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Ixtab
10-28-2005, 09:53 PM
Make recommendations.
Some of my favourites:
THX 1138
2001: A Space Odyssey
Metropolis
Bride of Frankenstein
That is all I can think of right now. I have not seen too many science fiction films.
Jimbo Gomez
10-28-2005, 10:00 PM
The Star Trek and Star Wars films, Pitch Black and of course above all Planet of the Apes.
Berianidze
10-28-2005, 10:02 PM
1984 (the film) was entertaining, although I'm by no means a fan of Orwell in regards to the book.
Ixtab
10-28-2005, 10:12 PM
The Star Trek and Star Wars films, Pitch Black and of course above all Planet of the Apes.I wouldn't count Star Wars as 'serious'. I liked Star Trek [the original series] as a young child but grew out of that quickly. Thank you for the other recommendations.
The Retard
10-28-2005, 10:23 PM
I'm by no means a fan of Orwell in regards to the book.
Four legs good, two legs bad
Make recommendations.
The Thing from Another World (1951): It's the coolest.
Them! (1954): OMG! So scary!
The Killer Shrews (1959): It's more like a comedy, but it has James Best from Dukes of Hazard. :D
Killer Klowns From Outerspace (1988): It came from the 80's.
Ace Rimmer
10-28-2005, 10:25 PM
Blade Runner (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/)
They Live (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/)
You can't go wrong with these.
The Retard
10-28-2005, 10:39 PM
I wouldn't count Star Wars as 'serious'. I liked Star Trek [the original series] as a young child but grew out of that quickly. Thank you for the other recommendations.
All scfi-films are serious! With this sort of accusations you might find yourself banished from the internet forever. The net geeks will not allow such heresy to clog up cyberspace.
Niko Bellic
10-28-2005, 11:44 PM
I would suggest Total Recall. Even though it's Schwarzenegger, the movie examines a possible use of technology that we will most likely have someday.
Sinclair
10-29-2005, 12:12 AM
Blade Runner, which has been mentioned, is interesting. I can't say I liked it all, but it's worth seeing.
The anime films "Galaxy Express 999" and the sequel "GE999: Adieu" are both quite good, I think. Both are sort of in the classic "bildungsroman" form...
Excorcism
10-29-2005, 12:14 AM
Blade Runner, which has been mentioned, is interesting. I can't say I liked it all, but it's worth seeing.
The anime films "Galaxy Express 999" and the sequel "GE999: Adieu" are both quite good, I think. Both are sort of in the classic "bildungsroman" form...
Gundam 0079 through 82 (I think) as long as it's before Wing....hated wing. Macross Zero wasn't bad from what I saw.
Sinclair
10-29-2005, 01:13 AM
Gundam 0079 through 82 (I think) as long as it's before Wing....hated wing. Macross Zero wasn't bad from what I saw.
I sort of prefer anime movies to TV series, because the TV series go on forever, and getting your hands on them usually costs waaaaay too much.
And even then, if I watch, say, a Miyazaki movie, it's because it's good, not because it's Japanese.
Excorcism
10-29-2005, 01:48 AM
I sort of prefer anime movies to TV series, because the TV series go on forever, and getting your hands on them usually costs waaaaay too much.
And even then, if I watch, say, a Miyazaki movie, it's because it's good, not because it's Japanese.
well some of the gundam series are OVA and some are in movie's like Char's Counter Attack (one of my personaly favorites).
Ixtab
10-29-2005, 03:18 AM
The anime films "Galaxy Express 999" and the sequel "GE999: Adieu" are both quite good, I think. Both are sort of in the classic "bildungsroman" form...The Galaxy Express 999 TV series from the 1970s is better.
2001
Blade Runner
Metropolis
perhaps Donnie Darko, though it wasn't that great
12 Monkeys
I love sci-fi, but the selection of worthwhile sci-fi is really slim. There's so much that could be done, and so little that is.
OVERWATCH
10-29-2005, 04:01 AM
Star trek I and II, these are without a doubt my favourites, followed by:
John Carpenter's The Thing(maybe not sci-fi),
Star Wars I,II,III,IV,V
OVERWATCH
10-29-2005, 05:43 AM
I can't believe I forgot to mention- DUNE
Ixtab
10-29-2005, 05:53 AM
1984 (the film) was entertaining, although I'm by no means a fan of Orwell in regards to the book.If you like Dystopianism, you will like the film I recommended, namely, THX 1138. Although, barring the prohibition of all forms of intimacy, I perceived it more as a Utopia than a Dystopia.
Billy Score
10-29-2005, 07:40 AM
Blade runner was interesting but i never totally.. GOT the story, it slipped from my feeble mind.
As far as "dystopian" goes, i loved equilibrium (although i think the society presented is far from dystopian)
Carpenter's the Thing, and Predator are good borderline sci fi/other genre films.
Logan's Run was a humorous and decent sci fi film.
Doom was a great sci fi movie.
Atlas
10-29-2005, 11:36 AM
I can't make any recommendations, they have all been quoted. And I don't think 12 monkeys is a sci-fci movie.
Sinclair
10-29-2005, 01:36 PM
Blade runner was interesting but i never totally.. GOT the story, it slipped from my feeble mind.
Logan's Run was a humorous and decent sci fi film.
Yeah, I was pretty "man what" when the film was over. So we've got sudden Christ references, then? Okay.
Logan's Run is a fun flick. "It's my job... To freeze you!"
And I don't think 12 monkeys is a sci-fci movie.
I think time-travel belongs in the sci-fi category, and 12 Monkeys was by far the best time-travel film I've seen.
Unless you just thought Willis' character was insane.
Atlas
10-29-2005, 03:20 PM
Ok then I recommend 12 monkeys once again ( I know I'm repeating myself but I have to do it cuz of the deletions ).
And NO Brad Pitt doesn't overract, he is excellent.
Excorcism
10-29-2005, 04:32 PM
Ok then I recommend 12 monkeys once again ( I know I'm repeating myself but I have to do it cuz of the deletions ).
And NO Brad Pitt doesn't overract, he is excellent.
I liked Brad Pitt's performance in "Se7en" instead.
Banat
10-29-2005, 05:13 PM
I think time-travel belongs in the sci-fi category, and 12 Monkeys was by far the best time-travel film I've seen.
I totally agree. It's been long since I've last seen the movie, but I think it was actually the *only* time-travel movie with the correct approach to the idea I've seen.
I was going to name "2001" and the monkeys too, but I see they have been mentioned already. There have to be more, but I can't remember right now.
Vindex
10-29-2005, 06:28 PM
Supect Zero, sci-fi, or sci-fact?
Banat
10-30-2005, 01:08 AM
As far as my memory goes, 'Terminator' would also do. Naïve time-travel ideas, but still a semi-good serious SF.
There was also a 70's SF movie I watched a very long time ago, but I don't know the title. It was about some PSI powers developed at some volunteers in army controlled cold war experiments. A rather dark movie of a man, his daughter and agents after them. More a drama than SF.
As far as my memory goes, 'Terminator' would also do. Naïve time-travel ideas, but still a semi-good serious SF.
T2, which was pretty much crap, kind of redeemed Terminator's 'naive time-travel ideas' by showing us that skynet wouldn't have been created without the remains of the first terminator's 'body.' Then they blew it up and made a mockery of the nearly mind-blowing 'oh, cool' element of the film.
I enjoyed Serenity. On a philosophical level, it (almost) addressed some problems with utopianism, the concept of 'sin,' the strength of belief, and a few other things.
However, all deeper aspects of the film took a backseat to hollywood-type cinema.
Nevertheless, I liked the movie for what it was: a two-hour episode--series finale, really--of the only television show I ever liked a lot.
Roland
11-02-2005, 04:02 AM
As other people have mentioned, Blade Runner is excellent. The subject matter is relevant to "postmodern" ideas and culture.
ironweed
11-02-2005, 09:01 PM
Silent Running, though the effects are quite dated by today's standards it has an interesting theme. I doubt you could make a movie like it today. You just have to get past the made-for-TV-movie quality papier mache spaceships.
2001: A Space Odyssey
AI - Though I'm probably the only person in the world who liked it
The Day the Earth Stood Still
other:
THX 1138 is certainly one of the strangest movies I've ever seen, but I can't say it is a favorite. Too odd. I don't dispute it being on other peoples lists, though, since it was definitely thought provoking.
Blade Runner I guess, but it just seemed the serious themes got buried in the action. I go back and forth on this one as a "serious" movie, though I certainly liked it.
Clockwork Orange - same problem as Blade Runner
ironweed
11-02-2005, 09:05 PM
There was also a 70's SF movie I watched a very long time ago, but I don't know the title. It was about some PSI powers developed at some volunteers in army controlled cold war experiments. A rather dark movie of a man, his daughter and agents after them. More a drama than SF.
I believe you're describing Firestarter, made from the Stephen King novel, though it came out in the '80s, not the '70s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087262/
Seemed more a horror flick than Sci-fi once you got past the first 20 minutes. Though I only ever saw this in the theater when it first came out, a long, long time ago.
AI - Though I'm probably the only person in the world who liked it
A Kubrick project handed over to Spielberg...
Too Spielberg-y (cheery) for my tastes, but I like to imagine what Stanley would have done with it.
Banat
11-02-2005, 11:21 PM
I believe you're describing Firestarter, made from the Stephen King novel, though it came out in the '80s, not the '70s.
Exactly! I saw it only once on the TV very long ago, when I was a kid, and have never heard of it ever since. I didn't even know its original title. The way I remember it it was pretty dark, not a classical SF, but still serious.
I remembered Davit Keith, but I just now found out that it was Drew Barrymore playing the little girl.
Helios Panoptes
11-03-2005, 01:27 AM
THX 1138 lacked a decent plot, but it was visually engaging. I understand the egomaniac, george lucas, doctored the DVD up with CGI.
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