[Xim1]

star wars!

[BizzyC]

Originally Posted by Capt'n Midnight

Plan 9 from outer space

Great movie...
Did you know Bela Lugosi died in the middle of making that? They replaced him mid-movie and made the new guy keep his face covered with the cape in every scene from then on...


Has anyone mentioned DUNE yet?

[FutureGuy]

Contact

[Setun]

Originally Posted by merlie

The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original)
When two worlds collide
2001 A Space Odyssey
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Cocoon

Ha! I thought I was the only person who likes Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's hammy and a bit mental at times, but you can appreciate what they were trying to do. It's strangely prescient too - the man/machine discussion about privacy for example.

I've actually been researching a lot of these cold war era sci-fi movies over the last few months, it's amazing how the political atmosphere in the US was articulated in these films. IBM seemed to build its 1960s marketing strategy off the back of Forbidden Planet and Robby the Robot, and also sponsored a lot of films to try to illustrate computers as friendly devices. A lot of these movies seem dated and naive now, but at the time they were serving a very serious political purpose!

[Sligo Quay]

Originally Posted by merlie

2001 A Space Odyssey
Cocoon

Whatever about this Stanley Kubrick classic of 1968, yes 1968, a film well before its time, it has to have the greatest soundtrack of all time, that music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

[Capt'n Midnight]

Originally Posted by Sligo Quay

Whatever about this Stanley Kubrick classic of 1968, yes 1968, a film well before its time, it has to have the greatest soundtrack of all time, that music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_s..._%28Strauss%29

Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical treatise of the same name. The composer conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt
...
The initial fanfare – entitled "Sunrise"

[LiamMc]

Brazil, directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam.

Jonathon Pryce plays a civil servant in the totalitarian future. Robert De Niro plays an insurgent and Michael Palin works for the Ministry fof Information Retrival.

[branie]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[Gustavo Fring]

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Westworld


Cube (see 'Saw' franchise)

Enemy Mine



Honourable mentions to Event Horizon and The Abyss

[DMcL1971]

Originally Posted by merlie

The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original)
When two worlds collide
2001 A Space Odyssey
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Cocoon

I'd definitely recommend 'Colossus: The Forbin Project'. I love sixties and seventies sci-fi movies but somehow had never heard of 'Colossus: The Forbin Project' until last year. So I downloaded it and gave it a watch. It was one of those great dark sci-fi movies that gets you thinking about whether technology will save us or destroy us.

Also
Demon Seed
Altered States
Phase IV

[DMcL1971]

I seem to remember, that in the late seventies, BBC2 showed a series of the best Sci-Fi movies of the fifties every evening over the course of two weeks. I think the first week they showed A-Movies and the second week they showed B-Movies. I don't remember exactly what was shown but I think it was something like below:

A-Movies:
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
War of the Worlds
The Fly (1958)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959)


B-Movies:
This Island Earth (1955)
It Conquered the World (1956)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1956)

The films were on at six o'clock, so I sat down, with my dinner, in front of the TV and watched them. That two weeks of films gave me a lifetime fascination with all films but particularly scifi. I was amazed by 'Forbidden Planet' and frightened to death by 'The Thing'. I also don't think I had laughed so hard in all my life as when I saw how ludicrously fake the alien in 'It Conquered the World' looked. After seeing that, I realised anyone can make a movie.

[Capt'n Midnight]

Originally Posted by BizzyC

Has anyone mentioned DUNE yet?

Saw it there recently

Patrick Stewart still looks the same