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Re: Recommend me some Sci-Fi Films
scrathing my head about the only one I can think of not mentioned here for me would be Sphere.

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Pitch Black is cool for a light sci-fi
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Re: Recommend me some Sci-Fi Films
Couple really old ones I liked but have no idea of the name.  First one involved nuclear waste storage on the moon going wrong and turning the moon into rocket. 
Sounds a lot like one of the first episodes of Space 1999. Are you sure it was a movie?
Regarding movie recommendations, I'd like to mention Solaris. While I haven't watched the either of the movies (there are two), I loved the novel they're based on.
Yea it was a movie.  The only thing I can find that sounds like it is Destination Moonbase-Alpha.  It's been so long since I saw it not sure if that is it or not. 

Thought of a few more while FREDding.  Virus, Alien Cargo, Night of the Comet, and The Philadelphia Experiment. 
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Yup, it was the pilot episode of Space 1999, it was a TV Mini-Movie (about 1 hr long), so not sure if that counts.


 

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Dark Star
Spaceballs
Enemy Mine
Aliens 1+2
Star Trek - the wrath of Khan
2001
2010
Forbidden Planet
Metropolis
Silent Running
Fahrenheit 451
Moon
Logan's Run
the Star Wars movies (the olden ones)
Moon Trap
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The Fountain and Solaris (George Clooney version)

 

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The Fountain and Solaris (George Clooney version)

If you're gonna watch Solaris, you oughta watch Solaris. :colbert:

 

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Re: Recommend me some Sci-Fi Films
From the 80s:

Repo man
Re-Animator
Them
Robocop
Scanners
Edit:Videodrome

90s:
eXistenZ
Screamers
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If you are russian or don't mind subtitles then I would also recommend Stalker from 1979

 
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Also: I, Robot - if everyone hasn't seen it yet. It's Hollywood-blockbusterish, sure, but still based on an Asimov story - I found it quite enjoyable.

And add my vote to the Planet of the Apes, the 1968 original of course - for beautifully illustrating one of the problems with long-distance space travel.

 

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From what I've heard, I, Robot movie is "inspired by" rather than actually based on a story by Asimov. Doesn't change the fact it's good movie, but the plot wasn't written by Asimov.

 

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I, Robot isn't based on an Asimov story - it's a rebranded take on a 90s script called Hardwired, which was a very cerebral, cold mystery film that the Asimov estate adored. It actually stayed quite close to that Asimovesque aesthetic until Akiva Goldsman did a hatchet job on it to turn it into a big-action Will Smith vehicle. I love me some Will Smith, but the mediocre film that came out in the end is mostly only worth watching for the production design.

 
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Nobody mentions Event Horizon?
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Nobody mentions Event Horizon?

never seen it myself :(

as for I-Robot.  the film draws some inspiration from Asimov, most notably the three laws, with a dash of law 0 going wrong but having read the book the events in the film are not depicted in it. 

I-Robot (book) is a series of short stories depicted from one of two points of view about the development of robot cognitive abilities and self awareness and human society adapting to them.  the pov the stories are told from is either two R&D blokes who work on robotic brains, especially the mathamatics and a woman who specialises in Robot Psychology
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Well, 'I, Robot' was actually the script for a completely different movie, called Hardwired, with the Asimov references shoe-horned in, and I've always considered it one of the gravest insults to Asimovs' work ever created, Millenium Man with Robin Williams is probably a better shot if you want a more accurate (if re-focused) portrayal of what he wrote.

It's a pity, since Asimov created an incredibly strong and independent female character called Susan Calvin who would have made an exceptional break from the typical 'strong women' of the movies, since she was smarter than the men around her, and very aware of it, but also extremely frustrated that her gender made people under-estimate her. I would dearly have loved to see a movie revolve around her as a character.

 

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Whoops, seems I should do my research better next time :nervous:

 

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Demolition Man  :drevil:

 

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Oh ****, I forgot about Attack the Block. Attack the Block is a super smart movie.

 

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Whoops, seems I should do my research better next time :nervous:

Heh, thing is, if the movie had been released in it's original form, as Hardwired, I'd have considered it a passable sci-fi with a nod towards Asimov's work, it was the whole pretense that this in some way an Asimov work turned into a movie that annoyed me more than the content of the movie itself.

Asimov only ever wrote one real 'robot as threat' story, and that wouldn't have made a good movie, because it involved two Robots sitting in a room having a discussion over several hundred years before deciding the best way to implement the Three Laws was to control humanity. Mostly Asimov wrote about what happens when the clinical rules of Scientific research come into contact with humanity, which can be a contradiction unto itself. One excellent example of that was when a Robot went missing at a vital installation, and it turned out that what caused the problem was simply a member of staff getting annoyed at what was perceived as a 'condascending' attitude from the Robot and simply saying 'Get Lost'. Of course, a Robot must obey any order given to it by a Human...
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Re: Recommend me some Sci-Fi Films
There are a lot of good suggestions here (covered pretty much all of mine) except one very important film has been missed:

Alien (the very first one; I see someone mentioned Aliens, the sequel).
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