What is your Favorite 3 Sci-fi Films and why

[DotCommunist]

Me I love too many to pick one. but I'll go for three.

Lynch's Dune. Deeply flawed and startlingly brilliant.

Carpenter's remake of The Thing. Brutal, fucking brutal. Kurt's finest hour

Pitch Black. A modern, perfect sci-fi B movie. Dialouge and shooting, camera work and story all added up to this sparse brilliance that managed to make Vin Diesel look good ffs.

oh and for me sadly underrated choices as a PS.

Dark City-Tis proper good

GATTACA- an accomplished look at the potential for genetic facism

 

[El Jefe]

Alien - first and best.

Silent Running - really sad, moving film.

Planet of the Apes - scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid

 

[mentalchik]

DC you is a very horrid boy indeed............


can't pick........Blade Runner is probably my fav but the others i would find too hard.....


(i love Pitch Black too.........although it had the disturbing effect of making me have naughty thoughts about Vin Deisel )

 

[DotCommunist]

Alien - first and best.

Silent Running - really sad, moving film.

Planet of the Apes - scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid

Thats onew I watched as a young kid and didn't really get, then watched later in life on a comedown. There's an elegance about it that flick tho.

 

[SpookyFrank]

1. Alien. No justification for this choice is required.

2. The Fifth Element. Crammed to the gills with superb little quirks of design, editing and dialogue and with plenty of classic Luc Besson set pieces to boot; pretty much the most entertaining sci-fi film it could ever be possible to make.

3. Dear god I very nearly forgot Star Wars

 

[Dillinger4]

Where do I start?



I echo most of whats already been said.

Especially Spookyfranks ^^

I have not watched Pitch Black, though.

Vin Diesel put me off. You recommend it then, DC?

 

[Stigmata]

The Fifth Element, for its sheer inventiveness.

The Matrix, which was just groundbreaking and incredible.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day, just because.

Also: 2001, Gattaca, Total Recall, Back To The Future

 

[Detroit City]

1. Alien
2. Star Wars Episode V - TESB
3. Sex Trek V (with Candy Samples)

 

[Detroit City]

The Fifth Element, for its sheer inventiveness.

inventiveness of what? a totally shite movie?

 

[Dillinger4]

KHANNNNN



cool as.

 

[rich!]

fifth element nearly qualifies.

that star wars film with the hole in the desert that eats people, that's not bad, but it's a fantasy film like all the star wars films.

nearly any Red Dwarf episode.

bladerunner.


all right, 2001.

 

[Stigmata]

inventiveness of what? a totally shite movie?

Any film featuring stompy gold aliens and Tricky is bound to be great. Add the fact that Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes and Gary Oldman played the villain, and you have cinematic gold.

 

[Dravinian]

Where do I start?



I echo most of whats already been said.

Especially Spookyfranks ^^

I have not watched Pitch Black, though.

Vin Diesel put me off. You recommend it then, DC?

Vin Diesel is Vin Diesel in every movie he will ever be in. The sooner he realises that the sooner we can all enjoy his movies.

The character, Riddick, that he plays was written for him, it suits him perfectly, I have enjoyed all of the Riddick movies and animations, and Pitch Black to me is little more then a prequel Riddick movie.

I am not a big fan of these top lists, I think it is too difficult, I think at best you could do a top 3 per Decade list. But an historic top 3 is just so difficult and narrow, I have thought of 5 movies, not listed here already, that I would put in my top 3 list.

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Classic.
La Jetee. Incredibly powerful.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Just Scary.
Terminator. The Original was a Great Film.
Aeon Flux. The Animated Short. Was ground breaking.

I am sure I will think of more the moment i press the reply button and i agree with most of what has been said already too.

Then again, I did admit in another thread that my opinion on Sci Fi should be taken with a pinch of salt, because there isn't much I don't like.

 

[Dravinian]

See what I mean, how dare I miss out 2001: A Space Odyssey. Knew the moment I pressed the button I would regret not adding something.

 

[chainsaw cat]

1. Alien.

2. thx1138 (saw it on movie drome years ago, can't get it outa my head....)

3. Brazil - prollblallbly the best film of the Thatcher years, i'm convinced it counts as sci fi but can't be arsed to argue the point.

 

[rich!]

Vin Diesel is Vin Diesel in every movie he will ever be in. The sooner he realises that the sooner we can all enjoy his movies.

I'm quite hoping for a Warhammer 40000 movie with him and a number of other "manly men" as Imperial Marines...

 

[Dillinger4]

Brazil!!!!

 

[Dillinger4]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Sorry, I had to do that one again.

 

[Dravinian]

I'm quite hoping for a Warhammer 40000 movie with him and a number of other "manly men" as Imperial Marines...

See that would be a great movie.

Instead he will probably do another movie where he babysits two kids.

 

[MikeMcc]

Difficult to know where to start!

1. Alien. Brilliant film hampered only by the limitations of the special effects of the time. Undisputably the best Sci-Fi / Horror film, the story line from the decision to destroy the Nostromo through to the death of the alien is brilliant. Though I like the extra scenes of the director's cut they do tend to spoil the flow of the story from the original film.

2. Dune. A very good attempt at trying to follow the story from the book and lots of stunning visuals, A very classy looking film.

3. 2001. Stunning, years ahead of it's time. So much detail that is spot on (some glaring screw ups too!). It helped that I had read the book first so I understood a bit about the events after Bowman entered the obilisk.

Honourable mentions - the original Planet of the Apes- a gobsmacking finale. Fifth Element - cracking storyline, humour and design. Bladerunner -Iconic in all it's various guises, another one that I read the book before watching though. The Matrix films , especially the first one and the first half of the third one. the battles between the humans and the robots are awesome. Pitch Black is a classic horror film and made Vin Diesel into what he is at the moment. It was perfectly pitched for him.

I could carry on about this for ages, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek II, Silent Running, Soylent Green, Return of the Jedi, The Day The Earth stood Still...

 

[DotCommunist]

Brazil!!!!

I watched that on ITV last year on a mates reccomend. ITV were billing it as a De Niro film when the cunts hardly in it

 

[agricola]

I'm quite hoping for a Warhammer 40000 movie with him and a number of other "manly men" as Imperial Marines...

the idea of him anywhere near a wh40k film fills me with dread. its a shame pat roach is dead, he would have made a great space marine.



my three (in no particular order)

Empire Strikes Back - utter brilliance from beginning to end
Serenity - Firefly and the best baddie in recent years
Wrath of Khan - for the same reason as everyone else

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Glad to see a bit of love for the Fifth Element. I usually get slated for that one...
My picks:

Alien
Empire Strikes Back
2001

I know, kind of boring, but they were the best 3 I could think of.

 

[MikeMcc]

I'm quite hoping for a Warhammer 40000 movie with him and a number of other "manly men" as Imperial Marines...

Dear God, yes please, the ultramarine story-line made into a film would be gobsmacking. It really isn't about emotion with Space Marines, just hard-arsed nastiness in the face of overwhelming odds. It would be amazing. a scene of recovering the glands from a fallen marine with a bit of regret of having to do so would pitch it about right,

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Dune
2001
Bladerunner

 

[Dravinian]

Dear God, yes please, the ultramarine story-line made into a film would be gobsmacking. It really isn't about emotion with Space Marines, just hard-arsed nastiness in the face of overwhelming odds. It would be amazing. a scene of recovering the glands from a fallen marine with a bit of regret of having to do so would pitch it about right,

The Rock, Vin Diesel, Ron Perlman all as marines. How could that movie not be excellent.

 

[DotCommunist]

Vin Diesel is Vin Diesel in every movie he will ever be in. The sooner he realises that the sooner we can all enjoy his movies.

The character, Riddick, that he plays was written for him, it suits him perfectly, I have enjoyed all of the Riddick movies and animations, and Pitch Black to me is little more then a prequel Riddick movie.

TBF I found the second riddick film to be turgid overblown wank. It lost all the tautness seen in Pitch Black, precisely because they went all exposition and tried to fit what might have made a half-decent sci-fi book into a films limited time.

Pretty though the film was.

Much rather have seen some sort of prequel involving Riddicks original incareration on Slam and his escape. The sort of isolated group scenario in PB worked just like a perfect SF short story. Chronicles of Riddick tried to fit in a full sci-fi novel of Richard Morgan standard into scant time. Fail.

 

[rich!]

The Rock, Vin Diesel, Ron Perlman all as marines. How could that movie not be excellent.

It would get made by the people who did Bad Boys 2.

 

[Dravinian]

TBF I found the second riddick film to be turgid overblown wank. It lost all the tautness seen in Pitch Black, precisely because they went all exposition and tried to fit what might have made a half-decent sci-fi book into a films limited time.

Pretty though the film was.

Much rather have seen some sort of prequel involving Riddicks original incareration on Slam and his escape. The sort of isolated group scenario in PB worked just like a perfect SF short story. Chronicles of Riddick tried to fit in a full sci-fi novel of Richard Morgan standard into scant time. Fail.

And yet I still enjoyed it.

As I said though, my opinion, pinch of salt, not worth the paper it's printed on, sci fi geek barely finds anything too rubbish to watch.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Vin Diesel looks like he should be working in a whorehouse in San Francisco's Castro District.