[Closed] Friday night sci fi movie

Battlestar Galactica : Razor

Serenity?

Blade Runner 2049
Valerian

If you can forgo spaceships, Moon?

If not, the coolest is in HHGTTG.

Fifth Element.

Obviously.

BSG +1 (the reboot, not the 80s original). Start with the pilot...

or BSG Blood & Chrome, that's a good stand alone film

The Thing.

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Bsg is a good call but then I'll have to watch ALL of it.
Serenity goes on the list, Bladerunner sounds like it might require thought, Valerian not. Moon was good but..no spaceships. Is the |
Hitchhiker's reboot any good? Fith Element is more of a classic, I only know the original Carpenter Thing, does it have spaceships?
Thanks, people.

Bright is not awful
Valerian is....but in a Luc Besson way which makes it very watchable.

Just to be typically STW how about a blast from the past (1975 to be exact):

Space 1999 season 1 ep4 “War Games” Some very good (and very clunky) special effects. I think you can find it on you tube.

I really enjoyed bright.

Technically I should hate it, but it's worth a watch.

Guardians of the galaxy 1 & 2

Sunshine

or there's The Expanse on Netfilx. OK it's a series (two actually), not a film, but it has ships and SFX and stuff

Erm...dare I say Jupiter Ascending?..it's not that bad 😳

But seriously; start watching Killjoys which is very good.

Agree on Guardians of the galaxy 1 & 2, spaceships aliens and a great laugh all in one.

Bright is not awful
Valerian is....but in a Luc Besson way which makes it very watchable.

Bright is ****ing TERRIBLE! Bizzare plot with massive holes, awful acting, doesn't really go anywhere. Obviously a Luc Besson film is allowed to have all those things because it looks incredible 🙂

I thought Life was quite good.

Bright is not awful

Sounds like a reviewer quote you used to get on the back of video tapes that got cut off too early

Bright is not awful......ly bad, it's a f**ing s**t show of epic proportions, but at least Will Smith got paid a bucketload

I've heard good things about Europa Report

+1 for The Expanse.

Europa Report also better than you might have thought. Certainly better than Bright.

I found Europa Report better second time around.

Best designed/coolest spaceship in the last few years for me has to be Starship Avalon in Passengers. Movie's not bad either.

Old school. Babylon 5 from the beginning.

New school. Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Old old school. Silent Running.

Contact.

The Expanse is brilliant....but read the books.

Serenity goes on the list,

If you don't -definitely- want a movie, you're better off watching the Firefly series than Serenity. It's still cool though.

Old old old school:

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I'm up to date with the Expanse, books and TV, Guardians of the Galaxy was meh, Babylon 5 was excellent - the films a bit weak though, Jupiter ascending was that bad. So it's down to Serenity, Passengers or Europa Report, with life filed for another day.
Thanks to all.

The Expanse is superb

We all Beltalowda !

The Roci is my favorite spaceship.

Serenity only any good if you've watched firefly.

Tbh there really isn't enough sci-fi out there

I thought guardians 1 was OK, the second one was crap.

Bright is a good shout

Oblivion

"The year is 2259. [i]The name of the place[/i] is Babylon 5" always raises a chucklecringe

IMO Babylon 5 has not aged well.

Life
The Martian
Independence day 2

Oblivion

A really good film, it's got Tom cruse in it, but apart from that, it's well worth a watch.

Life

Calvin, thats what i couldnt remember earlier. Not wishing to post a spoiler, those that have seen it will know what Im on about.

So far, Bright rhymes with what I'm thinking of it.

This far and nobody has mentioned Alien?

Binge watch 7 episodes of Stranger Things......just me then. 😯

Hang on for a few weeks and watch Altered Carbon on Netflix. I don’t see how the book can be translated well to the screen, but I’m willing to be proven wrong. Expanse is brilliant, can’t wait for book 8

If you have Netflix try Killjoys. Kind of like Firefly.

Live,Die, Repeat or failing that Graham Norton's on soon.

+1 Oblivion

Black Mirror
Super8
The Edge of Tomorrow

Enjoyed Passengers recently but tonight I watched Paul again on itv2

IMO Babylon 5 has not aged well.

I watched it for the first time relatively recently. It's really good but the first season is terrible.

Live,Die, Repeat

That's "The Edge of Tomorrow" in the UK.

Oh yeah, Killjoys is good too

Cougar - Moderator
IMO Babylon 5 has not aged well.
I watched it for the first time relatively recently. It's really good but the first season is terrible.

[The Edge of Tomorrow] indeed; but I watched it in the US.

Ahh yes “are you an effective team?” I forgot about that, fun film worth watching.
Live, die, repeat is also a good romp.

His latest, “The Mummy” is very odd and bland.

Not seen bright, but my teenage role-playing self is outraged that they've ripped off [url= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun ]Shadowrun[/url]

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I liked Bright.

Wing Commander, good space battles, terrible acting and aliens.

Brights not as bad as it’s made out to be , I enjoyed it.

Valerians typical luc b so worth a watch.

I didn’t really think much of the new blade runner thou.

Life struggled to watch it to the end.

I know it's no longer Friday but I'd recommend Snowpiercer.

Fire in the Sky.
Button Moon.

Thumbs up for Passengers and a special award for the cool spaceship, thanks for the recommend.
The ideas and long story arcs compensate for the outdated sfx in Babylon 5.
Edge of Tomorrow was indeed a good romp, I couldn't get into Killjoys but am looking forward to Altered Carbon (I get the feeling that Richard Morgan is not particularly well liked by Charlie Stross and his contemporaries).
I accidentally watched Paul recently, no spaceship awards but worth the time. Oblivion or Europa Report tonight.

Tron Legacy ? (not space, but there are ships n things similar in it)

I get the feeling that Richard Morgan is not particularly well liked by Charlie Stross and his contemporaries

Why do you say this?
Not totally sure they needed to add more to the Kovac's back story but we will see, looking forward to it but ready, as ever, to be disappointed

killjoy's really? I preferred dark matter but even deleted that unwatched this week

I've been told by a usually good judge of film that Beyond Skyline is surprisingly good

Not seen bright, but my teenage role-playing self is outraged that they've ripped off Shadowrun

That was exactly my thought too. (I used to GM Shadowrun in SR3 days.)

Thumbs up for Passengers and a special award for the cool spaceship, thanks for the recommend.

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I've been told by a usually good judge of film that Beyond Skyline is surprisingly good

I've never sat down to watch a movie and turned it off before the end in my puff. Until i watched that drivel. Only good thing was the large alien 'mech' creature design. Not even a so bad it's good, or funny or anything, it made no sense and was just pure shite. Your mate must have been very, very drunk.

Anyone mentioned Travellers?

Netflix original, surprisingly ropey at first, but actually gets going eventually. The premise still seems to contain a gaping hole but there's enough left unknown that it might actually be addressed. But the character and contextual depth is to the usual high Netflix standard if you watch carefully.

No spaceships at all though.

Thumbs up for Passengers and a special award for the cool spaceship, thanks for the recommend.

At least we now know you have low expectations & prefer the formulaic dross

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I have low expectations [s]& prefer the[/s] of formulaic dross. I can enjoy it though. Would you care to recommend anything more high brow than Guardians of the Galaxy?
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GotG is a fine example of its genre, it's not pretending to be avant-garde or cutting edge to hide a story thats been used so many times before that you can work out what the reveal is long before the end.

I think you'll like oblivion though, it's got space ships and everything!

At least we now know you have low expectations & prefer the formulaic dross

Stop being a dick 😆

It's all about the space ships.

Cougar - Moderator

Not seen bright, but my teenage role-playing self is outraged that they've ripped off Shadowrun

That was exactly my thought too. (I used to GM Shadowrun in SR3 days.)

I thought it was a rip off of Alien Nation, but there you go. No desire to watch it.

The only thing with passengers is.........he condemned someone to death chosen because she was fit,then lied to her,then started a relationship with her.10/10 for creepy weirdness.
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'Beyond skyline'

Aliens and spaceships a'plenty.

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Binge watch 7 episodes of Stranger Things......just me then.

Nah it’s very good....retro amblinish and that seems to work well for it.

The only thing with passengers is.........he condemned someone to death chosen because she was fit,then lied to her,then started a relationship with her.10/10 for creepy weirdness

Your right .. i didn’t really get why people like the movie due to this.

I didn’t really like it as it’s a bit of a downer movie IMHO

Saw The Martian the other day...it was ace. Really enjoyed it.