Sci fi / space film recommendations please

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,

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”.

hels – Member
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.