CycleChat Investigates - SciFi

[Adam4868]

The 2001 voters are entirely deluded; it is the least successful Kubrick movie, and is all style over substance. (not that that's always a bad thing, but if we're voting for "Best Movie" of any category, well I'm afraid there should be standards, m'boy ...)

Style over substance lol....it's a total mind trip...a masterpiece.Were talking 1968 ! Obviously a vintage year,the year I was born 😁
"A Space Odyssey became the highest-grossing film of 1968 – the only Kubrick picture ever to achieve such a standing. It also won Kubrick his only Oscar: for best visual effects (although they were actually the work of Douglas Trumbull)."

 

[Drago]

2001 is as old as me, and how worn a damn sight better! Aside from the hairstyles and Leonard Rossiter's suit it could hwve been made kast week,

 

[matticus]

It also won Kubrick his only Oscar: for best visual effects (although they were actually the work of Douglas Trumbull).

That's another point against it, thanks for the reminder

 

[cyberknight]

Anybody ever see Enemy Mine?

Not a bad film

yes i was trying to think of that one

not a film but the expanse blows the socks off most stuff and does babylon 5

 

[cyberknight]

2001 is as old as me, and how worn a damn sight better! Aside from the hairstyles and Leonard Rossiter's suit it could hwve been made kast week,

i preffered 2010 , maybe you need to be on whatever drugs were going around in the late 60s to enjoy 2001

 

[gbb]

Threevok mentions Enemy Mine...ooh, I'd forgotten that one but while it wasn't a great, it was one i enjoyed.
I love sci fi, but err away from Star Wars, silly sci fi, I like more serious stuff (if any of it at all can be described as such )
Aliens, 2001, Event Horizon, all great.
Annihilation, a little slow and woody at times but the final scenes are beautiful. Loved the idea that everything melded slowly into one . Fabulous scenes under the lighthouse.
War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, not many favourite but it was dark and foreboding for me, which is what I like.
The Cloverfield trilogy.
Pitch Black. Never really a Vin Diesel fan but enjoyed that.
interstellar.
Prometheus, loved it, would watch it again tomorrow.
Lucy ? Can that count ?, earthbound I know but I loved the way the chemical / drug changed her, gave her hyper senses etc, mutating her to beyond human. I'm going to look for it again, fabulous film.

 

[Oldhippy]

Cloud Atlas is a good shout too, Synchronic, Lucy, Galaxy Quest, UFO.

 

[MontyVeda]

Personally i found Lucy got preposterous at the end. It did remind me of The Incredible Shrinking Man and The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, both of which have similarly extreme endings... but they just did a better job of it.

As for Event Horizon... first half; 2010 rip-off. 2nd half; average psycho rampage rip-off. I didn't want to see Sam Neil's face in a film again after that, but The Dish (not sci-fi) did change my mind somewhat.

 

[Profpointy]

Anybody ever see Enemy Mine?

Not a bad film

Essentially a remake of Hell in the Pacific, staring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune as ditched pilots who end up on the same island during the War

 

[wiggydiggy]

Personally i found Lucy got preposterous at the end. It did remind me of The Incredible Shrinking Man and The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, both of which have similarly extreme endings... but they just did a better job of it.

As for Event Horizon... first half; 2010 rip-off. 2nd half; average psycho rampage rip-off. I didn't want to see Sam Neil's face in a film again after that, but The Dish (not sci-fi) did change my mind somewhat.

Heresey! Loved EH when it first came out, watched it again recently and still loved it. I really like Sam Neil though so I'm biased. They did change the ending, some of which you can still see in the film, as Sam Neils character wasn't supposed to be the end boss. It was going to be the 'burned man' Lawrence Fishburne left behind.

Also I really like the fan theory that the EH ship has actually been through the Warp from Warhammer 40k🤔

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

For me it’s Westworld but I chose Star Wars from the list provided l

 

[Drago]

Surprised at only a single vote for the Omega Man.

 

[FishFright]

There was a passable jazz beat combo.

Did the swear filter change it into 'jazz' ?

 

[cyberknight]

Serenity
the time machine
1984
soylent green

 

[the snail]

Robocop ftw