Suggest a sci-fi film

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 3rd, 2007, 22:40

I need your help.

I love sci-fi films, but I think I may have seen them all. At least all the ones remotely worth watching and some not. Can you suggest any that I might not have seen? Obviously I've seen all the mainstream ones since the beginning of film, probably. But I found some on newsgroups recently that I have never heard of and satiated my hunger for a few days:
Imposter
The Arrival
The Final Countdown (Which glorious 80s song does that title make you sing in head? Nothing to do with the film unfortunately)

I even bought a copy of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

If these are new to me then there's still hope that other reasonable sci-films exist that I don't know about. Are you up to the challenge?

/edit
And by sci-fi I mean anything that contains sci-fi concepts. I watched Peggy Sue Got Married the other week, just because it had time travel in it for Christ sake!

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 3rd, 2007, 22:52

Ghosts of mars.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » December 3rd, 2007, 22:55

I fancy watching Darkstar for some reason, might have to sweep it later.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 3rd, 2007, 22:58

Being more serious about this, I googled and came up with this list I've seen most if not all, but one that stuck out for some reason was Quatermass and the pit. My old man bangs on about this all the time, along with soylent green and brazil, he's a fan of sci-fi as well, so I ask him about older stuff I may have missed first time round, got some good films from him like tron and silent running.

Edit, ooh westworld, I'd forgotten about that, yul brynner as a cowboy android with fused chips shooting everyone.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 3rd, 2007, 23:07

And the film of the book of the game that is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I'd completely forgotten about this too. You probably know the general plot by now. In the film a mysterious forbidden Zone appears in an unnamed country. The Stalker of the title is a guide who escorts a writer and a scientist inside the Zone and through 'The Room'. Reality goes haywire. It's great.

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » December 4th, 2007, 5:20

Here's two "good" films I'd recommend watching (you have to laugh at their epic shittiness!):

<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091003/">Eliminators</a>

<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113092/">Final Encounter</a> that's what it's call on this side of the pond, anyway.

EDIT: On a serious side, I'd also recommend seeing <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/">The Omega Man</a> due to the upcoming film "I am Legend," which were both based on the same book.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » December 4th, 2007, 8:43

The Fountain?

Not seen it myself yet but supposed to be very good

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 4th, 2007, 11:23

HereComesPete wrote:list

That's a very good list, although I have seen most of them .. and now the site is dead.

This one is similar: http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/pages/pr/top100scifi
Unfortunately it's got Until the End of the World listed, which offended me so much I had to start a thread on IMDb called "Why this film sucks".

I wasn't too impressed with The Fountain, it looks nice though.

Both "I Am Legend" and "Roadside Picnic" (Stalker) books are excellent. By the way STALKER the game is only loosely based on the other material and the only one with Chernobyl and radiation in it.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 4th, 2007, 12:23

You've probably already seen them, as they're not all that obscure, but;

Enemy Mine
Brazil
The Last Starfighter
The Explorers

All favourites of mine from one stage of my life or another.

Post by **FatherJack** » December 4th, 2007, 12:38

The Black Hole

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » December 4th, 2007, 12:41

Teh Phantum Menece

Post by **FatherJack** » December 4th, 2007, 12:50

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has a flying car - that's pretty sci-fi.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 4th, 2007, 14:06

Dog Pants wrote:You've probably already seen them, as they're not all that obscure, but;

Enemy Mine
Brazil
The Last Starfighter
The Explorers

All favourites of mine from one stage of my life or another.

All excellent. Enemy Mine is great, watched it again recently. And Explorers after it was mentioned on here, I'd probably seen it as a child.

mrbobbins wrote:Teh Phantum Menece

NEVERS!

FatherJack wrote:Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has a flying car - that's pretty sci-fi.

This was the first film to be added to my list of "never to watch". Dick Van Fucking Dyke my arse!

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » December 4th, 2007, 14:08

Robot Jox!

Ok, maybe not then......

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 4th, 2007, 14:37

Anhamgrimmar wrote:Robot Jox!

Ok, maybe not then......

One of the best closing shots evar! Phono leads make you cool.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 4th, 2007, 19:21

eion · Post by **eion** » December 10th, 2007, 15:48

/thread revive!

From my own list of DVDs, some stuff you might not have seen:
- Cronos - Mexican vampire movie, sort of.
- Cypher - near future cyberpunky thing.
- Dust Devil - more horror than sci-fi, but still a pretty awesome movie (the director's other movie, Hardware, is definitely sci-fi though)
- The Element of Crime - Lars von Trier. Awesome.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 10th, 2007, 16:02

spoodie wrote: Until the End of the World listed, which offended me so much I had to start a thread on IMDb called "Why this film sucks".

Have you googled 'historical perpective' yet then young spoodie. Or are you too busy with the rusks?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 10th, 2007, 16:52

HereComesPete wrote:Have you googled 'historical perpective' yet then young spoodie. Or are you too busy with the rusks?

Ah yes, I really need to reply to that, stoke the fire as it were. Among other things I'm sure pointing out that he spelt "perspective" wrong would help.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 10th, 2007, 17:04

eion wrote:/thread revive!

From my own list of DVDs, some stuff you might not have seen:
- Cronos - Mexican vampire movie, sort of.
- Cypher - near future cyberpunky thing.
- Dust Devil - more horror than sci-fi, but still a pretty awesome movie (the director's other movie, Hardware, is definitely sci-fi though)
- The Element of Crime - Lars von Trier. Awesome.

I've seen Cronos a couple of times, I loved the little mechanical device in it. The others I don't think I've seen and I will investigate. Ta very much.

Last week I watched:
Forbidden World - Couldn't get beyond 20 mins in. Awful Alien rip-off.
Galaxy of Terror - The "highlights" are Joanie from Happy Days getting torn apart and a woman getting her clothes sucked off and then evidently rapped by a giant slimy worm/alien.