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As many of you know, I'm a SF buff.  Here are SF motion pictures from the 21st century. Pick your favourite.

I  excluded (more or less) space operas, space westerns, comic book superheroes, so you won't find Avatar, I Robot, War Of The Worlds, Serenity, District 9 or Batman Begins here (even if some of them are okay). And most certainly you won't find anything that begins with the word star.Evil Smile

Also, I haven't included the ones I'm not familiar with. So if you can tell me if Eden Log, Minority Report, The Mist, Idiocracy, Monsters, The Signal and 28 weeks later are any good, you will have my gratitude.


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Donnie Darko. It's extraordinary, just far out. It marries that quirkiness with teenage experiences. Plus, it's creepy. The plot is very intriguing. One-of-a-kind movie.

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Love Donnie Darko too, hard to pass up, but I went for Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind because I enjoyed the premise so much.

In regards to Minority Report I found it wasn't a great adaption, but not awful. In part, Tom Cruise deterred me.



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My favourites in this list are not very sci-fi so I don't know what to vote, hmm. 
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Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:



As many of you know, I'm a SF buff.  Here are SF motion pictures from the 21st century. Pick your favourite.

I  excluded (more or less) space operas, space westerns, comic book superheroes, so you won't find Avatar, I Robot, War Of The Worlds, Serenity, District 9 or Batman Begins here (even if some of them are okay). And most certainly you won't find anything that begins with the word star.Evil Smile

Also, I haven't included the ones I'm not familiar with. So if you can tell me if Eden Log, Minority Report, The Mist, Idiocracy, Monsters, The Signal and 28 weeks later are any good, you will have my gratitude.


If you know any others, have your say.


What Space Opera?

I, Robot - Asimov
War Of the Worlds - HG Wells

OK..I admit the robot film has very little to do with any book.Wink
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My vote is none of the above.

Some of those  are horror  and not SF. But you probably know that.

I like AI and Solaris though. Most of them I haven't seen.


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I can't consider some of these sci-fi. Cloverfield is a monster movie. It only loosely has sci-fi themes.

Even more so for Eternal Sunshine. It just uses a futuristic sort of procedure to develop the story and deliver the surrealistic imagery.

You could replace them with something like District 9.

Anyway, I'll go with Children of Men for the list since I'm going to exclude Eternal Sunshine from contention.
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I would have gone for Danny Boyle's Sunshine instead of Eternal Sunshine...
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I would have gone for Danny Boyle's Sunshine instead of Eternal Sunshine...

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I have never seen any of these
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I would have gone for Danny Boyle's Sunshine instead of Eternal Sunshine...


I completely forgot about Sunshine. I liked it at the beginning, but it turned into a horror cliché.
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I'm an old sci-fi buff, but I haven't seen quite a few of these.  I didn't like that Solaris nearly as much as the Tarkovsky adaptation.  The Fountain I was disappointed with.  Children of Men was pretty good, but didn't leave much of an impression on me.  AI was good, but I didn't find it great. Donnie Darko I liked, and despite renting the DVD which my wife watched and thought I'd love, I didn't get around to watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Min.

My favourite sci-fi films of that decade that I can think of were 20th Century Boys ones -- not really good, but I found them entertaining.

I want to see Melancholia, being a von Trier fan.
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Donnie Darko. It would have been nice if Inception was on the list too (although I'd still would have voted Darko) 
 
BTW, has anybody watched S. Darko? Is it as bad as all people claim it to be?
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Children of Men is a leader in this poll now but I rather dislike this film. It's well done and it has outstanding soundtrack (and other references to prog — it should be the 'proggest' sci-fi film ever!), but I just don't like it.

Donnie Darko is a good film but it's too Lynchian, so I'd prefer to watch original feature film directed by Lynch (but this is my leader from this list by now).

Moon reminds me of Kubrick, yes. It's not a bad film, but I can't choose it too (and Source Code by the same director Duncan Jones seems to me a much more consistent film).

Melancholia isn't the best movie by von Trier too. The second past is really well-done, but the first part is just boring (though film wouldn't make a sense without it — but this is another question).

And I haven't watched anything else from this list, thiough I consider myself as a movie fan. Confused


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Out of the ones I've seen Melancholia is the only one I really liked.

Also, what about A Scanner Darkly and The Road?
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A Scanner Darkly was good.  Have you read the novel, The Road?  That novel had a major impact on me, and rarely does a film live up to the book it was based on for me.
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Voted Melancholia as I am a huge Lars fan, also adore Lars Ulrich, but I would have voted for Terry Gilliam's completely overlooked Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus from 2009. A brilliant flick with Tom Waits playing the devil. I guess one could call it a modern rendition of Faust actually.
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I've only seen approx 3 of these movies.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Voted Melancholia as I am a huge Lars fan, also adore Lars Ulrich, but I would have voted for Terry Gilliam's completely overlooked Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus from 2009. A brilliant flick with Tom Waits playing the devil. I guess one could call it a modern rendition of Faust actually.


I'm going to watch Melancholia tonight as I am also a big Lars von Trier fan (or at least I was, due to eye problems, I had stopped watching films for a long time, and then music subsumed my passion for film), and then maybe the Gilliam tomorrow (wanted to see the Gilliam before, but forgot about it).
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Out of the ones I've seen Melancholia is the only one I really liked.

Also, what about A Scanner Darkly and The Road?


I knew I will forgot something relevant...Embarrassed


Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

(...), but I would have voted for Terry Gilliam's completely overlooked Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus from 2009. A brilliant flick with Tom Waits playing the devil. I guess one could call it a modern rendition of Faust actually.


David, thank you for that!

If you are interested in Faust motive within SF works, I strongly recommend Camp Concentration, a novel by Disch.
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