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Scifi war movies

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What are the movies that have both scifi and war elements, and we can agree to be war movies? Some I know:
War of the Worlds
Independence Day
Starship Troopers
Battle: Los Angeles

And I think Star Wars ones are closer to adventure movies...
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"The Box"set during the civil war and "The Citadel"set during ww2 in the Balkans.
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Edge of Tomorrow is a really good recent sci-fi war film with some very explicit references to contemporary warfare.
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Star Wars [8D]
Closer to Indiana Jones type adventure than war
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So the clone wars is not really a war?[:D]. I'm sure the Germans thought that "their" tour in Russia was not war but an adventure too! No one was mentioned the terminator movies yet.
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Off the top of my head there is or are...

Earth vs the Flying Saucers
The Last Starfighter
Enemy Mine
The Land That time Forgot

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Edge of Tomorrow is a really good recent sci-fi war film with some very explicit references to contemporary warfare.

Wow, I have missed this one (I have seen all the others mentioned). IMDB score: 8,2 [X(] That's a LOT.

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Edge is JUST out go see it now.
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Wing Commander - not highly recommended

War of the worlds

And if you aren't hard core about the sci- Fi requirement but can extend to horror/vampires - "The Keep"
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What are the movies that have both scifi and war elements, and we can agree to be war movies? Some I know:

"Mars Attacks!", though clearly a spoof, did have a number of combat sequences.
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So the clone wars is not really a war?[:D].
Do you mean the computer made animated serie? That could count as war, but it's not movie...
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The Soldier? the one with Kurt Russel?
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Wing Commander - not highly recommended
Wing Commander is a lot funner if you imagine it's actually a U-boat film in space.
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Edge of Tomorrow is a really good recent sci-fi war film with some very explicit references to contemporary warfare.

I saw EoT last weekend and it is very good. I was a bit skeptical because the trailers show the future soldiers using power suits. I thought they might distract me from the story but really they blend right into the background as "equipment" and the story and characters stand right out in front.
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Dune...though not a very good movie compared to the books still have a couple of battle scenes.
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Gradenko - Wing Commander as a boat film set in space? Weird but I guess it can't make it any worse.

I'll add to my earlier list: Dr Who and the Dalek invasion of earth

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Edge of Tomorrow is a really good recent sci-fi war film with some very explicit references to contemporary warfare.

I saw EoT last weekend and it is very good. I was a bit skeptical because the trailers show the future soldiers using power suits. I thought they might distract me from the story but really they blend right into the background as "equipment" and the story and characters stand right out in front.

Saw it today after reading the good reviews online. It was good. Kind of a "Starship Troopers" meets "Aliens" meets "Groundhog Day".
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The Matrix Trilogy
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