
Blade Runner
Soylent Green
Altered States
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Phase IV
Silent Running
Planet of the Apes
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars (though not strictly science fiction)
Forbidden Planet
Metropolis
They Live
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Time Machine
The Fly
Robocop
Starship Troopers
Terminator
Alien
Aliens
The Invasion
Pitch Black
John Carpenter's The Thing
Enemy Mine
The Lathe Of Heaven (tv movie)
Dark City
The War Of The Worlds (both versions)
Minority Report
Gataca
The Brood
The Omega Man
The Day of the Triffids
Logan's Run
The Road Warrior
The New Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (plus Wrath Of Khan and The Voyage Home)
... are all seminal in one way or another. And I'm probably forgetting a bunch, that don't even "seem" like sci-fi like Back to the Future but which actually follow principles very nicely...
You could even say movies like 28 Days
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Iron Giant - A cartoon, but still very much sci-fi. The part where he freaks out and becomes a killing machine with all those crazy weapons was simply awesome.
Iron Giant - A cartoon, but still very much sci-fi. The part where he freaks out and becomes a killing machine with all those crazy weapons was simply awesome.
True that was good sci-fi/allegory.\
Wall-E was another excellent animated SF, and Fantastic Planet, Titan AE... seems to me there were others, but I just can't think of them.
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Space Odyssey, and one of my favorites that is seriously underrated imho is Event Horizon, with Laurence Fishburne. I love that movie!
I went to see Event Horizon the night it came out and I didn't care for it much. I got home from the movie to find out my house had burned to the ground while I was at the movies. Now it ranks as my all time least favorite movie.
I heard it's better at home than at the actual theater, because the sound effects are so loud in the theater it's almost unbearable. At home, however, we have total control ;)
2001: A Space Odyssey or The Matrix would probably take my top vote. But....
Blade Runner
Soylent Green X
Altered States X
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Phase IV X
Silent Running
Planet of the Apes
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars (though not strictly science fiction)
Forbidden Planet X
Metropolis
They Live
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Time Machine
The Fly
Robocop
Starship Troopers
Terminator
Alien
Aliens
The Invasion
Pitch Black
John Carpenter's The Thing
Enemy Mine X
The Lathe Of Heaven (tv movie) X
Dark City
The War Of The Worlds (both versions)
Minority Report
Gataca
The Brood X
The Omega Man
The Day of the Triffids
Logan's Run X
The Road Warrior X
The New Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (plus Wrath Of Khan and The Voyage Home)
... are all seminal in one way or another. And I'm probably forgetting a bunch, that don't even "seem" like sci-fi like Back to the Future but which actually follow principles very nicely...
You could even say movies like 28 Days
I had to cross those I haven't seen to check it out
Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, William GIbson come to my mind
I would add 361 Fahrenheit, Event Horizon wasn't too bad neither
Total Recall is an excellent movie too, saw that again just recently
All time favorite I would have to go with Blade Runner
Smartest recent sci fi movie was "Idiocracy" - incredibly funny but incredibly true
I forgot John Carpenter's Escape from NY - classic!
2001: A Space Odyssey or The Matrix would probably take my top vote. But....
Blade Runner
Soylent Green
Altered States
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Phase IV
Silent Running
Planet of the Apes
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars (though not strictly science fiction)
Forbidden Planet
Metropolis
They Live
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Time Machine
The Fly
Robocop
Starship Troopers
Terminator
Alien
Aliens
The Invasion
Pitch Black
John Carpenter's The Thing
Enemy Mine
The Lathe Of Heaven (tv movie)
Dark City
The War Of The Worlds (both versions)
Minority Report
Gataca
The Brood
The Omega Man
The Day of the Triffids
Logan's Run
The Road Warrior
The New Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (plus Wrath Of Khan and The Voyage Home)
... are all seminal in one way or another. And I'm probably forgetting a bunch, that don't even "seem" like sci-fi like Back to the Future but which actually follow principles very nicely...
You could even say movies like 28 Days
Were these just off the top of your head .. ??
I have seen everyone of them . I love sci-fi .. but could never pull a classic list like this out .. I would love to see everyone of these again ..
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Were these just off the top of your head .. ??
I have seen everyone of them . I love sci-fi .. but could never pull a classic list like this out .. I would love to see everyone of these again ..
lol yeah it was just a flow... if I didn't stop I'd probably cover every movie I ever saw. One thing about each just made me think about the next... but don't ask me what :P
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2001: A Space Odyssey or The Matrix would probably take my top vote. But....
Blade Runner
Soylent Green
Altered States
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Phase IV
Silent Running
Planet of the Apes
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars (though not strictly science fiction)
Forbidden Planet
Metropolis
They Live
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Time Machine
The Fly
Robocop
Starship Troopers
Terminator
Alien
Aliens
The Invasion
Pitch Black
John Carpenter's The Thing
Enemy Mine
The Lathe Of Heaven (tv movie)
Dark City
The War Of The Worlds (both versions)
Minority Report
Gataca
The Brood
The Omega Man
The Day of the Triffids
Logan's Run
The Road Warrior
The New Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (plus Wrath Of Khan and The Voyage Home)
... are all seminal in one way or another. And I'm probably forgetting a bunch, that don't even "seem" like sci-fi like Back to the Future but which actually follow principles very nicely...
You could even say movies like 28 Days
Great list. Good to see you have 2 Charlton Heston classics on the list. BTW I had no idea they made a TV movie out of Lathe of Heaven. I will have to look for that. Read the book twice.
Your right there are so many but I would throw in
Dune - Sci Fi Channels mini series
Contact
The Dark Knight
Andromeda Strain
and Two Schwarzenegger Classics:
Predator
Total Recall
(you could actually make an argument for T2)
I wish that Hollywood would some day do a movie on the John Carter of Mars books
Great list. Good to see you have 2 Charlton Heston classics on the list. BTW I had no idea they made a TV movie out of Lathe of Heaven. I will have to look for that. Read the book twice.
Your right there are so many but I would throw in
Dune - Sci Fi Channels mini series
Contact
The Dark Knight
Andromeda Strain
and Two Schwarzenegger Classics:
Predator
Total Recall
(you could actually make an argument for T2)
I wish that Hollywood would some day do a movie on the John Carter of Mars books
I was just thinking about Dark Knight - it makes perfect sense.
I would sooner put T2 than Predator, though I think I forgot both :P I never read the John Carter books.
probably the orginal 3 Star Wars movies, because I grew up with them and it was before all the computer animation special effects that we have today. That means they actually built models of everything.
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