H4run
Deity
You describe it right, but I don't really put importance on the special effects though. I don't like action movie except asian martial arts, and action movie without a plot is ultimately boring and ugly for me.
Best and Worst sci-fi movies of all time
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You describe it right, but I don't really put importance on the special effects though. I don't like action movie except asian martial arts, and action movie without a plot is ultimately boring and ugly for me.
KmDubya
King
The best is Blade Runner. The acting, the stars, the premise, the effects, all the little details that sell a futuristic society as believable were all there. The special effects are better than what is done in today's CGI movies, they look real because they are. CGI always looks made up.
The worst is Monsters (2010) It was stupid but in a decidedly non-funny way. The premise was bad, peoples actions and government responses were unbelievable. It made some inane comparison to illegal immigration. The special effects were non existent as you never saw the giant monsters. After the movie I wanted my 2 hours of life back and was upset with my self for not leaving the theatre early.
The worst is Monsters (2010) It was stupid but in a decidedly non-funny way. The premise was bad, peoples actions and government responses were unbelievable. It made some inane comparison to illegal immigration. The special effects were non existent as you never saw the giant monsters. After the movie I wanted my 2 hours of life back and was upset with my self for not leaving the theatre early.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
ReindeerThistle
Zimmerwald Left
Loved original Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thing and the 1982 remake and 2011 prequel bugged me because it was February 1982 (Summer) on Antarctica... so, how did the effing sun go down? Why was it night?
Best: Sunshine (2007), Danny Boyle... in spite of some flaws, solid Bush/Blair era end-of-the-solar system drama.
Worst: Lords of the Deep -- 1989 straight-to-video Roger Corman undersea Abyss rip-off. Dreadful...
History_Buff
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Moon really was great. As is Primer, but you really have to be paying attention. I also have a soft spot for The Quiet Earth, although that's a really weird movie. Also Contact; that movie stays just as good every time I watch it.
Star Wars really isn't Sci-Fi. It's about as Sci-Fi as all these super hero movies.
The thing about Starship Troopers is that it's almost certainly not supposed to be taken seriously. The whole thing is really about how stupid their society is.
Battlefield Earth is seriously bad.
Flash Gordon (the 1980 version with the soundtrack entirely by Queen) hasn't aged very well.
The Core is utterly hilarious and terribad.
Contact, while having a particularly annoying character and plot hole, was still good when I re-watched it recently.
Flash Gordon (the 1980 version with the soundtrack entirely by Queen) hasn't aged very well.
The Core is utterly hilarious and terribad.
Contact, while having a particularly annoying character and plot hole, was still good when I re-watched it recently.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
"Contact" ?! You serious ! No way man !!!
Well how about "Event Horizon" which I fing better in every aspect ! ? huh ? Now .... seriously ... You could have not picked "Contact" ........Wellll ? (looking a bit anxiously!) WELL ?? !!! ^^
H4run
Deity
errr so which one that suppose to be best between this movies?
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
- He does not know what he's saying right now !
= You see we were hunting yesterday and I've shot acide.... well let's just say He is just a little slightly concussed ! Yes it has absolutely nothing to do with my huntig rifle .... no ? excuse me oh .... Yes .... of course , no ! what ?! really ! No ! ...... You wouldn't !!! It's crazy !! No !!! what ? Oh really ?! Are You sure ?! Okay !
And now something completely different !
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"Contact" ?! You serious ! No way man !!!
Now .... seriously ... You could have not picked "Contact" ........Wellll ? (looking a bit anxiously!) WELL ?? !!! ^^
Event Horizon was ok (it mostly was interesting to me when i first saw it, in the end of my highschool years), but afaik the main plot was mostly based on a sci-fi novel (Solaris?), and appears to be quite less well-presented than in the original source
Tycho Brahe
Emperor
I like "Contact". Both the novel and the movie. What plothole?
I'm watching "Sphere" (1998) right now. It got negative reviews, but I think it's quite good. It doesn't have big fights with bug eyed monsters, but the story is loaded with genuine science fiction themes like first contact with aliens, spacetravel, timetravel, time paradox... good stuff.
Pacific Rim is a joke. Battleship is a joke. Avatar is a - admittedly nice looking - joke.
Both the novel and the movie. What plothole?I'm watching "Sphere" (1998) right now. It got negative reviews, but I think it's quite good. It doesn't have big fights with bug eyed monsters, but the story is loaded with genuine science fiction themes like first contact with aliens, spacetravel, timetravel, time paradox... good stuff.
Pacific Rim is a joke. Battleship is a joke. Avatar is a - admittedly nice looking - joke.
Hm, worst:
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Considering the endless millions it cost to make, and at least two very well known movie actors in it (i don't mean that "friends" guy), this is one of the worst films of the genre in my view
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Considering the endless millions it cost to make, and at least two very well known movie actors in it (i don't mean that "friends" guy), this is one of the worst films of the genre in my view
ArneHD
Just a little bit mad
The Man from Earth is easily my favourite Sci-Fi film and I'm the head of the University Science Fiction Club! That said though it is a very intellectual film, so not everyone's cup of tea.
TVTropes.
IMDB.
Wikipedia.
Honourable mention goes to Kin-Dza-Dza.
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TVTropes.
IMDB.
Wikipedia.
Honourable mention goes to Kin-Dza-Dza.
Link to video.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
Event Horizon was ok (it mostly was interesting to me when i first saw it, in the end of my highschool years), but afaik the main plot was mostly based on a sci-fi novel (Solaris?), and appears to be quite less well-presented than in the original source
Well to be honest If I were to choose between "Solaris" and "Event Horizon" I'd definitely choose "Solaris" novel - I have not read it yeat FORTUNATLEY !, and next stop (If You're interested in my future reading material anyway) The Paradise Lost ! I know I know .... I am a slacker but I'll read this ! ^^
classical_hero
In whom I trust
Is Terminator 2 considered a Sci-Fi movie? If it is, then it is one of the best movies out there.
Best: Alien (1979)
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Still has a number of rather dumb sequences, but it uses Gieger's work which was excellent here, and a few of the scenes are very memorable.
Also:
She was hot .
I'll disagree with the upthread slamming of Avatar. I really, really enjoyed it. The gaia/interconnected web of life really, really worked from a transhumanist perspective. And I like that they right out called the plot element 'unobtainium'; no googlygook there. Or, at least, they just admitted it.
My main complaint regarding Battle:LA was the relative power of the aliens. In so, so many movies, the antagonist is only really a threat because of when they attacked. A few decades either way, in the human-development tech curve and the entire story would have been very different.
This is why I like War of the Worlds or Skyline. Huge, proper, disparity. Even Independence Day had that disparity (mostly)
This is why I like War of the Worlds or Skyline. Huge, proper, disparity. Even Independence Day had that disparity (mostly)
Have to agree with you entirely here. I know the movie gets a lot of hate by some, but I found it thoroughly enjoyable. I know it wasn't the intent and it wasn't really like it, but the flying lizards made me think of the Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, which I've always loved.
Yeah! Thank goodness for the human race that apple (well TCP/IP really I guess, but hey they used a mac) negotiating protocols were able to communicate with that mothership's OS!
