Progarchives.com has always (since 2002) relied on banners ads to cover web hosting fees and all.
Please consider supporting us by giving monthly PayPal donations and help keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage") |
The Ten Best Sci Fi Movies! |
Post Reply 
|
Page <123> |
| Author | ||
AEProgman 
Forum Senior Member 
Joined: August 11 2012 Location: Toadstool Status: Offline Points: 1789 |
 Post Options
 Thanks(0)
 Quote Reply
 Posted: June 21 2018 at 11:36 |
|
BRING BACK YOUR CLASSIC AVATAR!  |
||
|
||
 |
||
|
Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group 
Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37598 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 21 2018 at 10:57 |
|
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is my favourite too. Another favourite of mine is Dr. Bloodmoney. Filming any of those would present their challenges. Ubik is fairly simple story, but also non-linear, and I wouldn't want it as a CGI or overly FX driven or ridden spectacle. I think it would be doable as a relatively low-budget, experimental art house type film. Been ages since I read it, but at the time I thought it would be pretty workable. |
||
|
||
|
BaldFriede
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10266 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 21 2018 at 04:06 |
|
"Ubik" is my second favorite of Dick, after "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch". Would not be easy to make either into a movie though.
|
||
 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
||
|
||
|
Blaqua
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 06 2016 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 242 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 21 2018 at 03:15 |
|
|
Clockwork
|
||
|
||
|
Blaqua
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 06 2016 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 242 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 21 2018 at 03:11 |
|
|
In alphabetical order: Alien Back to the Future Blade Runner Dune (1984) Mad Max 2 Star Trek II Star Wars and Empire strikes Back Terminator 1 and 2 The Last 2001 A Space Odyssey My memories of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Thing (1982) are rather weak but I remember enjoying those movies |
||
|
||
|
Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group
Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37598 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 19 2018 at 09:04 |
|
|
^ I also love those films. I do prefer Stalker to Solaris (love the Lem novel). I love the imagination on display with City of Lost Children and Delicatessen.
I prefer Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to Clarke's short story The Sentinel and to his novel that came out shortly after the film. One of my favourite adaptations is Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (I'm not keen on the look of the TV adaptation based on the trailer). As for Blade Runner, it is indeed so very different from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I adore Phillip K. Dick, but most of the adaptations of his works haven't worked that well for me. I really liked the film version of A Scanner Darkly. If I were to adapt one, I might do Ubik. For a few modern "cinema fantastique" ones that I loved the look of, Under the Skin worked really well for me, but then I tend to favour so-called art house film. I also loved The Lobster, Snowpiercer and the Girl with All the Gifts. Moon was good too. I think Arrival was the last SF film I saw in the cinema, as I missed seeing Blade Runner 2049 on the big screen (I appreciated the approach of the sequel, but it didn't altogether work for me). |
||
|
||
|
Argo2112
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 20 2017 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 4462 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 19 2018 at 08:34 |
|
|
In no participator order: Alien Aliens Star Wars - (A New Hope & Empire about the same) The Andromeda Strain The Martian The Terminator A Clockwork Orange The Thing (1982) Contact
Edited by Argo2112 - June 21 2018 at 13:37 |
||
|
||
|
moshkito
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18176 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 19 2018 at 07:49 |
|
STALKER, specially stands out, although I'm not sure it fits as a Sci-Fi film as much as it does a sort of post-apocalyptic film. I have no films to add to this fine list ... but I'm a great fan of FORBIDDEN PLANET and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (the original, please!!!) ... and a couple of other Ray Harryhausen films as well, though these days, watching them, the best thing in them is the music by Bernard Herrmann. This is a tough area for me, since some of the best novels in Science Fiction have never really had a good/great adaptation done to the screen, and even the best one (BLADE RUNNER), was changed so much from the book but many things in Sci-Fi have been ignored, or simply too hard to illustrate and make the fans happy. 2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY is nice to watch, but I'm not sure it stands up to the original novel. And one of his best, CHILDHOOD'S END, will be really difficult to bring to the screen as it is a strong indictment to the religious and commercial flavor of this time. The Overlords, do NOT, have the answer for you! CITY OF LOST CHILDREN and DELICATESSEN, are two films that defy description and in many ways stand alone in an area that defies description. The inventiveness of both is amazing to watch, and the images are great. THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUCHAUSEN probably fits as Sci-Fi, but its comedic side has a tendency to break that, and even adding someone like Robin Williams, has a tendency to bring it down from there and turn it into a satire. Still its transitions (try the one from the theater ... the face turns left and you are somewhere else!) are so far out there and Sci-Fi, it's not funny. 12 MONKEES also fits, in many ways, although its weirdness and turning it into a love story in the end, has a tendency to break it up for me.
|
||
|
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com |
||
|
||
|
Davesax1965
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 23 2013 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 2839 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 19 2018 at 03:22 |
|
|
Two Tarkovsky movies
Stalker
Solaris |
||
|
|
||
|
||
|
sarathkum29
Forum Newbie 
Joined: June 19 2018 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 19 2018 at 01:29 |
|
|
Interstellar and Avatar are the most loved Sci-Fi movies that received a huge response from allover the world.More than Avatar its Interstellar which is a purely Sci-Fi movie which is based on time travel and exploring new world for the human beings on the earth.
|
||
|
||
|
Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group
Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37598 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 19 2017 at 21:34 |
|
|
Only three films have been mentioned in this thread that I haven't seen, and I'm going to watch one of them this weekend. I've had too much free time on my hands over much of my life.
Lots of favourites mentioned, one that I loved that has gone unspoken of is Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes) . And not many share my taste, but I love the 20th Century Boys trilogy. And V for Vendetta and the Watchmen amongst comic adaptations. Also Attack the Block for a fun one. And Transfer is another modern one I liked. I loved Never Let Me Go, even though I preferred the novel. And Wong Kar Wai's 2046, even if not that sci-fi, deserves special mention. Edited by Logan - January 19 2017 at 22:40 |
||
|
||
|
MillsLayne
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 14 2010 Location: East Bay, CA Status: Offline Points: 2504 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 19 2017 at 21:12 |
|
|
In no particular order:
Aliens Blade Runner A Scanner Darkly Akira Ghost In The Shell Star Wars (the whole damn thing) Moon Total Recall (not that bs remake) Terminator 2 Dark City
|
||
|
||
|
verslibre
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 18812 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 19 2017 at 17:58 |
|
It's a classic. I hope they NEVER remake it...if they do, they'll ruin it.
 |
||
|
||
|
verslibre
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 18812 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 19 2017 at 17:56 |
|
The one by Saul Bass, of course! I had no idea another more recent movie had swiped the title. (Couldn't they have called it Phase IX?) I also love the score.
|
||
|
||
|
Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2011 Location: Melb, Australia Status: Offline Points: 7951 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 19 2017 at 03:03 |
|
|
1. The Black Hole.
2. The Black Hole. 3. The Black Hole. 4. The Black Hole. 5. The Black Hole. 6. The Black Hole. 7. The Black Hole. 8. The Black Hole. 9. The Black Hole. 10. The Black Hole. 
|
||
|
||
|
Atavachron
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65707 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 19 2017 at 02:30 |
|
|
^ I'm guessing ants --
Forbidden Planet Mysterious Island Escape from New York Fantastic Voyage Alien War of the Worlds, original Jason and the Argonauts The Day the Earth Stood Still Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978 remake Star Wars Episode 4 |
||
|
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
|
||
|
||
|
BaldFriede
Prog Reviewer
Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10266 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 19 2017 at 02:00 |
|
There are two movies named "Phase IV" that don't have anything to do with each other, one from 1974 and one from 2002. The 1974 one is about two scientists studying ants that suddenly show inexplicably intelligent behaviour, the other is about a journalism student investigating the deaths of four co-students who, as it turns out, were used for secret drug experiments in research for a cure of AIDS. Which one do you mean? |
||
|
BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
||
|
||
|
Tapfret
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8631 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 19 2017 at 01:36 |
|
|
1. City of Lost Children
2. Brazil 3. Being John Malkovich 4. Twelve Monkeys 5. Delicatessen 6. The Green Mile 7. Doppelganger (2004 Kurosawa) 8. Star Wars (A New Hope) 9 The Martian 10 Alien Resurrection Honorable mention The Brother from another Planet
Edited by Tapfret - January 19 2017 at 01:39 |
||
|
||
|
verslibre
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 18812 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 18 2017 at 18:12 |
|
|
Black Hole, The Clockwork Orange, A (SF by way of Dystopian) Escape From New York Interstellar Logan's Run Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 remake) Phase IV Silent Running Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Thing, The (1982 remake by John Carpenter)
|
||
|
||
|
tszirmay
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 17 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6673 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: January 18 2017 at 17:28 |
|
|
Fahrenheit 451
The Andromeda Strain Close Encounters of the Third Kind Equilibrium Corbin- the Colossus Project The Keep 1984 Contact KPAX 2001 Space Odyssey
|
||
|
I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
|
||
|
||
|
Post Reply
|
Page <123> |
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
Topic Options
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
