Sci-fi movies 2

[calpoon]

How is that not science fiction? Sc-fi is scientific things presented in a fictional way. They tend to be based on technology and set in the future, but the emphasis is that it invovles fictional man-made things. Aliens in themselves aren't neccesarily sci-fi, they are fantasy because they are fictional beings that are super/natural. But they are often depicted in connection with human space exploration which involves fictional/future technology, which makes it sci-fi. Apollo 13 isn't si-fi because it has a realistic/historic presentation of science.

IMO, it's one of those genre definers. As I've said of comedy, anything that is funny is comedy, even if it involves things that are part of other genres. Anything that invovles sci-fi is sci-fi, even if it also has horror or fantasy or adventure, etc.

I'm just gonna go ahead and say THEY LIVE.

another one that most people won't think of is A Scanner Darkly (which is barely sci-fi, it narrowly slips in with a future setting and a peice of fictional tech, even though the focus of the story is not these things.)

Also I really like Starship Troopers. But it's really a kind of cult movie. it's only an abortion of you think of it in relation to heinlin, but if you can distance the two and pretend that it's unrelated, I think it stands up well on it's own.

 

[calpoon]

oh, yeah also while I'm on Dick (No. I know this is freeones, but get your mind out of the gutter!) let's not forget Minority Report.

 

[Patrick_S]

How is that not science fiction? Sc-fi is scientific things presented in a fictional way. They tend to be based on technology and set in the future, but the emphasis is that it invovles fictional man-made things. Aliens in themselves aren't neccesarily sci-fi, they are fantasy because they are fictional beings that are super/natural. But they are often depicted in connection with human space exploration which involves fictional/future technology, which makes it sci-fi. Apollo 13 isn't si-fi because it has a realistic/historic presentation of science.

IMO, it's one of those genre definers. As I've said of comedy, anything that is funny is comedy, even if it involves things that are part of other genres. Anything that invovles sci-fi is sci-fi, even if it also has horror or fantasy or adventure, etc.

What i mean is that it doesn´t make any sense to lump together movies that have nothing in common except the timeperiod/gadgets as one genre. You could just as well make up a genre called "mall-movies" and include movies like Mallrats, Dawn of The Dead and Bad Santa, they all take place in a mall/supermarket but other than that they have nothing in common. I guess what i´m trying to say is that sci-fi isn´t a genre and it doesn´t describe the movie in any way, other than that there´s gizmos in it that don´t exist (yet).

To answer the original question i would say that The Prestige is my favourite sci-fi movie.

 

[mythex]

never seen blade runner before..
but I must say that Sunshine(2006 or 2007?) is really sucks for sci-fi movie.

 

[BlueBalls]

Blade Runner is not only one of the great Sci Fi films but is one of the greatest films of all time.

 

[jumbo_jim]

Blade Runner is a great film but I say Starship Troopers is better.

 

[Christmas_Ape]

Total Recall me.

See you at the party Richter!

 

[Smittmaestro]

Blade Runner is a great film but I say Starship Troopers is better.

Sorry no!

-cs™

 

[McNab]

Pitch Black / Chronicles of Riddick

Serenity

Event Horizon

Soldier

Outland

2010 (under-rated)

 

[darkwarrior3007]

Ah, Serenity. I knew I forgot one, that movie was awesome. If anybody on here hasn't Firefly or Serenity, you should check them out.

 

[om3ga]

Going by the list supplied, I'd plump for Blade Runner (although Brazil is pretty high up in my estimation, too)

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

1) Blade Runner
2) *****
3) 2001- A Space Odyessy
4) Aliens
5) Empire Strikes Back

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[jobrien]

But which version of Blade Runner? personally I like the narrated version the best. Love the dead pan job that Harrison Ford does.

 

[L3ggy]

Blade Runner, Starship Troopers, Aliens: The Resurrection.

 

[titsrock]

I agree with the notion that Science Fiction is so broad...that we either lump it all together or we break it out into specific sub-genres...

This is a Post-1970s "lump it all together" list
1. Blade Runner
2. The Matrix
3. *****
4. Gattaca

Star Wars is my #2 ALL TIME FAVORITE and it is beyond categorization. Tremors is one of my favorite B Movie Classics. I love that film, memorized the dialogue, own it and love to watch it whenever it's on tv.

 

[L3ggy]

I forgot The Battle of Serinity, Star Wars and Tremors(original, not the crappy sequels/prequels)

 

[Smittmaestro]

But which version of Blade Runner? personally I like the narrated version the best. Love the dead pan job that Harrison Ford does.

For a long time I did like that version but after finally watching Ridley Scott's "director's cut" then the Final Cut and the one with narration pales in comparison.

My favorite Ridley Scott film by far.

-cs™

 

[calpoon]

You could just as well make up a genre called "mall-movies" and include movies like Mallrats, Dawn of The Dead and Bad Santa, they all take place in a mall/supermarket but other than that they have nothing in common.

You could do that, but the difference is that "stories that take place in a mall" is not a litterary genre, wheras fictional science stories IS. I do see your point about how you can take virtually anything in a movie as use it as a basis of categorization, but like you previously stipulated, most if not all of the original sci-fi stories were based on (or at least an intregal part of the plot) as of-yet uncreated technolical predictions- such as jules verne's from the earth to the moon, 20,000 leagues under the sea. Mary shelley's frankenstein perhaps even morseo than the others delt with the current social climate and cautions of the technological advances being brought about by the industrial revoltuion.

and that's really the point of sci-fi, it uses (future) technology as a basis for expressing an outlook or meaning of our present conditions. Unlike just using it as a cursary setting for a plot device, such as a mall. Those stories aren't really about malls, they could take place anywhere. But without the science of a sci-fi story, you wouldn't have the story.

 

[senob44]

My favorite sci-fi movies of the Era are Blade Runner, They Live, 2001, THX 1138, Logan's Run, Gattaca and Event Horizon.