Favourite Sci-fi movie??

Blade Runner. Few movies move me to tears almost every time I watch but I cry shamelessly at this one in several places. With apologies to Parson, Fifth Element is my second choice, if I'm given one. The form of the SF "romp" is an acquired taste, I have heard, but this is, IMO, one of the best (and really only) time I saw it in a movie
 
JoanDrake said:
Blade Runner. Few movies move me to tears almost every time I watch but I cry shamelessly at this one in several places. With apologies to Parson, Fifth Element is my second choice, if I'm given one. The form of the SF "romp" is an acquired taste, I have heard, but this is, IMO, one of the best (and really only) time I saw it in a movie
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No apologies are needed. There is no accounting for taste. Yours is obviously bad.:p:D
 
Star Wars as a trilogy, dominated my childhood like nothing else. It will always have a strong nostalgic hold on me that nothing else could ever surpass.
 
There are many great films mentioned here, and Blade Runner is well up there - but I just can't help my love for the original Highlander - swordplay, immortality, love and loss, Sean Connery! And a fantastic soundtrack from Queen that really sets the emotional tone of the whole film.

I've even watched all the subsequent films and series, but the original film works best as a self-contained story that ends.
 
Markpud -- I would agree that Highlander is an excellent movie, but is it Science Fiction? I would have put it more in the Modern Fantasy camp.
 
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Markpud -- I would agree that Highlander is an excellent movie, but is it Science Fiction? I would have put it more in the Modern Fantasy camp.
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In the second film it is clearly established that the swordfighting eternal warriors come from another planet.

Though maybe 'clearly' isn't the right word to use here....

Heroine:
Okay, now let me just see if I can get this straight... You're mortal there but you're immortal here, until you kill all the guys who're from there who've come here... and then you're mortal here. Unless you go back there, or some more guys from there come here, in which case you become immortal here - again.
MacCleod: Something like that.
 
JunkMonkey: I never saw that movie. So on the basis of what you are revealing I would have to say that it just barely squeaks by into the S.F. category. A lot like the Pern books.
 
Aliens and Star Wars (do I really need to call it Episode IV??).

Going back a bit, I love the original versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Planet of the Apes.
 
I have the Director's Cut of H:II which excises the part about them being aliens and shifts them into Earth's distant past.. But yeah, other than some fun scenes with MacLeod and Ramierez it's best to entirely forget this one.
 
I'm going to add Logan's Run in my list. It's one of my first SF memories. And Jenny Aguter... Well she was one of my first SF crushes.
 
I love Logan's Run. I think I'm also the only person in the world who adored Enemy Mine. It's not perfectly realised, but it's a great plot with really good performances from Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr.
 
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I think I'm also the only person in the world who adored Enemy Mine. It's not perfectly realised, but it's a great plot with really good performances from Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr.
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I may well be the other person (I appear to be the only person who liked Soldier after all - despite some serious doubts about the set design, plot and my loathing just about everything else with Paul Anderson's name on it) - if I had ever watched it. I started to watch Enemy Mine once. Very early on in the film there is a panning shot of the alien landscape with a critter running (screen left to right) which suddenly gets eaten by an unseen underground thingy! GROMPH!

I thought, "If that underground thingy belches I'm turning this off".

It belched.

I must get round to having another look.
 
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I enjoyed Enemy Mine a great deal. I keep meaning to pick it up so I can watch it again. I also liked Soldier. Not as much as Enemy Mine, but Kurt Russell did a good job with what he had to work with.
 
I will stick my neck out and say the Pitch Black is a great SF movie and one of my favs. At least it's one that I always go back to. It does give the feeling IMO that it was in fact filmed on another planet, great weird alien life cycles and a pressure cooker atmosphere for the characters. Oh and Radha Mitchell <sigh>

Unfortunately it has been swamped by the hokum that is Riddick.
 
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