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aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:23 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:
thecontrolcentre wrote:
.jon wrote:
Ex Machina and the Road are some of the decent recent(ish) ones.
Yeah ... Uncanny and The Survivalist are pretty good recent examples too. I really enjoyed Under The Skin as well.
Plus Moon, Primer and Europa Report.

Europa Report was great

also enjoyed this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Objective

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:29 pm

aMUSEd wrote: also enjoyed this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Objective

Ah, yes, indeed. That's another good one.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:39 pm

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:27 am

whyterabbyt wrote:
Plus Moon.......

I only discovered this a few months ago. A very disquieting film with a great storyline and soundtrack. Highly recommended.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:44 am

Classic TV SciFi

https://store.bbc.com/the-nightmare-man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermas ... _and_film)

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:27 pm

Moon was awesome. Europa report, not so much.

But I digress, those are not classics. Don't remember what I said originally but it's going to be the ones that cause thought process: POTA, Soylent Green, Rollerball, Logans Run, Silent Running, A boy and his dog, etc etc etc.

There are plenty of really great scifi movies since then, but they pretty much nailed it.

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:58 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote:
.jon wrote:
Ex Machina and the Road are some of the decent recent(ish) ones.
Yeah ... Uncanny and The Survivalist are pretty good recent examples too. I really enjoyed Under The Skin as well.

Haven't seen Uncanny, but looks exactly like Ex Machina, the trailer even had the same lines

Under the Skin was good yes, still need to see Survivalist!

Moon was a disappointment, story was such a generic sci-fi shortie. Well done and all but I felt like watching something for the 57th time.

Hardly classics, true.

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:44 am

Colossus The Forbin Project is a must see movie, sci-fi or not! It's really great!

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:17 pm

SampleScience wrote:Colossus The Forbin Project is a must see movie, sci-fi or not! It's really great!

It is. Was it the first AI/takeover?

filkertom · Post by **filkertom** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 8:07 am

Forbidden Planet. The precursor to Star Trek, with a tight script, great acting, good FX even now, and Anne Francis skinny dipping.

Richard deHove · Post by **Richard deHove** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 8:37 am

Some excellent ones mentioned, especially Quatermas and the Pit (original movie, and even better the 6-part original black and white TV version).

For me there's something very special about 1950s scifi. Movie-makers knew how to create tension, the soundtracks were often innovative, the actors were acting rather than wiggling their eyebrows, and there was no "get out of jail card" like today by simply stuffing the movie with over-the-top showreel computer effects. Importantly they often emphasized science-fiction concepts, whereas remakes often dull the sci-fi edge and just overlay a cliched drama scenario.

- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version with great soundtrack. The 2008 version is rubbish)
- Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (original 1956 version. The 1978 version is OK)
- The Thing (1951 version)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957. What an ending!)
- When Worlds Collide (1951)
- War of the Worlds (1953. A bit cheesy in parts but still way better than any remake)
- This Island Earth (1955)
- Forbidden Planet (1956. Absolutely brilliant.)
- The Fly (1958. Again superior to the remakes)

And to venture into the 60s with just a couple:
- The Man With the X-ray eyes (1963. Another great ending)
- Creation of the the Humanoids (surprisingly deep and more relevant today than ever)
- The Time Travelers (extremely cheesy in parts, but has a few classic moments)

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Sat Nov 19, 2016 8:53 am

Awesome picks, thanks guys! Quite a few old ones I haven't seen... yet

chaosWyrM · Post by **chaosWyrM** » Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:26 pm

incubus wrote:
SampleScience wrote:Colossus The Forbin Project is a must see movie, sci-fi or not! It's really great!
It is. Was it the first AI/takeover?

1927s metropolis would be the first film with ai...and im pretty sure 1965s alphaville was the first to have an ai controlling a society.

there were some tv shows before colossus as well...but i stuck to films.

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:52 am

Greetings,

Forbidden Planet, for that awesome soundtrack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebe_and_Louis_Barron

Best,

dp

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:19 pm

aMUSEd wrote:Classic TV SciFi

https://store.bbc.com/the-nightmare-man

I don't remember that at all (generally hoovered up anything remotely scifi at that time...)

Will give it a watch sometime.

Slightly related, watched 'The Stone Tape' again last week (hadn't since the 80s). Yeah, still pretty chilling, definitely has that cheap 70s telly vibe that I found so terrifying as a kid (Sapphire and Steel, Paperhouse, Children of the Stones etc).

Scifi fans: what is your favorite CLASSIC SF movie ?