Kevin's Watch

I saw there was a discussion of fantasy movies, but I usually like science fiction movies better and I didn't see a seperate discussion just for them.
Some of my favorites:
The Mad Max movies (Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Thunderdome)
The original Star Wars Trilogy (but I don't like the two newer ones, other than the Jedi battles)
Star Trek 2 - Wrath of Khan
Matrix movies
Star Gate

MATRIX

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is very cool!

definatly NOT lost in space!

Empire Strikes Back
Wrath Of Khan
Alien / Aliens
Galaxy Quest
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Planet of the Apes (original)
Pitch Black
Forbidden Planet

To name a few.

A few of my favorites that have yet to be mentioned are:

Teminator 2
Back to the Future
Buckaroo Banzai
Omega Man
Lilo & Stitch
Heavy Metal (at least the Capt. Stearn part)
2001: A Space Oddessy (great for insomniacs)
Bicentennial Man
Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half Century

dAN wrote:A few of my favorites that have yet to be mentioned are:

Teminator 2
Back to the Future
Buckaroo Banzai
Omega Man
Lilo & Stitch
Heavy Metal (at least the Capt. Stearn part)
2001: A Space Oddessy (great for insomniacs)
Bicentennial Man
Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half Century

That Daffy Duck. What an actor.

Event Horizon
Alien
The Abyss
Blade Runner
Pitch Black

danlo wrote:Event Horizon
Alien
The Abyss
Blade Runner
Pitch Black

I really wanted to like Event Horizon. Sam Neil is great. It just ended up looking like a David Lynch disturbarama before it was over.

Too bad you didn't I totally loved it--to me it was 2001 meets Hellraiser--I loved every minute of it. But, since I got me going, I have to say Cali that the first 1/3 of Stargate was great, the rest was hogwash imho (tho the series is very good) see what you start when you start citicizing?

I'm with clearfrontier on this one. I think the whole problem for me was that it seemed to be trying to be 2001 meets Hellraiser. Much like Ghost Ship, it just felt like a complete knock-off.

Holy Cow! I forgot Dark Star. Perhaps THE most influential film of all time.

Oh ganging up on me eh? Well u're not going to change my mind!
this is 4 Syl and this is 4 Clear

Hey! I love Event Horizon!

My favorite SF movie is Blade Runner, and I wouldn't even like it--period--if it weren't for this:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

The Matrix
Equilibrium
Pi
12 Monkeys
Donnie Darko
Dark City
Johnny Mnemonic (yes, I actually like this movie... there's very little cyberpunk on the silver screen)
Gattica
Minority Report
Vanilla Sky
Waking Life (not really sci-fi, but not sure where else I'd put it)

I agree with Donnie Darko, Vanilla Sky and Dark City and was, actually, very tempted to list Minority Report. I really like the 13th Floor too, but not many people have seen it, un42nately. Donnie Darko is one of these very strange "headtrippy" movies that I, sorta, find hard to categorize. Whatever that category might be it would have to include Jacob's Ladder as well (possibly Vanilla Sky--and The Lathe of Heaven ) . Pi is 1 wild, disturbing movie! The Cube almost makes it in--as it does tend to keep you on the edge of your seat--but like Total Recall falls abit short as far as "believability" is concerned.

I can't believe you people left out

Contact

and


Sphere.

Contact: very good
Sphere: you're joking, right?

danlo wrote:Contact: very good
Sphere: you're joking, right?

ditto

danlo wrote: Sphere: you're joking, right?

Heck, Mars Attacks is better than that!

Logan's run was ok, too.

Yeah, I was tempted to list Cube, too. 13th Floor and Existenz as well.