Your favorite 3 Sci-Fi/Fantasy films and why

Midster · 27-08-2019 10:07pm #1

Exactly that. What’s your favorites of all time

Dades · 28-08-2019 10:12am

Maybe start with yours? Start that ball rolling.

Dades · 28-08-2019 10:13am

Sci fi and fantasy are very different, even if enjoyed by a lot of the same people.

You might ask for 3 of each, and maybe start with your choices (and reasons) to get the ball rolling.

smacl · 28-08-2019 10:32am

Tends to be a moving feast for me which varies based on the humour I'm in. Three long term highlights I've watched on multiple occasions and enjoyed thoroughly each time, in nor particular order are;

Spirited away
Brazil
Delicatessen

I tend to really enjoy the big space operas like Star Wars and rambling fantasies like LoTR on the first watch but no so much on the repeats. I reckon TV series are a better format for the extended epic stuff and find a fair number of the modern sci-fi movies a bit of a disappointment.

Nody · 28-08-2019 10:54am

Not sure if counted as films (they did release multiple) but Babylon 5 - Space Opera done right; great story telling etc. but assuming not:

1) Alien - The original horror movie done right; Alien 2 could go here as well but the two are very different
2) Inception - The story in a story in a story approach is very well done and the ending is sublime
3) Starship Trooper - It's nothing like the book but if you take it for what it is it's a great story telling on propaganda etc.

coffee_cake · 28-08-2019 8:13pm

the Riddick movies

also i want to be riddick when i grow up

smacl · 28-08-2019 11:32pm

bluewolf wrote: »

the Riddick movies

also i want to be riddick when i grow up

I used to say to the kids that I wanted to be Gandalf when I grow up. Stock response from them was "if you grow up"

keane2097 · 29-08-2019 8:29am

Blade Runner

Midster · 29-08-2019 9:57am

When I think of riddicks life story, it’s not a good life story overall

Nody · 29-08-2019 10:43am

Midster wrote: »

When I think of riddicks life story, it’s not a good life story overall

Anything specific? It's been a few years since I watched them and I never read any books/played any games for the story but as far as I recall (spoiler tag to be cautious):

[*]Riddick was a bad ass kicking around the universe, got thrown in jail and escapes several times (movie 1); don't appear to be unhappy about life in general if a bit jaded

[*]Escapes with girl he see's as a potential daughter (movie 1)

[*]Some friends die at the invasion of alien space force but he gets out, rescues his adopted daughter from prison, gets some more revenge on some people who caught him. After the escape the daughter gets converted (but she turns back in the end as I recall) and he goes on a rampage but ends up getting revenge (knife in head on previous leader) and becomes the war leader (movie 2)

[*]Gets betrayed by his court, get a puppy who he nurtures and cares for only to escape and come back kicking ass. Can't recall the daughter being part at all in the movie.

I mean overall being an general badass and saving people he's done quite ok for himself. He's not depressed and gets to kick ass of the people who betray him.

Johnny Storm · 29-08-2019 3:47pm

2001
Blade Runner
Dark Star

Disclaimer: my opinions likely to change on a whim

Midster · 29-08-2019 3:49pm

bluewolf wrote: »

the Riddick movies

also i want to be riddick when i grow up

Well, his home planet was populated by complete badasses who excelled in hand to hand combat (hard to believe for that reason they were peaceful people.)
Despite that, the planet they called home was blown to smithereens by aliens in a big spaceship high in orbit. Riddick either escaped or wasn’t there when it happened, either way, of course he was extremely upset and internalized the whole thing.

He roamed the galaxy after then, alone and angry, probably killing again and again until eventually been caught by the authorities who put him in an inescapable, very dark jail.

Riddick wasn’t beaten by this, he found another complete mad man to polish his eye balls so he could see really well in the dark so he could kill the guards and anyone else who got in his way and see his way out and escape.

After he did this he must have gone into hiding, needed something eventually (probably food) and killed someone to get it. He got captured again after then by the guy in pitch black.

On the way to put this mad guy with polished eye balls back into another prison they crashed together on a seemingly dead planet, despite that everything seems pretty manageable till it goes dark.

FutureGuy · 29-08-2019 3:51pm

I have a place in my heart for flawed sci-fi films so Contact is joined by Cloud Atlas and Interstellar.

Midster · 30-08-2019 4:02am

Nody wrote: »

Midster wrote: »

When I think of riddicks life story, it’s not a good life story overall

I mean overall being an general badass and saving people he's done quite ok for himself. He's not depressed and gets to kick ass of the people who betray him.

I refer you to my last message on this thread

Trojan · 30-08-2019 3:32pm

The Fifth Element - this is just an awesome film, great actors, imagery, humour, it has everything
Starship Troopers - fantastic satire
Dune - I'm not claiming it's great, just that it's one of my favourites (because of the book)
Aliens - does it need explaining?

AbusesToilets · 08-09-2019 7:10pm

Sci-Fi movies off the top of my head

Gattaca
Contact
District 9

Paddy Samurai · 13-09-2019 3:44pm

Off the top of my head and in no order....

FANTASY

Hellboy
Princess Bride
Angel A

SCI FI

The Thing
Aliens
Blade Runner (1982)

bullpost · 13-09-2019 3:51pm

Android
(Klaus Kinski and James Brown in Space)

Hardware
(Lemmy in a scifi movie)

Blade Runner
(no explanation necessary)

Conall Cernach · 20-09-2019 2:37pm

Fantasy
Conan the Barbarian (Arnie)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Cheating a bit but if I had to choose then The Fellowship of the Ring)
Dragonslayer

Sci-Fi
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Moon
2001

sheesh · 04-04-2021 11:29pm

Arrival how the ending resolves and you get it. its on netflix atm
The Fifth element very exciting Romp excellent bad guy
Alien truly scary and the Alien was great

Also loved the pacing of bladerunner 2049 and how it was similar to the original film

sheesh · 04-04-2021 11:32pm

Jesus I cannot believe I forgot district 9! It was so good

alchemist33 · 04-04-2021 11:33pm

Alien (better than Aliens, whatever anyone says)
Blade Runner
Event Horizon (much under-rated)

There are probably many other that I havent thought of

sheesh · 04-04-2021 11:36pm

alchemist33 wrote: »

Alien (better than Aliens, whatever anyone says)
Blade Runner
Event Horizon (much under-rated)

There are probably many other that I havent thought of

Saw event Horizon in the cinema came out wondering if there were going to be psychological repercussions after seeing it !

it was great.

Damien360 · 04-04-2021 11:46pm

Blade Runner (both new and old) - the very idea of androids as a race facinates me. A.I. runs a close second for me.

Brazil - a very possible future in a crowded world. The scene in the office space with the shared office desk either side of a wall stands out for me.

Alien - the tension in the first one is brilliant, especially when you consider you barely get to see the alien at all.

Fifth Element - for being truly off the wall weird

Minority report - ignore the police stuff, the concept of reading your retina as you enter a store and your retina becoming your form of ID is something I can see coming in the bit too distant future.

You said 3 but I couldn’t resist !

Dades · 09-04-2021 3:29pm

sheesh wrote: »

Saw event Horizon in the cinema came out wondering if there were going to be psychological repercussions after seeing it ! it was great.

I can only watch the first half of Event Horizon!

I love it, but I can't handle anymore the decent into where it goes...

"Libera te tutemet ex inferis" :eek:

Your favorite 3 Sci-Fi/Fantasy films and why

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