I'm personally quite fond of movies that boggle the mind, whether they're philosophic, thought-provoking and deal with human emotions, or just really spaced out, so to speak (à la The Quiet Earth is both), and as a rule prefer such movies to those that are generally ascribed the 'sci-fi' genre, (i.e. spaceships, big explosions, aliens, à la Aliens/Predator/Star Wars).

some of my favs:

Blade Runner
The Quiet Earth
Scanners
The Hidden
2001: A Space Odyssey

Post-apocalyptic-esque ones are a plus!

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contact.



a lot of you say this movie blows, but if you've read anything about.by carl sagan, you'd know that when he was alive, he was theorizing things about space that were WAY ahead of his time, things that were unbelieveable then, but are common fact now. the man was truely brilliant, both as a writer, and as an astronomer.

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Originally posted by enferno contact.

Thanks, I've seen it though, nothing in comparison with the ones I mentioned, (IMO), frankly I found it quite shallow and nothing more than a blockbuster hit. The movie may not do the book justice, for I didn't read the book so can't argue over the matter, but after all I'm asking for movies.

Event Horizon.

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Gattaca
Solyaris(Andre Tarkovsky film)
Stalker(Another Andre Tarkovsky)
Minority Report
Ghost in the Shell-anime
Akira-anime
The Thing-horror but still sci-fi and a great movie
V for Vendetta
Metropolis-really old 1927 silent film but the first thinking sci-fi movie and one of the most influencial movies of all time.

airplane 2

the new Battlestar Galactica

Impostor

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insignificant cor member alliance

logan's run (this classic is the shit, check it out)
planet of the apes
enemy mine
serenity

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I think some of you may be forgetting the greatest Sci-Fi movie ever created...

Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

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Originally posted by Rodrico I think some of you may be forgetting the greatest Sci-Fi movie ever created... Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

Yes...

Edit: Search for Spock ftw

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THe Fifth Element.


Seriously one of the best in my book.

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Originally posted by TweeK THe Fifth Element. Seriously one of the best in my book.

+ fucking 1

Leave it to Luc Besson to come up with a masterpiece.

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