Favourite Sci-Fi Films

[goat major]

Constantine [is this fantasy?]

I think it's prob fantasy if we're being picky. I actually hated lots of it but that's as a long standing hellblazer reader. I'd probably have enjoyed it more if I didn't compare it to the source material ( I sat in the cinema on my own grumbling like comic store guy from the Simpsons ). They did Gabriel well though.

I'm looking forward to the new judge dredd.

Oh...... soylent green and quatermass....

[Squirrel]

By favourite, I'm going with films I enjoy watching over again, so ...

Fifth Element
Pitch Black/Chronicals of Riddick
Predator
Star Gate

Cheers,

Kev

[Hertsblue]

By favourite, I'm going with films I enjoy watching over again, so ...

Fifth Element
Pitch Black/Chronicals of Riddick
Predator
Star Gate

Cheers,

Kev

Yeah, forgot Stargate. Mind you how that city fed itself in the middle of the desert, Hollywood only knows. 

[Maenoferren]

Holy wood magic evidently

[Jim Ando]

blade runner

aliens

The day the earth stood still (the keanu reeves one)


Ha ha did anyone fall for  that last one.

I watched the original with my dad when I was a kid and Gort scared the sh*t out of me and still does. It`s an amazing film just watched it with my littlin  again last week and it scared the sh*t out of him too.

Jim

[nikharwood]

Soldier (watching it now) - I remembered this as poor, but it's not as bad as I thought - and there's some funky kit 

[Aart Brouwer]

How could anyone not mention Solaris by Tarkovski? A totally mesmerising movie. You just can't stop watching, you can't stop listening to the Bach choral theme, and you come away with a renewed sense of the beauty of earth and the tragedy of man's endeavours. It doesn't have giant lizards or laser guns in it, it's art. Scene after scene is unsurpassed in filmic beauty.

Cheers,
Aart

[goat major]

Dr Who Invasion Earth!!

[Luddite]

I watched Babylon AD last night. It is DEFINATELY NOT my favourite sci-fi mioie.

Incomprehensible, rambling, fail of a movie.  Which is a shame because it seemed quite promising.

[FierceKitty]

How could anyone not mention Solaris by Tarkovski? A totally mesmerising movie. You just can't stop watching, you can't stop listening to the Bach choral theme, and you come away with a renewed sense of the beauty of earth and the tragedy of man's endeavours. It doesn't have giant lizards or laser guns in it, it's art. Scene after scene is unsurpassed in filmic beauty.

Cheers,
Aart

It impressed me the first time; the second - nearly thirty years later - I couldn't sit through it; I think I expect more pace these days, and certainly a livelier camera.

[Aart Brouwer]

It impressed me the first time; the second - nearly thirty years later - I couldn't sit through it; I think I expect more pace these days, and certainly a livelier camera.

I understand. I considered inserting a snide remark here about today's youf, flexibility hysterics or consumer culture, but it's no use rowing against the tide. It's a pity.

Cheers,
Aart

[Ivan]

khm... let's see...
cliche but have to say num 1 is 4 me Blade Runner
2. Star Wars (all except 1, I really didn't like it)
3. Terminator 1 (the eye thing is just too scary)
4. Avatar
5. Dune
6. S. O. 2001
7. Skyline
8 Thing
9. Matrix
10. Space balls
Alien is just too scary....

[FierceKitty]

I understand. I considered inserting a snide remark here about today's youf, flexibility hysterics or consumer culture, but it's no use rowing against the tide. It's a pity.

Cheers,
Aart

I was born in 1959; not sure the youth culture dart would have struck home.

[Aart Brouwer]

I was born in 1959; not sure the youth culture dart would have struck home.

I was born in 1957. So it would  have struck home, you young whippersnapper.

Cheers,
Aart

[FierceKitty]

Your generation has never understood ours!