What is your Favorite 3 Sci-fi Films and why

[senny dreadful]

What I can't believe is how many people like fucking Star Wars. Most over-rated thing in the history of the English-speaking peoples of the world. even more over-rated than The Beatles or Thatcher.

Aw. No joy from Star Wars? For shame.

 

[CharlieAddict]

Bladerunner - for all it's philosophical reasons on being, reality and fate.

The Thing - great film about alienation and paranoia. fuckin' love it as a sci-fi/horror as well.

Aliens - hicks, hudson, gorman, ripley, burke. possibly the best characterisation in a sci-fi. this script is full of greatness.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

What I can't believe is how many people like fucking Star Wars. Most over-rated thing in the history of the English-speaking peoples of the world. even more over-rated than The Beatles or Thatcher.

*clicks button to donate to Bluestreak's campaign*

 

[senny dreadful]

I think that like me, most of those rating Dune read it first and so appreciatted it more.

I personaly would have flicked over in disgust at those stupid noise guns (his name is a killing sound)

Dune is still on my (stupidly long) list of things I need to read. And I may have been distracted by Sting in a tiny pair of pants. Not in a good way.

 

[Final]

Incidently, it's the only film I know of where the Baddies chief luitenant actually has a cooler death than the main Baddie.

Took a while, but I'm going to go with Oddjob (electrocuted whilst recovering hat) having a cooler death than Auric Goldfinger (sucked out of a plane window).

 

[dlx1]

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
Why:Steven Spielberg Richard Dreyfuss François Truffaut. One of my all time faves

2. Starman 1984
Why:John Carpenter. Grate sound track tick all the boxes

3. Scanners 1981
Why Man did you see his head blast open.
from imdb:

There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners

I wish I powers like that


There to many: Back to the Future,Metropolis,Cocoon - Brian Dennehy in it & it just light harted.



Was going to say Bladerunner but find boring now same as 2001

 

[DotCommunist]

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
Why:Steven Spielberg Richard Dreyfuss François Truffaut. One of my all time faves

2. Starman 1984
Why:John Carpenter. Grate sound track tick all the boxes

3. Scanners 1981
Why Man did you see his head blast open.
from imdb: I wish I powers like that


There to many: Back to the Future,Metropolis,Cocoon - Brian Dennehy in it & it just light harted.



Was going to say Bladerunner but find boring now same as 2001

I'm sensing a love of creepily moralistic and sentimental sci fi here....

 

[strung out]

Tron!

 

[DotCommunist]

Tron!

Good Fucking Call!

 

[dlx1]

I'm sensing a love of creepily moralistic and sentimental sci fi here....

the passed is better then now!

 

[Reno]

I'm sensing a love of creepily moralistic and sentimental sci fi here....

Sentimental maybe, but why moralisitic ?

 

[DotCommunist]

Sentimental maybe, but why moralisitic ?

That requires a long answer. Which I shall post tomorrow as my taxi is here in 2 mins

 

[dylanredefined]

Agreed 100%. It should have been as plain as a Bulgarian pin-up that it was an analogy for fascism.

Unfortunately he was a bit too subtle for a lot of people. Only got a pirate copy so haven't heard the commentary .The humans are all shiny and happy living in what looks like a utopia.Bugs are nasty and violent with no redeeming features so its hard to see any downside to the supposedly fascist
state they live in. No apparent discrimination or oppression .
Except Heinlein original idea that the citizenship had to be earned.
It defiantly makes it a great film as we can still argue about .
Unlike starship troopers 2 don't watch it .

Still think the book would have be great to film if only for the opening scene.

 

[dylanredefined]

Gosh what a toughie

In conclusion then

1 End of Evangellion
2 Dead or Alive 3
3 Cypher

End of Evangellion .Why its not even a good episode of evangellion!

 

[dream_girl]

Not sure you can call Escape from New York sci fi, as there is hardly no science in it really, the most scientific bit is probably the President's bracelet. Hardly seems enough to qualify it as Sci Fi.

You're being a bit narrow with your definition there. I consider that the whole concept of New York having to be used as a giant prison to be enough of an idea to qualify the film as Science Fiction.

 

[dream_girl]

Also, has nobody mentioned the wonderful Dark City?

yeah - me

 

[Kaka Tim]

Hard to choose just three -
There's the 50s classics -

Day the Earth stood still
Them!
Invasion of the bodysnatchers

60s and 70s -

Planet of the Apes is top. Possibly the best shock ending ever.
The body snatchers remake.
Dark Star (cult very early john carpenter low budget classic)
Silent Running
Empire Strikes Back
Clockwork Orange?

80s to present -

Brazil
Scanners
Terminator 1 and 2
Total Recall
Matrix

However Bladerunner is a masively over-rated pile of dull and 5th element is quite bollocks as well.

 

[Balbi]

Needs more Battlefield Earth

 

[DotCommunist]

Needs more Battlefield Earth

Wash your mouth out.

 

[mentalchik]

Needs more Battlefield Earth

tsk

 

[mentalchik]

I still can't choose and it would end up as just a long list......

 

[Wilson]

logans run

 

[Reno]

logans run

Great fun for the first half, but then runs out of steam once Logan and Jessica escape from the domed city. The soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith is one of the best ever written for a sci-fi movie IMO.

 

[debaser]

Ghost in the shell not making it into anyones top 3?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

End of Evangellion .Why its not even a good episode of evangellion!

It's not an episode, it's a film. Are you sure you have seen it? If you have ignore this next bit.

It's the real ending with the end of the world and all that. The TV ending is what's going on in Shinjis head, the film is the mega apocalypse with Rei as big as a planet.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ghost in the shell not making it into anyones top 3?

No, I suspect this is because it is utter utter utter shit.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Great fun for the first half, but then runs out of steam once Logan and Jessica escape from the domed city. .

Hey, but what about the naked ice cave bit?

 

[Reno]

Hey, but what about the naked ice cave bit?

That's still ok, despite the crap robot. When they get to Washington and learn life lessons from Peter Ustinov, that's when the film turns rubbish.

 

[cybertect]

Hey, but what about the naked ice cave bit?

Forbidden Planet has a better robot

Actually, I'd probably agree with Reno about it being a film of two halves.

 

[DotCommunist]

Lost in SpAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE


was abit poo.

The Joey from freinds film version plumbed new depths of badness also