Hardcore Biker
Hi
Have pretty much seen everything, but LOVE space-based sci-fi. If you think Dark Star's an obscure suggestion please don't post. "Cargo" would be appropriate. Sci-fi nuts will know what I mean.
Can anyone brain dump or recommend some space sci-fi I might not have seen? Bonus points for foreign.
Chur!
GNJ
"This is not a car."
"channellling the Pleideans"
Tarkovsky's SOLARIS?Originally Posted by gnjackal
DARK STAR is bloody over rated IMO. Sure, student project, but meh.
I'm interested in the suggestions also:
Oh yeah, how about OUTLAND or ZARDOZ (shirtless Sean Connery!)
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Hardcore Biker
Well, it's not out yet.
But ENDER'S GAME comes out this year - looking forward to it more than anything else.
Library Schooled
Hardcore Biker
There’s some very interesting Sci-fi in development.
Chris Nolan – Interstellar
Ridley Scott – The Forever War
Neill Blomkamp - Elysium
Old Man’s War (maybe)
Wachowski’s - Jupiter Ascending
Coming soon – Oblivion, After Earth, Pacific Rim, Gravity, Man of Steel
Not excited about Disney’s new Star Wars films. (Sort of….)
I’m about to read Enders Game for the first time.
"This is not a car."
Oppan Biker Style
Dmaned right! Hope it's as good as the book and hope people get it (which is the trouble with some book-to-movie ventures)!
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I thought the book ENDERS GAME was great. I hated all the soppy sequels.
the flim looks pretty worthwhile... there are stills floating round from on-set.
Dont forget the new JJA STAR TREK is released this year.
My personal view is that STAR WARS could and should have stopped after the first one that I queued to see in 1978. there is some argument for the sequels. some. But the prequels needed to be killed with fire.
I take it OP is familiar (since name checking DARK STAR) with the 1970's classics: my particular favourite is SILENT RUNNING. (NB bonus Bruce Dern cameo in DJANGO UNCHAINED)
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
"channellling the Pleideans"
I will be interested to see if they can translate THE FOREVER WAR to cinema.
By the way, Joseph Gordon Levitt is Henry Dorsett Case in NEUROMANCER. Hopefully he won't Keanu it like, say, I don't know, JOHNNY MNEMONIC. (Which I admit I have not seen, but I dont want to ruin one of my favourite short stories ever).
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Oppan Biker Style
Agreed although I thought Ender's Shadow (about Ender's right hand man, Bean as well as some of Ender's former teammates, in the aftermath of Ender's departure) was alright.
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Hardcore Biker
Dark Star is just too crap - even for the 70s.
Kind of like Metropolis - just give me the highlights. You have to have a lot of spare time to watch Metropolis in full.
I thought the following were interesting, some very dated, some not space related (sorry).
Logan's Run
Colossus: The Forbin Project
The Omega Man
The Black Hole
Westworld
THX 1138
Silent Running
Soylent Green
The Boys from Brazil
Capricorn One
Meteor
Altered States
Galaxy of Terror (better than it sounds)
Scanners
The Thing + remake
2010
Dune
The Last Starfighter
Nineteen Eighty-Four (absolutely loved this, RB is so good in it)
Runaway
Enemy Mine
Lifeforce
The Quiet Earth (amazing NZ film)
The Nightflyer
Barbarella
Moon 44
Naked Lunch – not what you’d expect, tough watch but leaves an impression
Screamers
Event Horizon (well, at least the first half)
Pi
Supernova
Titan AE
The Butterfly Effect
Primer
Serenity
Sunshine
The Man from Earth (cool idea)
Moon
Robot & Frank
Bicentennial Man
Also, anyone looking for solid sci-fi TV:
The Lost Room
Firelfy
Stargate Universe (very different from the regular SG)
"This is not a car."
Hardcore Biker
Empire Strikes Back is one of the most amazing sci-fi films ever. Period. Jedi is semi-ok, the Ewoks just kill it. Loved it as a kid though. The prequels are rubbish - way to ruin Darth Vadar!
With you on Silent Running, re-watched it recently and it was still excellent. Shame about the TV screens - one of the few things that really dates older sci-fi. Maybe they'll go back to that?
"This is not a car."
It's OK...I've got a spare!
Dune???!!!
...she took the KT, and left me the Buell to ride....(Blues Brothers)
Hardcore Biker
Preferred the remake but the original's not bad. Worth a watch. So's Flash Gordon.
"This is not a car."
Hardcore Biker
Haha I didn't believe it until I saw it, but yeah, flash gordon's amazing. In a corny, funny sort of way.
Ender's Game is (allegedly) going to be done pretty well - it sounds like a lot of the cast + crew have read the book and were keen to do it right. The stills from the set look amazing.
[Sidenote - I love the original book, and Ender's Shadow was good too. The rest of the shadow novels shape up to be a little too mormon for my liking and lack the originality. However the Ender novels (Speaker for the Dead etc) seem good so far, although I'm not all the way through them yet.]
Some good lists for scifi movies in this thread - if you want more lists, io9 puts some together every year: http://io9.com/5972738/77-science-fi...ut-for-in-2013 http://io9.com/5872776/70%252B-scien...ut-for-in-2012
Not so keen for pacific rim. But Elysium looks promising.
I love the star trek reboots. Old star trek movies were pretty good, new ones are fantastic. A bit of a different feel from the TV series but still pretty true to the story I felt. Can't wait for the next one this year.
The original three star wars movies averaged out to be very good. However everything since those.... has been appalling. Which is a shame, because there was enough back story there to make something very good.
Library Schooled
Little ol'Hornet Rides again!
Go even older school ...
Tomorrow People
Blakes Seven
Space 1999
"I like to ride anyplace, anywhere, any time, any way!"
Oppan Biker Style
Wow, somebody remembers these?
Black Hole was awesome back then (still is set design-wise), but slow moving by today's standards.
Yeah, as in excruciatingly slow at times...
Not as bad as Jar Jar Binks though!
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