Favorite Sci-Fi Movies/TV Shows List

[User#8628]

Inception - Does that count as sci-fi? The dream sharing technology seems pretty fictional to me

I love that movie so much!

 

[User#8628]

Ex machina was also good. The ending made me so angry though.

 

[Sudsy]

Don' get me wrong, I love Star Trek, but some of the series and a lot of the movies were cringe fests.

I don't disagree. But they were important to canon....

 

[RIDER 00]

I don't disagree. But they were important to canon....

With all the do-overs and reboots they're trying to do now, I don't know what canon is anymore.
Why do the prequel series have better technology than in TOS? Why do the Klingons looks so different?

Can we at least remove Enterprise from cannon? That would make me 85% satisfied with everything that's left.

 

[e-smile]

no "Back to the future" in the lists ?

 

[Sudsy]

I've said it in another thread, but I like the change to the Klingons. It makes them more "other".

I'll object strenuously if anyone tries to digitally impose it on old series though.

 

[Majestyk]

I was really looking forward to Dredd, which starred Karl Urban, when it was released in 2012.

Sly Stallone’s Judge Dredd, released in 1995, was all sorts of wrong. It was an action-comedy, which totally disregarded the dark, dystopian British comic book source: Judge Dredd.

Dredd in 2012 was true to the source material, with violence a bit amped up. It wasn’t a Matrix-sized hit, but has picked up a cult following over time. It is probably one of the best sci-fi films of this decade.

To the uninitiated, here’s a synopsis: In the future, the overpopulated and chaotic Mega City One, with 800 million inhabitants, occupies the former territory between Boston and Washington and is surrounded by desert. Justice is brought by the judges, who have the power to judge and execute the sentence against those who break the law. The incorruptible Judge Dredd is summoned by the Chief Judge to evaluate the rookie Anderson, who has failed the test for judge, but is a mutant with psychic abilities. They witness a murder and chase the killer in a 200-floor building. But the laboratory of the drug lord Ma-Ma is located in the 200th floor and she seals the building, trapping the two judges inside and ordering her clan to kill them.

A Dredd Appreciation Post —

 

[TinyNymph]

Movies :
Primer (no matter how many times I watch it I'm still confused)
Upstream colour
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Iron Giant
Coherence
Her
2001: A Space Odyssey
Paprika
Akira
District 9

Tv series:
Firefly !!!!!
Doctor Who
Westworld
Stranger Things
Sense 8
Futurama
Rick and Morty
Misfits

 

[DJnLJ]

And the series never got a proper ending....just the narration "He never made it back home."

Could be worse. In the early part of the first season of ALF they discuss what would happen if ALF was ever caught by the government people looking for him. That he would be taken someplace, dissected, and never heard from again.

In the final episode season cliffhanger the government agents capture him. And then they canceled the series, so ALF was never heard from again.

 

[DJnLJ]

Tv series:
Firefly !!!!!

So underrated and undeserving of being cancelled. But at least they got to close it out with the movie.

 

[RIDER 00]

Could be worse. In the early part of the first season of ALF they discuss what would happen if ALF was ever caught by the government people looking for him. That he would be taken someplace, dissected, and never heard from again.

In the final episode season cliffhanger the government agents capture him. And then they canceled the series, so ALF was never heard from again.

I guess you've never seen the TV movie Operation: ALF then. ALF did get somewhat of an ending, but not a happy one. He's not a nice guy in the movie and it didn't have the Tanners because they were all shipped off to Alaska.

 

[RIDER 00]

no "Back to the future" in the lists ?

BTTF 1 is good when it came out, but the reason I like it less over time is the rape scene with Biff and Lorraine and how that is never brought up again as an issue. Casual rapes might have been a thing in the 50s, it's just really uncomfortable to see. Would you let a guy who tried to rape your wife when she was in high school hang out around your house later in life?

BTTF 2 had great scenes when they were in the future, but it goes downhill when they go back to 1985 and 1955 because the plotline depends on the viewer understanding everything that happened in BTTF 1.

BTTF 3 is an okay sequel, nothing special though.

 

[AMcguyver]

With all the do-overs and reboots they're trying to do now, I don't know what canon is anymore.
Why do the prequel series have better technology than in TOS? Why do the Klingons looks so different?

Well, it has been over 50 years since Star Trek first aired and technology has changed quite a bit since the 60s. I think if they made a true prequel series with the same technological look and feel of TOS, these days they wouldn't have much of an audience.

I've pretty much given up on "canon" these days and just try to enjoy each series on their own. As long as they try to stay within Roddenberry's vision of a future where we all eventually learn to get over our differences and work together.

Yeah, I know we got a loooooong way to go.

 

[AMcguyver]

I guess you've never seen the TV movie Operation: ALF then. ALF did get somewhat of an ending, but not a happy one. He's not a nice guy in the movie and it didn't have the Tanners because they were all shipped off to Alaska.

I heard there's plans for a CGI/live action movie...

 

[AMcguyver]

Love this film. I just remember I really loved Quantum Leap series back then, too.

And the series never got a proper ending....just the narration "He never made it back home."

Yeah, that's why all the hardcore fans of the series are still pissed off.

It looks like the feature film is finally moving forward. I read that Bellisario completed the script for it.

 

[Hofmeyer]

I forgot about these.

Also Twilight Zone

Wrath of Khan: "From Hell's heart I stab at thee. For Hate's sake, I spit on thee". The original khan really was better than Cumberbatch's version

Ricardo Montalban's presence was wasted on William Shatner. He gets a lot of shit though, and he isn't quite as terrible an actor as people make him out to be, just watch Boston Legal. But damn I would have loved to have that exact movie but with Patrick Stewart.

Fun fact, some people may have noticed that the newer Dredd film is an almost carbon clone of The Raid. And you'd be right, it is. What happened was they production team behind The Raid were shopping their film out to Hollywood for a wider release. Then some of the people who went on to make Dredd saw it and decided 'Let's just do that.'

In the end a lot of people crapped on The Raid for being a copy of Dredd, because it received a world wide release after it, when the opposite was true. And the courts agreed, the producers of Dredd paid a huge settlement to The Raid's production team.

 

[User#8628]

BTTF 1 is good when it came out, but the reason I like it less over time is the rape scene with Biff and Lorraine and how that is never brought up again as an issue. Casual rapes might have been a thing in the 50s, it's just really uncomfortable to see. Would you let a guy who tried to rape your wife when she was in high school hang out around your house later in life?

BTTF 2 had great scenes when they were in the future, but it goes downhill when they go back to 1985 and 1955 because the plotline depends on the viewer understanding everything that happened in BTTF 1.

BTTF 3 is an okay sequel, nothing special though.

I agree, Biff was a really bad guy and the dad still let him hang around in the changed future like "aw, quirky Biff"

The movies were fun but the development was too slow sometimes, got me checking my phone a lot during watching them.

One thing that really cracked me up about the sequel were the similarities between rich Biff and Trump...

 

[rob040188]

The Metrix is brilliant though, thats how movies should be made. Plus young Keanu Reeves, daaaaaamn!

For me I prefer Keanu's look in Speed
And in John Wick (currently my favorite action film --- "he is the one you send to kill the f***ing boogeyman" ). In this film Keanu had that unlikely mix of vulnerable and invincible at the same time. The fight scenes were great (especially reloading and transitioning from one firearm to the other. also, distracting his opponents with a blow from the top edge of the slide before taking them down to the ground. These techniques are actually taught in CQB) if a bit unbelievable (in the sense that he is super good and extremely lucky).

how could I forget Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?

Excelleent!!!

 

[rob040188]

no "Back to the future" in the lists ?

I forgot about that one. BTF1 and BTF2 were great.

Anna Summer told me about this upcoming movie Ready Player One. I just saw the trailer and the Delorean is in the film (and other pop culture references such as gundam and i think godzilla). I think I will try to get a copy of the ebook first. And then watch the film when its showing in tokyo.

 

[rob040188]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Iron Giant

I really liked both.

In Eternal Sunshine, Jim Carrey's character was trying to cure his broken heart by removing memories of his ex. I guess this is pretty unique. Also, I really liked Kirsten Dunst jumping up and down a bed. She reminds me of @User#8628 .

The Iron Giant, opened my eyes to america's communist scare (I wasn't aware of it then before I watched the film). Also, I think the film had that theme of kindness being reciprocated by a monster (the iron giant, obviously a weapon of war from another planet) because the boy was decent to him.

 

[Majestyk]

For me I prefer Keanu's look in Speed
And in John Wick (currently my favorite action film --- "he is the one you send to kill the f***ing boogeyman" ).

Huge John Wick fan here.
I love this bit from Wick adversary Viggo Tarasov telling his son, Iosef, that he messed with the wrong guy: “John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will ... something you know very little about. I once saw him kill three men in a bar ... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil.“

 

[rob040188]

In the end a lot of people crapped on The Raid for being a copy of Dredd, because it received a world wide release after it, when the opposite was true. And the courts agreed, the producers of Dredd paid a huge settlement to The Raid's production team.

The raid is actually one of my favorite action films. For its brutal martial arts (I think this is the first international film that showed penchak silat. Personally, i prefer escrima. but that's just me. Bourne Identity and [especially] Bourne Supremacy featured escrima [empty hand and single stick --or rolled up magazine]) and long single takes.

Some episodes of Daredevil Season 1 and 2 have that long single shot take.

 

[DJnLJ]

I guess you've never seen the TV movie Operation: ALF then. ALF did get somewhat of an ending, but not a happy one. He's not a nice guy in the movie and it didn't have the Tanners because they were all shipped off to Alaska.

Never saw it. Didn't even watch the show, the story about the ending was in a list of worst show endings ever.

 

[DJnLJ]

For me I prefer Keanu's look in Speed
And in John Wick (currently my favorite action film --- "he is the one you send to kill the f***ing boogeyman" ). In this film Keanu had that unlikely mix of vulnerable and invincible at the same time. The fight scenes were great (especially reloading and transitioning from one firearm to the other. also, distracting his opponents with a blow from the top edge of the slide before taking them down to the ground. These techniques are actually taught in CQB) if a bit unbelievable (in the sense that he is super good and extremely lucky).


Excelleent!!!

It helps the Keanu really does do 3 gun competitions and is pretty good at them. Means his movements are much more natural and fluid. Which just makes the movies that much better.
Plus I love the sommelier scene in 2.

 

[DJnLJ]

BTTF 1 is good when it came out, but the reason I like it less over time is the rape scene with Biff and Lorraine and how that is never brought up again as an issue. Casual rapes might have been a thing in the 50s, it's just really uncomfortable to see. Would you let a guy who tried to rape your wife when she was in high school hang out around your house later in life?

It is an important scene. They never really explain the disfunctionality of the family initially or why it so radically changed when Marty returned to present day.
If you consider that without Marty in the past Lorraine would have been raped by Biff, it explains why she acts the way she does, like a rape survivor sometimes does. Her entire life revolves around that single incident. Her husband's life as a beta to the male that raped her also makes sense early on.
When Marty goes to the past and her rape is stopped, he returns to a much happier mother and a father who is not only self confident but has turned Biff into a beta.