I LOVE sci fi movies that intelligently deal with near-future and its social impact...

[TecHNooB]

ULTRAVIOLET

 

[Queasy]

Ice Pirates

 

[Kadarin]

Freejack
Max Headroom (I think this was actually a tv show)
The Matrix
Starship Troopers (look at the human society, not the bugs)

 

[xeno2060]

Here's one for ya.

 

[Molondo]

Originally posted by: xeno2060
Here's one for ya.

I actually was surprised by this one. I didn't expect much but i thought it delivered.

 

[SSSnail]

Originally posted by: Molondo

Originally posted by: xeno2060
Here's one for ya.

I actually was surprised by this one. I didn't expect much but i thought it delivered.

That's where Batman begins...

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: xeno2060
Here's one for ya.

Didn't do very well critically, but I sure loved its aesthetic. Another good Christian Bale flick.

 

[Kelemvor]

Transformers man! That's just right around the corner from really happening.

 

[TallBill]

Gonna check out Equilibrium, I was going to say Children of Men, but you've already got that one covered.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Freejack
Max Headroom (I think this was actually a tv show)
The Matrix
Starship Troopers (look at the human society, not the bugs)

Good gracious, have to disagree. Starship Troopers? Plan 9 from Outer Space might actually be better. That one is a "read the book and ignore the movie". The troopers in the book would have mopped up the ones in the movie in the first 10 seconds of combat.

Max Headroom is cool.

Freejack... The coolest part was the racing. I could have been in it. The Black Swan Formula Atlantic was the pink and white one. That guy was the coolest driver (the real one, not the movie one.) I knew 2 of the corner workers in the scenes and the guy who built the exploding car and the transports in the movie (Charlie Ruder (sp?). Until the owner just before Panoz refurbed the track, there was still that scorch mark on the turn 11 bridge at Road Atlanta.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Deep Impact
The Core
Armageddon
Eon Flux

Why are you creepily smiling after each title? Are they also porn titles or something?

Prolly cuz they suck. At least I thought so.

 

[natep]

Bladerunner

 

[gsellis]

A little more

IMDB Silent Running

Bruce Dern. Douglas Trumbell and John Dykstra doing visual effects!

Add

Andromeda Strain to the list.

And Dark Star

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Freejack
Max Headroom (I think this was actually a tv show)
The Matrix
Starship Troopers (look at the human society, not the bugs)

Good gracious, have to disagree. Starship Troopers? Plan 9 from Outer Space might actually be better. That one is a "read the book and ignore the movie". The troopers in the book would have mopped up the ones in the movie in the first 10 seconds of combat.

Agreed that the movie is essentially crap (but fun crap). However, I mention it in the social context, where we look specifically at the structure of the society in which the humans live.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Freejack
Max Headroom (I think this was actually a tv show)
The Matrix
Starship Troopers (look at the human society, not the bugs)

Good gracious, have to disagree. Starship Troopers? Plan 9 from Outer Space might actually be better. That one is a "read the book and ignore the movie". The troopers in the book would have mopped up the ones in the movie in the first 10 seconds of combat.

Agreed that the movie is essentially crap (but fun crap). However, I mention it in the social context, where we look specifically at the structure of the society in which the humans live.

I agree, but they botched that up too. It was like they were making fun of Heinlein's libertarian views. The book rules, but wish they would make a movie for "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

 

[jjones]

Videodrome
Repo Man
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Slaughterhouse Five

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Freejack
Max Headroom (I think this was actually a tv show)
The Matrix
Starship Troopers (look at the human society, not the bugs)

Good gracious, have to disagree. Starship Troopers? Plan 9 from Outer Space might actually be better. That one is a "read the book and ignore the movie". The troopers in the book would have mopped up the ones in the movie in the first 10 seconds of combat.

Agreed that the movie is essentially crap (but fun crap). However, I mention it in the social context, where we look specifically at the structure of the society in which the humans live.

Stupid-bad fun movie, but the future/social structure really stood out to me. Things like that projected newsreel voice, "Would you like to know more?"

 

[slackwarelinux]

The Wings of Honneamise

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: xboxist
I just watched "Sunshine" -- I'd recommend it to any Sci-Fi fan in general. Not a perfect movie, but good Sci-fi is hard to come by lately.

The movie was excellent until the last 30 minutes. Its like the writer got to a point and didn't know what the fuck to do next. So he took some acid and continued writing anyway.

sounds like every review I've read.heard about it should be arriving on BD via Netflix tomorrow, so I'll get a chance to add my .02.

It's really too bad. They had a lot going for them and it was a refreshing take on the Sci Fi "horror / drama" genre, but, at the end, you wonder wtf is going on. They really should have avoided the 'horror' elements and just left it as a drama about a bunch of people on the ship.

It felt like they left a lot on the editing room floor and could have cobbled together something that made at least a little more sense.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2
I'm a huge fan of Contact (Jodie Foster). It had everything... astronomy, realistic portrayal of society reacting to it, abeautiful father-daughter relationship and even religion.

Also a fan of Gattaca, Children of Men and even Ghost in the Shell.

See the trend of what I like? Can you recommend more? Pop shit like iRobot and Minority Report doesn't count.

Dark City

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: zinfamous
Oh yeah...no one's mentioned Primer yet. Might take a few viewings though....

not worth multiple viewings. one of the worst movies i've seen in the past year.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: xboxist
I just watched "Sunshine" -- I'd recommend it to any Sci-Fi fan in general. Not a perfect movie, but good Sci-fi is hard to come by lately.

The movie was excellent until the last 30 minutes. Its like the writer got to a point and didn't know what the fuck to do next. So he took some acid and continued writing anyway.

sounds like every review I've read.heard about it should be arriving on BD via Netflix tomorrow, so I'll get a chance to add my .02.

It's really too bad. They had a lot going for them and it was a refreshing take on the Sci Fi "horror / drama" genre, but, at the end, you wonder wtf is going on. They really should have avoided the 'horror' elements and just left it as a drama about a bunch of people on the ship.

It felt like they left a lot on the editing room floor and could have cobbled together something that made at least a little more sense.

Yep, they should have used the mystery of the unknown/inexplicable to carry off any horror elements. It seems like they reached a point where they couldn't decide what should come next so they trotted out the "monster" to finish the story.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: jjones

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: xboxist
I just watched "Sunshine" -- I'd recommend it to any Sci-Fi fan in general. Not a perfect movie, but good Sci-fi is hard to come by lately.

The movie was excellent until the last 30 minutes. Its like the writer got to a point and didn't know what the fuck to do next. So he took some acid and continued writing anyway.

sounds like every review I've read.heard about it should be arriving on BD via Netflix tomorrow, so I'll get a chance to add my .02.

It's really too bad. They had a lot going for them and it was a refreshing take on the Sci Fi "horror / drama" genre, but, at the end, you wonder wtf is going on. They really should have avoided the 'horror' elements and just left it as a drama about a bunch of people on the ship.

It felt like they left a lot on the editing room floor and could have cobbled together something that made at least a little more sense.

Yep, they should have used the mystery of the unknown/inexplicable to carry off any horror elements. It seems like they reached a point where they couldn't decide what should come next so they trotted out the "monster" to finish the story.

A monster who was so powerful be blurred the camera. That was really annoying too.

 

[Bacstar]

Event Horizon
Sphere

I can't remember the name but it had George Clooney, going out into space to investigate some strange phenomenon.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: Bacstar
Event Horizon
Sphere

I can't remember the name but it had George Clooney, going out into space to investigate some strange phenomenon.

Solaris. Weird movie. I liked it.

The Sphere novel is 100x better than the movie. I couldn't put it down. I started it at like 10pm, and didn't set it down until I was finished.