Great Science Fiction Films
To my science fiction aficionados:
What are your favorite science fiction films? What films would you recommend to the novice who isn't too familiar with the science fiction genre in film?
Thanks for sharing.
What are your favorite science fiction films? What films would you recommend to the novice who isn't too familiar with the science fiction genre in film?
Thanks for sharing.
posted by Brady Kelso @ 10:10 AM
6 Comments:
At 6:09 PM,
Armin Samii said…
E.T.- A really awesome movie with great special effects for its time. It has a great plot and amazing actors. In it, a boy finds an Extra-Terrestrial alien-thing and he must save his(her?) life. The Extra-Terrestrial got stuck on Earth when his fellow aliens. On Earth, everybody loves him and he loves them back. E.T.'s goal is to go back home. During his time on Earth, he develops powers.(SPOILER!) At the end of the movie, E.T. finally goes home. One of those endings which you're not sure if you are happy or sad.
At 7:02 PM,
cacerola said…
To avoid repetition I shall name the first real science fiction movie that I ever saw. The name of this movie is Dune. I'm fairly certain that none of you have heard of it because it's around twenty years old and quite odd, even for a science fiction movie. Made in the 1980's, Dune is based off of the novel by Frank Herbert. Actually there are many interesting parallels between Dune and Star Wars. They have been cleverly pointed out on the following website
http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/dune.html
And speaking of Star Wars, I probably wouldn't recommend it to all just starting out on sci-fi. It took me just up until two years ago to fully appreciate it and be able to sit through it without going away in boredom. (By the way, the use of all the animated...stuff... in the new ones doesn't do the old ones justice and seems to lean much more towards a soap than anything else. Personally, I like the older ones better.) Instead I would reccommend something a bit less cult fanatic type and go for the more instantly appreciable movies such as the aforementioned Titan A.E., Sphere (which was awesome but not better than the book), The Abyss, Independence Day, and other similar movies that are much easier to relate to than the famous, Star Wars. And, although I am not a true fanatic, I have really enjoyed the few episodes of Firefly that I have been able to see. Sadly, I don't think it's shown on television anymore, which is a shame because it's (for the lack of another word) 'shiny'. It's also tied into the movie Serenity. However, I can't give you my opinion of the movie because I have yet to see it.
At 7:27 PM,
dude said…
The best sci-fi movies that I've seen so far are Back to the Future, Men in Black, I Robot, The Matrix, and ET. In brief description, Back to the Future is about this scientist which creates a car that can time travel. In the many movies the scientist and a friend of his go on many different adventures through different periods of time. Men in Black is about this secret organization on earth which deals with aliens. I Robot is about how in the near future this one company begins to build robots and they soon start to take over. The Matrix is about how these monsters are trying to wipe out the human race in a war, so this one man looks for The ONE, and he trains him in everyway in the "real world", hoping that he can save humanity. Finally, I don't remember much about ET but I do remember that it was awesome. This little boy finds and alien and they both go on many adventures, all in hopes of ET returning to his home planet. "ET phone home!"... I think that's how it goes.
At 9:59 PM,
cacerola said…
Reply to Josh Lin replying to me: Yes, I was referring to the movie. Dune is one of the best sci-fi books ever. I'd think that most of you had at least heard of the book.
Actually Gabby, while I agree that The Fifth Element was a good movie, the fifth element was not the girl but love. That was the whole point of the movie. In order to save the world from the evil alien menace, she must see a reason to save the world and experience love. (Thus the kinky scene at the end) But thanks for bringing that up. I had completely forgotten about it.
At 11:02 AM,
dude said…
Eriq, why do you think that "The Day After Tomorrow" is a step up in sci-fi from movies such as "Independence Day" or "Men in Black". In Independence Day, aliens come and attack earth, while in Men in Black, special agents go and fight alien creatures with high-tech, futuristic machinery and guns. How much more sci-fi can it get? The Day After Tomorrow doesn't even seem that much sci-fi. A second ice age occuring with natural disasters everywhere seems more like an action, adventure movie. However I do agree with the fact that the "Fifth Element" and "Armaggedon", are a little bit more complicated movies, but not by much.
At 7:29 PM,
dude said…
I think that King Kong would fit in Action, Adventure.
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