What are a couple all time classic science-fiction flicks?

[bobthedrummer]

Mine are "Forbidden Planet", "Blade Runner", "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers", "This Island Earth", "Journey to the 8th Planet", "The Day The Earth Stood Still", all the "Alien" series, "Dune", "The Mysterians" and so many more.

"Forbidden Planet" is my all time favorite though.

What are your science-fiction tastes?

[corporatewhore]

1. I liked metropolis and the fifth element

[billbuckhead]

2. Nothing like Bladerunner

Philip K Dick and Ridley Scott

[bobthedrummer]

4. It's one of the Top Ten

for sure, the best Philip K. Dick adaptation to date-most of them suck IMO.

[7th_Sephiroth]

68. lets see

ghost in the shell, AD police files, spirited away

[Bonobo]

3. Gattaca is fairly recent, but fantastic and super timely.

It's a thoughtful movie that brings up issues that need to be given lots of thought in the near future. IMHO that's what sci-fi should do at its best.

BTW, Ethan Hawke is a very gifted writer as well. I recently read his 2nd book and thought it very well written. He's an idiot for cheating on Uma Thurman though. How could a woman get better than THAT? And her father an important Buddhist and all...sad.

[frogfromthenorth2]

38. zzzz....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........

[Character Assassin]

169. Wow. I thought I was the only who couldn't watch it without fa......Zzzzz

Snore

[Cat Atomic]

40. I liked it, too. Beautifully shot.

[Dogmudgeon]

126. Three for GATTACA

Public Address voiceovers in Esperanto ... impresivega!

Anyway, who knows what went on between Uma and Ethan? My fervent hope is that they are happy.

OK, it's not exactly a fervent hope, but you get the idea.

--bkl

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. 2001, Soylent Green, Clockwork Orange, Bladerunner,

Star Wars, Metropolis, Alien, Forbidden Planet, Andromeda Strain, everything Star Trek: TOS, ahhhh, so many of them....

[Fight_n_back]

14. Soylent Green

was written by my late Father in Law.

He also wrote "Missiles of October", "Peublo", "Blind AMbition" and a nutty movie called "Skyjacked".

He was a smart guy.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Wow - a brush with fame!

6 degrees of separation and all that...

[SOteric]

26. Donnie Darko; Aliens; Forbidden Planet; Twelve Monkeys; Akira;

Planet of the Apes (1968); Delicatessen; E.T. the Extra-terrestrial; Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001, A Space Odyssey come to mind as potential fodder for the rest of your list.

Edit: Doh! The Stand.

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Twelve Monkeys - excellent choice

Forgot about that one. And Akira - what a movie!

Though I did mention 2001, I also can't believe i Forgot Planet of the Apes (1968). That's really good science fiction writing, compared to anything. But that remake - my God, what an abomination that was.

[bobthedrummer]

6. OTOH, the worst all time science-fiction movie is "Battlefield Earth"

:puke:
No doubt in my mind about that at all.

[ironflange]

11. Even worse than Flight to Mars?

Although F to M is still fun to watch, and it sounds like B.E. was nothing but torture. Best part of F to M is when one of the characters lights up a ciggie during the flight. Ha!

[frogfromthenorth2]

7. Twelve Monkeys....

[Lostmessage]

8. Whats the name of the movie that they take people off an Airplane

Before the airplane crashes and they take them to another era.

I have another favorite but I can't remember the title either.

The movie has Dennis Quaid in it and he lands on another planet with a reptile creature.

[Parrcrow]

12. Dennis Quaid flick was....

Enemy Mine

Lou Gosset was the lizard dude

[Love Bug]

133. Have your read "The Enemy Papers" by Barry Longyear?

It's a compendium of three books, including Enemy Mine, and two sequels. It also includes the Drac "bible" (that book the Drac kept in a chain around his neck and quoted from). Well worth the read and superior to the movie.

[Parrcrow]

171. I am not familiar with the books

thanks for the recommendation:toast:

[Mikimouse]

23. Millenium? Is that the one where they

take the real people off od the plane and substitute bodies of already dead people, shipping the real ones to a different dimension?

[Lostmessage]

52. Yes

That is the movie.

[Dogmudgeon]

128. Millennium

People from the future pluck people off of doomed aircraft so they can be sent forward in time to survive the End of the Whole Damned World.

The book (by John Varley) was even better than the movie. I think it won a Hugo award.

--bkl

[Susang]

9. Even though I hate the star

Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green and The Omega Man are all Sci Fi classics.

I also dig Alien, Bladerunner, Clockwork Orange, and Brazil

[bobthedrummer]

13. I love "Planet of the Apes" series!

I've got a thing for talking animal movies too.

[Redneck Socialist]

17. Brazil!

One of my all time favorite movies of any genre.

[Deja Q]

129. I forgot about those!

The Apes movie series, especially the first and "Escape From" were the best. "Beneath" did nothing for too long but once it did something, it went all out and had a depressing ending as well.

[Parrcrow]

10. 2001

Always loved the similarity of the apes and Haywood Floyd when he wouldn't drink with the Russians. Showed the Cold War to be simply two tribes of apes who would not share a water hole.

[Ready4Change]

21. Dang! I shoulda thought of this one!

Glad someone did. A true classic which captures the dreams we had in the late 60's early 70's regarding our future in space.

[Ready4Change]

15. Rollerball. Version with James Caan.

I haven't see the latest remake, suspect it's not up to par. But the originals commentary on a corporate state is timely.

There are some other great suggestions above that I agree with. Bladerunner (top in my book.) The first Alien movie. Star Wars Episode IV. Fifth Element. Gattaca. I'm all for those.

[tabasco]

16. War of the Worlds !

A mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury!

[bobthedrummer]

18. That is top tier too!

Better than "Independence Day" any day of the week!

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Independance Day was the shits

in comparison with a true and real classic.

"Hey - let's fly up to the mothership, even though there's no way in hell we could figure out the controls of this ship, and not be noticed, and then manage to get our Apple (brand placement) laptop to interface with their control computer and then manage to put in a virus written in a language and a code that we couldn't possibly understand for a thousand years". Oh, yeah. I found that real plausible. Though I actually liked the movie up until then.

[Parrcrow]

39. Independence Day was ridiculous

Based on War of the Worlds; a cautionary tale of Man's arrogance regarding his place of dominance in the world. Independence Day was an astonishinly arrogant film about America's apparent place as the dominant power in the galaxy. The virus that kills the aliens in the film is a computer virus devised by American know-how.

and we got to see the President of the US in a flight suit.

awww piss on it the special effects were cool.

[terrya]

84. "Independence Day" was just an excuse for some expensive special effects.

"Wow...the White House is blown up! Cool!"

"Gee...the Empire State Building is blown up. Wow!"

Meanwhile...ludicrously bad acting and dialogue and plot twists that are just plain idiotic. I hate movies like this...big budget, special effects driven "entertainment" at the expense of characterization and story.

[soothsayer]

19. don't forget "Dark Star"

here's the dvd review at amazon:

"The Dark Star's crew is on a 20-year mission to destroy unstable planets and make way for future colonization. The smart bombs they use to effect this zoom off cheerfully to do their duty. But unlike Star Trek, in which order prevails, the nerves of this crew are becoming increasingly frayed to the point of psychosis. Their captain has been killed by a radiation leak that also destroyed their toilet paper. "Don't give me any of that 'Intelligent Life' stuff," says Commander Doolittle when presented with the possibility of alien life. "Find me something I can blow up." When an asteroid storm causes a malfunction, Bomb Number 20 (the most cheerful character in the film) has to be repeatedly talked out of exploding prematurely, each time becoming more and more peevish, until they have to teach him phenomenology to make him doubt his existence. And the film's apocalyptic ending, lifted almost wholly from Ray Bradbury's story "Kaleidoscope," has the remaining crew drifting away from each other in space, each to a suitably absurd end. Absurd, surreal, and very funny. John Carpenter once described Dark Star as "Waiting for Godot in space." Made at a cost of practically nothing, the film's effects are nevertheless impressive and, along with the number of ideas crammed into its 83 minutes, ought to shame makers of science fiction films costing hundreds of times more. The DVD contains both the original 68-minute release and the director's full version. --Jim Gay "

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. I've never seen it. Now I wish I had

Looks hilarious, and thought provoking. I love the idea of getting the bomb to doubt its own existence. Brilliant!

[Ready4Change]

28. You know, I actually love Dark Star.

I can't say I'd call it a sophisticated experience, but it's still one of my favorites.

[Cleita]

22. I still think "2001, A Space Odyssey" is the best, because it

broke the movie industry away from the "Cat Women of the Moon" and "Queen of Venus" B flicks (entertaining in their own right I know ;-)) to more literary and serious movies on a large scale.

[soothsayer]

24. oh! also "Silent Running"

how could you not love huey, dewey, and louie?

[Ready4Change]

31. I remember that one.

I'd guess that to be one of the first sci-fi movies with a true environmental conscience?

[soothsayer]

33. yes indeedy! here's the amazon write-up

After creating many of the innovative special effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Douglas Trumbull tried his hand at directing, and 1971's Silent Running marked an impressive debut. (In addition to creating the visual effects for Close Encounters of the Third Kind and directing 1983's Brainstorm, Trumbull later turned to the creation of high-tech cinematic amusement park rides.) One of the best science fiction films of the 1970s, Silent Running stars Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell, a nature-loving crewmember aboard the Valley Forge, a gigantic spaceship in a small fleet that carries the last surviving forests of the Earth, which has fallen victim to overpopulation and ecological neglect.

Freeman's name reflects his nonconformist philosophy, which runs counter to the prevailing recklessness of his three ill-fated crewmates, who are eager to jettison their precious payload and return to the bleakness of Earth. Before they can sabotage the forests, Freeman does what he must, and spends the remainder of his mission with three robotic "drones" as his only companions, struggling to maintain his sanity in the vastness of space. Dern is superb in this memorable role, representing the lost soul of humankind as well as the back-to-nature youth movement of the 1960s and the pre-Watergate era. (Appropriately, Joan Baez sings the film's theme song.) A rare science fiction film that combines bold adventure with passionate social conscience, Silent Running will remain relevant as long as the Earth is threatened by the ravages of human carelessness. --Jeff Shannon --This text refers to the DVD edition

[msu2ba]

104. and the soundtrack.....

.....was written by Peter Schickele, AKA PDQ Bach.

Mike

[NightTrain]

30. Two great ones from the early '90s

Wim Wenders' "Until the End of the World."

The original Russian version of "Solaris."

Even if you're not a sci-fi fan, I strongly recommend those films!

[bobthedrummer]

36. "Until the end of the world" is a truly great movie

with a great soundtrack-lol.

Imagine recording your dreams...

[Zorro]

32. Total Recall

although I must admit I liked it better before, oh, you know...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is outstanding, too.

[bobthedrummer]

34. There was this movie about alien beings that needed humans

for blood, there was a remake of it starring Traci Lords, they wore Ray-Ban's and if they got direct eye contact they could kill you with a glance.

Then ya got put into some kind of device that delivered your human blood to the aliens planet-damn it, I can't remember the title of that one, I liked the original better though.

[bubblesby2002]

54. Freaking me out

I saw that movie when I was young and it scared the living crap out of me. They had plain white eyes.no iris or pupil. shudder

[bobthedrummer]

56. What was the fucking name of that one???

It's a great one too!

[bubblesby2002]

58. Can't remember

Something about Men from Planet 9 or something like that all I know is it's FREAKY

[bobthedrummer]

61. No, that isn't it,

that sounds like Ed Woods "Plan 9 from Outer Space".

The one we're talking about was creepy as hell in the original and corny as a remake.

[bubblesby2002]

67. You're right

about the creepy and corny parts. The re-make wasn't scary at all not like the original. But maybe it was because I was really young when I saw the original and older and jaded when I saw the remake. The name of that movie might surface sometime in the next few days.

[bobthedrummer]

76. "NOT OF THIS EARTH"!

That's the name of it.:dunce:

[bubblesby2002]

112. Hey bobthedrummer

Your powers of recollection are better than mine, but when I read your last post I think you're right. I have difficulty retrieving files that are stored waaaaaay in the back of my brain. Thanks.

[bobthedrummer]

114. Back atcha!

I checked, it is "Not of this Earth". FREAKY indeed.

[scubadude]

35. The Arrival.

Charlie Sheen as a far out astronomer battling with the aliens. Not a classic, but good enough to enjoy.

Dang, I can't remember the name of the other movie. It was about the guys who were picked up by aliens while out on a logging job. Any help with the name?

Ron

[Spirochete]

74. Would that be

Fire in the Sky? The story of the 1975 Travis Walton alien abduction hoax in Arizona or someplace like that?

[Cat Atomic]

37. Enemy Mine.

I love that flick.

[terryg11]

41. 2001, Dune, 12 Monkeys and the V mini series

I thought the V series was good right up to the end of the final battle. that stupid ass ending with the girl saving everyone was dumb

[Parrcrow]

42. and of course...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy.

all versions

[Eat_The_Rich]

43. Best Sci-Fi Flicks

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Alien (and not any of the sequels)

Oh, and the MST 3K version of Teenagers From Outer Space

[salinen]

44. Forbidden Planet?

[Wonco_the_Sane]

45. everything MST3K

Which by the way is the only version of "This Island Earth" I've seen. Invasion of the Saucer-men, The Astounding She-Monster, Forbidden Planet, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (English film), and I also like the monster movies (sci-fi or no???) King Kong, Godzilla, Mothera etc...



CHUD is a great movie website by the way!!!

[Eat_The_Rich]

48. This Island Earth

I was at the premier of this movie. It was in Minneapolis at the State Theater. Most of the cast made personal appearances on stage before the show. I miss those guys.

[Wonco_the_Sane]

50. Wow, too cool

I miss em too...

[mike_c]

46. Aliens, On the Beach, 12 Monkeys, The Matrix series...

...yes, I loved the entire Matrix series, thank you very much. 2001 and 2010. A Boy and His Dog. BLADE RUNNER!! The original Star Gate. Those are the ones that come to mind immediately.

[bobthedrummer]

60. Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog":

great futuristic tale, good political story underlying it all IMHO.

[Nomad559]

66. 2010 was a great movie

I thought It was better than 2001.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Devil

[bobthedrummer]

47. "Phase IV", mutant ants with technology

"4-D Man", "The Man Who Fell To Earth".
Now that is a David Bowie cult flick that is interesting.

[Eat_The_Rich]

51. The Man Who Fell to Earth

I love the whole premise of the movie. An alien comes to earth to tell them that his planet is dying and they need help. Everyone thinks he is a nut case and he ends up a hopeless alcoholic.

[bobthedrummer]

49. How could I forget "The Thing" in both versions but John Carpenter's

remake is superior to the original IMO.

[RebelOne]

73. No way. The original was the best.

[Rabrrrrrr]

78. No, the original bastardized the story

Carpenter's "The THing" is one of the greatest SF movies of all time! I can't believe I forgot about it earlier.

[bobthedrummer]

85. In some areas it is strong

some of the scenes are heavy indeed. I feel the remake is better, except for the ending "fight" sequence-the original has a better ending.

[bobthedrummer]

53. "LIFEFORCE" is a great story.

Scary.

[bobthedrummer]

55. The id monster from "Forbidden Planet" freaked me out as a kid.

Combined with the electronic music score-WOW!:bounce:

[jus_the_facts]

57. The Andromeda Strain...2001.....

....Soylent Green...just to name a few...

[bobthedrummer]

59. I guess "Heavy Metal" and "Aeon Flux" count too.

As well as "Farewell, Good Brothers".

[Eccho]

62. Not really my favs, but just to add to the mix....

Andromeda Strain
THX1138
Logan's Run

[bobthedrummer]

63. "The Time Machine"

both versions, original was more romantic.

[cprise]

64. Bladerunner

In 2001 this film was voted by the British public as the 8th-best all-time film (for all genres).

I also like XMen and Minority Report (except the ending).

[terrya]

81. I second "Blade Runner"

My favorite all time sci-fi movie. One of the classiest looking films ever made, IMO. From a perfectly realistic look at a plausible future, to good acting all around, to a fantastic score by Vangelis, a classic sci-fi film.

[bobthedrummer]

65. Gore Vidal's "Visit to a Small Planet"

starring Jerry Lewis! What a trip.
"1984".

[soothsayer]

69. Might as well throw in "They Live"

Very cool

[CrownPrinceBandar]

70. Best Fight scene ever. n/t

[CanuckAmok]

71. What, no "Quiet Earth"?!

New Zealand Sci-fi from the 80s, in which a man wakes up to discover he's the only person left on Earth.

Or is he...?

[bobthedrummer]

95. The final scene is way cool!

And the plot could very well be referencing something like the HAARP project IMO.

[RebelOne]

72. My all-time favorite is The Thing From Outer Space.

From the 1950s. James Arness played the monster.

[Kamika]

75. The three original star wars movies and all tos star trek

thanks

[Killarney]

77. #1 has to be Aliens

[bobthedrummer]

79. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

I really think that's top ten material too.

80. Alphavillle

by Godard -- highly influential, great mix of sci-fi and film noir detective, bladerunner owes a debt to it, in my opinion.
Bladerunner
Solaris - Tarkovsky version
Brazil
Until the End of the World

[bobthedrummer]

82. "I Married a Monster from Outer Space"

"Attack of the 50' Woman"
lol

[terrya]

83. "Metropolis" Another of my favorites.

Considering this is from the silent era, a classic sci-fi film with some interesting ideas.

[central scrutinizer]

86. Galaxy Quest has to be the funniest

I've seen it at least six times and I still bust a gut.

[bobthedrummer]

88. "Earth Girls are Easy" is funny too.

Then there is "Starman".

[arwalden]

87. Ever Listen To The CD Soundtrack From Forbidden Planet??

It's enough to drive the neighbors batty.

-- Allen

[bobthedrummer]

90. The electronic music experienced in a movie theater during the

first release as a child was awesome and stands the test of time IMHO as one of the best movie scores ever.

[Ganja Ninja]

89. Plan Nine from Outer Space.

Seriously though try Brother from Another Planet. Not an all time great but worth renting if you can find it.

[ewagner]

91. Gotta go with

2001, A Space Odessey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Classic)
Rollerball (the original) creepy look at Dubya's America


and, I know it was kind of cheesy but I kinda liked "The Last Starfighter"

[hatrack]

122. 91 posts to mention "The Day The Earth Stood Still"?

Still a classic, cheesy 1950s special effects and all. And did I mention Sam Jaffe as Professor Barnhart?

A friend of mine was working as a GTA and somehow that movie came up in English class one day. He was trying to make a point about symbolism and mentioned DTESS. Klaatu arrives and goes incognito as "Mr. Carpenter", appears to be about 33 years old, brings a message of peace to Earth, is killed and then resurrected and flies into the heavens . . . sound familiar?

The reaction from his students? "Oh, no way, man! You're making this stuff up!"

I wish I could have been there when he discussed the closing shot of "North by Northwest". Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint have just gotten married, and as Cary reaches for her, the shot changes to show the train they're riding plunging into a tunnel.

They just don't make movies like they used to!

[bobthedrummer]

137. I read the book.

Remember that Gort the machine AI was the superior being-superior to Klattu's flesh and alien blood.
But the movie reversed all that.
And I mentioned The Day The Earth Stood Still in the first post in this thread.

[hatrack]

139. My bad, bobthedrummer!

Reading too quickly, I guess. Gort would never have made a mistake like that!!

[MrBenchley]

92. Five Million Years to Earth

an underappreciated flick...

2001 A Space Odyssey....seen it 25 times (17 the year it came out)...

Day the Earth Stood Still....

anything with a rubber Dinosaur in it...

[bobthedrummer]

94. That was the British one with Martians in the Underground in London

right?

[CanuckAmok]

106. Isn't that "The Quatermass Experiment"?

n/t

[bobthedrummer]

110. It could be. It was also called "The Creeping Unknown" then.

eom

[Bridget Burke]

173. Whatever the title, see it!

On TV, it's mostly called "Five Million Years To Earth". On DVD, "Quatermass & the Pit"--one DVD offers this with another Quatermass film--which sounds like the one I should order.

If you don't know anything about the story, I don't want to tell you more. I happened upon it with no foreknowledge & think you ought to, as well.

[bobthedrummer]

176. Dr. Quatermass movies rock!

They have a certain weird vibe to them and the stories aren't bad, best of all are the b&w ones.

[CanuckAmok]

184. I want to find "Quatermass Conclusion"

It ran on TV once when I was a teen. That was the first Quatermass movie I'd seen, and I loved it. I've never seen it available on video, though.

I particularly enjoyed the 'intorduction' to the elderly Dr. Quatermass's mind-set, when he was the "science" guest on a TV show celebrating the Soyuz-esque US/Soviet meeting in space. He was supposed to talk about the technical achievments, the gesture of unification, etc, but instead he went on a ranting monologue about how it was criminal to waste billions of dollars on an empty gesture of a weightless internatinal handshake while starvation and nuclear proliferation continues on Earth.

You gotta like that! We could sure use Dr. Quatermass here and now...

[arwalden]

93. I Still Enjoy "The Fifth Element"

Green? Super-green!
Leeloo Multi Pass.

-- Allen

[terrya]

96. That was on last night on HBO2...

Fun movie! Weird seeing Bruce Willis with his rug. :-)

Terry

[bobthedrummer]

97. "Repo Man"

had a science fiction theme too.

101. Blasphemer ! Repo Man was true!

Repo Man was true!
Science fact, not fiction
every second of it... true true

[bobthedrummer]

102. It has a nice soundtrack

too.

"Forbidden Planet" is truest of all, based on "The Tempest" IMO.

[Orrin_73]

98. Battlestar Galactica

The original series!!
The mini which was shown recently was an insult to all BG fans.

kucinich.us

deanforamerica.com
clark04.com
sharpton2004.org

Tom DeLay:"I challenge anyone to live on my salary" <$158,000 a year>

[Dogmudgeon]

130. Reverse that for me

I thought the original series was about as lousy as could be.

The recent movie, on the other hand, was excellent.

--bkl

[creativelcro]

99. Blade Runner and Jonny Mnemonic for me.

Some movie critics make fun of Jonny Mnemonic... They are so wrong. It's an awesome movie. I think so even more now that I found out W. Gibson wrote the script and was heavily involved in making the movie. No wonder it is so similar to Neuromancer...

[bobthedrummer]

100. Many recent science-fiction films have fruitcake RW messages

like the worst "Battlefield Earth-or the fascist epic "Starship Troopers" which is an abortion of a wonderful book by Robert Heinlein.

[JackDragna]

103. I don't think anyone mentioned the essential..

"The Day the Earth Stood Still."

[bobthedrummer]

105. Initial post mentioned that CLASSIC

eom

[bobthedrummer]

107. Another British movie "The Creeping Unknown" was ok

kinda like the Dr. Quatermass saga.

[ronnykmarshall]

108. Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster

Ah, the golden age of flim!

[bobthedrummer]

109. "The H Man"

lol

[Snivi Yllom]

111. Godzilla

you have to have Godzilla

[bobthedrummer]

113. "Rodan, the flying Monster"

lol

[bobthedrummer]

115. "When Worlds Collide"

was earthshattering...

[bobthedrummer]

116. NBC did a mini-series "The Martian Chronicles" decades ago

starring Rock Hudson.

And PBS has had some science-fiction {"Lathe of God", the post nuclear war series, etc.}

But the best time for science-fiction was the 1950's IMHO.

All those UFO movies were cool. And the horrors of atomic warfare were great like mutant giant crabs "Attack of the Crab Monsters" or the giant ants in "THEM!".

[ldf]

168. the original "Lathe of Heavan"

was excellent.

the PBS' pathetic excuse of a remake was just that. an insult to the original.

in fact, i had an effective dream the other night. it was a terrible nightmare about a POS from texas being installed as president, through a coup, with the help of the supreme court.

you all don't remember that al gore took his rightful place in the whitehouse in jan, 2001, and the world had never seen such peace and prosperity, do you?

well, that's the way it is with effective dreams ......

:cry:

[bobthedrummer]

170. My bad, sorry.

Yes I meant "Lathe of Heaven".
Sorry to hear about your recurrent dream-that's getting to be a common complaint nowadays.

[kskiska]

117. Anything with Richard Carlson

He seemed to appear in all those 50s outer space movies, such as "It Came From Outer Space." Pictures of this genre usually featured a female co-star, attired in the fashions of the day – a tight skirt and high heels – who would invariably trip and sprain her ankle just as the pair were running from the aliens exiting from the flying saucer that just landed in a rural area.

I loved these pictures as a kid. "War of the Worlds" scared us out of our wits. The monster pictures were good, too – Godzilla, Rodan, etc., which were born of WWII remnants of the A-Bomb.

[bobthedrummer]

118. "It Came From Outer Space" is great!

Another keeper!

on edit:
I remember Richard Carlson in the H.P. Lovecraft style "The Maze"-that was scary.

[kskiska]

131. I remember "The Maze" – It WAS scary!

Wasn't that in 3-D?

I liked Carlson in "I Led Three Lives," the TV series on Commie spies in the 50s.

[bobthedrummer]

119. Growing up as a boomer in the 1950's I remember that "Flash Gordon"

the 1930's movie serial was broadcast on tv every Friday.

124. how about "Flesh Gordon"?

:evilgrin:

[bobthedrummer]

125. "Flesh Gordon" and "Barbarella"

she messed up the machines with her feminine mystique, lol.

[Astarho]

181. I've seen those serials

they were pretty cool, although I didn't think the third one wasn't as good (Jean Rogers was the only Dale Arden).

[MissMarple]

120. Escape From New York, The Thing (2nd), A Boy and his Dog

which is so dark, dark, dark. And I have a particular fondness for The Time Machine with Rod Taylor. I first saw it at an impressionable young age.

A Boy and His Dog is almost as good as the story. As for the first two, what can I say, they both have Kirk Russell at his snarly best.

[bobthedrummer]

121. He is "Snake Pliskin"

including wetware and implants.

"A Boy and His Dog" is an awesome Harlan Ellison story on screen.

[MissMarple]

123. Ouch! That sounds way harsh. I remember his Disney movies.

Now that has been a while.

[Deja Q]

127. Hmmm

Sci-fi dates, but I appreciate the premise in "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

The Aliens movies, 1 and 2, were good, 2 being better. The original 3rd movie, as seen in the original trailer that can be found on the "Aliens" special edition DVD as I recall, suggests the aliens reach Earth and had real promise... Instead, we got a penal colony that went nowhere. The 4th movie, which I hadn't seen, looked good but seemed contrived - I won't spoil what little I do know.

The Star Trek movie series, even the bad films, always use some sort of moral, social ideal, or socially conscious aspect that I respect. It's also the only sci-fi series that suggests mankind will actually improve.

"The Matrix", while based on 3 or 4 sci-fi concepts I'd seen before, did do a nice job of integrating them with a new twist. Sadly, its sequels were nowhere as good (according to friends, I haven't - and won't - see them.)

Dunno. There is no real "best" flick. Just a lot of good ones.

[bobthedrummer]

132. Artificial Intelligence/ A.I.

I liked parts of it, especially the ending.

[Liberal Veteran]

136. I liked it a lot too....

It was a deeply moving and disturbing movie. A lot of people didn't like the ending because they didn't realize the "aliens" were not "aliens" at all, but highly evolved mechas.

It's kind of chilling though to watch the movie and see the WTC towers as part of the skyline so far into the future.

[Love Bug]

134. Star Trek 5!

Just kidding....

Best quote from the movie:

"Why does God need a starship?"

;-)

[bobthedrummer]

135. I liked the ones that had to do with The Genesis Project

terraforming and stuff that is life-promoting.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

138. ZARDOZ!!!!

[bobthedrummer]

140. Yep, another great one

previously unmentioned in this thread.
We've got a copy of "Zardoz" in our collection too!

[bobthedrummer]

141. "Village of the Damned", "Children of the Damned"

aliens impregnate human females!
And they communicate telepathically and can control lifeforms!!
WooHAH!

[bobthedrummer]

142. "Demon Seed" with Julie Christie

was good too.

[bobthedrummer]

143. "Angry Red Planet", "The Brain from Planet Arous","Pi"

"The Invaders t.v. series.

[Exgeneral]

144. those are mine too

is there anything that didn't get mentioned by now?

[bobthedrummer]

145. "Communion"

by Whitley Streiber. Starring Christopher Walken.
Disturbing images in that one, that's for sure.

[bobthedrummer]

146. "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "Donovan's Brain",

"Day of the Triffids"

[bobthedrummer]

147. "Event Horizon"

was a creepy movie.

[bobthedrummer]

148. There was a flick about a modern aircraft carrier transported to 1941

and in a position to foil the attack on Pearl Harbor-but I forgot the name of that one, I think Eric Stolz was in it, could that have been about the Philadelphia Experiment?

[ewagner]

149. Worst Sci-fi flick from the '50s

I used to watch all the Japanese horror flicks on Saturday Afternoons when I was a kid.

The worst I ever saw was one named: From Hell it Came . You waited the whole flick to see what this terrible monster was and do you know what? It was a freeking tree !!!!

[bobthedrummer]

150. Sounds like the script was what came from hell.

"Battlefield Earth" is the worst science-fiction movie ever, it was an unbearable POS for me:puke::puke::puke:

[Cannikin]

152. The Final Countdown, with Kirk Douglas

I remember it well.

[bobthedrummer]

156. Thanx!

:hi:

[notadmblnd]

151. The Three Stooges Go To Mars

[bobthedrummer]

155. Abbot and Costello were in space too

so was a stowaway kid in a movie that featured Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet", I don't know the name of that one, but I saw it. About a stowaway kid on a rocket. From the 1950's.
Then there was "Destination: Moon" and a lot of rocketship movies, especially from Japan.

[baldguy]

153. They Live!

[Cannikin]

154. The DIRECTORS EDITION of Star Trek: the motion picture.

Subtle changes made a big improvement

[bobthedrummer]

157. "Mars Attacks" had some decent scenes in it

but I didn't enjoy it all that much.

[Sir Craig]

158. A-ha! I knew I could think of one that hadn't been mentioned yet!

The Night of the Comet

When Valley Girls are the last ones left on the planet, what do they do? Go shopping!

[Cannikin]

161. Good one! Sarah Conner and Commander Chakotay!

[Waistdeep]

159. Ultimate sci-fi + teenager flick

The Blob, with a very young Steve McQueen. Predates all the other randy teenagers get killed movies.

[kskiska]

160. Worst: Collision Course (aka The Bamboo Saucer)

It was awful. No wonder it was released under two names.

A team of U.S. and Russian scientists travel secretly to China in an attempt to discover the truth behind rumors of a downed U.F.O. Their hope is that the aliens will provide their respective governments with advanced technological information.

The most hilarious part was that they found they could open the hatch of the saucer with an electric shaver (same frequency).
1968, starred Dan Duryea, John Ericson, & Lois Nettleton

[Cannikin]

162. Amazon Women on the Moon

Does it qualify?

[bobthedrummer]

163. Sure, so does "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension"

That was science-fiction based too.

[blindpig]

174. yup, a real cold war classic

did anyone mention "attack of the giant crabs"?

[bobthedrummer]

182. Post 116 mentioned

"Attack of the Crab Monsters"
All those giant animals from nuclear test radiation was a common formula during the 1950's.
I like "THEM!" the giant ants the best.

"The Flying Mantis" gets a mention in this genre as well as "Monster from Green Hell" lol.

Anyone remember "Magnetic Monsters"?
Crash...

[Astarho]

164. A few of mine

Dark City
The Matrix
Metropolis
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
The Time Machine (1960)

And there's a lot more.

[blindpig]

165. looks like everything I can think of has been mentioned except

The man who fell to earth. A little strange, but Bowie was cool.
In the "so bad its great" catagory, "Attack of the Mushroom People". Just the thing for a head full....................

[bobthedrummer]

166. See Posts 47 and 51

for that Bowie movie mentioned.

[blindpig]

175. hey, its a long thread................n/t

[bobthedrummer]

178. I think the scene where Bowie is in the bathroom reverting to e.t.

form only to freak out drunken Candy Clark when that form is revealed-well that is an all time mind-blower scene to me.

And how he took over the world markets, that was cool too.

[bobthedrummer]

167. "Cocoon", "The Abyss", "Sphere"

"Stargate"-the movie.

[bobthedrummer]

172. "The Crawling Eye", "20,000,000 Miles to Earth"

how about medical advancements science-fiction "Coma"?

[bobthedrummer]

177. "Flowers for Algernon"

maybe it was released with a different title too.

[bobthedrummer]

179. "It, the Terror from Beyond Space" lol

Ridley Scott paid homage to part of that one in "Alien" crawling around inside ventilation shafts with a hostile alien.

[bobthedrummer]

180. "Death Race 2000", ridiculous story lol, "Cyborg", what a stinker

"Ghosts of Mars", "Screamers", where would the "Scanner" movies fit, that's kinda medical advancement sci-fi IMHO.

[bobthedrummer]

183. "Mothman Prophecy" was a waste of time

I'm thinking maybe it wasn't science-fiction though like "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" was.

[Odessey]

185. Science fiction movies

I liked 'Bladerunner', 'War of the Worlds' and the original three 'Star Wars' movies.

[bobthedrummer]

186. Welcome to DU, Odessey!

:hi:

[Odessey]

188. Why thank'ee kindly! :-)

[CanuckAmok]

187. Classic for its Craptacularism: the UFO movie w Rbt Vaughn & Helen Shave

Mid-seventies era.

It sucked so bad they changed the title several times during its theatrical run, so nobody would be forwarned that this was the piece of crap their friends had warned them not to see.

Basically, there was an alien race who were firing a suicide ray at Earth, in order to have humans off themselves to the aliens could take the planet over.

Beyond the moronic plot, the performaces had more wood than an episode of "Thunderbirds", and the saucers were, seriously, suspended in 'space' with visible fishing-line, not unlike "Plan 9 From Outer Space"

Unbelievably stupid, and I must apologise, 100% Canadian.

[bobthedrummer]

189. I like the Japanese flicks with puppets and seemingly toy models

amidst the cardboard buildings, aircraft on strings {visible} lots of smoke and fire.

I really like "The Mysterians".

[nuxvomica]

190. The original "Invaders from Mars"

Made in the 50s before "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" but with a similar theme and political subtext (communism and/or '50s conformity). This is a low-budget, creepy, stylish story of people being turned into obedient automatons by aliens. The human slaves had a distinctive scar on their necks and after I saw this movie when I was 5, I kept looking for these scars on grownups.
The remake with Karen Black was a piece of crap.

[bobthedrummer]

191. Our local library has that one in media

and the "head" alien was quite a sight to behold-lol.

[bobthedrummer]

192. There's a real oldie called "Dr. Cyclops"

a mad doctor in the jungle miniaturizes the locals and their livestock.

[bobthedrummer]

193. "Slaughterhouse 5"

was great.

[bobthedrummer]

194. "Farenheit 451",

"The Day After"