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Due to injury , not been able to ride my bike i have been re-watching films , recently watched all the alien / predator films ,all the matrix, sunshine , and the resident evil quadrilogy , what should i watch next,
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Serenity
Star Trek XI
Moon
Contact
Dark Star
Event Horizon
Supanova
Solaris
Spaceballs
Then decide films don't last long enough and watch all of BSG
Moon
Contact
Event Horizon
Solaris
Moon
Dune!
Watch dune!!!
UH loves dune...
Cargo - quality German sci-fi, much better than I'd anticipated
Iron Sky - just for the hell of it
Lockout - Guy Pearce is highly entertaining
firefly then serenity
bsg
aliens blu ray quadrilogy
bladerunner remaster
star trek all series all films
the complete Babylon 5
Moon
John Carter is on my Lovefilm list (not sure if I recommend it yet!)
Source Code
Limitless
District 9
Chronicle
Super 8
Just watched Firefly on lovefilm & then Serenity.
Or get an xbox/ps3 & play Dead Space & fill your pants with poos
John Carter is truly awful. Watch it, 🙂
Bladerunner, obviously.
Moon
Tremors
Iron Sky if only for the underwear
chronicals
paul
the adjustment bureau
irobot
5th element
limitless
Sunshine
Gattaca
2001 a space odyssey. 2010 not so good.
Moon
Westworld
Dark City
Pan's Labyrinth
Twelve Monkeys
Underworld
The Hunger Games
firefly then serenity
This.
Farscape.
Cube.
Harrison Bergeron.
*adds thread to favourites*
Thx 1138 - George Lucas's first ever film
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind - jim carreys best ever performance.....well maybe the Truman show
Dune!Watch dune!!!
UH loves dune...
SJ loves Dune too!
so much so i've had a man crush on Kyle MacLachlan for about 20 years now..
and read all the books.
top stuff.
also watch
Silent Running
Zardoz
Saturn 3
Sunshine
Moon
Outland
Robocop
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
+1 agree about his best ever performance
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind - jim carreys best ever performance.....well maybe the Truman show
Pah!, Lloyd Christmas for the win.
Duh!
Dark Star
Great thread but none of these films are on LoveFilm on the xbox.
Also, Cargo is a great film but I'm pretty sure it's Swiss
Event Horizen
Silent Running
Moon
If you fancy a series then give Fringe a bash which I thought was very good and if nothing else is worth it for Walter seniors moments of comedy genius 😆
Star wars!
Why has no one said star wars yet? To be more specific, a new hope and empire strikes back.
2001 and 2010.
Can't think of anything else to add to this list! Pretty much everything I could think of's on here.
If you don't mind going a little off-piste into more fantasy stuff, then Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies and Wonder Falls are all fantastic fun, just hugely enjoyable series.
Event Horizon is really scary
Blade Runner but the original version.
Silent Running
5th Element
The Abyss (Inner Space)
Also, Cargo is a great film but I'm pretty sure it's Swiss
Perhaps so, but the version I saw had English subtitles translated from German!
Lots of great recommendations above so won't repeat, one not listed that I love is...
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_Black_(film) ]Pitch Black[/url]
Awesome opening scene and nice and creepy. Great.
Metropolis.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ( radio and tv series, not the film)
The Last Star Fighter.
Stalker.
Solaris. (Tarkovsky)
BSG from start to finish
Fantastic
Iron Sky
I brought this and at first couldn't work out if it was meant to be a cheesy camp piss-take or it was meant to be serious. And i'm still not sure.
The best are already up there on the list^^^, but Donnie Darko deserves a mention too.
Onzadog: that's because Star Wars is rubbish. So are all the Matrix films.
My favorite ever film with spaceships is Forbidden Planet. Great 1950s dialogue, and an early appearance from Leslie Neilsen playing it super super straight.
Also from the Old Films Your Parents Liked pile: Logan's Run.
Def get all the Battle Star Galactica series, that will keep you going for ages.
Also as above, Bladerunner, Moon, District 9.
The Star Trek films are sadly pretty bad, the series was awesome but just didn't translate to big screen. The latest one quite good tho.
I liked the TNG films Nemesis, Insurrection and First Contact just wasn't keen on the first one Generations.
It's a shame there was never a Star Trek Voyager film, that's the best Star Trek, good and dark.
It's a shame there was never a Star Trek Voyager film, that's the best Star Trek, good and dark.
You misspelled "worst" there. Though I agree, the lack of a film or two is disappointing.
It -should- have been the best, it had a lot going for it. But there were just too many twee plotlines and missteps. "Ooh, an alien killing machine, let's see if it wants a cuddle." Only Janeway could make friends with the Borg FFS.
If you want "good and dark" Star Trek, what you're looking for there is Deep Space 9. It was pish for a couple of seasons whilst it found its feet, but once it got going it was head and shoulders the best show of the franchise. IMHO.
Boys never like Voyager. I think it's the lack of a biddable female robot to fantasize about.
Source Code is on Lovefilm. I actually enjoyed it.
Boys never like Voyager. I think it's the lack of a biddable female robot to fantasize about.
Well, no, it's more that it spends a large amount of its time being twaddle, a notable exception being the Species 8472 plotline (well, until Janeway made friends with them, anyway).
Lack of female robot fantasy? Jerry Ryan?
Oh, films,
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284978/ ]Cypher[/url]? That's a little cracker that no-one's ever watched.
I know the Federation were meant to be peaceful but how on earth do you have a science ship as your flagship?
They should have put Janeway into the first airlock available.
Some oldies but great films, and a few newer ones
The Thing!!!
The forbiden planet..
It came from outer space
Invasion of the body snatchers - all versions 🙂
Them
The Fly
Invaders from mars
WALLE
Equlibriam
Flash Gordon! YUP
Starship Troopers....
Theres a couple of oldish series that i just cant remember which were prety scary at the time. something about an alien locked up in a big vault that can mess with your mind, hunted by some bloke and an atractive lady.. i think
Nobody has mentioned Capricorn One. Manned mission to mars goes wrong, gets faked, but the astronauts don't like that idea. Cue astronauts on the run from the government...
Cameron's out of recession program... Not sure you can find more Sci-fi than that.
+1 BSG start to finish. Remember the pilot episodes (mini zeries) otherwise you start in the middle of a story... Didn't stop me from loving it tho 🙂
Contact.... Really? Or was that sarcasm I missed?
+1 BSG start to finish. Remember the pilot episodes (mini zeries) otherwise you start in the middle of a story..
I've finally got around to watching this recently. Settled in with season 1, episode 1, to be met with "previously, on Battlestar Galactica..." er, wait, what?
Really enjoying it though. Now a couple of eps into S3, and it's just upped its game somewhat.
In terms of being from another planet and an evil alien presence. How about "Margeret Thatcher a life".
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Onzadog: that's because Star Wars is rubbish.
Oh dear. Though I will admit I only consider New Hope to Return of the Jedi to being Star Wars films, the other pap was just that.. pap.
Have any of the Dark Star recommenders actually seen the film?
I own it, and it's a bit rubbish really, unless you been smoking something interesting. Admittedly it has some great idea's included.
Lots of otherwise great recommendations above though.
A quick series recommendation for Stargate Universe & a grudging one for the original movie. Universe took a while to settle in, but then was flying fantastically until they cancelled it.. we can hope they pick it up again the future. Last episode finished with a cliffhanger and an open ending to return.
Got Dark Star and it is good in a cheesy cheap way. Talking bombs and an alien that can only be described as a beach ball 😀
The day the Earth Stood Still
The day the Earth Stood Still
I presume you don't mean the Keanu Reeve version?
That just made me think of HG Wells Time Machine, again the original - not the remake!
to go with Logan's run, made at roughly the same time:
Silent Running
Soylent Green
What am I thinking.
Alien.
Aliens.
Escape from New York.
Terminator.
Highlander.
A bit of a leftfield guilty pleasure but,
Titan AE?
IS BGG just a remake or is there a new story?
PJ - yes, teh original.
Time Machine also.
Junkyard - Member
IS BGG just a remake or is there a new story?
BSG.. completely new angle, though the 'premise' of robots returning to kill humanity and kill all survivors is basically the same. Less sci-fi star ships charging about (though there enough to keep you entertained) more intelligence and WTF is really happening?
BSG is a reboot, or what the cool kids these days might call a 'reimaging'.
It's a lot darker than the original, character-driven with a strong story arc. It's almost a soap opera in space (with a sprinkling of West Wing) rather than a relying on a monster-of-the-week format.
Completely cheesy & very rubbish, and has every idea stolen decent movies... Soldier, on the plus side Mr. Russell has about 5 lines in it, in total & he's the 'star'. I really like it 😳
Oh and when you've seen Pitch Black, don't be tempted by the Chronicles of Riddick.
Original Planet of the apes
Brazil (which I find very unsettling)
Mad Max series
Back to the future
Screamers
They live
Hardware
Mars Attacks
Minority report
Children of men
Night Watch and then Day watch
Deja Vu
V for vendetta
I am legend
Jumper
Gamer
Monster vs Alien
Watchmen
The Book of Eli
PS: Can I include my love for Dune, very underrated for what is an immensely complicated story.
The original bsg series was great and the new series was great but i lost my way with it a bit.
Which reminds me
Buck rogers was also fairly good back then and so was 'V'
In fact the original V was fantastic but the new one was seriously pants, only watched a few
ah yes, the black hole, always liked watching that at Christmas 🙂
Primer - You will have to watch it twice over at least - confusing time travel based plot.
Pitch Black - Low budget debut for Vin Deisel - Surprisingly fab.
Twelve monkeys - Sci-fi? cracker none the less
The day the earth stood still - Original version only.
The second part of the new V was hell of a lot better similar to Caprica but by then viewers had given up and the funding gone for more. Why they have to drag some of these series out is beyond me, make them shorter but a bit more action packed.
found the series i was thinking about, was great back then
Something Is Out There - with Maryam d'Abo
Has Pandorum been mention yet?
I really enjoyed the tv series Taken about alien abduction, some great bits in that.
Hmmm
Dune - read the bloody books
The Last Starfighter
The Thing
The original Day the Earth stood still
Iron Sky
BSG from start to finish
Forbidden Planet
Capricorn One
Planet of the Apes (original)
Skyline - apart from the rubbish acting I did find it very disturbing
Star Trek Wrath of Khan
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Silent Running
Moon
12 Monkeys
Akira but only in Japanese with English subtitles
Read: The Kraken Wakes and Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
I read most of Wyndham's books when I was younger. The Chrysalids was one that stands out to me even now, as did The Midwich Cuckoos (made by Hollywood as "The Village Of The Damned")
close encounters is one of the best
+ 100 for MOON fantastic film once you have thought it over and got your head round it 😉
again event horizon is superb
the ORIGINAL 'the thing' is a classic
i thought Aeon Flux was good
contact is very good.
i must get the battle star galactic boxset, loads of people said it was cracking
The Midwich Cuckoos (made by Hollywood as "The Village Of The Damned")
I'll think you will find that that is a remake of the 1950's British Film of the same name. (along with the Italian Job, Get Carter etc.. Holywood being the home of recycling )
But by all means take a look at the original, and the follow up 'Children of the Dammed'.
"Your thinking of a wall"
I watched "Rise of the planet of the apes" this weekend and thought it was really good
oh just thought of another i really liked
K-PAX
Avatar..
I'll think you will find that that is a remake of the 1950's British Film of the same name. (along with the Italian Job, Get Carter etc.. Holywood being the home of recycling )
true enough.
not forgetting Invasion of The Body Snatchers, I don't know how many remakes there have been of that one
Anyone mentioned Dark Star yet - truely brilliant.
Anyone mentioned Dark Star yet - truely brilliant.
Especially the alien, which is just a beach ball with yeti feet 😆
I use to enjoy Space 1999 as a kid haven't seen it in years so it could be crap now. Even had a toy Eagle which I think still looks kinda cool now.
Interesting the number of people rating Moon here. Not to say it was terrible but... David Bowie's son reads the synopsis to a PKD novel and thinks 'I can do that' - the whole thing was sign posted from the outset.
I'm adding Flight of the Navigator to my list of recommendations.
