Sci-Fi recommendations

quarryman

Watched Sunshine again there for the second time the other night. Great film.

Any other suggestions?

I've seen and enjoyed the following in the same genre:

Event Horizon
Alien (all of em)
2001 (one of my all time favs)
Serenity

Karl Hungus

Gattaca
Twelve Monkeys
Paprika

quarryman

Gattaca I think i half watched this and lost interest. At least i think it was this film.
Twelve Monkeys Great film
Paprika Never heard of it - i'll look it up.

Overheal

Stargate
Predator
Dune

ztoical

quarryman wrote: »

Watched Sunshine again there for the second time the other night. Great film.

Any other suggestions?

I've seen and enjoyed the following in the same genre:

Event Horizon
Alien (all of em)
2001 (one of my all time favs)
Serenity

Videodrome
Blade Runner
Escape from new york
The Thing
The Abyss
Pitch Black [I enjoyed it ok!]
Something by Verhoeven - Total Recall, Robocop, Starship Troopers
eXistenZ [actually anything by Cronenberg]
Minority Report

Not going to list a hundred one different ones as I'm sure there'll be loads of other suggestions

Karl Hungus

quarryman wrote: »

Gattaca I think i half watched this and lost interest. At least i think it was this film.

Seriously? I thought it was one of the greatest sci-fi films of recent years. Maybe you should give it another go?

quarryman

Overheal wrote: »

Stargate
Predator
Dune

cool. have seen predator but not the other two.

Videodrome
Blade Runner -oh yes, great film
Escape from new york
The Thing -an oldie but a goodie
The Abyss - yep yep
Pitch Black [I enjoyed it ok!] - vin diesel, are you sure?
Something by Verhoeven - Total Recall, Robocop, Starship Troopers - 1st 2 have aged badly, Starship troopers was crap i thought
eXistenZ [actually anything by Cronenberg]
Minority Report - tom "i can save people" cruise at his best. enjoyed this.

ztoical

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Seriously? I thought it was one of the greatest sci-fi films of recent years. Maybe you should give it another go?

+1 I would have rec'd it had I not been beaten to it

ztoical

quarryman wrote: »

cool. have seen predator but not the other two.

Videodrome
Blade Runner -oh yes, great film
Escape from new york
The Thing -an oldie but a goodie
The Abyss - yep yep
Pitch Black [I enjoyed it ok!] - vin diesel, are you sure?
Something by Verhoeven - Total Recall, Robocop, Starship Troopers - 1st 2 have aged badly, Starship troopers was crap i thought
eXistenZ [actually anything by Cronenberg]
Minority Report - tom "i can save people" cruise at his best. enjoyed this.

no comments on Cronenberg?

Yes Vin diesel is in Pitch Black but Cruise is in Minority Report and I can't take him either and I enjoyed both films.

quarryman

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Seriously? I thought it was one of the greatest sci-fi films of recent years. Maybe you should give it another go?

nope, looks like i was mixing it up with The Fifth Element

quarryman

ztoical wrote: »

no comments on Cronenberg?

Yes Vin diesel is in Pitch Black but Cruise is in Minority Report and I can't take him either and I enjoyed both films.

the no comments are ones i haven't seen

I'll check them out.

ztoical

Overheal wrote: »

Dune

Dune is alright if you can get past Sting in his metal underwear but when I watch it I can't help thinking what might have been if Jodorowsky had directed. Peter Berg is meant to be making a new adaption.

monkeyfudge

ztoical wrote: »

Pitch Black [I enjoyed it ok!]
eXistenZ [actually anything by Cronenberg]

Pitch Black really is a brilliant little film.

I thought eXistenZ was horrifically bad... I was a huge Cronenberg fan up until that point... he seems to have gone downhill since then.

For me the greatest science fiction film of all time is Forbidden Planet. Quite an old one, but I think in general the special effects still hold up well because they were so unimaginatively designed. The sound design and score are excellent as well. You wouldn't have had Star Trek if it wasn't for that film.

Most recently Primer would be a science fiction film that impressed me a lot. Probably the most intelligent use of time travel ever committed to screen.

Auvers

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Most recently Primer would be a science fiction film that impressed me a lot. Probably the most intelligent use of time travel ever committed to screen.

yeah I have to agree primer was a really good, but off the top of my head comes Dark City which I really enjoyed back in the day

Karl Hungus

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Most recently Primer would be a science fiction film that impressed me a lot. Probably the most intelligent use of time travel ever committed to screen.

You know, I've picked Primer up on DVD a while ago, and still haven't watched it...

quarryman

great suggestions guys, primer, dark city and paprika are currently renting from the big video shop.

starn

Agreed Pitch Black is a fantastic little film. Pity about the follow up. I always love the bit on the commentry. Where Diesel goes on about wanting to play Hamlet.

Oh and I know it was film of the week recently. But it deserves another mention Starship Troopers

ztoical

starn wrote: »

Agreed Pitch Black is a fantastic little film. Pity about the follow up.

yeah taken on its own its a great little film but you to ignore all the crap they tried to tack on to it

Vokes

Other recent films (which you may have already watched, quarryman?):

Children of Men
The Fountain

Overheal

ztoical wrote: »

Dune is alright if you can get past Sting in his metal underwear but when I watch it I can't help thinking what might have been if Jodorowsky had directed. Peter Berg is meant to be making a new adaption.

Wake up and smell the rotting corpse of the 90's: sci-fi channel bough the rights to make the new Version years ago: Its out and so is its sequel, Children of Dune, that covers the 2 sequel books Messiah and Children of.

Havent seen the oldie version. The new version is a decent watch. The books of course are grade A.

Didnt like Children of Men to be honest - didnt feel it went anywhere. Pitch Black was OK.

eamon234

Pitch Black rocks - probably the only thing I would watch Vin Diesel in but it's one of my faves. The opening scene is breathtaking. My only gripe with it is that in some scenes it's a bit too obvious they're on an indoor set. The ending is great too very unexpected.

Might be classed as a sci-fi/horror but Event Horizon is fantastic. Never fails to give me the willies!

Serenity is a great watch as well but watch the Firely series first it'll make more sense.

Manic Moran

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Seriously? I thought it was one of the greatest sci-fi films of recent years. Maybe you should give it another go?

I can't say I particularly enjoyed it.

NTM

Creature

May I also reccommend:
The Fly
Altered States
Outland
Scanners
Deep Rising
Equilibrium

ztoical

Overheal wrote: »

Wake up and smell the rotting corpse of the 90's: sci-fi channel bough the rights to make the new Version years ago: Its out and so is its sequel, Children of Dune, that covers the 2 sequel books Messiah and Children of.
.

that was the dune mini series [which i did see and thought was ok, closer to the books then the movie] there is a new film in the works with a sometime in 2009/2010 due date..not much info on it other then Berg being tapped to direct.

tvnutz

Thought Sunshine was a load of crap myself.

A very underrated sci-fi movie would be Equilibrium,starring the always brilliant Christian Bale. Any movie is instantly a certain percentage better just because he is in it!

Placebo

most already mentioned :

equlibrium
matrix ofcourse
the fly
minority report
terminator 2
underworld
hellboy ? [btw 2 looks amazing]
resident evil
back to the future 1 2 3
the fifth element
the nines [new film]

trailing off here... mad max series

TerrorFirmer

Hard to think of anything that's not so mainstream you couldn't have not seen it...

Equilibrium...The Avenging Fist....Heavens Soldiers....Casshern....Natural City...Cube...(don't forget the 2 sequels also, both quite good)...Lost Memories ...A.P.E.X....Imposter...

I'm throwing out ones I'm sure you most likely haven't seen, rather then reel off the same list of stuff you'll know instantly...

Also try Battlestar Galactica, while it is a TV show it starts off with a feature length episode and has another feature length after S3. Visuals, Acting, props, etc, as good as most films you'd see in the cinema. Not to be dismissed as a mere 'tv show' as people are prone to doing.

Other good suggestions on the thread in particular are Serenity, Robocop, Starship Troopers....sci-fi as a genre isn't attracting quite the same blockbusters these days....cult hit that it is, even Starship Troopers did very badly at the box office...

I did not like Dark City very much, found it pretty boring to be honest and found it looked far, far older then it actually was, despite common opinion making it out to be some sort of pinnacle of effects wizardry.

Pigman II

(I won't mention anything thats already on this thread. Speaking of threads...

Threads
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Robocop / Total Recall / Starship Troopers
Alien 1-4
Contact
Star Wars (watch release order only!)
Nineteen Eighty Four - 1984
Tron
sky captain and the world of tomorrow

..

in the shadow of the moon (cos 'Stanley Kubrick faked it with the Moon!')

ztoical

HavoK wrote: »

m.Cube...(don't forget the 2 sequels also, both quite good)..
.

Aw man I totally forgot about Cube, haven't watch that in ages *runs off to watch it*

Galvasean

Cube Zero is probably the best of the lot.

Its hilarious when you find out what happens when you reach the end

I don't think anyone has mentioned (and its a crime that they havent):
Jurassic Park

Karl Hungus

HavoK wrote: »

I did not like Dark City very much, found it pretty boring to be honest and found it looked far, far older then it actually was, despite common opinion making it out to be some sort of pinnacle of effects wizardry.

You didn't like Dark City, but you recommended APEX? Oh dear me... I think I'd rather a swift kick in the gonads than having to sit through APEX again.

quarryman

So i picked up Gattaca last night and watched it.

7/10. Its decent but kept spotting plot holes that were annoying.

Paprika and Dark city next.

L31mr0d

Here's a great list stumbleupon churned out the other day:

I've watched most of the movies on the list and plan to watch the rest.

Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time

constitutionus

im a fan of old 80s/90s SF films so if you want a few no brainer popcorn films you could do worse than

my science project.

weird science

universal soldier

soldier

firestarter

enemy mine

bill and teds excellent adventure

the wraith

robot jox

i'll admit none of em will win awards but they get merit for sheer enthusiasm and on DVDwith a beer ya cant go wrong.

old school one. the day the earth stood still. class film unfortunetly about to get keanued in a remake.

Creature

Pigman II wrote: »

Nineteen Eighty Four - 1984


..

Is that the one with John Hurt? Whats it like? I noticed it's on play.com for only 7.99 and was thinking of getting it.



Also a +1 for Cube, it's a great film. Stay well away from the sequel though, it's horrifyingly bad.

TerrorFirmer

constitutionus wrote: »

im a fan of old 80s/90s SF films so if you want a few no brainer popcorn films you could do worse than

my science project.

weird science

universal soldier

soldier

firestarter

enemy mine

bill and teds excellent adventure

the wraith

robot jox

i'll admit none of em will win awards but they get merit for sheer enthusiasm and on DVDwith a beer ya cant go wrong.

old school one. the day the earth stood still. class film unfortunetly about to get keanued in a remake.

Damn, can't believe Universal Soldier didn't occur to me. I hate Enemy Mine, what are peoples general views on that movie?

Robot Jox....anyone who has nostalgic memories of Power Rangers will like that one purely for the effects

calsatron

All the main ones have been covered already but from the low budget department Split Second, Hardware and Death Machine are all well worth a watch if you can track them down.

TerrorFirmer

Oh for god sake, I forgot Death Machine as well - possible one of my favourite movies of all time. Totally underrated gem, fits into any collection perfectly alongside the likes of Universal soldier, Robocop and The Terminator - and sort of borrows elements from all three films incidentally.

Didn't like Hardware quite so much (forgot that too :rolleyes:).

monkeyfudge

I thought Hardware was very good. It was based on one of the old Future Shock strips from 2000AD... we could do with more films based on them.

kaimera

Lawnmower Man.

constitutionus

calsatron wrote: »

All the main ones have been covered already but from the low budget department Split Second, Hardware and Death Machine are all well worth a watch if you can track them down.

split second is a bastard to get on DVD. ive been rooting around on play.com for age's trying to find a region 2 version of it. (i hate ebay and amazon so im pretty much stuck)

its a great rutger hauer film. always loved the scene in the weapons locker when his partner loses the plot trying to get better weaponry.

" its not ****ing BIG enough ! "



oh and if you think the robot jox one was bad there was another REALLY bad film called "the dungeonmaster" bout a guy who gets challenged by some kinda space satan into preforming 5 challanges or something to free his maith. had a computer on his wrist called "X-CALIBRATE" cheese to the max but oddly entertaing. (think it might have been called ragewar in europe)

just thought of another one, not really sci/fi. but fun nonetherless

wargames.


EDIT: Arrrgh ! had to put this one in, the last starfighter. fecking class !

ztoical

ztoical wrote: »

that was the dune mini series [which i did see and thought was ok, closer to the books then the movie] there is a new film in the works with a sometime in 2009/2010 due date..not much info on it other then Berg being tapped to direct.

There was a second mini series, Children of Dune. Like Dune it was very good, though the low budget was evident.

CerebralCortex

tvnutz wrote: »

Thought Sunshine was a load of crap myself.

A very underrated sci-fi movie would be Equilibrium,starring the always brilliant Christian Bale. Any movie is instantly a certain percentage better just because he is in it!

Very enjoyable action flick but a terrible sci-fi movie imo. Holes all over the place. Fight sequences on par with the Matrix.

Blade Runner is unbelievably good both as sci-fi and as a movie.
The Thing is fantastic too.
There are so many worth mentioning that have already been mentioned.

Pride Fighter

Omega Man
Soylent Green
Rollerball
The Running Man

I have seen the avenging fist. Someone mentioned it. It is by far the worst Hong Kong film I have ever seen, HK cannot do sci-fi.

Otis Driftwood

What about Tetsuo:The Iron Man and Tetsuo 2:Bodyahmmer???

Pretty much all the greats have been mentioned all ready but there are still a few that I would recommend.

Solaris
Stalker
Nothing
Cube
Natural City

TerrorFirmer

Deleted User wrote: »

Pretty much all the greats have been mentioned all ready but there are still a few that I would recommend.

Solaris
Stalker
Nothing
Cube
Natural City

I already mentioned those last two! Seriously though, does anyone like Tetsuo? I was so disappointed when I finally got around to watching it. The sequel is worse again.

Karl Hungus

Tetsuo is a freakin' masterpiece!

Reg'stoy

Glad to see someone has already ready mentioned Contact "they should have sent a poet" and solaris, but I would suggest watching both versions.
I don't think I saw Brazil listed which would be my number one recommendation and, now before the blows start landing I firmly believe Mission to Mars is highly under rated and well worth viewing.

strangesdays

Humm... I'd stay clear of Casshern, some pretty visuals can't save it from 30 minute speeches on the nature of war that have all the sophistication of a brick going through a window.

I'll recommend

Pi
Akira
The Quiet Earth

...and A boy and his Dog if you can track it down. Its fairly mysoginistic, and a bit rough around the edges, but I love it.

Heaven's Lathe is also supposed to be great, but I haven't seen it (yet).

constitutionus

well if animations allowed what about "the iron giant"

i thought it was good.