Published on 12, July, 2020
Hey.
What are your favourite SF movies ever?
Here are mine, in no particular order:
Moon. Directed by Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son
Blade Runner. The first one, that is, though I enjoyed the 2049 too.
Brooding, noir. The book if anything is even better.
Logan' Run Yes I know, an oldie. But it sticks in the mind. Time is short.
.........and never more so than with Never Let me Go. An idyllic boarding school is where the spare-part clones grow up
Space Odyssey 2001. Yes I know computers evelved way beyond this stage
The Time Machine. Very innovative shooting for the, erm, time.
Alien. Despite all the prequels and sequels, this is still the absolute best
Quatermass and the Pit. Good and spooky.
Solaris The second one. How not to make first contact.
Ex Machina. Here, the CEO who plays Feletto really an absolute jerk, all said and done.
Agree or not? What are your favourites?
All three are brilliant. The move Interview with the Vampire is fu of sly, bla k humour that the book doesn't. My real favourite of these oddly is Lost Boys.
Not a film but my fav science fiction series is doctor who. I'm watching all the classic series in order at the moment.
Recently I watched the original Solaris. Its a beautiful movie! Gorgeously shot.
Quatermass and the Pit, and The Time Machine are two of my absolute favourites
Whoops I forgot Blade Runner. I haven't seen it in ages, was really good though.
Blade Runner and Dune - both versions
The Original Star Wars Trilogy and The Alien Quadrilogy,
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Thor.
Star Wars.
Spider-Man.
Guardians of the Galaxy.
Deadpool.
X Men.
Captain America.
I Am Legend.
Jurassic Park.
I'm a big science fiction fan. Could watch these forever.
Some very old ones from the 1950s and 60s.
The must have some humour for me to like them, even unintentional humour.
Loved Moon, nicely referential in places.
Duncan Jones. David Bowie's son, directed it. SF themes are clearly in the blood.
Well as soon as I get the chance Im going to find a way to go there, hope its possible in our life time.
I saw the Martian recently. Potatoes on Mars. I wonder if we ever will go there?
you need to watch Predestination its even more mind blowing.
Jeez, Primer is serious headf**k. But a great film.
TBH I have many more, from crazy stuff like Buckaroo Banzai to Interstellar. Sci-Fi and Sci-Fi Horror are my favourite genres with Anime and Action following them.
Lawnmower man 1+2 which is the prequel to the matrix.You might have to be super geeky to make the connection.Predestination, a totally tripy movie.
Terminator 1+2 the rest suck
Alien and aliens
80s Robocop
Primer
I have Blakes 7 on dvd. And looking at it now, it really was the poor man's star trek. The special effects are low budget ( I am being kind). many of the alien planet environments, were just local quarries.
The best of Blakes 7 was the double episode, where they searched for Star One. That included the speed chess scenes. And, of course the FINAL Ending. People are still talking about it.
Blake's 7 had some interesting characters. The meaner Avon was, the more female fan mail he received, is what I remember.
Asimov wanted to downplay the Frankenstein fears of how dangerous an artificially intelligent robot might become, hence his three laws of robotics. Why do I get the tiniest suspicion the military might not care for that at all?
Maybe the robots could fight bloody wars by proxy for humans.
I am a big science fiction fan, but not of movies!
I prefer books or tv series, where there is plenty of time and opportunity to develop the plot and characters.
I loved the 1950s and 60s books by Robert Heinlein. Starship troopers was based on one of his books. The book takes itself more seriously.
Isac Asimov's books are still a fresh read.
As a teenager I read hundreds of sci-fi books.
In the 1970s I was obsessed with Blakes 7.
Most recently I watched the whole series of Dark matter on dvd.
I also have full dvd collections of :
Well I watched The Martian.
There was a Robinson Crusoe element to the story. Potato patches on Mars.
There was a joy in shooting the spaceships and the Martian surface, interestingly all done in Budapest, as with Blade runner Two, though no rowing Hungarian neighbours depicted in this one.
Poo happens, poo was the solution to problems in some cases: it was certainly a very optimistic flick. Less about people messing up and more about working well together. I would rather see humans dreaming of going into space than willy-waving nukes and helping burn up the planet with bush fires, which is what is happening at the moment. I wonder if we will get to Mars in time?
1.Interview with a vampire
2. Bram stoker's Dracula 1992.
3.lost boys