Favourite Sci Fi Films?

[sunnysan]

SciFi

Robocop - B Rate, Supposed to be cr@p but when I saw it in the 80's I thought it was brilliant, novel concept at the time, and the baddies where so evil.

"Ill buy that for a dollaaaahr"

Blade Runner - Because its just brilliant, the Apocalypse now of Science Fiction.

12 Monkeys/Brazil
Just good movies

[Lockhouse]

Urban legend; The even numbered Star Trek films are good, the odd numbered ones, bad.

[Lockhouse]

Aliens. Next.

Is it too late to include that on my list?

[Sysman]

I have to say, after never having seen 2001 until someone decided to buy it for me for Xmas (I've since had them professionally killed), that 2001 has to be THE most immensely over-rated boring piece of drivel ever commited to celluloid.

I don't give a continental that technically there is no sound in space, watching a plastic-looking 'spaceship' crawl across the screen for 5 minutes with no sound at all... I'd rather have a root canal.

Stanley Kubrick should have been shot for making this movie, at least then he wouldn't have gone on to make that pile of pish that had Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in it.

Disagree, but it is certainly a film that's good in a cinema PLAYED LOUD, but disappointing when watched on TV.

[tenpin]

Having watched it about 20 times with youngest son,

Wall-E

[Stan.goodvibes]

Upcoming releases:

Avatar (James Cameron - 220M 3D epic)

The Road (Film adaptation of Cormac McArthys' novel of the same name. The book is amazing, hoping for good things from the film - i think Viggo Mortensen plays 'The Man' - out on Jan 4th).

Reviews in for Avatar are promising - it could be the best sci fi movie since The Matrix by the sounds of it.

The Road - stunning book! Not sure that the movie will be all that, largely because the beauty of the book is in Cormac's brilliant writing.

[Stan.goodvibes]

Disagree, but it is certainly a film that's good in a cinema PLAYED LOUD, but disappointing when watched on TV.

Yeah all those totally silent space scenes must sound so much better in THX...

And if I never hear that (totally overplayed) 2001 theme ever again, it'll be too soon

[gingerjedi]

And if I never hear that (totally overplayed) 2001 theme ever again, it'll be too soon

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra

It would be a fair bet the music came first.

Try the U.N.K.L.E version, though I can't find it anywhere on the net.

[Spacecadet]

So has no one else seen Moon?

Considering the number of geeks replying in this thread I'm shocked its not been mentioned by anyone else, it's a modern Sci-Fi classic.

And it just goes to show that all the CGI billion dollar budgets in the world can't save you if your film has no emotional centre. What a thrill it was to see this then, where for great swaths of screen time you never even see outside of the space moon-station and yet it never tires or drags.

Its hard to review the film without wandring into spoilers but suffice to say Sam Rockwell's performance is superb, and it's only as the film progreses that you really get a taste for how much effort he put in.

Since much of the story takes place inside, I can't really say that the blu version I've seen adds much in terms of crispness/clarity, but you'll have to decide for yourself.

Hats off, too, to one of the most 'blink and you'll miss it' endings I've ever seen - more of a stop-listening-and-you'll-miss-it. It was very brave of them to throw all the resolution of the story into a 20 second-ish half-heard voice-over just before the credits roll, but I liked that!

Well worth your time - put it on the DVD shelf next to 'Contact.'

A haunting and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition that pays homage to the great classic science fiction films like 2001 without ripping them off. Rockwell delivers an outstanding performance as the lonely, humbled and repentant astronaut trying to make sense of the confusion around him, Spacey's understated vocals as the voice of GERTY are perfectly pitched, and the music is superb - a mixture of icily repetitive and insistent electronica reminiscent of the best of the great 80's synth artists and heartbreakingly beautiful piano interludes. I bought the CD soundtrack immediately, and play it frequently. I can't wait for the DVD release of Duncan Jones' remarkable debut, and am very much looking forward to his next film.

I so enjoyed this at its (limited due to the average Harry Potter film) cinema release. Worth noting that despite the low budget it was made during the writers strike so despite the low budget it had some great people working on the visuals and sound and it looks and feels great. The music is also exceptional (by the requiem for a dream guy).

Sam Rockwell's acting performance is genuinely superb.

It's best to see this film without seeing any spoilers (like the 1 reveiw that has beaten me to it). There are no stunning new sci-fi ideas here (I haven't seen one for a long time) but it is so rare that a vision of the future is portrayed in such a human way, with character(s?) you genuinely like and care about. I was engrossed all the way through and genuinely moved.

I love sci-fi, I love the big budget lets blow s*** up sci-fi and I love the low budget thinking sci-fi, this falls into the later category and at 5th August it is the film I have enjoyed the most in 2009.

And my girlfriend liked it too!

[Lockhouse]

So has no one else seen Moon?

Considering the number of geeks replying in this thread I'm shocked its not been mentioned by anyone else, it's a modern Sci-Fi classic.

I will get the blu-ray shortly as I missed it at the cinema. I'm also surprised no-one has mentioned Sunshine which I also thought was rather good.