Movies: Must see science fiction

[The Shadow]

Over the weekend I watched Sunshine (2007) a Danny Boyle Sci-Fi film. It was really good and I never heard of it before.

The story is interesting. A good cast and plot - the idea is that a crew is sent to the sun to re-ignite it in the future when it starts dying out. A lot of research and planning went into the script with scientists consulted. I would give it an 8/10



What are some of your favourite Sci-fi movies that are a must watch?

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[NyQuil]

Over the weekend I watched Sunshine (2007) a Danny Boyle Sci-Fi film. It was really good and I never heard of it before.

The story is interesting. A good cast and plot - the idea is that a crew is sent to the sun to re-ignite it in the future when it starts dying out. A lot of research and planning went into the script with scientists consulted. I would give it an 8/10



What are some of your favourite Sci-fi movies that are a must watch?

Sunshine was great until the last 15 minutes or so of the film.

In no particular order (and avoiding franchises), some of my favorites:

Science Fiction:

1. Blade Runner
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Moon
4. Ex Machina
5. Silent Running
6. Interstellar
7. Arrival
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Gattaca
10. Dark City
11. Annihilation
12. Brazil
13. Solaris
14. Snowpiercer
15. Contact

Action Science Fiction:

1. Dredd
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. Total Recall
4. District 9

Near Future:

1. Inception
2. Children of Men
3. Her

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Sunshine was great until the last 15 minutes or so of the film.

In no particular order (and avoiding franchises), some of my favorites:

Science Fiction:

1. Blade Runner
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Moon
4. Ex Machina
5. Silent Running
6. Interstellar
7. Arrival
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Gattaca
10. Dark City
11. Annihilation
12. Brazil
13. Solaris
14. Snowpiercer
15. Contact

Action Science Fiction:

1. Dredd
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. Total Recall
4. District 9
5. Inception

Near Future:

1. Inception
2. Children of Men
3. Her

You have a few very good films in there. I'll probably have to come back to it, but from the top of my head, some other must-see films:

Videodrome
Je t'aime, je t'aime
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
L'invenzione di Morel
Stalker
Slaughterhouse-Five

 

[The Shadow]

Awesome list

edge of tomorrow is my top 3 all time movies for my favs

 

[NyQuil]

A few others I missed:

1. Twelve Monkeys
2. Monsters
3. Primer
4. A Scanner Darkly
5. The Martian

 

[kihei]

A few others I missed:

1. Twelve Monkeys
2. Monsters
3. Primer
4. A Scanner Darkly
5. The Martian

I'm assuming your Solaris pick back there was the Russian version by Tarkovsky.

 

[NyQuil]

I'm assuming your Solaris pick back there was the Russian version by Tarkovsky.

Heh, I actually liked the Soderbergh version. I know it's sacrilege.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Heh, I actually liked the Soderbergh version. I know it's sacrilege.

Did too!! I think it's a pretty good compromise for those (numerous) spectators who'd have a problem with Tarkosky's pace.

 

[bigdirty]

A few others I missed:

1. Twelve Monkeys
2. Monsters
3. Primer
4. A Scanner Darkly
5. The Martian

Came to see if anyone was going to mention Primer. No movie has ever f'ed with my head so much.

I remember years ago watching it twice, then trying to explain it to my roommate and realizing halfway through my explanation that I was completely wrong.

 

[ItsFineImFine]

Four of the best "sci-fi" films I know are Eternal Sunshine, About Time, A Clockwork Orange, and The Truman Show but I don't really consider these to be sci-fi. Sci-fi is a tertiary genre in all of them I guess. Anyways, here's my faves, I think I've seen almost all the ones mentioned in the thread so far (excluding Gattaca, shit) and most of them are good but if we're talking 'must-watch'.

Inception
Fail-Safe
Interstellar
About Time
Arrival
Blade Runner 2049
Contact
Ex-Machina
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Day The Earth Caught Fire
District 9
Jumper (shutup)
The Martian
The Prestige
Terminator 2

 

[Tawnos]

Many good suggestions already. Two to add:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Looper

 

[Say Hey Kid]

The original The Day the Earth Stood Still

Forbidden Planet

 

[Stylizer1]

Equilibrium

 

[montreal]

Sunshine was pretty good. I like Event Horizon in a similar vein.


my favorites,

The Matrix
Star Wars movies
Dune
Serenity (Firefly movie)
The Last Starfighter
Apollo 13

some good ones,

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
2001
ET
Back to the Future
Sunshine
Event Horizon
Dark City
12 monkeys
The Abyss
Galaxy Quest
Men in Black (just the 1st one)
Minority Report
Total Recall

 

[Tawnos]

This thread is awfully close to "list all the sci fi movies"

 

[Osprey]

Similar to you and Sunshine (thanks for the recommendation, BTW; I'll check it out), I had somehow never heard of 2009's Moon until a year or two ago and ended up loving it. After I reviewed it here, a couple of other people watched it for the first time, as well, and also loved or at least really liked it. I guess that it was a real sleeper. Sci-fi fans shouldn't miss it, IMO.

 

[Tawnos]

The only thing I didn't like about Moon was the soundtrack. Actually, I liked the soundtrack at first, but I guess there wasn't much of a music budget, so it repeated. A lot.

The movie itself was great.

 

[Lshap]

My all-time faves are already listed, so I'll go with one that gave me a pure visceral jolt. The original War of the Worlds was the very first sci-fi film I ever saw. It was on TV late at night when I was a kid and the Martian ships and sound effects terrified me. Kinda cheesy in retrospect, although full marks for a clever ending that was ahead of its time.

 

[Lshap]

I never liked Sam Rockwell until Moon. He found his groove with that film and has been great ever since.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

Alien and Aliens.

 

[kihei]

I'd throw in Children of Men.

What a shame A.I. Artificial Intelligence had that utterly moronic, soul-destroying schlock ending. Coulda been a contenduh.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Most of my favourites have already been listed, but I really enjoyed Predestination, even if the ending was a bit predictable.

A lesser known one I saw recently was The Endless, which exists in the same universe of another sci-fi film, Resolution. I thought that was an fun Easter egg.

 

[x Tame Impala]

Annihilation

 

[NyQuil]

The only thing I didn't like about Moon was the soundtrack. Actually, I liked the soundtrack at first, but I guess there wasn't much of a music budget, so it repeated. A lot.

The movie itself was great.

That's hilarious. I'm a big fan of Clint Mansell.

He ended up contributing to Mass Effect 3 as well.

 

[NyQuil]

This thread is awfully close to "list all the sci fi movies"

Man, there's so much crap out there it's not funny.