So far this year I have watched Metropolis and Zardoz for the first time. What are some other must see SciFi movies?

  • guyrocket@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    Some that I’m not seeing here much yet:
    Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, War of the Worlds, Minority Report, Gattaca, Heavy Metal, Repo Man, Starship Troopers, The Fifth Element, Tron, Tron Legacy, Independence Day, Idiocracy, Predator, Star Trek (2009), Escape From New York, Galaxy Quest, Total Recall, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T., Wall-E, Jurassic Park (1993), District 9, Robocop, Children of Men, Inception, and the Back To The Future trilogy,

  • lemmyng@beehaw.org
    9·
    1 year ago

    Forbidden Planet, Logan’s Run, Death Race 2000, The Day the Earth Stood Still, …

    What’s your cutoff for “classic”? Are we talking about the classic film era, or anything older than 25 years?

    • Durandal@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      All great picks. Forbidden Planet trips me out because young Leslie Nielsen, as a dashing leading man, in a non-comedy role is just wild to see heh. The plot is fun and the effects actually hold up really well for the age.

    • MooseGas@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Great picks. I’m not too concerned with the timing. Even more recent, soon to be classics, are fair game.

      • lemmyng@beehaw.org
        12·
        1 year ago

        Well in that case:

        • The Matrix
        • Dark City
        • Pi
        • Confluence
        • Predestination
        • Primer
        • Brazil
        • Time Bandits
        • Gremlins
        • They Live!
        • Escape from NY/LA
        • Big Trouble in Little China
        • The Fifth Element
        • 12 Monkeys
        • Six String Samurai
        • Robocop
        • Total Recall
        • Terminator & Terminator 2
        • Event Horizon
        • Stargate
        • Johnny Mnemonic
        • Soldier
        • The Truman Show
        • Mars Attacks!
        • Demolition Man
        • Starship Troopers
        • Tank Girl
        • Cube
        • Species
        • Men in Black
        • Iron Sky
        • Robot Jox

        … and many more!

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Here are some classic SF going back a bit further than most of the comments co far.

    1970s

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

    A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    Westworld (1973)

    Silent Running (1972)

    Logan’s Run (1976) - Overpopulation (the end)

    Mad Max (1979)

    Capricorn One (1977) - The movie that started the moonlanding was fake conspiracy.

    Soylent Green (1973) - Overpopulation (the start)

    Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) - AI taking over the world.

    The Andromeda Strain (1971) - Pandemic

    Rollerball (1975)

    Sleeper (1973)

    Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

    1960s

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    Barbarella (1968)

    Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

    Fantastic Voyage (1966)

    The Time Machine (1960)

    Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)

    Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)

    1950s

    The War of the Worlds (1953)

    When Worlds Collide (1951)

    The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

    Forbidden Planet (1956)

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) again bit I prefer the 70s remake.,

    Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) The first so bad it is good movie.

    On the Beach (1959)

    Destination Moon (1950)

    • Durandal@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Some of my favorites on here. Plan 9 is great to watch back to back with Ed Wood.
      1953 War of the Worlds was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Those ships were super cool. FX hold up really well.
      Barbarella is over the top, but still fun to watch… and credited with the band Duran Duran getting it’s name. :)
      1960 Time Machine was another one of my absolute favs as a kid… best Time Machine adaptation IMHO.

  • fearout@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    Also, if you count ~20 year old movies as classic, I’d add Bicentennial man and Artificial intelligence, haven’t seen these mentioned yet.

  • PLS_HELP@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    A lot of great ones out there but my personal favs probably are Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fifth Element, Event Horizon, Blade Runner in the “earnest” category, then Tokyo Gore Police, Johnny Mnemonic, Starship Troopers, Tetsuo, Total Recall, RoboCop in the campy/wild/fun category.

  • Remmock@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I noticed a lack of Anime. If I may:

    Ghost in the Shell (the entire collection if you have the time)
    Macross: Do You Remember Love?
    Akira
    Galaxy Express 999
    Captain Harlock
    Battle Angel Alita
    Serial Experiments Lain (Series)
    BubbleGum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (Series)
    Red Baron (Series)
    Saber Marionette (Any, but J is a series that hits maturity in the second half with aplomb)
    Neon Genesis Evangelion (Series)
    Cowboy Bebop (Series)
    The Big O (Series)
    Roujin Z
    Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
    Iria: Zeiram the Animation
    Steamboy
    Paprika

    And more I can’t think of right now.

    • Durandal@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      If you’re gonna do ghost in the shell, I’d also recommend Appleseed.
      Akira was one of the first “adult” anime that I watched back in the day. Good stuff, ending is unfortunate. I would have loved if they just made all the books into a series of movies. The animation and soundtrack are amazing though. For Katsuhiro Otomo I’d also recommend Memories.

    • Madison_rogue@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      “The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

      One of my favorite movies.

  • fearout@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I guess most of the famous classics are going to be listed anyway, so to add something that most people probably haven’t seen, I suggest *batteries not included. It’s nothing grandiose (more like a family-friendly flick, I feel like it’s in the same category as Flubber or Short Circuit), but it’s really sweet, light-hearted and enjoyable.

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
    4·
    1 year ago

    Golden Age (70s & 80s): Blade Runner, 2001, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, Wrath of Khan, Undiscovered Country, E.T., Brazil, Lynch’s Dune, Back to the Future, The Thing, They Live, Akira, Buckaroo Banzai, The Abyss

    90s Renaissance: Total Recall, 12 Monkeys, Contact, Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Galaxy Quest, Truman Show, Dark City, The Matrix, Gattaca, π, Strange Days, T2, First Contact, Event Horizon, Jurassic Park

    • Durandal@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Some great picks. I always introduce people to Buckaroo Banzai if they haven’t seen it. Love that end theme. :)

      I just rewatched several Dune movies. IDK if you’ve seen the latest release with Clement. It’s a decent watch, enough so that I’ll watch part 2 when it comes out. I love the sci-fi mini-series though… “Frank Herbert’s Dune” and “Children of Dune” they did.

  • danielmark_n_3d@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Gonna just list the ones that really jumped out to me:
    Event Horizon; Bladerunner & Bladerunner 2049; Pacific Rim; Johnny Mnemonic; Stalker; Solaris (1972); Robocop; Starship Troopers; Dredd; Tetsuo the Iron Man; Crimes of the Future; Pandorum; Fifth Element; Southland Tales

    • ReCursing@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ll add Alien and Terminator 1 to that list. Whether you consider the first or second better in either franchise, there’s no denying all four are excellent movies

      • Durandal@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, going back and rewatching them, all the Alien movies are pretty decent. 1 and 2 are the top tier though. The only thing I don’t forgive is the intro premise to 3 which I won’t list for spoiler reasons.

        It’s a shame they never made any more Terminator movies after T2. T2 was so excellent. .and it was the last. Definitely. Take my word for it.

      • MooseGas@kbin.socialOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just watched the original Alien the other day. I had forgotten how similar they made the ship from Prometheus to the ship in Alien. Wasted opportunity.