Best and Worst Sci Fi Films of All Time

[Muadib]

Originally Posted by tuferguson

the son should be ashamed - the sequels and prequels are nothing better than average.

Although entertaining, I have to agree... Even with a ghost writer, Brian is not the storyteller his father was...

[Butterfly]

WestWorld is a classic,

Logan Run too,

[Muadib]

^ Logan's Run is a classic... The premise behind the film could be a way to control over-population and solve social security reform...

Going back a bit further, Soylent Green with Charlton Heston...

[Plan B]

Watched Event Horizon at the weekend. Bit strange... starts out Sci-fi and ends up horror. An interesting piece about the film from wiki...

Crewmembers have modified flags on their uniforms to suggest political change prior to 2047. Characters played by American actors wear a modified flag of the United States with fifty-five stars, while characters played by British actors wear the European flag with an extra circle of stars within the original one. Weir (played by New Zealander Sam Neill) wears a modified version of the Australian flag, in which the Aboriginal Flag replaces the Union Jack.

Which unlucky countries became the extra 5 states of America?





Also saw Alien vs Predator: Requiem

They don't have the big budgets anymore for this series of movies to afford the name actors or lotsa effects. Not a bad effort though. Set in present day small American town it picks up straight after the last AVP movie and introduces the Pred-Alien and a couple of new bits of tech for the Predator. Story fits in well with AVP movie-game timeline.

Suffers from the "blind human" factor a bit. Example: Guardsman walks up to investigate a bloodstain on a car's side window. Alien rises up behind him. How the fuck did the Guardsman not see a big, fuck-off, nasty alien when he walked past it?

Also breaks some movie taboos in that little kids and pregnant women get slaughtered.

[Butterfly]

There is a special Edit of Event Horizon that was done by fans and supposed to be better,

[Fuzzy Bob]

^ It's here, but no seeders on PB.

EVENT HORIZON: SLASHED aka KILLER HORIZON The FanEdit (download torrent) - TPB

[kmart]

Originally Posted by Muadib

^ Logan's Run is a classic... The premise behind the film could be a way to control over-population and solve social security reform...

Going back a bit further, Soylent Green with Charlton Heston...

Logan's Run also had the rather divine Ms Jenny Agutter starring, whom i used to be smitten by.

[harrybarracuda]

I mean surely everyone's seen Dark Star?

"Bomb, this is Lt. Doolittle. You are *not* to detonate in the bomb bay. I repeat, you are NOT to detonate in the bomb bay!".

If you haven't watched it, you're denying yourself 83 minutes of stomach-hurting laughter. John Carpenter's first full length feature and even though the miniscule budget oozes through in the costumes and FX, this film really works. One of those I pull out occasionally and watch with a spliff for a night of unbridled mirth.

But for unparallelled huge-budget crap, there can be only one.....

(No, not Highlander, I enjoyed that, although the sequels were all gobshyte)....no.....


The Black Hole.

Possibly the worst blunder Disney ever made. It's almost worth watching again because it's sooooooooo bad it was unintentionally funny and it's probably even funnier in retrospect.

I still can't forget the robots on strings....


I can still smell this film from 30 years ago!

[sabang]

'Children of Men' is a damn good recent sci-fi (or post-apocalyptic) movie.

'The Hidden', a 1987 indie movie with Kyle MacLachlan is pretty good too.

[harrybarracuda]

I watched this new Bruce Willis sci-fi flick last night. 4/10. Good special effects, but really nothing that special as a film.

[Bexar County Stud]

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
I wouldn't say one of the "best," but one of my favorites, about the perils of a super-computer controlled defense system. Was slated to be remade by director Ron Howard, but the production stalled out. 70's movie fans and those with an interest in computers would probably enjoy this move the most. "There is another system..."

The Andromeda Strain (1971) A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread. Based on a Michael Cricthon novel. Was horribly and unnecessarily remade recently as a TV min-series.


As far as worst, there's too many recent movies to mention. CGI has wrecked Sci-Fi IMO.

[harrybarracuda]

Originally Posted by Bexar County Stud

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

As far as worst, there's too many recent movies to mention. CGI has wrecked Sci-Fi IMO.

That's a bit over the top. How could you possibly have made films of the likes of The Abyss, Independence Day or even look at the Fantasy genre with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, without CGI?

There's still plenty of room for good special effects, I grant you, but CGI allows you to add an element of scale that simply isn't humanly possible, and would look frankly crap on matte.

I bet you still have your 8-Track, don't you

[Humbert]

Just saw a trailer for The Road on You Tube. Sorry, don't know how to lift and paste those. This is a post-apocolyptal story about the end of civilization starring Vigo Mortenson and Charlize Theron. The book, by Cormack McCarthy was the scariest book I ever read. The movie releases on Nov. 25th I believe.

[Plan B]

Just watched The Animatrix. A series of animated short films of various quality based on and around the Matrix storyline, past & present.

Nice to see variations on the theme. Continues with the biblical references in some stories, same as were found in the movies.
Held my attention.

[harrybarracuda]

Directorial debut of one Duncan Jones, who managed to get funding from a variety of people including Trudie Styler. Turned out not to be a surprise when you find out his real name is Zowie Bowie son of the famous iconic singer, Norman Bowie

Sam Rockwell is pretty well the sole character (he played the child killer in The Green Mile, so yes he must have come cheap, but do not let that put you off!).

It's the story of a man who is the sole operator of an automated mining plant on the moon, nearing the completion of his three year contract. His direct satellite link is broken, so his only communication with his family is via delayed recordings. His only entertainment is reruns of old TV shows. And his only companion is an administrative, ceiling mounted robot (voiced by Kevin Spacey).

Now there may not seem much to this film, and it wasn't big budget, but the attention to the set design is fantastic considering, and the models aren't unconvincing either.

Rockwell does a more than passable job of conveying the lonely astronaut, and the script is not unlike 2001: A Space Odyssey in that, although there isn't really enough plot and script to fill a whole movie, the space left is used to make what's left that much more atmospheric (excuse the pun) and believable.

(In fact, if you've seen another of my favourites, Silent Running, you'll understand what I mean that much more).

It has its little surprises, and for a directorial debut, I think Bowie/Jones has done really well.

It's won a good few awards at some of the international film festivals as well, and on the whole I'd say it's worth a look, and about 7/10.

[Butterfly]

^ saw it, thought it was highly predictable, and despite the typical cheap UK special effects, the lead actor did a good job

[Gerbil]

^^ Effects, sets & costumes straight out of "Space:1999"

[Butterfly]

^ loved that show, might download it

[harrybarracuda]

Now you're talking!

I had a real MILF thing going for that Maya!

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m...p/spgop176.jpg