Best Sci-Fi films in the Star Wars era

[BurnItDwn]

oh, and speaking of P K Dick: A Scanner Darkly.

awesome, awesome flick.

Keanu Reeves has never been better. For some reason, animating him as a dull, soulless individual hiding behind an amorphous, emotionless cloud is perfect for him.

Oooh, don't forget Total Recall!!! Yes, Verhoeven took a LOT of liberties, but he always does .... and I love his work....

 

[Malak]

oh, and speaking of P K Dick: A Scanner Darkly.

awesome, awesome flick.

Keanu Reeves has never been better. For some reason, animating him as a dull, soulless individual hiding behind an amorphous, emotionless cloud is perfect for him.

It was definitely interesting.

 

[Miscthree]

Oooh, don't forget Total Recall!!! Yes, Verhoeven took a LOT of liberties, but he always does .... and I love his work....

Total recall is a great story. The movie itself sucked, it should be remade.

 

[twinrider1]

Time Bandits.

 

[Ichinisan]

wait, you listed "Sphere" as good, and you spoke ill of a film based on the work of a true god of Sci Fi: Phillip K Dick (Minority Report).

what gives, here?

:hmm:

"Sphere" was a great book. I really don't remember the movie all that much.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Enemy Mine. Accept no substitutes.

 

[james1701]

I am surprised no one mentioned Life Force.

 

[qliveur]

Oooh, don't forget Total Recall!!! Yes, Verhoeven took a LOT of liberties, but he always does .... and I love his work....

So do I. He's the reason Starship Troopers was good.

Loved his movies since Robocop.

 

[zinfamous]

I am surprised no one mentioned Life Force.

it's only good b/c of lots and lots of tits. it's a rather terrible movie.

 

[zinfamous]

So do I. He's the reason Starship Troopers was good.

Loved his movies since Robocop.

Showgirls, too?

:hmm:

 

[ichy]

Rendezvous with Rama...oh wait they haven't made that yet....

I really don't know if anyone could do it justice.

 

[ichy]

Someone needs to make a real movie version of Starship Troopers (Verhoeven's movie was entertaining, but had practically nothing to do with the book.)

 

[stargazr]

Planet of the Apes (original)
Alien
Terminator 1 & 2
Close Encounters
Soylent Green

Altered States hasn't been mentioned. Not top 5 but interesting.

Star Wars was ok, I saw it first run. It could never really draw me in like ST.

I like some of the Highlander stuff, the first movie and the first few seasons of the TV show.

 

[Miscthree]

I really don't know if anyone could do it justice.

Ida gone with Lucas but he flubbed the last three. I would love to see this made lotech, with less cgi and more real props and movie sets, similar to 2001 and SW IV V and VI.

 

[ichy]

Ida gone with Lucas but he flubbed the last three. I would love to see this made lotech, with less cgi and more real props and movie sets, similar to 2001 and SW IV V and VI.

I was thinking Peter Jackson. I'm also not sure how you'd create a move about a massive cylindrical spaceship without CGI.

 

[manimal]

I really don't know if anyone could do it justice.

I hold out for a James Cameron/Spielberg mega cgi epic!

 

[Kadarin]

Don't believe the modules were even in the book at all. I am a big Dune fan and I really didn't like the old film much. The new ones were better.

The new ones are better, I think, particularly Children of Dune. In Dune, I can't get past the campy Batman-esque filming of Harkkonen where they tilt the camera and show the bad guys in red lighting.

 

[Miscthree]

The new ones are better, I think, particularly Children of Dune. In Dune, I can't get past the campy Batman-esque filming of Harkkonen where they tilt the camera and show the bad guys in red lighting.

I remember only bits and pieces from children of Dune but what I do remember is the costume design was total B-movie-esque. Yes original Dune had it's faults but the costume
design was awesome.

 

[Malak]

I remember only bits and pieces from children of Dune but what I do remember is the costume design was total B-movie-esque. Yes original Dune had it's faults but the costume
design was awesome.

That is true, the original had MUCH better costumes. But Children of Dune was a budget film, so budget costumes.

 

[Miscthree]

I was thinking Peter Jackson. I'm also not sure how you'd create a move about a massive cylindrical spaceship without CGI.

Uh, build a cylinder 10 km wide by 53 km long in the Gulf of Mexico, that's how you do it. Make BP pay for the construction.

 

[zinfamous]

I was thinking Peter Jackson. I'm also not sure how you'd create a move about a massive cylindrical spaceship without CGI.

Models.

Models and puppets still destroy CGI. ...CGI has become cartoons and video games.

I swear, special effects have gotten worse and worse over the years the more these dweebs have depended on computers.

 

[ichy]

If they do make a Rama movie they'd better only take the story from the first book. The sequels were abominations in comparison.

 

[Anubis]

Models.

Models and puppets still destroy CGI. ...CGI has become cartoons and video games.

I swear, special effects have gotten worse and worse over the years the more these dweebs have depended on computers.

while I agree with you if they take the time/effort to do it the way Avatar did it can look amazing. LOTR also had great use of it

 

[Sunbird]

Other good sci-fi movies would be Soldier, Fifth Element and Cronicles of Riddick/Pitch Black.

And as a South African I fully endorse District 9.