PLEASE, recommend me a good science fiction movie.

Guyver bio booster armour is my favourite sci fi anime

Did you see the original "Solaris", the 1972 Russian film?

Also I just watched "Snowpiercer" on Netflix, thought it was kinda fun.

Check out Equilibrium.

Gantz and Gantz II
Ink
Dark City

Older:
Quatermas
Day of the Triffids
Village of the Damned

Anime and animation
Ghost in the Shell
Golgo 13
Space adventure Cobra
Vexile
Ergo proxy
Through the Moebus Strip (not sure of spelling)
Steam Boy

originally posted by: tadaman
a reply to: Krakatoa

oooh Damnation Alley looks right up my alley.

Also, why does everyone say enemy mine was this terrible movie? It was FREAKING awesome. Its one of my favorites actually.

LOL

Thank you!

Oh I loved Enemy Mine and saw it at least 3 times! LOL

a reply to: tadaman

As a guy who has read in excess of, I don't know, 4,000 maybe, Science Fiction (note spelling, I am old) novels, let me help.
Find Ian M Banks Culture Novels. Be careful about that middle initial as he wrote other forms and the MI distinguishes the SF.

I can assure you that I like BIG thinking and with the exception of very few authors, this guy writes TITANICALLY.

Our misfortune is that he passed last year.

I really liked the 'Killer Bs' Brin (Uplift Series), Bear (Eon series) and Benford (Galactic Center) will help you pass the time being enthralled. That is If you like big.

If you want small and personal 'Dying Inside', 'Flowers for Algernon', 'Alas Babylon', 'Brain Wave' and anything Sturgeon did will calm your soul-even depress it.

If it weren't for the viability of the internet, I would be (and have been) in your shoes. I was reading excessively, obsessively for years. Sometimes to the tune of (IKYN) a novel a day. I wear glasses. They help me when I play 'Mass Effect'.

a reply to: tadaman

Zardoz. Post apocalyptic and humans have reverted to tribal slaughtering mongel horde kind of thing. The most powerful tribe of barbarians is aided by a mystical giant head which which flies through the air and provides them with rifles with which they conquer in the name of their God, "Zardoz" . They in turn feed the huge flying head with the harvests of the fields.

Zardoz is really a huge anti-gravity machine which is controlled by the now long lived children of 20th century scientists who discovered longevity and when civilizations went in the dumpster, these scientists fled to a mountain redoubt with their high tech and now control the barbarians through superstition.

Well, one of the barbarians, Sean Connery, who no longer beieives the superstition sneaks on to the huge head as it flys off so he can see where it goes. Thats the first ten minutes.

Made back in 74 so it may seem hokey but the adventurousness of it along with some pretty conspiracy oriented, end of the world kind of stuff killed it in popular release.

I also recommend "The Thirteenth Floor" from 99. Computer scientists have developed a cyber world into which they can inject themselves for long periods of time where the live in a virtual reality of their making. Problem though, when the simulated people in the game begin behaving beyond their programming and developing consciousness and manage to make their way up into our reality. Some very existential questions evolve through out the move. This may be old had now but back then it was quite disturbing.

Then of course there is Vonneguts Slaughter House Five, in which the protaginist,Billy Pilgram, randomly timeslips through his life in sequence after sequence until he finds himself on the planet Tralfamifore, living in a huge bubble house along with his favorite porn star Montana Wildhack.

It has to be " Forbidden Planet 1956 " ... a must see film

'Dreamscape' is a fun blast from the 80's.
www.imdb.com...

One of my favorites that never made it big: K-PAX (the deleted scenes are not to be missed).

a reply to: Quadlink

Thank you for that . I was trying to think of the name of the film then when you posted the title it came back to me . Film was way ahead of its time . Cheers

some movies I haven't seen mentioned :

The Cube (I,II,III)
a Scanner Darkly (based upon a PK Dick book with the same name).
Blade Runner

a reply to: TerryMcGuire

I watched Zardoz after your suggestion. You're right, totally hokey. But there are some great concepts there. It would be cool to see a modern retelling tbh.

THX1138 is one my favorites, an older movie but really quite interesting

How about Heavy Metal?

One more I thought of, Outland, with Sean Connery. Kind of a science fiction High Noon.

THX1138
Children of Men
Space Odyssey 2001
Moon
Primer
Silent Running
Scanner Darkly
Blade Runner
Dark City
John Carpenters Escape From New York


Of course theres the usual star wars, trek, aliens etc. But i think the above are a pretty decent list with my more favorite ones toward the top of the list

Have you seen the Firefly series? It was cancelled, but season one is great.

I highly recommend:

"The Brain From Planet Arous"



"The Day The World Ended"



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