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Umlüx

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imagine.. we are back in the 80s and 90s. when hollywood still was good, and scifi flicks still were real movies for real men! :D

dark, gritty, brutal and dystopean, they simply had a special charme no modern CGI PG13 movie could ever match.

just think Blade Runner, Robo Cop, Dune, Outland.. or somebody remember Moon 44?

i am on a hardcore vintage trip here, so please help me out if you know other movies like those ;)

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Alien, a classic that surpassed even the genius Kubrick's sci-fi vision.

brilliant movie with sets and props that looked used and practical (with the exception of the MOTHER mainframe) instead of the pristine spaceships we're used to seeing in most sci-fi.

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There are so many to choose from. Predator, Terminator, The abyss, Spaceballs to name just a few not mentioned before.

Scifi from the 70's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films_of_the_1970s

Scifi from the 80's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films_of_the_1980s

Scifi from the 90's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films_of_the_1990s

And yes, I remember Moon 44. "We're talking about flying high. Not getting high." :D

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Cydonian Monk

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Hollywood was "good" in the 80s and 90s? O.o (Ok, I'll grant the early 80s, what with The Empire Strikes Back and Blade Runner in there.)

You've already got my favorite "Classic" SciFi film on your list (Outland).... And Alien, too. Hmm. I'd also add Silent Running, Logan's Run, and _maybe_ Westworld. If you're a Lem fan definitely include Tarkovsky's Solaris.

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(Real Genius) Nerds find science and revenge. A cult classic.

See, now, I love Real Genius becauae it's a documentary of my time in college. They got a few things wrong, took a few liberties here and there, but for the most part that was my dorm and that was my Engineering school. No, we never hit buildings in downtown ~8 miles away from the Engineering campus with our giant potato artillery - the potatoes usually disintigrated a few feet after leaving the barrel. (Probably why they left it out of the movie.) Yes, we did have a guy snap while studying and run screaming and laughing maniacally from the library.

Yet I know some people that despise that movie and would prefer scour the Earth with lasers and turn it all to glass just so nobody could ever watch it again. (These people might have had their VW moved into their dorm room....)

Not sure I'd call it either SciFi or a Classic. It's more a slightly fictionalized drama involving engineers, much like, say, a movie about the Trinity bomb test.

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2001 is the 60s, not 70s and up...

Dark Star.

Spaceballs.

Not amazing on the science part of science fiction, but still awesome.

One of my favourite movies.

What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?

Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.

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Well, a lot of these have been mentioned, but I'll just give my input on them anyway.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: This is actually my favorite SF movie of all time, and one of my favorite movies of any genre of all time. Not because it was, artistically speaking, a particularly good movie, although for a SF film it was above average. But just because of the context. I'm not a huge Star Trek fan, I liked TOS, The Motion Picture sucked (Star Trek: The Motion Sickness?), but I went to see TWOK on opening night anyway. And it just blew me away. They took these iconic characters and they made them human. They were getting old, they made mistakes, people that you cared about died. It was amazing. I look back on it now and I can see all of the plot holes and flaws. But at fourteen it was life-altering. It single-handedly changed my expectations for science-fiction, and movies in general. The entire Star Trek franchise, films and television, was all downhill from there, as far as I'm concerned.

The Abyss: I'm a big James Cameron fan (until Titanic, but that's another show), and The Abyss is one of his best. Although I actually think it is one of the few cases where the original cut is better than the director's cut, but I realize I'm in the minority there. At the time I was telling everyone who would listen that Ed Harris was one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood, I'm glad that someone finally started listening. That whole sequence with the mini-subs and the moon pool (you know the one I'm talking about if you've seen it) is just gut-wrenching, it gets me every time, no matter how many times I watch it. When I got married I bought a titanium wedding ring. Because, well, you never know....

Alien: One of the few movies that actually scared the crap out of me. Ridley Scott is a genius.

Aliens: More James Cameron. He managed to take the same concept as Alien and use it to scare the crap out of you in a completely different way. More genius.

The Star Wars Trilogy: It's iconic. You can say whatever you want about realism, or plot holes, or acting, or whatever. It's embedded in our national psyche. Darth Vader's head is carved as a gargoyle on the National Cathedral for crying out loud. Just see it.

1984: The 1984 edition of 1984 (the one with John Hurt and Richard Burton) is the best adaptation of a novel to film that I have ever seen. Brilliantly acted.

Going back to the 70s you get all sorts of gems:

The Charlton Heston classics: Soylent Green, Omega Man, Planet of the Apes.

Silent Running

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Marooned

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Well, a lot of these have been mentioned, but I'll just give my input on them anyway ... Journey to the Far Side of the Sun ...

I've enjoyed all of those you've mentioned. And Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (a Gerry Anderson production with Roy Thinnes, of "The Invaders" TV series fame) was thought provoking, at a time when we had less exact knowledge of our solar system than we do now.

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Well, a lot of these have been mentioned, but I'll just give my input on them anyway.

Star Trek II:

The Abyss:

Alien:

Aliens:

The Star Wars Trilogy: see it.

1984:

The Charlton Heston classics: Soylent Green, Omega Man, Planet of the Apes.

Silent Running

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Marooned

I second that lot plus:

Westworld / Futureworld (more killer robots)

Brazil / 12 Monkeys (dystopian dark comedies, Gilliam at his best)

Cherry 2000 (reminds me of playing Borderlands for some reason)

Gattica (Very dark, underrated IMHO)

The Fifth Element (multipass?)

Blade Runner (If you've already seen it then you really need to read the book; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

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Both Odysseys and all 4 Alien movies got me into Scifi genre. Also, in my experience, Alien 1 has the best movie-to-getting laid ratio of all scifi movies ive watched with someone. So yeah, ill go with that one.

And not mentioned here "Dark City". Good movie, year older than first Matrix, basicly its a noir matrix w/o fancy special effects.

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And not mentioned here "Dark City". Good movie, year older than first Matrix, basicly its a noir matrix w/o fancy special effects.

Dark City was wonderful in the theater, and makes me angry every time I've encountered it since. After the first run, they added that stupid voiceover at the beginning that's a spoiler for the main mystery of the whole film.

If any of you are going to watch it because of recommendations here, please, please mute the opening voiceover. You'll have a much better time.

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The Abyss: I'm a big James Cameron fan (until Titanic, but that's another show), and The Abyss is one of his best. Although I actually think it is one of the few cases where the original cut is better than the director's cut, but I realize I'm in the minority there. At the time I was telling everyone who would listen that Ed Harris was one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood, I'm glad that someone finally started listening. That whole sequence with the mini-subs and the moon pool (you know the one I'm talking about if you've seen it) is just gut-wrenching, it gets me every time, no matter how many times I watch it. When I got married I bought a titanium wedding ring. Because, well, you never know....

Now that's dedication. Respect.

I love The Abyss, but think it should have been three different movies. A trilogy about the eventful careers of the Deep Core crew. Start with the survival movie where they get damaged by the falling crane and are cut off. Next, the military drama about the sub recovery and the Navy officer who goes crazy. And, finally, did you hear about that time they made first-contact with aliens? :)

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