Top 10 SF movie favourites

Hmmm. I don't remember feeling Alien was too loud. I think the loudness of some movies is like spicing up some dishes with ketchup, because otherwise there isn't quite enough. 

I'm trying to think what I've watched that can be considered actual Sci-Fi. I definitely enjoyed The Martian, loved how all the science in it seemed fairly believable.

Back to the Future - I don't think there is a more perfect way of explaining time travel simply than these films.

Someone mentioned Doctor Who (not a film I known) which I also love. I started late with the revival and have watched every series since without fail. My favourite episode is The Waters of Mars, because it's an episode where technically the Doctor fails, and you watch him at his weakest.

Battlestar Galactica (2000's) was also really good to watch, because there were never really any clear good/bad sides. I suppose now I think about it, TV sci-fi can tell a lot more than a film.

I saw it on IMAX and it was great, unnecessarily loud but all cinema screenings seem very loud.

...... Has anyone seen the new Romulus?

Someone uploaded it onto You Tube, and I wasn't about to quibble over what it was doing there. 

So it's about a group of young, alienated and exploited workers on an outpost that may have been near Saturn? - who decide to raid an old ship for hylersleep pods zo get them to a planet that is free of all influence by The Company. The one that is more about living the alien than having the back of its employees.

You can guess the rest. The satellite they get to is infested Ruth face huggers. And more visceral nasties come into being, as face huggers hunt the kids down.

There's the cute subplotbof Rain and her malfunctioning Android buddy. 

The effects were good, but the constant manic action bored me, have to say, a d I found myself switching off. Nothing compares to the original masterpiece..

Views? 

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. 

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

Blade Runner and Dune - both versions 

Some very old ones from the 1950s and 60s.

• The day the earth caught fire.
• Day of the triffords.
• The time machine.
• The first men in the moon.
• Quatermass and the Pitt.
• The mouse on the moon.

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.

• Any Star Trek
• Babylon 5 Thirdspace
• Stargate
• Avatar
• The Martian
• The Andromeda Strain
• Lifeforce
• Independence Day
• Contact
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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 :

• Andromeda 
• Buck Rodgers. (1980 version)
• Firefly
• Battlestar Gallactica 
• Caprica 
• Babylon five
• Farscape 
• Lexx
• Avengers

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