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Science Fiction Movies
Daniel Sauder
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June 2004

Hi, I'm looking for new science fiction movies I can buy. I already have:
Brazil, Rollerball, Solaris (the new one), Twelve Monkeys, AI, Dune, Galaxina, The Cell, Cube, Starship Troopers, Blade Runner, I Robot :P, Resident Evil and a few more I only have on video tape, I can't play them anymore :P.
So, what are your favourites? Suggestions?

Rick
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June 2003
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I hope you have The Matrix.

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Thomas Harte
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April 2000
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I once saw a really good science fiction movie, but for the life of me I can't remember its name. I though it was Dark Star, but checking IMDB reveals that to be some science fiction comedy which is very much not what I saw. What I saw seemed to be a piece about someone left alone in space, looking after a big garden of some sort and not really being able to cope when someone eventually comes to rescue him. Probably from the 60s or 70s. Anybody?

Otherwise, I don't know, you look like you prefer serious ones so not Barbarella but maybe Metropolis or Soylent Green?

EDIT: I hope you don't have The Matrix!

Torbjörn Josefsson
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September 2000
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Throw away AI

Check out Gattaca, Strange days, Wild Palms, Scanners & Event Horizon

PS - the best sci-fi kicks are in books - like Greag Bear's "Forge of God", Bruce Sterling's "Distraction", Greg Egan's "Distress" or Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space" series

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FMC
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March 2004
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I didn't read Star Wars in your list ;D

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Daniel Sauder
Member #4,762
June 2004

Rick: Didn't like Matrix. There are some animation Matrix short movies I found much better (Animatrix?).

Thomas: I don't know that movie, but isn't Dark Star a John Carpenter movie with a bomb stucking or something? Maybe I saw Barbarella once.

Torbjörn: I saw Strange days in the cinema and found it great, Gattaca too. I had Event Horizon on VHS, but it would be a good idea to get it.

Anybody of you ever saw Ghost in the Shell? How is that?

Matt Smith
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November 2000

Dark Star is a great, very dark comedy. The movie you are thinking about Thomas is Silent Running

FMC
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Daniel said:

Anybody of you ever saw Ghost in the Shell? How is that?

Yes. Weird, but i recomend to see it, if only for curiosity.

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CascoOscuro
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August 2004
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Purchase SpaceBalls
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Thomas Harte
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April 2000
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Dark Star is a great, very dark comedy. The movie you are thinking about Thomas is Silent Running

Good god, you're right! How did you do that? I'll have to catch it again sometime (both previous times have been channel surfing, probably to BBC2) and find out if my memory has really cheated me or not...

EDIT: as it seems I have the plot at least slightly wrong, I guess so. But everyone still says it is great, so go watch it!

ReyBrujo
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Anybody of you ever saw Ghost in the Shell? How is that?

I watched both. They are very good, but quite a bit intelectual, much like the last chapters of Evangelion. Pay attention to Legend of Earthsea, it seems very promising. It is not a movie, but rather a series.

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Avenger
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April 2004

Final Fantasy? Although it goes a bit over the line:(

gnolam
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March 2002
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A few of these may stretch the definition a bit... but here goes: Alien, Aliens, Clockwork Orange, Delikatessen, Donnie Darko, 28 Days Later, Dark City, Equilibrium, Event Horizon, the Fifth Element, Gattaca, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, the first Matrix movie, Minority Report, One Point O (fairly new and unknown... don't let the low IMDB score fool you), Pitch Black, Screamers, Terminator 1 & 2, X-men 1 & 2.

Should last you a while :)

Oh, and follow Torbjörn's suggestion and sell AI without looking at it ;)

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Sirocco
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April 2000
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Plan 9 from Outer Space, and Barbarella. Naturally!

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X-G
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but quite a bit intelectual, much like the last chapters of Evangelion.

I'm not sure I would call the last episodes of Evangelion "a bit intellectual". More like completely freaking psycho.

I second Donnie Darko and most of the rest of gnolam's list.

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Kris Allen
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Sirocco
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I'm not sure I would call the last episodes of Evangelion "a bit intellectual". More like completely freaking psycho.

Ugh... avoid those last two episodes at all cost and see Death and Rebirth / End of Evangelion instead.

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ReyBrujo
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Nah, they are nice after you have watched them five or six times ;)

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Sirocco
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Watching the final two episodes of Evangelion are equivalent to watching all three LoTR movies, only to see Frodo make it to the summit of Mt. Doom, whip out a strap-on and arse-phuck Gollum, cut his own throat with a leftover (and very stale) piece of Elven bread, while watching Sam run in circles endlessly screaming "Dead babies with rabies!" Then the credits roll...

Or, I could have been less graphic and just said it was painful; but where's the fun in that?!

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Daniel Sauder
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June 2004

Sirocco: Someone told me that Plan 9 really sucks. I didn't see it yet, but I liked the movie Ed Wood by Tim Burton.
So I got a long list for buying movies now ;).

Sirocco
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April 2000
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Yes, both of those suggestion were made in jest -- although I have run into a few people who saw redeeming value in Barbarella... shudder.

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Steve Terry
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March 2002
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I've watched the first two eps of Earth Sea and it's a very good, well thought out, and generally well done series. Sci-Fi tends to make quite a few well done origional series.

Go watch Soilent Green... you'll never guess the plot of that movie ::)

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Jeff Houck
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December 2004
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I've watched the first two eps of Earth Sea...

I think that was it. Two episodes. And they left out SO much...:'(
If you like them, you should read the real thing from U.K. LeQuinn. It's incredible.:)

Steve Terry
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:o that was it??? Damn yeah I can see where they could of left stuff out, hmm I thought it was gonna be a longer series than that... I guess it did kinda end... but it was too abrubt :(

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ReyBrujo
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The same happens with LotR or any fantasy book, including Stephen King ones.

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