Best Alien/ Scifi movies?

pyroD said:
Armageddon, if that counts. I also thought Red Plant was a pretty good movie.
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Armageddon? I honestly have to ask if you're serious or joking.
 
Josan said:
pyroD said:
Armageddon, if that counts. I also thought Red Plant was a pretty good movie.
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Armageddon? I honestly have to ask if you're serious or joking.
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Are you saying that because you didn't enjoy the movie or are trying to say that it's not a scifi?
 
Oh crap, I forgot all about Enemy Mine, and I was so damn happy when I found it on DVD.

I liked it enough that I bought the book collection by Barry Longyear on which it is based.
 
Dunno if anyone's said it but I love Predator. Yeah it's corny and Schwarzenegger's a moron but god that alien is incredible. I love how they're all being hunted down one by one. Just thought I'd throw it in :P
 
All the movies from my DVD collection have already been mentioned.
There are some cheesy ones I like but I would definitely not recommend them as good sci fi.

Instead I will mention a movie I saw on television, the original Andromeda Strain.
 
Earth said:
Dunno if anyone's said it but I love Predator. Yeah it's corny and Schwarzenegger's a moron but god that alien is incredible. I love how they're all being hunted down one by one. Just thought I'd throw it in :P
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Predator, Terminator, and Total Recall are all good in my book. Three of the four best Arnold movies, they are (Conan the Barbarian being the other one, of course).
 
UniversalWolf said:
Earth said:
Dunno if anyone's said it but I love Predator. Yeah it's corny and Schwarzenegger's a moron but god that alien is incredible. I love how they're all being hunted down one by one. Just thought I'd throw it in :P
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Predator, Terminator, and Total Recall are all good in my book. Three of the four best Arnold movies, they are (Conan the Barbarian being the other one, of course).
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arnold's alright, i just wasn't sure of NMA's general opinion. apart from terminator and predator there's not much else by him i like. i should check out total recall
 
I think it can be said in general that Arnold was an good actor and while most of his movies would not win a price in depth and story telling, they sure are entertaining movies in their own right. I mean what kind of world would that be without any room for trash-movies anymore with cool oneliners thrown around by a guy in muscle shirts killing terrorists/monsters? In that sense?

GET TO DA CHOPPA!!!!
 
In no particular order:

- Gattaca
- Moon
- Stalker, filmed in my home town :roll:
- Solaris, the Soviet one
- Time Machine's a classic
- Planet of the Apes although not all of them are very good
- 12 Monkeys, also the inspirational short: La Jetee
- Dark City
- Blade Runner should probably be here, but I have my problems with it
- Brazil
- Forbidden Planet
- Ghost In The Shell, anime, sure, but a very good one. I'd have put Akira here as well, but that one is bordering on goofy..
- another anime I'd include in this list is Angel's Egg, artsy, but I recommend
- I loved Johnny Mnemonic as a kid and it's stayed as a good memory

of the goofy/bad ones I've seen I'd bring out three:
- Kin-dza-dza! is very goofy, but very good, Soviet thing
- Barbarella
- Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
- Total Recall
- Tank Girl, haha!
- A Boy And His Dog

of the ones with monstrous aliens:
- Alien, duh, also: not all of 'em are good. those AvP flicks? pure shit
- Predator
- The Thing, woop dee doo!
- Deep Rising was helluva entertaining
- Avatar - who doesn't like Pocahontas?!

the original RoboCop films were cool, too and as a kid I really loved The Ewok Adventure 8-)

2001: A Space Oddyssey was waaaay too abstract for me. [spoiler:1e806143ac]The much praised evolutionary turning point scene was laughable and the space scenes ... artsy, but didn't cut it for me, although I do understand it might have been a big thing back in the day, I still think it was more about the big name on the poster[/spoiler:1e806143ac]

I probably left out a bunch, a few years ago I binged for two months straight, sometimes three films a day - old and new, good and superbad alike. Also I can't remember all the names for the Soviet ones, they had some great fucking sci-fi films.

Sadly the latest films (not including Moon, that one's awesome) are mostly super conceptarted (yeah, I made it into a verb...) action flicks with zero plots.
 
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