recommend me some sci fi

[1up]

Hi,
My fave movie genres are sci fi and horror. Reading through the Bladerunner Final Cut thread made me think if I was missing out on great sci fi movies as I find theres a great deal of sci fi fans visiting this forum.

on the top of my head I can say I enjoyed:
2001 A Space Odyssey
2010 The Year We Made Contact
bodysnatchers, 1978 version
Westworld
The Cube
The Thing
Donnie Darko

I must admit that I didnt like Blade Runner, but I dont recall wich version it was and it was a long time ago, so I will be picking up the Final Cut version.

If you could post some hidden gems or must watch sci fi movies it would be greatly appreciated

[RGC]

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[charlie chong]

they live
omega man
escape from new york
soylent green
le dernier combat (the last battle)

i'll think of more

[D]

Many are mentioned in this lovely thread: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... t=sunshine

[1up]

how could I forget They Live? I love that movie

Also, heard about Logans Run, so I will hunt that down as well.

I recently rewatched The Running Man after 15 years. Back then I thought it was awesome and I played Smash TV a lot because of that. It was a mistake to watch it again. I was laughing my heart out from the bad effects, crappy storyline and cheasy oneliners ....

[MathU]

Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2

[charlie chong]

yeah they live is the shit even tho its quite comedy sci-fi...
judging by the titles yuo list you would deffo enjoy any of the ones on my list you haven't seen...

now come on foos i want to be informed of some hidden gems myself..

logans run/bodysnatchers/westworld/omega man/soylent green are exactly the tip i'm looking for so if anyone knows more films with a similar vibe i want to know!!

[Shocky]

Suddenly my brain is filled with memories of great, great movies...

Shape-shifting horrors:

-The Thing
-Galaxy of Terror (there's a rather interesting website inspired by this movie... I highly recommend visiting www.galaxy-of-terror.com , except to females...)
-Forbidden World


Food for thought:

-Soylent Green
-Zardoz
-Silent Running
-Brainstorm
-The Man Who Fell To Earth
-Dark Star
-Gattaca


Madness:

-Star Crash
-Ice-pirates (space-herpes FTW)
-Knights (there are goddamn VAMPIRE ROBOTS in this!)
-Destroy All Monsters
-Dünyayi kurtaran adam ("Turkish Star Wars")
-Starship Invasions (loads of immortal dialogue. "We need a human female")


Post-apocalypse:

-Mad Max II & III
-A Boy And His Dog
-2019 - After the Fall of New York (if that's not the coolest title ever...)


Other:

-Tetsuo I-II
-Starship Troopers
-Total Recall
-Hardware
-Barbarella
-Dune (a guilty pleasure)
-The Last Starfighter
-Acción Mutante
-Cube
-Avalon
-the Ghost in the Shell movies
-Planet of the Vampires (better than the title would have you think)


Special category for the greatest reality-tv and/or manhunt movies:

-La Decima Vittima (Tenth Victim. Super cool movie)
-Le Prix du Danger (The Price of Peril)
-The Contenders, Series 7
-Battle Royale
-Turkey Shoot


Edit: Added some + comments

[charlie chong]

yeshh these are the nuggets i am searching for...

ice pirates =

gotta love them holocaust desert movies..some proper stinkers in that genre

[unsane]

Scifi & Horror eh? Event Horizon marked me.

[ROBOTRON]

The Day the earth stood still
The Hidden
Chronicles of Riddick
Godzilla vs The Thing (original)
The 13th Floor
De Ja Vu (Denzel Washington)
The Time Machine (original)
Alien 1, 2, 4
Terminator series
Kronos

[drboom]

Time Bandits - great ending, hella funny.
eXistenZ - very underrated video game sci-fi

[it290]

eXistenZ!

Also I just watched Natural City, which is a pretty decent Korean Blade Runner ripoff.

[Nuke]

Scanners
A Scanner Darkly
Screamers
Dark City
Primer
Cypher

[JBC]

Aliens
Sunshine
Event Horizon

Bruce Cambell and Walter Koenig's MOONTRAP!
We don't take shit from no gadamn machine!

[kengou]

A lot of sci-fi movies haven't impressed me that much. After I read the Dune series (the original 6, not any of the crap written by Brian Herbert) nothing else in the sci-fi genre impressed me anymore. Another excellent sci-fi book, but nowhere near Dune, is Sphere, that was a damn good read. The Foundation and Robot series are also worth reading, although Foundation can get rather long-winded after the first couple books. Oh, Rendezvous with Rama is excellent too, as is the sequel. The 3rd and 4th books, however, aren't really worth reading.

In terms of movies/TV, I do love some Star Trek, Star Wars (the original trilogy only), Battlestar Galactica (only the original, the new one sucks), Firefly/Serenity, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Oh, and the Matrix.

I haven't seen Blade Runner in so long I hardly remember it, I should rent the Final Cut and see it again.

[greg]

12 Monkeys
Bicentennial Man
What Dreams May Come
The Green Mile
Tron
Gattica
A Scanner Darkly
Minority Report
Outland (a Sean Connery sci-fi Western)

For anime, I strongly recommend Crest of the Stars and its sequel, Banner of the Stars. Even for those who don't care for anime. It is in its own category of anime. It is decent space opera along the lines of Babylon 5 or Star Trek that just happens to be animated.

This week I picked up the entire series of Firefly for only $17 at Fry's Electronics because it is on sale right now. I've never seen it, but so many people love this show, so I got it. I've only watched two episodes so far, but I love it.

[CMoon]

-Zardoz

[Erinu]

starwars

[Andi]

Post-apocalypse:

-Mad Max II & III
-A Boy And His Dog
-2019 - After the Fall of New York (if that's not the coolest title ever...)

I love this genre, here are some others.

New Barbarians - It's pretty campy but with some cool bang up action sequences including this crazy dude with a bow.

Hell Comes to Frogtown - The frog mutants are great and the entire thing is pretty absurd...and erotic.

Deathsport - Zap guns, motorycles, lots of things stolen from Star Wars.

1990: The Bronx Warriors - Not as post-apocalypse as it could be. Some weird costumes and characters help keep it interesting though.

Cherry 2000 - This guy has to find parts for his sex robot. It's actually way better than it sounds.

[JacobXScum]

I'm more of a reader than a movie watcher.

Movies.

-Aliens
-Predator
-Terminator
-Phantasm (sort of)
-War of the Worlds (Original)
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers (all versions except the Nicole Kidman one)
-The Thing (Original and John Carpenter's)
-The Day the Earth Stood Still (I hear Keanu Reeves is playing Klatuu in a remake....retarded)
-Starship Troopers and its sequel
-Tremors films and TV series
-Lost TV series (EXCELLENT)
-Original Star Trek
-Invasion TV series
-V TV series
-The Blob (Original and 80's remake)
-Dune (Original and Sci-Fi channel versions)
-Tin Man (Sci Fi channel Wizard of OZ, really neat)
-Cyborg
-Enemy Mine
-The Relic

Books.

-Anything by Frank Herbert. Dune of course. Also White Plague is awesome.
-Anything by Larry Niven. Ringworld series and Integral Trees are phenominal reads.
-Any techno thriller by Michael Crichton. Particularly Jurassic Park, Prey, Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Terminal Man, Timeline
-Any Isaac Asimov. Foundation, I Robot, The Planet that Wasn't
-Any HG Wells. War of the Worlds. Days of the Comet. Invisible Man.
-Raptor Red. Can't think of the author, but great story told from the eyes of a Utahraptor.
-Anything by Jules Verne is great.
-Aldous Hixley's Brave New World
-George Orwell's 1984 (My all time favorite read)
-Kurt Vonnegut's Chariots of the Gods and Gods from Outer Space (Non-fiction, but right up a sci-fi nerd like myself's alley)

[Strider77]

Scanners
Screamers

and yet he rags on minority report?!?

[unsane]

Other scifi i've enjoyed that hasn't been mentioned:

Battlestar Galactica (TV). It's the closest thing to a gritty Terminator/Predator/Aliens TV show i've seen. Amazing.
The Man from Earth (2007). No horror here but it makes you think.
Stargate SG-1 (TV). Light but charming. Easy listening.

[Nuke]

Scanners
Screamers

and yet he rags on minority report?!?

Aye, those two are great considering their budget, and I have a thing about David Cronenberg.
I could even forgive Screamers happier than the short story ending, just as I can forgive Blade Runner's independed but thematically faithful approach to the book it was loosely based on.
Have you read Minority Report? Do so, maybe you see what I mean.

[Mega Mudkip]

It Came From Outer Space
Forbidden Planet
The Brain From Planet Arous

(The Brain from Planet Arous is made of major fucking fail but still fun to lulz at.)

[DEL]

Nice to see people have mentioned Rowdy Roddy Piper's
They Live & Hell Comes to Frogtown

One bit of decent cheese to add:
Space Hunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

I bought Soylent Green this year - features a Space War cab.

The Hidden - no longer in print in the UK.

A Boy and his Dog.

The Thing is excellent.
So is the original Time Machine (the new version is yet another reason why originals should not be remade).

Dark Star.

and of course; "Do you want to know more?"

EDIT:- As you can see from the avatar ->The ORIGINAL Battlestar Galactica! The new one started well and has gone steadily downhill since.

[DC906270]

George Lucas's THX 1138 (er i think this is the right title), is alright for a dafty

Sunshine is also dead good

[JJG]

A Scanner Darkly

[Mortificator]

I could even forgive Screamers happier than the short story ending

I've never read the Screamers prose, but it must have worked pretty hard to get an ending less happy than "last surviving human gets eviscerated in his ship by robot teddy bear."

Anyway, no one's mentioned The Planet of the Apes. Best movie ending ever, unfortunately universally spoiled now.

[Lordstar]

A Scanner Darkly

+1 I enjoyed it a lot