Sci Fi movies:)

[PeterNw]

What are some good Sci Fi or movies involving outer space...?

[supernova1965]

one is on this weekend on the TV Total Recall is based on mars

[omegacrux]

Hi Panos
One of my favorites is The 5th Element , Bruce Willis
Lost count how many times I have watched it the soundtrack is good also

David

[supernova1965]

That's a great movie

[LAW]

The TV show Firefly and the movie Serenity is the only time since becoming an adult I've wished a fictional universe could be real.

Obviously Stargate too (only SG-1, the rest are just drama in costume), it's the first sci-fi to reach a wide audience (Star Trek never really reached the general population).

[Screwdriverone]

+1 for the Fifth Element.

Simply awesome movie......

Do yourself a favour and watch it. I bet you won't just watch it once, you'll be back for more like David says.

Cheers

Chris

[Colin_Fraser]

Looks like I am going to hire Fifth Element this weekend. Have not seen it.
My favourite is The Matrix.

[Waxing_Gibbous]

"Forbidden Planet" - Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' with awesomely powerful dead aliens. Un-remakeable.

"Sunshine" - Better than it's reviews (IMHO).

[Varangian]

Aliens goes okay ;)

Apollo 13 is a cracker and I really enjoyed Event Horizon and Solaris (both versions). I know they're both pretty crap but I liked Pitch Black and especially The Chronicles of Riddick (so take my recommendations with a grain of salt).

+1 for the Fifth Element, Sunshine and Serenity.

[04Stefan07]

Im a bit of a trekkie so I love the Star Trek films (The Next Generation ones).

Star Wars of course but Star Trek I do prefer!

[Varangian]

Star Wars anyone?;)

The original Battlestar Galactica also did very well.

[Varangian]

Have not seen the Tempest but this one is an excellent movie.

[Octane]

Solaris
Moon
Gattaca

Not in any order. I love them all.

H

[arifmshaikh]

I like the Impact. The moon was hit by dwarf and it becomes so much heavy that it was about to collide with earth. Its a tv series made in two part and I show on TV in 2008.

[Forgey]

Some of my favorites:

(not in any particular order)
Independence Day
Stargate (the movie)
Men in black (all)
Armageddon
Deep Impact

[RAJAH235]

A few oldies but classics...plus a couple of strays...
The original 1951 version of "The Day The Earth Stood Still." (Michael Rennie.)
(The new one is rubbish, so don't even bother viewing it.)

Forbidden Planet. (Leslie Nielsen.)

War of The Worlds. (Gene Barry.)

Dark Star. (by John Carpenter.)

Contact. (Jodie Foster.)

2012. (John Cusack.) ((A bit over the top with the graphics but reasonable, if you like that kind of stuff.))

Blade Runner. (Harrison Ford.)

Brain Storm. (The late & great, Natalie Wood. Her last, unfinished movie.)

Just a few that I have on my HDD.

[ZeroID]

Blade Runner for sure
Star Trek, the movie - love the new start
Sunshine
2001 - despite all the melodramatic music it was a paradigm shift when it came out. Not so keen on 2010.
Star Wars - just for sheer escapism
5th Element .
Aliens, the Prequel - although mainly for the cool CGI effects

I'm a def SciFi fan so there are heaps of others or fantasy world movies( Avatar eg ) which I enjoy for whatever their genre may be. And the mood i feel in at the time.

[graham.hobart]

no one's mentioned Silent Running ?
Serenity and Riddick votes for me, guilty pleasures all!
Contact.
I quite liked Enemy Mine when it came out -Dennis Quaid on a lonely planet with his sworn alien enemy (a remake of an old WW2 movie I think with Lee Marvin in it) Probably dated effects now but good story all the same.
Live long and Vespa!
Graham

[Aidan]

Absolutely love Firefly. Great series, great lines, ended way before its time.

Currently loving Thursday nights on Channel 11, 3 episodes of Star Trek Next Gen. Like being a teenager again.

[Aidan]

Not sure if it counts.

But "The Dish" - Great Australian film, space related.

[silv]

cool collection - thanks all - and thanks for asking, Panos :thumbsup:

not mentioned, yet, but I like:

The Red Dwarf - UK TV Series in a space ship. silly and gay.

Close encounters of the third kind.

And here's the link to imdb.com's Sci-Fi category, sorted by user rating.
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=sci_fi&sort=user_rating,desc&start=1&title_type=feature
When the rating is high, I also always like the movie. :)
(But a lot of movies get mediocre ratings which I find awesome. )

[ian fry]

UFO by Gerry Anderson great show.
And blake's seven
And the black and white Version of the thing from another world.

[astro_nutt]

Journey to the far side of the Sun (Doppleganger) 1969 by Gerry Anderson
Apollo 13
The day the Earth stood still, B+W version
Star trek, the motion picture

[TrevorW]

Forbidden Planet
Soylent Green
Outland
Silent Running
Alien
Gattica
Event Horizon
Moon
Love

[Shark Bait]

I saw Silent Running recently. I wanted the orange tube SCT scope that he was using to observe Earth from the orbit of Saturn. :rofl:

No wonder some people have an unrealistic expectation of the capabilities of our telescopes.

[MrB]

+1 for The 5th Element, brilliant movie. Have lost count the number of times I have watched it. French/British collaboration. Costumes were designed by Jean Paul Gaultier, and it works.

+1 for Serenity (which was on TV last night ;) ) and the series Firefly, by Joss Whedon who did Buffy and Angel. Don't let that put you off if you didn't like Buffy/Angel, Whedon's humor is way better suited to Firefly. Brilliant.

Also love Red Dwarf, looking forward to season X which will be airing in the UK soon on Dave (channel named after Lister ;) )

[ourkind]

DR WHO! New and Old.

[omegacrux]

+1 moon
District 9, a alien ship that doesn't land in the USA
Starring an unknown actor
Didn't get much advertising but its very good !

[skies2clear]

Gotta agree with many others here:

Top of the list....Forbidden Planet.

Also,
The day the earth stood still (old BW version, the new one is terrible)
Alien and Aliens.
Contact
Blade Runner
Silent Running
Soylent Green
Moon
War of The Worlds (both versions)
The Thing (50's version)
Solaris
K Pax (not quite SciFi, but great)
The Keep
Anything Star Trek!
The Dish
Invaders from Mars (1950's)
The Mysterians (great Japanese scifi movie of '60s)
Outer Limits series
Apollo 13

some that come to mind, but there's lots more :)

[ourkind]

Cocoon!

:)

[Raybot (Ray)]

How about the 1964 classic 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars'.
Watch out for Adam West (from the original Batman series), and have hours of fun shouting out the technical inaccuracies.
google it !
:rofl:

[ourkind]

Just watched "Sunshine" don't make the same mistake.