Favorite Science Fiction Movies
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Mine too, science fiction is my favorite genre.
That and a good mystery or detective novel. I wish someone would make a movie out of Dream Park.
Also, I would like to see Larry Niven’s Ringworld adapted to film. I think someone could do it justice now.
Is that the original1951 The Thing From Another World with James Arness or the similarly tittled, but very different, John Carpenter movie, The Thing?
Saved both embers' and sable's lists even though I've seen quite a few of them.
Very nice lists, and some suggestions to watch as well.
I am looking forward to the new Dune whenever that comes out, although I won't be at a theatre that's for sure.
I am looking forward to the new Dune whenever that comes out, although I won't be at a theatre that's for sure.
If y'all feel like reading it "Farewell To The Master" is the short story that "The Day The Earth Stood Still" was based on.
The ending is a bit different than the movie and that makes it worth the read. If you want to cut to the chase, the Wiki pages has a synopsis.
en.wikipedia.org
manybooks.net
The ending is a bit different than the movie and that makes it worth the read. If you want to cut to the chase, the Wiki pages has a synopsis.
Farewell to the Master - Wikipedia
Farewell to the Master by H. G. Winter - Free eBook
Adapted to film in 1951 as The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The original Blade Runner far outdistances anything else on my Sci-fi list.
The Martian was pretty good. Even though Mars doesn’t really have a dense enough atmosphere for winds to wreck a place and send heavy objects flying like it does in the movie/book, it is the only space film I’ve seen that even considers orbital mechanics. Gravity was almost impossible for me to finish watching because of its complete disregard for how it works.
Like others here I liked a bunch of films but I'll mention:
1) The Day the Earth Stood Still (The Original One)
2) Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
3) The Wrath of Kahn
1) The Day the Earth Stood Still (The Original One)
2) Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
3) The Wrath of Kahn
Not sure if this qualifies as sc-fi but today I received my Jericho box set. I have yet to watch it but by all accounts it's a cracking series.
Set in small town America where several nuclear bombs have detonated around the country. The folks of Jericho have to find a way to survive in a post apocalyptic world.
Regards,
Jay.?
Set in small town America where several nuclear bombs have detonated around the country. The folks of Jericho have to find a way to survive in a post apocalyptic world.
Regards,
Jay.?
One of the reasons that Niven's books hadn't made it to the screen was that Niven would not allow it. He didn't want his carefully constructed novels altered to fit the constraints of a two hour theatrical presentation. Being a scion of the Doheny family, he didn't need the money.
I wasn't aware of this at the time I pitched Dream Park to Disney. But I was able to give Niven a good laugh when I told him their response, which was, "We don't do movies about murders in theme parks."
Doahh...
That's reasonably science fiction fodder, at least for now. It may become fact in the not too distant future.
My son can't ever live down that he talked me into to taking him to see it. That's money and life span that I will never get back. Close to the worst film I've ever seen, and I've seen tens of thousands of films. Zack Snyder is today's Cecil B DeMille, only lacking any semblance of talent or taste, just having the worst elements of DeMille's bombast. What he did with the DC characters is horrible. They really outta burn and erase the prints, negatives, and copies.
So help me, I still like what may be the first science fiction movie ever made where a giant fire-cracker looking space ship is launched and hits a big man-in-the-moon in the eye. I think the whole thing is about four minutes, but it epitomizes the evolving fantasies of space travel while airplanes were still in their formative stages, a real sense of history.
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