Best Sci fi movie?

[kendo]

Graham X:

Anyone remember "V"? I remember the first couple of episodes as being stonking, but it soon went quite naff.

yep I remember and agree first few episodes were great but as you say,it went down hill.

[chesters1]

i enjoyed babylon 5 thoroughly ,i dislike (now on bbc4) the one where a pilot goes through a wormhole and meets strange american accented aliens one of which seems to have no legs another is blue ,instantly can fly anything and knows how everything works (good training in american pilot schools)

[me]

id say Back to the future. i havent watched many Sci-fi films. comedy and action is my type of movie

[Ken L]

Not strictly a movie but I recently picked up the DVD (actually eight of them) of Taken. Top draw stuff and well worth the twenty something quid that I paid for it.

Comming to the end of Taken, I decided to try to track down something in a similar vein and tried to order a copy of "Dark Skys". No sign ! Astoundingly, a little more digging indicates that it had the plug pulled on it by NBC after the first season and has never been made available on the little silver discs. A real shame this because like Taken, the story spans several generations and the Flying sausers in the earlier episodes are proper wobbly "hubcap on a string" 1950's UFO's but the latter ones are made with much better effects - an "in joke" that brought a smile to my face.

[*Ant*]

chesters - Yep I can remember the Logans Run series, used to be on on a sunday afternoon if I remember right.

[Rockling]

Forbidden Planet (based on the Tempest) is a classic, it introduced Robbie the Robot (later in Lost in Space)if I remember rightly. Arnie's SF films have also been remarkable, the various Terminators, Total Recall and The Running Man. I would urge all Americans to vote for the man if he becomes eligible to run for President!

[Ian FG]

Let's not forget Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (not strictly a film).

 

Jenny Auguter in Logan's Run....what teenage guy didn't think about her in the wee hours?

[Jaffa]

If only he had made a film

 

Heard an old interview with him on beeb radio the other day. Just caught a bit of it, but he was making a perfect case for how the electric lightbulb was more amazing than any star! UK born genius and freethinker. Wish he had'nt died

[severus]

Hmmm. Just thought of another: Repo Man, from 1984. More of a comedy than sci-fi, but Emilio Estevez was hilarious as Otto. A favorite of mine.

[Bluey]

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Posted by Jaffa

have been meaning to check out some Manga; never seen any. Ghost in the Shell a good place to start then?

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Yes it's very good, has a few twists in it and all is not what it seems, has to be watched in quiet (well that's how I like to watch it) surroundings because of the "red herrings" and twists thrown into the film.

 

We have it on VHS but will be getting a DVD copy soon from Amazon.

 

If you have Sky or one of the cables ie NTL, Scifi channel runs Manga movies on saturday nights quite frequently. They're worth a look in.