Your top-5 science fiction movies!

Subject: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:12 pm

Since I'm so busy opening topics, I figured it would be a nice idea to open another one! afro

What I'd really like to know is what is your all time top-5 of science fiction movies?

mine (in no particular order i'm afraid):

- Nirvana
- Star Wars IV: A new hope
- Forbidden Planet
- The Matrix
- Lawnmower man

there's actually quite some cyberpunk in my list, but I figured it filed under science fiction... Smile

Dead Man Posts : 19 Join date : 2007-12-17

Here's mine :

_ Children Of Men (not really scifi, mostly anticipation but...)
_ Star Wars (I liked all episodes but really prefered 4,5,6 - the old ones...)
_ Blade Runner
_ Matrix
_ Mad Max (also more anticipation than real scifi but damn good trilogy)

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:40 pm

yeah, i really liked the old ones more as well Smile

the new ones aren't bad though (and Natalie Portman doesn't look bad either Wink

)

Dead Man Posts : 19 Join date : 2007-12-17

You are right, the new ones aren't that bad. I really enjoyed the old ones because at that age, special effects were very basic. It forced Lucas to insist on the narrative aspect rather than the visual side on the film. When you look at the new ones, I almost feel like there is only a superficial storyline but A LOT of special effects. It's only a very personnal point of view...

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:31 pm

it's completely true...

the raw special effects fit better into the storyline, the better ones (and the upgraded ones in the "remakes" as well) are a bit of a distraction...

I remember seeing a documentary about the making of Star Wars IV, V and VI (the first films) and they used lots of toy scalemodels of spaceships to glue together the Death Star surface sunny

then laid that out on the parking space around the studio and shot the flying over the Death Star scenes from a car that was driving past Smile

but let's not demonize CG-effects Wink

there are great possibilities with that now Razz

Dead Man Posts : 19 Join date : 2007-12-17

pornologic wrote:: I remember seeing a documentary about the making of Star Wars IV, V and VI (the first films) and they used lots of toy scalemodels of spaceships to glue together the Death Star surface then laid that out on the parking space around the studio and shot the flying over the Death Star scenes from a car that was driving past

Hehe

Did you know that the Tie Fighter's engine sound was actually a train passing by recorded and then pitched and speeded up ?

pornologic wrote:: but let's not demonize CG-effects there are great possibilities with that now

Of course, you are right. I just feel like Lucas could have done very much better with the new episodes. I enjoyed them but I was somehow dissapointed.

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:06 pm

Nice idea of topic, we should do that for all the other genres bounce

These are my favorites (more than 5 sorry couldn't make up my mind)
Twisted Evil

Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
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Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
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The Fith element (Luc Besson)
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Alterated states (Ken Russell)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
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THX 1138 (George Lucas)
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And the old Star wars I love you

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:23 pm

CHV wrote:: Of course, you are right. I just feel like Lucas could have done very much better with the new episodes. I enjoyed them but I was somehow dissapointed.

You're right Smile

the effects look very slick whereas the effects in the older movies are much grainier, which gives them the very special "Star Wars" feel Smile

At least, that was what bothered me in the new movies...

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haha, I actually like ALL the movies mentioned in this thread Razz

THX is a very nice one as well Smile

anyone seen Logan's Run?

Dead Man Posts : 19 Join date : 2007-12-17

VIDEODROME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember watching a very short sequence of this movie when I was around 5 ou 6 yrs old : the scene with the lips coming out of the TV screen. This scene really impressed me at the age, but I never knew which movie it was !

Damn Chrisy, you just found one of the keys of my childhood, THANK YOU !!! I have to find this film as soon as possible, I NEED TO WATCH IT ENTIRELY !!!

THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !! cheers

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:09 pm

damn...I totaly forgot to mention Escape from New York!!!

Kurt Russel at his best as convict Snake Plissken who has to rescue the president of the United States (played by Donald Pleasence Cool

) from Manhattan, which in the near future (1997 if I'm right Razz

) is converted to a prison island from where noone can escape...

Bambi Posts : 2 Join date : 2007-12-18

My top 5

1. Back to the Future (all three, but 2 the most)
2. Star Wars (the old ones better, but i agree with porno that natalie portman is cute...and keira knightley aswell)
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4. Terminator 1 (not the other two)
5. The Matrix (only the first part...ther 2nd and 3rd are more like reading the bible)

and 6. Trekkies, but that's more a documentary about a scifi flick

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:34 pm

CHV wrote:: VIDEODROME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember watching a very short sequence of this movie when I was around 5 ou 6 yrs old : the scene with the lips coming out of the TV screen. This scene really impressed me at the age, but I never knew which movie it was !

Damn Chrisy, you just found one of the keys of my childhood, THANK YOU !!! I have to find this film as soon as possible, I NEED TO WATCH IT ENTIRELY !!!

THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !!

ha ha ha glad I could help alien

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:56 am

nao wrote:: 1. Back to the Future (all three, but 2 the most)

ouch...

how could I forget Back to the Future?!?!

seems my top 5 is actually a top 20! Basketball

Subject: my top 5 sci-fi movies: Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:59 am

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
starwars
brazil
the matrix
2001: a space odyssey

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:25 pm

Donnie Darko
The Matrix
Star Wars
Back to the Future
My Favourite Martian

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:21 pm

ooh
hard one Smile

Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
12 Monkeys
Dark City
In the Mouth of Madness
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

dunno if that's really my absolute top 5
it's kinda my favorite genre in movies hehe

could give u many more ..

like
vanilla sky
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
virtuosity
The Cell
Johny Mnemonic
A Scanner Darkly
etc.. etc.. Smile

*edit*

ah yes.. back to the future.. how could i forget hehe

and Who Framed Roger Rabbit also (is that science fiction btw ?)

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:37 pm

Science fiction = spaceships / post apocalyptic world / robots / somewhere in the future

I would say Roger Rabbit is comedy Smile

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:33 pm

1. MARK 13 - Hardware Cool

2. 2001, a space oddissey
3. Flesh Gordon and the evil sexray from planet P.O.R.N.O. Very Happy

4. Westworld
5. Blade Runner - directors cut
6. Cube
7. the first Star Trek
8. Flesh Gordon meets the cosmic cheerleaders
9. donnie darko
10. spacehunter

Subject: Re: Your top-5 science fiction movies! Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:11 am

M.A.R.K. 13 is still underway for me, though it has a great chance to be put on top of my favourite-list when I watch it Wink

Flesh Gordon is amazing indeed!!!!

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