Sci-Fi Movies Thread

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The Thirteenth Floor (1999) / World on a Wire (1973) (Way better if you speak German or can deal with subtitles) - both based off a book called Simulacron-3.

Anime:
Paprika (2006) - Inception but in anime
Megazone 23 (1989) 1&2

brent

qk4-li3 To me "proper" Sci-Fi is earth- and human- centric. Space fantasies and UFOs and E.T.s are different thing.

disagree completely. I think anything not worldly, and clearly not (but sometimes can be) horror is sci-fi. How could Alien not be sci-fi? But Tremors can be ('human-centric')?

your source is even title dis 'definitions' with a plural for a reason🙂.

Brazil is dystopian future movie based real loosely on Orweil's masterpiece) and we both agree it belongs squarely in Sci-Fi as most of the brilliant mind of Gilliam's does. We could parse semantics all day, but I respect your commitment to the definition, and your unique take. I don't believe there can be true right or wrong anyway.
If it's a day that ends with a Y I am wrong about something!

qk4-li3

brent Cool comment.
Not familiar with Tremors. But Alien as sci-fi film is a bit of a stretch, ha! smileyface, how do I manage to add smileyface here? 🇦 🇧 🇨 🇩 🇪 🇫 🇬

brent

ender I'm going to give this a try because I love the time-travel sub-genre. Some is unplausible crap (butterfy effect) and some really is plausible.

Speaking of the brilliant mind of T. Gilliam, I thought his 12 Monkey's was the greatest time travel movie ever made because 1) it was sensible and 2) a large degree of human error was built into it as it didn't pretend to be precise in any way. Sometimes you aim for 1917 and end up in the 40's.
--I look forward to seeing Time Lapse on your rec.

riffer

brent 12 Monkey's is one of my favorites as well, but take a look at La Jetee (1962) which inspired it. Pretty cool movie.

brent

qk4-li3 cool movie and definition.
where would you classify all the spacecraft/ufo movies anyway. Fantasy or something similar?

qk4-li3

brent "Space opera" (as like soap opera): Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica etc. "spacecraft" films. Could be also something like"Science- Fantasy". Includes some magical thinking: "May the force be with you" or whatnot, not very science based. Something like that.

qk4-li3

.edit double post

brent

qk4-li3 I like it.

murbert

qk4-li3 To me, SciFi is speculative fiction, and may contain any other genre.

Staudey

davidjharder

Was DUNC the best movie, or merely very good? Discuss.

elfprince

davidjharder SSHHH..... No spoilers please! 😆 I haven't watched the new Dune II yet, it's not on Netflix.

WetGeek

elfprince I haven't watched the new Dune II yet

I haven't even watched the new Dune I yet, so I second that motion. Are these available only on YouTube?

Ahh ... I looked. Apparently just the trailers. So, theaters only at this point?

elfprince

WetGeek Dune I is on Netflix and Prime I believe.

WetGeek

elfprince Dune I is on Netflix and Prime I believe.

I'll just be patient for now. I checked Prime, and no joy. And I dumped Netfliix after their last price increase, because I seldom used it. Down to just 7 streaming services now. I've got a feeling that sooner or later, Disney will buy the series, and I've got that covered.

riffer

Dune (1984) is on Amazon Prime as well. The Blue Ray is dirt cheap as well.

I saw Part 2 on the weekend. Good but diverting too far from canon for me.

IMHO the best was the miniseries Dune (2000) and Children of Dune (2003). I think it was Sci-fi channel. Fortunately I recorded it at the time and subsequently ripped it to DVD. I've never seen it on a streaming service but I think it is available on DVD &/or Blu Ray.

edit. Maybe not on US Prime?

brent

riffer heard all about it as the original touchstone source and had always been on my 'to find' list. I knew that meant 'the runway' and all the b. willis stuff beginning/end was centered on that moment.

davidjharder

@elfprince have you read the books? No spoilers in that video BTW.

I'm excited that part 3 appears to be happening, even if it will be a few years before we see it.

elfprince

davidjharder Oh yes, I've read the entire saga from the machine world to the final conflict. Great!

synth-ruiner

qk4-li3 to me, Brazil is more of a fantasy film with dystopian themes.

Isn't science fiction basically speculative fiction about science, for example "what if faster-than-light travel was possible?" (Star Trek/Star Wars) or "what if artificial intelligence existed?" (I, Robot) or "what if we could clone a dinosaur?" (Jurassic Park) etc?

qk4-li3

synth-ruiner Brazil - Sure, that's one way to look at it.

Sometimes - many times, I find some films look very scientific on the surface, but underneath is pure fantasy or superstitious fairy tale. Well, those are sci-fi for some but to me "proper" SciFi represents more than a fairy tale in technical looking environment. I think Star Wars is good example of this.
And let's just state the obvious: Is some piece of cinematography ruined if it doesn't fit some category or definition? No. Of course definitions can be fun and interesting to some degree, but they also quickly become irrelevant and boring. A good film is a good film, good music is good music and all that is very subjective.

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