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SteveG 
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 Topic: The Ten Best Sci Fi Movies!Posted: January 18 2017 at 15:15 |
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I didn't realize how many sci fi DVDs I own until my grand daughter pointed them out. In no particular order, these are my favs: 1) The Day The Earth Stood Still 2) War Of The Worlds (1951), 3) Planet Of The Apes 4) Soylant Green 5) Jaws (a horror movie perhaps) 6) Alien 7) Predator 8) Terminator 9) Terminator 2 10) The Thing.
What are yours?
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EddieRUKiddingVarese
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Posted: January 18 2017 at 15:39 |
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The WASP Woman - 1959 version although haven't seen the 1995 version, Iron Sky is pretty cool too
Favourite would have to be Dr Strangelove |
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Posted: January 18 2017 at 15:42 |
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I definitely love Dr Strangelove too, but I think it's a comedy film.
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Posted: January 18 2017 at 15:48 |
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If we want a Kubrick movie in such a liste, there's 2001...
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Posted: January 18 2017 at 15:52 |
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Its classied as a Science Fiction Comedy and Stanley Kubricks finiest moment
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Posted: January 18 2017 at 15:55 |
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Depends for me on how loosely one describes a film as being SF. Ten is hard, but these are the first to spring to mind.
2001: A Space Odyssey Under the Skin Brazil A Clockwork Orange THX 1138 The Andromeda Strain Alphaville Stalker Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) The Man Who Fell to Earth Honorable mentions to Logan's Run and Zardoz, which I respect a hell of a lot more than most. |
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In no particular order:
Alien Twelve Monkeys Gattaca Terminator Forbidden Planet Death Race 2000 The Fly Ghosbusters (the original, obviously) Jurassic Park Escape from New York ...and many, many more |
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Posted: January 18 2017 at 16:08 |
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Very difficult one, but I'll give it a try.
1) "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) by Stanley Kubrick. 2) "Silent Running" (1972) by Douglas Trumbull. 3) "Welt am Draht" (1973; English title "World on a Wire") by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 4) "Zardoz" (1974) by John Boorman. 5) "Twelve Monkeys" (1995) by Terry Gilliam. 6) "Village of the Damned" (1960) by Wolf Rilla. 7) "Phase IV" (1974) by Saul Bass. 8) "The Time Machine" (1960) by George Pal. 9) "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) by Don Siegel. 10) "Alphaville" (1965) by Jean-Luc Godard. The Fassbinder movie is very little known because it was originally a TV-movie in two parts and not available for a long time. Here the two parts with English subtitles: Edited by BaldFriede - January 18 2017 at 16:27 |
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Yeah, Zardoz is really good. |
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I prefer the 1956 version. |
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Posted: January 18 2017 at 16:54 |
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I have too many to list but here are some favorites (not in order of preference)
Blade Runner Avatar Interstellar The Fifth Element Slaughterhouse-Five Alien Nation 12 Monkeys Guardians Of The Galaxy Spaceballs Moon Galaxy Quest Close Encounters Of The Third Kind The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Predator (1 and 2) Stargate Mars Attacks! Contact |
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The Thing (from Another World) - 1951
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers - 1956 Them! - 1954 The Amazing Colossal Man - 1957 The War of the Worlds - 1953 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan 1982 The Time Machine - 1960 |
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Usually I prefer the original (or older) versions, but I love the direction of the Kaufman version, the effects, and it has a very powerful for me ending. Another film where I prefer the remake to the original is with The Fly (which I could have listed). I certainly would take the Tarkovsky version of Solaris, which is another that would have made a longer list, over the Hollywood version (still prefer the Lem novel to either). Good to see other admirers of Zardoz. I think it gets a bum wrap (that looks suspiciously like a red diaper). ;) |
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Posted: January 18 2017 at 17:28 |
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Fahrenheit 451
The Andromeda Strain Close Encounters of the Third Kind Equilibrium Corbin- the Colossus Project The Keep 1984 Contact KPAX 2001 Space Odyssey
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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)
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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
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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? |
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^ 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 |
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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. 
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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.
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