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Best Sci-fi movie to date...

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BORRIS DEMONTFORD
THE OFFENDERS
#81 - 2013-06-17 16:16:57 UTC
Louise Antwoord wrote:
Pitch black

whenever Peter F Hamiltons books are made into films. Those....



I would prefer to see any of the Iain M. Banks Culture novels as a film as long as they don't **** it up, I'm reading The Hydrogen Sonata now and its rather sad to know it will be the last Culture novel I ever read.
Toshiro Hasegawa
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#82 - 2013-06-17 16:21:49 UTC
just to be pedantic, as what else is an internet forum tied to an internet spaceship game for, the Sci-fi label is very wide ranging and one could argue than many so called sci-fi movies are really action adventure movies, or fantasy movies given the sci-fi title as they are set in a futuristic setting.

i would be more specific and go with movies that more acurately fit the sci-fi label:

2001
Blade Runner
Brazil

History is the study of change.

Thur Khagah
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#83 - 2013-06-17 16:49:02 UTC
What about Howard the Duck ?^^
Daveion Steel
Steel Capital investments
#84 - 2013-06-17 17:03:28 UTC
Thorn Galen wrote:
K-Pax
The Man from Earth
Moon
Pi (1998)
Star Trek - Wrath of Khan
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Fifth Element
Total Recall (With Arnie, the original)
Alien (all of them)
Dune (the special TV release, it's the original movie with a lot of added footage missing from the original - Movies never did Dune justice anyways)
AI - Artificial Intelligence
Bicentennial Man

The best movie here which has zero special effects but has a gripping story is 'The Man from Earth'. Do yourself a favor, watch this one.

o7


Not seen "man from Earth yet", but The Book "PI" written by Carl Sagan I have read, and is much better than the movie, although I cannot deny that I enjoyed the movie as well

D...
Mara Pahrdi
The Order of Anoyia
#85 - 2013-06-17 17:12:01 UTC
Lots of good films. The one at the top of the list is Alien.

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Stami Baby
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#86 - 2013-06-17 17:16:54 UTC
Firefly
Serenity
Aliens
Prometheus
Vehestian
Applied Anarchy
The Initiative.
#87 - 2013-06-17 17:20:40 UTC
Alien, Aliens, Alien3, yes the third one is awesome
DUNE ( Lynch film)
First three old Star Wars
2 new Star Trek films
Bladrunner
5th Element
2000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001
Predator
Fire in the Sky
The Matrix
Children of Men
The Objective

so many more good ones
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#88 - 2013-06-17 17:24:11 UTC
Vehestian wrote:
Alien, Aliens, Alien3, yes the third one is awesome
DUNE ( Lynch film)
First three old Star Wars
2 new Star Trek films
Bladrunner
5th Element
2000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001
Predator
Fire in the Sky
The Matrix
Children of Men
The Objective

so many more good ones



Fire In The Sky is not Sci Fi




its Real Fi

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Lord Ryan
True Xero
#89 - 2013-06-17 17:47:36 UTC
Toshiroma McDiesel wrote:
The Quiet Earth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Enemy Mine http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089092/
When Worlds Collide http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455856/?ref_=sr_2
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055608/
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046672/?ref_=sr_1
Flight of the Navigator http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/?ref_=tt_rec_tt
Hell Comes to Frog Town (serious cheese) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093171/?ref_=sr_1



I've dreamed of Quiet Earth every since I first seen. Litterally dreamed not just wished for. I could never remember the name, searched forever. A couple years ago I found a post on another forum and bought a DvD copy on Ebay. It's a bit more cheesy than I remembered. But man would it be awesome to get rid of all the useless noise, I mean people and enjoy a proper world.

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EvEa Deva
Doomheim
#90 - 2013-06-17 17:57:21 UTC
Dune is my all time favorite, followed by the old Battlestar Galactica
Bronco Platz
Doomheim
#91 - 2013-06-17 18:12:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Bronco Platz
Forgotten some.

"Three words for you: Wrath of Khan!"

Darkside of the Moon (Not Checkows best acting)

Running Man (Arni meets King, simple awesome)

Another one doesn't come to my mind, but can rember Tim Allen was acting along with the Alien actress.

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Rob Crowley
State War Academy
#92 - 2013-06-17 18:28:04 UTC
All the great classics have already been named, but I got a couple more good ones that I haven't seen mentioned so far:

Galaxy Quest
Immortel
Johnny Mnemonic
Sphere
Strange Days
The Thirteenth Floor
THX 1138
Thorn Galen
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#93 - 2013-06-17 18:29:46 UTC
Bronco Platz wrote:
Forgotten some.

"Three words for you: Wrath of Khan!"

Darkside of the Moon (Not Checkows best acting)

Running Man (Arni meets King, simple awesome)

Another one doesn't come to my mind, but can rember Tim Allen was acting along with the Alien actress.


Tim Allen & Sigourney Weaver in "Galaxy Quest"

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#94 - 2013-06-17 18:30:19 UTC
Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Just kidding, that film is absolutely awful.

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Energetic Monk
Wayforward Emergent Technologies
#95 - 2013-06-17 18:34:26 UTC
Blade Runner - when are we getting a TV that we can zoom in on things:)
Fifth Element

Also, trivia THX1138, Milners reg plate in American Graffiti carried that sequence.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#96 - 2013-06-17 18:37:14 UTC  |  Edited by: James Amril-Kesh
Stami Baby wrote:
Firefly
Serenity
Aliens
Prometheus

Wait, what?

How could you possibly think Prometheus was a good movie, much less "best sci-fi movie to date"?
It's probably one of the worst movies I've ever paid to go see.

Firefly isn't even a movie.
Serenity was good for Firefly fans but it's not really what you could call science fiction.




Anyway, Inception is probably very close to the top of my list for the best science fiction films, at least of the last ten years or so.

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Lord Ryan
True Xero
#97 - 2013-06-17 18:48:16 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Stami Baby wrote:
Firefly
Serenity
Aliens
Prometheus

Wait, what?

How could you possibly think Prometheus was a good movie, much less "best sci-fi movie to date"?
It's probably one of the worst movies I've ever paid to go see.

Firefly isn't even a movie.
Serenity was good for Firefly fans but it's not really what you could call science fiction.




Anyway, Inception is probably very close to the top of my list for the best science fiction films, at least of the last ten years or so.

Different strokes. I liked Prometeus a lot. Inception not so much.

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Rob Crowley
State War Academy
#98 - 2013-06-17 18:52:58 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Serenity was good for Firefly fans but it's not really what you could call science fiction.

Say what? I know one can always have lengthy discussions about genre classifications, but out of the many tags you could apply to Serenity (or Firefly) science fiction is certainly the first one that comes to mind.

It has space ships, a whole colonized solar system, laser weapons, space ships, a system wide internet called Cortex and sex robots. Oh, and space ships!
KnowUsByTheDead
Sunlight...Through The Blight.
#99 - 2013-06-17 18:53:17 UTC
Lord Ryan wrote:
Toshiroma McDiesel wrote:
The Quiet Earth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Enemy Mine http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089092/
When Worlds Collide http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455856/?ref_=sr_2
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055608/
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046672/?ref_=sr_1
Flight of the Navigator http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/?ref_=tt_rec_tt
Hell Comes to Frog Town (serious cheese) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093171/?ref_=sr_1



I've dreamed of Quiet Earth every since I first seen. Litterally dreamed not just wished for. I could never remember the name, searched forever. A couple years ago I found a post on another forum and bought a DvD copy on Ebay. It's a bit more cheesy than I remembered. But man would it be awesome to get rid of all the useless noise, I mean people and enjoy a proper world.



I personally can't believe I didn't add that to my list. One the greatest "WTF!!! Moments" in film history occur in that movie, lol.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
Aiwaz
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#100 - 2013-06-17 18:56:43 UTC
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