Post some sci-fi movies that you love that most people wouldn't know about

[TK421]

maybe some movies from the 80's or early 90's that you really enjoyed...here are a few of mine. By the way, I'll post IMDB links to these movies....I feel that if you know next to nothing about them, it may shed some light...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099740/
just a great, underrated movie, IMHOP


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090192/
I am a big fan of Tim Thomerson's work...he was totally awesome as Jack Deth in this movie ( as well as the sequels..as corny as they were ).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/

WHAT THE FUCK has happened to this movie? I loved it as a kid, yet I never hear a word about it nowadays....and today they are re-making movies like The Karate Kid. GOD the 80's rocked!
SUCK IT 90's and ZEROS!!!!

[wickerwoman]

1. Kin Dza Dza

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2251461878127683608

Totally f*ed up early 80s Russian sci fi. Enjoy.

[TK421]

3. I'm just watching the intro..and already it looks pretty fucked up

bookmarked....if I don't manage to get through it tonight, this is going to be a two-tab acid movie for me!!! :thumbsup: big thumbs up

[General Zod]

2. Blue Monkey

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092677/


I'm a sucker for giant bug movies.

[TK421]

4. I notice Steve Railsback is in that movie...he played Charles Manson in Helter Skelter

edited to add: here's the guys resume

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706883/

[csziggy]

5. If you like Tim Thomerson, you'll like this one

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092298/
Low budget but with a good script and good characters.

Oddly enough, though I love Thomerson, I've never watched his Trancer movies. Someday I'll have to rent them and watch them all.

[TK421]

6. I will definitely check this one out...in the meantime, you should check out

Trancers...Thomerson is at his very best in these movies ( keep in mind, there are at least four sequels to this, though the names escape me at the moment ) I think you'll like Trancers...Tim Thomerson is that goofy bad-ass that we all wanted to be....at some time, I suppose :+

[csziggy]

12. I'm going to have to join Netflix just to get some of the old classics

Or wait until movies on demand really works and get them that way. But I do want to see the entire Trancers series someday!

[TK421]

22. Please do...and let me know what you think of them!

:D Tim Thomerson=The Awesome

[rucky]

7. Runaway

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/

Looker

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/

[TK421]

8. I remember Runaway....I will have to take a look at Looker

I don't remember that one....

[rucky]

9. Susan Dey

shows her tatas in it :evilgrin:

[TK421]

10. Consider it on queu....

;-) and thanks for the recommendation!

[tigereye]

11. Iggy Pop and Lemmy are in that first one you mentioned - looks interesting

I tend to like those old black and white ones... like Them and It, Forbidden Planet and the original Day the Earth Stood Still. Even The Blob, Plan 9 and Village of the Damned are worth seeing for the dark campiness and/or ineptness.


There are some intriguing 80s ones, though, like Liquid Sky and my favorite from that period, Repo Man. But I suspect most folks have heard of those.

[TK421]

13. In Hardware, Iggy Pop plays a DJ called Angry Bob...it's set way in the future

kind of a freaky future...but you don't see him, just hear his voice. Pretty funny though

[csziggy]

16. Forbidden Planet wasn't black & white - though I did not realize that until I saw it many years late

Since I first saw it on B&W TV. All the kids in the neighborhood watched "Art Grindal's Science Fiction Theater" on Saturday afternoons. Art Grindal was a used car salesman that jumped up and down on the cars, ripped his price signs in half and generally hammed it up between the movies. But they showed all the old classics.

I want to see The Monolith Monsters again - I haven't seen it in so long! It was pretty cool, making inanimate black rocks menacing.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050720/

[tigereye]

17. ah, right, it was in that blazing techinicolor, wasn't it...

[csziggy]

19. Yes, almost garishly colorful.

OOOH, while looking for that picture, I found another old SF movie I love that is not seen very often:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047577/

[GReedDiamond]

21. "Forbidden Planet" special effects...

...were by the Disney Studio. Great theremin flick too.

[csziggy]

23. And of course introduced Robbie the Robot!

What would the SF world have been without Robbie?

[Graybeard]

42. "This Island Earth" provides the laughs in the spoof...

...Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

[tigereye]

50. ooh, that looks really good! My husband usually manages to find those types

of films, I'll have him look around for this one.

[FloridaJudy]

14. Children of Men

I always break down and cry at the scene when the soldiers realize just who they've got surrounded in the burnt-out apartment building. That and the scene with the old hippies and the dog.

That movie's worth at least half a box of kleenex.

[jobycom]

25. Didn't make me cry, but it was a better-than-advertised film.

The editing got a lot of attention, rightly so, but the script was pretty sharp, too. And the acting couldn't have been better.

And though it didn't make me cry, the apartment building scene left me breathless.

I've heard a lot of people not like the film, but it really clicked with me.

[WCGreen]

40. I love that movie...

[FloridaJudy]

54. That's one of my favorites

Along with 'V for Vendetta'. The English do the dystopian thing so damned well. Even the minor characters are fully developed. I loved the retired midwife in Children - she was so much like me, but more courageous. Damn, she even looked like me. It was eerie.

[TK421]

26. I'll be sure to check that one out

:D did it star William Hurt?

[flvegan]

15. I loved The Dark Crystal.

God, that was so long ago!

[TK421]

27. SKEKSIS AND MYSTICS STAB YOU MOTHERF***ER!!@!@

edited to add

[deucemagnet]

18. I just discovered "Avalon"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267287/

I'm surprised I haven't discovered it before. It's basically a live-action anime flick, but very well done and beautifully filmed, imho.

[TK421]

30. I'll give it a look...my roommate may even have that one

he has a truckload of anime

[scubadude]

20. Slaughter House Five...

That's a pretty under rated film. The book is an absolute classic.

Kurt Vonnegut at his finest,

Scuba

[TK421]

28. Vonnegut was ahead of his time, I think..I'll check this one out too

I never heard of it

[scubadude]

33. Valerie Perrine is in it. She was a major hottie back then.

Billy Pilgrim figures in several Vonnegut book to my memory.

The book is amazing, the movie is pretty good too, Valerie Perrine is sublime...

Scuba

[WCGreen]

39. Plus, Valerie Perine showed us her boobs...

I loved that movie because it followed the book.

[Graybeard]

43. She did that a lot back then. Remember...

...the big stir that was caused when PBS aired "Steambath" back in 1973? Perine took a shower in the nude (full frontal boob shots) and I think that was a first for TV.

[MrScorpio]

24. The Lost Continent

[TK421]

29. was it this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063240/

[MrScorpio]

56. That's the one

I haven't seen it in over 30 years

[jobycom]

31. The Navigator: A Mediaevel Oddysey

A group of fourteenth century peasants journey through a cave and wind up in modern New Zealand. Despite the hokey sounding summary, it's a dark film about prophecy and fear and primitive culture. Hard to explain. Won film of the year in New Zealand. Barely got noticed here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095709/

[WCGreen]

41. I saw that in a theater her in the bosum of suburbia...

I remember the owner of the cinema was worried about how a movie like that would play. He was talking to people as they left about if they liked it or not.

[LostInAnomie]

32. One that people know about but don't give enough respect: Event Horizon

There are some very well done scenes in that movie.

Solaris is pretty good too.

[TK421]

35. Event Horizon was a very creepy, very underrated movie IMHOP

some scenes scared the living shit out of me...

Oh...probably my favorite scene was when the two women ( crewman ) were reviewing the tape from the last voyagers, and she's drinking her coffee and the tape comes up on screen...

Lawrence Fishburne is watching all the weird shit the crew went through and calmly says "We're leaving"

something about that cracks me the fuck up

[amyrose2712]

46. I saw it once. The "hellish" scene sticks in my head.

I think maybe when they went through or something I don't recall.

[JCMach1]

34. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam movie), Videodrome

[TK421]

36. I almost forgot about Videodrome

great flick :thumbsup:

[DerekG]

37. The original SOLARIS

Best description: 2001 with a soul.

[Graybeard]

38. Fire In The Sky - 1993

James Garner has a small role in this alien abduction story. Most of the film takes place in a small Arizona town but when we suddenly see what happened in the extra-terrestrials ship the movie becomes a frighteningly weird sci-fi nightmare. Unforgettable.

[Trailrider1951]

44. Time After Time (1979)

A great movie despite the hokey sounding plot. Stellar acting by Malcom McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner. One of my all-time favorites!


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/

Oops, forgot to include linky-poo!

[amyrose2712]

48. I just remembered I loved that movie when I was a kid!

I forgot all about it.

[tigereye]

51. that's a great film, and the book is very good.

[PassingFair]

45. Zardoz.

Still haven't quite gotten over it....

[amyrose2712]

47. Dreamscape & Logan's Run.

Dreamscape

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087175/

---I forgot about this one at first. But, I must have watched it 100x as a kid.



Logan's Run.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/

Love Donnie Darko too, but I think people know about that one.

[Vidar]

49. Dune.

[tigereye]

52. I mucb prefer the mini-series to the movie...

[Ikonoklast]

53. The Quiet Earth

Under-rated classic.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/

[tigereye]

55. Gattaca, plus pretty much any film made from Phillip K Dick's writings

[ceile]

57. The Kingdom (von Trier) and Sunshine (Danny Boyle)

The Kingdom is horror/scifi-absolutely brilliant.
Sunshine has Cillain Murphy and Michelle Yeogh(sp?)-very creepy.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

58. Primer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

[Sky Masterson]

59. Insignificance 1985

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089343/
Insignificance is a 1985 motion picture drama/comedy directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas and Alexander Stuart, and adapted by Terry Johnson from his play. The film is set in a hotel in 1954, and follows four characters who bear a striking resemblance to iconic figures of the era; Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein. The film stars Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Michael Emil, Will Sampson and Gary Busey. They are never identified by name, but the credits refer to the four characters as The Actress, The Senator, The Ballplayer and The Scientist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA3zlDcYjOk
Marilyn Monroe explains relativity

[Graybeard]

60. The Arrival (1996)

Spoiler alert**. Charlie Sheen discovers that aliens are in our midst when he runs into Ron Silver (that's scary enough in itself) as different people in different countries. To replicate their disguises as humans they use the same templates of human bodies over and over again and assign them around the world. Great special effects. Goofy but a lot of fun.