Best Sci-fi movies

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

So do it (right now), I'll wait for you. It's sooooo very worth it, but by the end of it you WILL hate Fox for cancelling it. You as well Stimbo

I have a 200$ gift certificate for best buy. I'll make use of it.
I already hate fox for cancelling Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
That series was f**king awesome.

[passionatefool]

Speaking of Apollo 18, another good movie is "Apollo 13" but it isnt sci-fi it is based on a true event..so it is actually real not fiction but really good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuRZcZ4kW-Y

I also Like I-robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0f3JeDVeEo

[The Magic Pudding]

Dune
Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy
Serenity
Gataga
Dune
Star Trek/Wars
Mars Attacks
Dune
The latest Planet of the Apes
Alien
Bladerunner
Dune

[Darth]

The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy movie was pretty good, but nothing compared to the books, though I've yet to read the one not by Douglas Adams.

[leo-rcc]

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[downbeatplumb]

If you see one you've seen them all.

A great line from Debbie Reynolds to Gene Kelly in "Singin' in The Rain"

(that girl had a pleasant, corn-fed kind of face, but was actually kinda stumpy and always looked as if she needed a good fuck)

For a moment there I thought the bit about the fuck was the quote.

[Rev. Rye]

Some I haven’t noticed on anyone’s list yet are Metropolis, The Day The Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet.

Honorable mention goes to The Incredibles.

If memory serves, I put Metropolis in one of my posts, and Stimbo did The Day the Earth Stood Still. That said, neither of us actually put ours into list.

Tried to watch Metropolis online but the service offering it had a messed up copy. It is good I take it.

Kino just recently released a DVD that has the complete film, and if you know the checkered history of the film's release prints, you'll know why this is significant.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Puddin'

Which 'Dune' ? The movie or the series ?



Yeah,I read the first five books.Herbert should have stopped after the first one.

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You're right, Darkest, when you say that Star Wars is not strictly sci fi. Though it contains sci fi ingredients, it's more correctly known as a space opera;

Indeed, and not very good space opera that.


An example of GOOD space opera? :'Doc Smith's 'Lensman' series.

Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., also, E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was a food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others. He is sometimes referred to as the father of space opera.

THE STAR WARS CONNECTION:

Dr. Smith wrote a novelette entitled "Lord Tedric", published in Other Worlds in 1952, and which was almost completely forgotten.
Much later, 13 years after Dr. Smith's death, Gordon Eklund published another novel of the same name about the same fictional character, introducing it as "a new series conceived by E. E. 'Doc' Smith". Eklund later went on to publish the other novels in the series, one or two under the pseudonym "E. E. 'Doc' Smith" or "E. E. Smith". The protagonist possesses similar heroic qualities common to the heroes in Dr. Smith's original novels and can communicate with an extra-dimensional race of beings known as The Scientists, whose archenemy is Fra Villion, a mysterious character described as a dark knight, skilled in whip-sword combat, and evil genius behind the creation of a planetoid-sized "iron sphere" armed with a weapon capable of destroying planets. As a result, Dr. Smith is believed by many to be the unacknowledged progenitor of themes that would appear in Star Wars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EE_%22Doc%22_Smith

[leo-rcc]

Lensman is really good indeed. I first read Galactic Patrol, I didn't know at the time it was a series. I didn't read them all but I do like the style a lot.

[Zen Badger]

In no particular order....

Immortal

Blade runner

The day the Earth stood still(the original)

Abyss

Avatar(in 3D)

Star Wars (really only the first two)

Star trek 2, 4,6,8,9 and the newest one

Rocky Horror show.

The league of extraordinary gentlemen( very good steampunk)

I'm sure others will occur to me