General / Off-Topic Your Sci-fi film reccomendations?

Strangepork

Strangepork
Hello CMDRs.

I'm primarily interested in Sci-fi set in space.

I've run out of new films to see lately, having watched almost everything in IMDB's top 250 Sci-fi listing over the past 30 years or so.

Could commanders say there No1 favourite Sci-fi, and suggest something a bit more obscure that I may not have seen?

I'd have to say Blade Runner, and suggest Moon (2009).


Many thanks to you all.
 
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Yaffle

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Slightly, but not very obtuse would be Solaris. What's interesting is seeing both the Russian 1972 attempt and the later US 2002 attempt. I prefer the former, but the slightly different approaches is interesting. You need to ignore the advances in special effects, obviously.
 

Strangepork

Strangepork
Thanks folks :)

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Yaffle said:
Slightly, but not very obtuse would be Solaris. What's interesting is seeing both the Russian 1972 attempt and the later US 2002 attempt. I prefer the former, but the slightly different approaches is interesting. You need to ignore the advances in special effects, obviously.
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Thanks Master Yaffle, I should watch Tarkovski's version, cheers :)

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Arry said:
Have you seen MOON?
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Yes I loved it :)

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Adept said:
If you didn't see it back in the day, Space: Above and Beyond is pretty nice.
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Ace I'll check that out. Thanks.
 
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Zenith

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My personal favourite space sci-fi of the last decade is Sunshine.
Other space sci-fi that's worth watching?
Apollo 13 isn't strictly sci-fi, but it is a space movie.
Starship Trooper, "would you like to know more?" ;)
Elysium, an underrated movie from Neil Blomkampf.
Serenity, a follow on movie to the series Firefly.
Event Horizon, a horror in space.
Gravity, action in low Earth orbit.

The best space sci-fi of all time IMO?
Star Trek II : The Wrath Of Khan.
 

FuzzySpider

FuzzySpider
Arry said:
Have you seen MOON?
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Everyone should watch that movie.

Sam Rockwell should have had an academy award for that movie.

The first four episodes of Lexx are fun if you can find them (they're actually on youtube). I worship His Shadow and all that. It hasn't aged well though.

[video=youtube;wYoq6sovr8Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYoq6sovr8Y[/video]

There was an old (1990) post-apocalyptic movie called Hardware that is awesome. Watch that if you haven't already.

Ohh and everyone should watch Communion at some point in their lives, if only to see the heartwarming message that alien abductions are not as scary as teddy bears when Christopher Walken looks at them with a gun in his hand.
 

Frank

Frank
There can only be one greatest Science Fiction movie of all time.. #1 - Forbidden Planet

As for the obscure recommendation, I don't know how obscure seeing as everyone knows the spoiler... Soylent Green.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Not strictly Sci-fi (well it is, but somewhat sneakily), but one of my all time favourite movies - Dark City

Also SIlent Running from 1972 is an odd one, but really interesting once you've got through all the obvious ones.

Oblivion with Tom Cruise is nice, too, though it kind of bombed.
 
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Strangepork

Strangepork
Adept said:
If you didn't see it back in the day, Space: Above and Beyond is pretty nice.
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I can't find that on my usual streaming site, any chance of an online link CMDR?

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Frank said:
There can only be one greatest Science Fiction movie of all time.. #1 - Forbidden Planet

As for the obscure recommendation, I don't know how obscure seeing as everyone knows the spoiler... Soylent Green.
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I haven't, but guessed it's human meat of some kind. Don't tell me if I'm not right on CMDR....
 
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Strangepork

Strangepork
Chris Simon said:
Not strictly Sci-fi (well it is, but somewhat sneakily), but one of my all time favourite movies - Dark City

Also SIlent Running from 1972 is an odd one, but really interesting once you've got through all the obvious ones.

Oblivion with Tom Cruise is nice, too, though it kind of bombed.
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Ace I'll check Dark City out. Thanks...

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FuzzySpider said:
Everyone should watch that movie.

Sam Rockwell should have had an academy award for that movie.

The first four episodes of Lexx are fun if you can find them (they're actually on youtube). I worship His Shadow and all that. It hasn't aged well though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYoq6sovr8Y

There was an old (1990) post-apocalyptic movie called Hardware that is awesome. Watch that if you haven't already.

Ohh and everyone should watch Communion at some point in their lives, if only to see the heartwarming message that alien abductions are not as scary as teddy bears when Christopher Walken looks at them with a gun in his hand.
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Thanks man, what happened in episode 5?
 
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Strangepork

Strangepork
Chris Simon said:
Not strictly Sci-fi (well it is, but somewhat sneakily), but one of my all time favourite movies - Dark City

Also SIlent Running from 1972 is an odd one, but really interesting once you've got through all the obvious ones.

Oblivion with Tom Cruise is nice, too, though it kind of bombed.
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I've started calling him CMDR Tom (Super) Cruise, after someone posted a thread about Scientology lately (the capital 'S' in Scientology here being a p1ss take), forgive my use of the number 1 in this.

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Chris Simon said:
Exactly. It's a real shame because that film's got weight.
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The matrix, on paper, is a super cool film.
 
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FuzzySpider

FuzzySpider
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Ace I'll check Dark City out. Thanks...

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Thanks man, what happened in episode 5?
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The first 4 episodes of Lexx were feature length freaky Sci Fi from hell. Uncompromisingly brutal and nasty. Just for example (minor spoiler)

In the first Lexx you get to see the future society method of dealing with crime and punishment. To simply execute people would be a waste, so a special machine is constructed with lots of little saws. It saws out all of a persons vital organs, and whatever is left is drained off into a "protein bank". All of this happens pretty graphically.

After this the series ended up as typical 1 hour affairs which were sanitized in comparison, and they also lost a lot of the creative whackyness. Series 2 was ok though, but after that things went completely to bits.

If you like whacky stuff you should also look up Naked Lunch, but I guarantee confusion.
 
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