Originally posted by bvbEvent Horizon 😵
I'm a pretty big fan of the genre. Of course I like Star Trek, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes etc... But I wanted to get input from everyone about a favorite science fiction/fantasy film that is more obscure yet still good. What got me going was I just saw a strange film called "Avalon." At first it was dull but then the combination of eerie photography and aweso ...[text shortened]... cellent! Does anybody out there have a favorite obscure sci fi film they can recommend to me?
star crash: a surreal low-budget flick with david hasselhoff shooting lasers from his eyes, texan robot, foxy chicks, giant robots and psychedelic effects. mix in a little space odyssey 2001 and star wars. what more can you want?)
barbarella: cosmic space adventure and jane fonda combined with psychedelics. fur bikinis.
dark star: john carpenter's hilarious early space adventure. incredible stuff.
solaris: the first one. the new version with george clooney is boring crap compared to this tarkovsky masterpiece.
tetsuo: !!!! maybe the best film ever made about industrial society affecting and transforming man. crude black n white cybernetic social critique from japan 1988. but you can also watch it as a mother of all transformers. anime before anime.
has anybody got any idea what was that old space flick, where astronauts (NASA?) flew into mars, and found out there was earth people there? just like they had returned to earth, and maybe the people even were their (dead?) relatives? eventually, they started having problems with breathing, and realized they were in fact in mars. it's been 20-25 years since I saw it, but I've always wondered what movie it was.
Originally posted by wormwoodDefinitely worth sitting through (it's long!), and better than 2001. In fact this film still occasionally comes back to haunt me, which is pretty rare.
[b]solaris: the first one. the new version with george clooney is boring crap compared to this tarkovsky masterpiece.[/b]
Originally posted by orfeoI agree, a definitely under-rated film but it loses the punch when you see it a second time, though.
Scariest darn thing I was ever foolish enough to see in a cinema.
Of course, that was proof that it was rather well made, but at the time I wasn't really in a position to enjoy the craftmanship.
Originally posted by AmauroteI think the film was better than the book (well, short-ish story) which is unusual given that it was by Michael Crichton.
The best sci-film by some margin is still The Andromeda Strain, though.
One of my favourites is Split Second, from 1992, with Rutger Hauer.
Great fun with "big guns"
Originally posted by orfeoToo busy wishing you'd worn your brown trousers out that night? 😛
Scariest darn thing I was ever foolish enough to see in a cinema.
Of course, that was proof that it was rather well made, but at the time I wasn't really in a position to enjoy the craftmanship.
It's one of my favourites, and it still spooks me no matter how many times I watch it. 😕
Originally posted by aging blitzerwas that the one where the pencil neck sidekick tries to calm things down all the time, but during the last 15 minutes shouts nothing but: "we need more guns, big f***in' guns!" 😀
...One of my favourites is Split Second, from 1992, with Rutger Hauer.
Great fun with "big guns"
