SciFi Flicks?

[sabre1]

Starship Troopers?

Dune?

[hal9000]

hej lrfss,

here are some not so famous tv-shows I can recommend to you...

jericho... post apocalyptic setting, was cancelled early, but I really enjoyed it
space above and beyond... wing commander-esque, cancelled early, but definitely worth watching
roughnecks: starship troopers chronicles... cheesy CGI TV series, awful dialogues, but its watchable if you like the movie/book
aeon flux... great dystopian animated tv series
captain future... animated pulp series, not sure if it there is an english translation, but the hero of my childhood
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy... great bbc series from the 80s
cowboy bebop... my all time favourite tv show
space battleship yamato... the japanese anime counterpart to star trek
earth 2... space colonization tv show, decent enough to watch
lexx the dark zone... like a dark version of hitchhikers guide, really great series
jeremiah... luke perry ist the main protagonist, hence it feels like beverly hills after the world went to hell , but decent enough if you like post-apocalyptic stuff

and some newer movies you may have missed:

eden log
children of men
space odyssey: voyage to the planets, a docufiction where defying gravity stole its idea from
brave new world
the road
mutant chronicles
space truckers
dark city

and finally some must have seen classics, if you haven't already seen them:

royal space force: the wings of honnêamise
forbidden planet
solyaris... the orginal russian movie
fahrenheit 451
stalker... one of my most favourite movies
logans run
soylent green
rollerball... the original 1975 movie with james caan
dark star
total recall
2001 a space odyssey & 2010 odyssey two
plan 9 from outer space... the greatest worst movie of all time
clockwork orange
1984
brazil
the running man
spaceballs

[feygan]

Whilst I love SG1 and the almost all the SG universe it does suffer from the same disease almost all sci-fi shows suffer from. It went on too long and had no clue where it was going, made new seasons just for the dollars.

All time favourite is B5 (although a couple of the movies were a little poor,) and it's so great because it had a defined story, someone with more than half a brain cell came up with real characters, and realistic events they care about. This meant you cared about the characters too, it also meant when you got to the end it didn't feel like just the next cliff hanger "oh I wonder if it's renewed for season XXXVII." Just a pity they dangled the carrot and got him to go ahead with crusade, the last B5 ep felt like the last chapter of any great novel, you still talked about it after reading but you always felt content the story was ended.

As for films someone mentioned "Moon" great film that shocked the hell out of me in the current market of "no plot fill with extra cgi" that comes out. Few others:
Dark City
Dune/Children of Dune (sci-fi tv versions only)
Mars Attacks (so many folk get their head vaporized its just unreal)
Monsters (think cloverfield with an actual plot)
Pitch black/Chronicles of Riddick
Splice (Species on acid)
Sunshine (still will argue with anyone to say its not amazing in everyway)
The Abyss
The Black Hole
The Fountain (up there with Sunshine)
Total Recall

[J HG T]

Great list there hal9000. Some weird classics for sure, like the space truckers, the running man and plan 9 from outer space. That movie is STUPID! So stupid that it's classic.
For shame: I've got The Road in my shelf but haven't yet watched it!

Cowboy Bebob is one of those animes series I try to find from local netstores all the time. The funky theme is great stuff!

About the Firefly: I've never been a big fan of the series. My friend likes it a lot but I think it is decent.
To be honest, it's both underrated and overrated. Take your pick. [:)]

Farscape I watched for some time and liked it. It's kinda cheesy sometimes, but overall it's a great SciFI series.

[hal9000]

ORIGINAL: J HG T

Great list here hal9000. Some weird classics for sure, like the space truckers, the running man and plan 9 from outer space. That movie is STUPID! So stupid that it's classic.
For shame: I've got The Road in my shelf but haven't yet watched it!

merci

ed wood is a legend, I don't know if there has ever been someone with more chuzpe than him!

space truckers, I think I just remember beacuse dennis hopper was in it, but iirc it's quite decent

oh, and be warned, the road is a very oppressive movie

ORIGINAL: feygan
The Fountain

really great movie, like all of aronofsky's work!

[Igard]

I thought the 1984 Di Laurentis' Dune was a great film, but when asking some one who hasn't read the books, they don't get it. It had a terrible ending also that I prefer to think never happened.

I couldn't enjoy the TV miniseries, it was so badly done. Children of Dune, however, was great. If only they did the first one like that.

hal9000, good call on Cowboy Bebop. Brilliant series. Stalker, also, a film I loved.

[Data]

Not sure if anyone mentioned SG the initial movie (the one that started it all). That was a great one
If I wasn't a trekkie I might rate the SG series higher, I started to watch it because of Anderson...I totally loved MacGyver. All in all, the SG series is far better than many others and for me is second only to ST. Third is SW the clone wars [:)]

[J HG T]

The clone wars seems to be the dark horse of Star Wars universe. Heck, it's a "saturday morning cartoon" and it's still quite great.
Don't get me wrong, I like good cartoons as much as anybody else. It's just funny that best Star Wars for a long time is a cartoon.

[bertipa]

ORIGINAL: Lrfss

ORIGINAL: Torgrim

Dr Who [:D]

I've see there is like 10k episodes of "Dr. Who" on Netflicks, is it any good? A friend advised me a while back to not indulge here though as it's too much and not along my lines... I like my SciFi realistic and believable for the most part, which I know sounds a bit bizzare considering...[:D]

The last years are quite good, do not forget the spinoff Torchwood.

[bertipa]

ORIGINAL: J HG T

The clone wars seems to be the dark horse of Star Wars universe. Heck, it's a "saturday morning cartoon" and it's still quite great.
Don't get me wrong, I like good cartoons as much as anybody else. It's just funny that best Star Wars for a long time is a cartoon.

Funny yes, a little sad also.

[Data]

Btw, anyone knows some good ST cartoons? I seem to recall seeing some a while back of the original series but I never heard of good ones.
Igard, you walking ST pedia, do you know even this? [:)]

[Kayoz]

Galaxy Quest - one of the best comedy sci-fi flicks out there - though I think you have to be a bit of a trekkie to appreciate some of the humour. Sigourney Weaver's best bit of acting between Aliens and Avatar.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/

[bertipa]

Galaxy Quest

Sigourney with t!t$ !! that was really Science Fiction.

BTW Space - Above and Beyond, practically DW on TV.

[Torgrim]

Farscape is pretty good.

[Data]

ORIGINAL: bertipa

Galaxy Quest

Sigourney with t!t$ !! that was really Science Fiction.

BTW Space - Above and Beyond, practically DW on TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfBndSv8 ... re=related

that's some good stuff....especially the amen part [:)]

[Lrfss]

ORIGINAL: sabre1

Starship Troopers?

Dune?

Yeo, seen both and liked both!

Thanks!

[Lrfss]

ORIGINAL: J HG T

Well, let's see...

My "must see" Sci-Fi list goes something like this:

NOTE: They are not in any order so don't get any ideas.

- District 9
- 5th Element. Super Green! Also, one of the most epic intros what I've seen in movies.
Plus: You WILL love this scene: ZF-1
- Futurama
- Ghost in the Shell (the movie. Deus Ex owes a lot to this and the Matrix)
- Akira (the movie. May be getting the manga too at some point)
- Babylon 5 (No-brainer)
- The Last Starfighter. Cult-classic. Also, has one of the greatest ships in SciFi history: The mighty Gunstar!



Beat that!

- Close encounters of the third kind (Got nightmares of the "kid-abduction" scene. Still gives me the chills)
- Alien trilogy (3 is enjoyable but 4 is only bearable)
- Robocop (the original)
- Terminator 1&2 (3th was enjoyable. "You have been terminated" *BOOOOOOOOM* [:D])
- Minority Report
- Starship Troopers (people who don't "get" this movie need to go to a doctor)
- Independence Day (The best B scfi-movie there is)
- Matrix (the original movie. Still one of the best cyperpunk movies)
- Star Wars (the original trilogy, but new ones are quite enjoyable too. Especially the second and third episode. Well, apart from emo-Anakin)
- Blade Runner
- Moon (really different SciFi movie)

I think these will do for now.

Yep, seen all of these and liked them!

Thanks

[Lrfss]

ORIGINAL: Kayoz

What J said -

but a couple of additions:

- Escape from New York
- The Thing
- Johnny Mnemonic
- eXistenZ
- Scanners

District 9 was one of the best sci-fi films of the decade - SEE IT!

I however disagree with the Alien franchise - #1 and #2 were good - but everything after that was rubbish.

Yep, seen and liked all these and agree with you on the last 2 Aliens as well.

Thanks!

[Lrfss]

ORIGINAL: bertipa

ORIGINAL: J HG T
- Independence Day (The best B scfi-movie there is)

- Predator is a better B scifi-movie!

Agreed!

[Lrfss]

ORIGINAL: hal9000

hej lrfss,

here are some not so famous tv-shows I can recommend to you...

jericho... post apocalyptic setting, was cancelled early, but I really enjoyed it
space above and beyond... wing commander-esque, cancelled early, but definitely worth watching
roughnecks: starship troopers chronicles... cheesy CGI TV series, awful dialogues, but its watchable if you like the movie/book
aeon flux... great dystopian animated tv series
captain future... animated pulp series, not sure if it there is an english translation, but the hero of my childhood
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy... great bbc series from the 80s
cowboy bebop... my all time favourite tv show
space battleship yamato... the japanese anime counterpart to star trek
earth 2... space colonization tv show, decent enough to watch
lexx the dark zone... like a dark version of hitchhikers guide, really great series
jeremiah... luke perry ist the main protagonist, hence it feels like beverly hills after the world went to hell , but decent enough if you like post-apocalyptic stuff

and some newer movies you may have missed:

eden log
children of men
space odyssey: voyage to the planets, a docufiction where defying gravity stole its idea from
brave new world
the road
mutant chronicles
space truckers
dark city

and finally some must have seen classics, if you haven't already seen them:

royal space force: the wings of honnêamise
forbidden planet
solyaris... the orginal russian movie
fahrenheit 451
stalker... one of my most favourite movies
logans run
soylent green
rollerball... the original 1975 movie with james caan
dark star
total recall
2001 a space odyssey & 2010 odyssey two
plan 9 from outer space... the greatest worst movie of all time
clockwork orange
1984
brazil
the running man
spaceballs

Ah, some I missed here like:

Eden Log, Children of Men, The Road and Space Truckers sounds familiar but not too sure. Going to look these up and thanks!