Sci-Fi

[MaeveoSliabh]

Watched one of a Dragonlance movie last week. Personally, I thought it blew chunks. The cell animation wasn't very good and neither was the CGI. And they were very badly integrated together. The script was obviously written by teenage D&D geeks during a Sgt. Pepper binge weekend.

That would be the one! LOL

Considering it was the first book written by Weis and Hickman, taken directly from a Dragonlance tabletop campaign (you read the book and you can almost see the dice rolling - it's obvious) and that they had to leave a big part of it out, the script was.... somewhat acceptable. But the animation was definitely lacking.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I never realized how many sci-fi movies I have seen, liked, and owned on DVD until I see that I have seen most of the movies mentioned, love quite a lot of them, and own a large percentage on DVD, wanting to buy quite a few others.

 

[xssve]

You couldn't be picky when I was younger, there just wasn't that much to choose from - Space 1999 was on TV but it was pretty good, the Prisoner is classic stuff, and I think I mentioned Dr. Who, and more recently, Lexx is a great series, worth finding an episode collection.

Did anybody mention Outland? There was another one with Ralph Feines and Julliette Lewis, Strange days - probobly seen that one.

Other obvious ones, Jean-Claude Van Damme made several SF themed movies, Replicant, Cyborg, a couple of Universal Soldier movies.

Rutger Hauer was in a few other decent SF movies: Omega Doom and Crossworlds to name a couple.

I'm trying to remember the name of a another German Martial arts actor, brain isn't working today, but he's done a few gritty SF movies, a couple of which are pretty good - just can't remember his name or the names of any of his movies, which is too bad, because he's a very underratted actor, much better than Van Damme, Schwartzenegger, etc., I'll try to think of it - there are a couple of his moivies I really liked but it's been several years.

 

[xssve]

Big Trouble in Little China was great - the debugger, which I removed is going batshit for some reason, it's making me crazy, I gotta get outta here.

 

[xssve]

Oliver Gruner. Mars and Velocity Trap, both pretty gritty.

Michael Paré has also made a few SF movies, a couple of which aren't bad.

A few more notable classics from the Seventies include the original Omega Man, Soylent Green, Fantastic Planet, Death Race 2000, A Clockwork Orange. Solaris (remade with George Cloony), Sleeper (a riot), Dark Star, Westworld and Futureworld, Quintet, and of course, Mad Max and Alien.

 

[rgraham666]

I just remembered an old favourite. I Come In Peace. Good action. Interesting premise.

Also Demolition Man. Outright hilarious in places. Wesley Snipes plays the bad guy with a gleeful malevolence. A thoughtful satire on political correctness as well.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Hmmm...

All three "Resident Evil" chapters. (Good walking dead film in a post nuclear world.)

"TankGirl" (Ya have to love Lori Petty)

"Evemt Horizon" (No comment. Just watch it.)

"Solaris" (Staring George Cloony from a book by Stanaslaws Lem)



Not Recommended

I Robot (Horrid addaption of the book. In fact, "adapted" so well nothing is left but the title.)

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Hmmm...

All three "Resident Evil" chapters. (Good walking dead film in a post nuclear world.)

"TankGirl" (Ya have to love Lori Petty)

"Evemt Horizon" (No comment. Just watch it.)

"Solaris" (Staring George Cloony from a book by Stanaslaws Lem)



Not Recommended

I Robot (Horrid addaption of the book. In fact, "adapted" so well nothing is left but the title.)

I Robot is a decent movie, if you think of it as an adaption of Hard Wired instead of an Asimov book (which it isn't, they got the rights for Asimov's book and only used the Three Laws from it).

 

[only_more_so]

I Robot is a decent movie, if you think of it as an adaption of Hard Wired instead of an Asimov book (which it isn't, they got the rights for Asimov's book and only used the Three Laws from it).

Actually, they also used the zeroth law. Which was kind of the whole point of the movie and the book.

 

[kendo1]

I've not read all the posts, but a few that spring to mind:
The Day the Earth Stood Still - classic

The Thing - John Carpenter's incredible horror

The Andromeda Strain - always good to watch

Them - the remake, love the backing music

Silent Running - classic

Twelve Monkeys - Bruce Willis is pretty good in this, and in:

Sixth Sense

Dark Star - John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon, their first collaboration

I've been watching Lexx for the last week, on stage6.com - divx format(they have 4 seasons of about 20 episodes). There are a lot of Star Trek, TNG, Voyager etc in their files. The quality is very good.

 

[xssve]

I just remembered an old favourite. I Come In Peace. Good action. Interesting premise.

Also Demolition Man. Outright hilarious in places. Wesley Snipes plays the bad guy with a gleeful malevolence. A thoughtful satire on political correctness as well.

I figure she's seen the more recent ones like Demolition man, which I liked mainly because of Dennis Leary and Rob Schneider (he doesn't know how to use the Three shells, snicker...), and Sandra Bullock in Black tights, it was a pretty good premise, the cryoprision, although anti-PC movies tend to be a little simplistic and this one was no exception.

Is "I Come in Peace" the one where they guy throws CD's? Anyway, it reminded me of another cult classic, Brother From Another Planet.

K-PAX is also recent, and good in the alien-on-earth vein, although of course nobody is ever going to come close to David Bowies performance in The Man Who Fell to Earth, which was just hair raising.

There are scads of B-Movies made in the Eighties, lots of Chainmail bikini stuff, of which He-Man might have been one of the better ones, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone was kind a Mad Max thing in space, not too bad, and did anybody mention The Ice Pirates? Cheesy but fun.

Terry Gilliam's done a number of good movies - he did Brazil and time bandits, and directed the Twelve Monkeys.

The Fifth Element is one of my alltime favorites, one of the few movies of any genre that bears repeated viewing IMO, but it's pretty hard to go wrong with any Luc Besson movie I've found, SF or no, Wasabi, Kiss of the Dragon, La Femme Nikita, etc., he keeps things moving.