Out of Pod Experience

A Scanner Darkly
Paycheck
Minority Report
Screamers

are all movies worth watching based on P. K. D. stories

It was better than After Earth. I wouldn't say either were bad, but not great either. Oblivion reminded me of the Total Recall remake with a smaller cast.

Eden Log
Brazil
Alien
Aliens
Casshern
Moon
District 9
Children of Men

The first matrix movie is still very good in my opinion and of course Bladerunner, Alien, and if you want to laugh your ass off Nightflyers.

Wow. This thread proves that there are some just amazing SF movies out there.

It's obviously the most expensive, yet most important genre.


Although I really like what Harlan Ellison said in an interview 3 days ago:

"Well, we live in a technological age. Time has passed, and we have stepped over the ruins of our own societies, and our own civilisations, and we come now to the fruition of those things about which the human race has dreamed. We have flight and we have electronic assistants.

The entertainment media – which are always very timorous and step very carefully out of fear and loathing – don't know what they're doing so much. So they go back, and they are catching up on the kind of science fiction – and they call it, in that ugly, ugly phrase, "sci-fi," which those who have worked in speculative fiction despise, it's like calling a woman a "broad" – they are catching up on ideas that were covered with hoarfrost 60 years ago.

That's why you have an overabundance of zombies and walking dead, and world war and asteroids from space. They have not yet tackled any of the truly interesting discussions of humanity that are treated in speculative fiction. But they are a break from standard 19th, early 20th-century fiction, and so they seem fresh to an audience that is essentially ignorant."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/14/harlan-ellison-q-and-a-interview

1. Aliens - The sets, the world building, the alien itself, and the general terror easily allows Aliens (Alien 2) to Nuke the competition from orbit (its the only way to be sure!).

2. Alien - Suffers a bit from the technology of the time (whereas the sequel easily stands up against today's blockbusters) and moves a little slow at times but still one of the most terrifying sci-fi films of all time.

3. Predator - A little atypical in that its really a monster movie with a light sci-fi element but I think every kid that ever watched it at one time wanted a shoulder mounted plasma cannon with triangle aiming reticle.

4. Event Horizon - I still have nightmares about this movie, one of the most original sci-fi films of all time.

5. Total Recall - A hugely elaborate backstory, a fantastic visual aesthetic, many great actors in bit roles.... there aren't enough good things I can say about Total Recall. The effects don't quite stand up to the test of time but the story resonates and was many times better than the crappy remake.

6. Star Wars (Original Trilogy) - The Grand Daddy of them all. At its core its a basic employment of the mono-myth but I doubt anyone honestly feels it doesn't belong somewhere on this list. I've counted it as one movie because they are similar in quality and tell a single uninterupted story.

7. Gattaca - I was fortunate enough to attend the premier of Gattaca at TIFF, to this day its my favorite movie in terms of visual aesthetic. It was a stunning film when it was made it its still stunning today even compared against the most modern films of the day. The story is complex, deep and tugs on the heartstrings. I would rate it higher but I feel it never obtained the recognition it deserved and so I'm going to temper my feelings for it and list it here.

8. Star Trek (newer JJ Abrams one) - Great and straightforward. It was the Star Wars movie JJ should have made in order to appeal to the widest audience.

9. Terminator 2 - A great action movie with fantastic visual effects built on one of the most interesting back-stories in Sci-fi film

10. Blade Runner - Ridley Scott's masterpiece may be plodding and dense at times but if not for it I doubt we would have the wealth of sci-fi film and tv that we do today. The fantastic acting bouys this film but its pace makes it a bit of a tough watch for some. Some of the Directors Cuts are fantastic and some butcher the movie terrible.

Honourable mention: Dark City - one of the strangest movies you will ever see but dark and fantastic.

Ty for reminding me of that one - was an awesome show.

I'm gonna have to try and track it down now.

oh cool, i thought i had seen them all, but i found a few here that i missed.
thanks guys.

best of all time- 2001: A Space Odyssey
i can never stop to admire how well it pulls you in whit out any spoken dialog for the first 30 minutes.
a real piece of art that is.

Idiocracy is hilarious and awesome!