Recommend me some great science fiction movies that time has forgotten

[Dari]

I just saw Spielberg's War of the World and suddenly remembered how good sci-fi could be. Please recommend something you would consider a cult classic. TIA.

 

[Insomniator]

2001: Space odyssey not a cult classic just a classic.

 

[anxi80]

fahrenheit 451
gattaca

 

[Bacstar]

I was browsing the movies available for immediate viewing on Netflix and decided to watch H.G. Wells - The First Men in the Moon. It was pretty entertaining for some reason. I remember watching long ago when i was a kid, so maybe there's some nostalgia involved there too.

 

[compuwiz1]

I think it was from the 50s, but I like 20000 leagues under the sea.

 

[JulesMaximus]

The Andromeda Strain

 

[zinfamous]

check out this recent thread
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...keyword1=sci+fi+movies

lots of good ones covered in there

 

[Fern]

Forbidden Planet (has Robbie the robot)

Yeah, the old HG Wells movie about going to the moon was excellant.

Fern

 

[Chiropteran]

Robocop.

The sequels are all terrible, but the original is an awesome movie.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I just watched A Boy and His Dog from 1975 last week. Its not bad for a b movie and has one of the best endings I have ever seen .

 

[MotionMan]

The Time Machine (1960)

One of my all-time favorites.

You need to watch it twice to get the whole thing.

MotionMan

 

[Braznor]

Event Horizon - one of the most underrated sci fi movies, but not a classic.
Death Race 2000 - well, it is kinda sci fi considering it served the inspiration for Darth Vader :

 

[dennilfloss]

Quatermass And the Pit.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Cherry 2000

 

[xeno2060]

A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Alien, Altered States, The Andromeda Strain, Back to the Future, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Blade Runner, Children of Men, A Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cocoon, Contact, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Destination Moon, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Escape From New York, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fantastic Voyage, The Fly (1986), Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein (1931), The Incredible Shrinking Man, Independence Day, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Invisible Man (1933), It Came From Outer Space, Jurassic Park, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Matrix, Men in Black, Minority Report, Planet of the Apes (1968), Repo Man, RoboCop, Rollerball (1975), Silent Running, Soylent Green, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars: Episode IV--A New Hope, Starman, The Stepford Wives (1975), Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Them!, The Thing From Another World, The Time Machine (1960), Total Recall, Tron, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The War of the Worlds (1953), Westworld.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: xeno2060
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Alien, Altered States, The Andromeda Strain, Back to the Future, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Blade Runner, Children of Men, A Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cocoon, Contact, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Destination Moon, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Escape From New York, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fantastic Voyage, The Fly (1986), Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein (1931), The Incredible Shrinking Man, Independence Day, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Invisible Man (1933), It Came From Outer Space, Jurassic Park, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Matrix, Men in Black, Minority Report, Planet of the Apes (1968), Repo Man, RoboCop, Rollerball (1975), Silent Running, Soylent Green, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars: Episode IV--A New Hope, Starman, The Stepford Wives (1975), Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Them!, The Thing From Another World, The Time Machine (1960), Total Recall, Tron, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The War of the Worlds (1953), Westworld.

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[torpid]

Originally posted by: Braznor
Event Horizon - one of the most underrated sci fi movies, but not a classic.

:thumbsdown: That movie was terrible. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Braznor
Event Horizon - one of the most underrated sci fi movies, but not a classic.

:thumbsdown: That movie was terrible. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

you're terrible

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
The Andromeda Strain

way better book than movie. they needed to cut a bunch out to make it watchable IMO.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Braznor
Event Horizon - one of the most underrated sci fi movies, but not a classic.

:thumbsdown: That movie was terrible. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

i liked it. pisses me off that the local movie store only kept one copy of it, and its always out.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Braznor
Event Horizon - one of the most underrated sci fi movies, but not a classic.

:thumbsdown: That movie was terrible. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

i liked it. pisses me off that the local movie store only kept one copy of it, and its always out.

I wonder if someone saw it and hated it so much that they burned it on the spot?

In any case it seems like SOME people do like it. It somehow got a 35 on metacritic. So it's not universally negative reviews like I would expect. Only 2 points lower than 10,000 BC.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
I just watched A Boy and His Dog from 1975 last week. Its not bad for a b movie and has one of the best endings I have ever seen .

i saw that one awhile back. i liked it too.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Braznor
Event Horizon - one of the most underrated sci fi movies, but not a classic.

:thumbsdown: That movie was terrible. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

I thought the concept was pretty sweet and so was the atmosphere...I didn't really like how it all played out though.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Braznor
Event Horizon - one of the most underrated sci fi movies, but not a classic.

:thumbsdown: That movie was terrible. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

i liked it. pisses me off that the local movie store only kept one copy of it, and its always out.

I wonder if someone saw it and hated it so much that they burned it on the spot?

In any case it seems like SOME people do like it. It somehow got a 35 on metacritic. So it's not universally negative reviews like I would expect. Only 2 points lower than 10,000 BC.

I typically hear nothing but praise for it. Haven't watched it, though.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Braznor
Event Horizon - one of the most underrated sci fi movies, but not a classic.

:thumbsdown: That movie was terrible. Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

i liked it. pisses me off that the local movie store only kept one copy of it, and its always out.

I wonder if someone saw it and hated it so much that they burned it on the spot?

In any case it seems like SOME people do like it. It somehow got a 35 on metacritic. So it's not universally negative reviews like I would expect. Only 2 points lower than 10,000 BC.

I typically hear nothing but praise for it. Haven't watched it, though.

It's a B horror film. Who are you listening to? In addition to being 35 on metacritic, it's 22% on rotten tomatoes. It's basically one random scene after another.