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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 7:21:50 GMT
Event Horizon.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 3, 2017 23:22:01 GMT
The rarely seen "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"
"Demon Seed"
"A Boy and HIs Dog"
"Darkstar"
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 6, 2017 7:28:13 GMT
Outlander (with Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman and John Hurt)
Pandorum (with Ben Foster, Antje Traue and Dennis Quaid)
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 6, 2017 18:35:10 GMT
Mine's Mission To Mars. How a film starring Tim Robbins and Gary Sinese could be so underappreciated is beyond me. The thematically similar Red Planet is also underrated.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 1:56:29 GMT
"Enemy Mine" is a pretty decent and forgotten 80s sci-fi flick. Enemy Mine is a lot better than just decent. It's a very high-quality sci-fi film.
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Post by misstique on Mar 11, 2017 6:45:23 GMT
"Enemy Mine" is a pretty decent and forgotten 80s sci-fi flick. Enemy Mine is a lot better than just decent. It's a very high-quality sci-fi film. Nice to meet another fan of the film!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 13:31:55 GMT
Enemy Mine is a lot better than just decent. It's a very high-quality sci-fi film. Nice to meet another fan of the film! Only 6.9 rating on IMDb. Criminal. It deserves a lot more. It's a very sensitive, moving film with a great message of tolerance. It's one of the best depictions of a relationship between a human and an alien, out there. Classic sci-fi. I'd rate it at least a 9. Look at what this reviewer said, after rating it a 10: "A sci-fi gem ... one of the Great Unknowns of the genre. Simply a masterpiece ... Most sci-fi fans have never heard of this one, but I've found very few who have seen it who weren't impressed." So, with this silly rating of 6.9, it is the very definition of underrated science fiction and fits perfectly this thread. I also adore Spielberg's AI and like another user here, find it to be arguably his best film. Again, very sensitive and a great depiction of artificial intelligence. Rated 7.1, just a bit better than Enemy Mine's rating so it also qualifies for this thread.
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Post by misstique on Mar 11, 2017 16:53:05 GMT
Nice to meet another fan of the film! Only 6.9 rating on IMDb. Criminal. It deserves a lot more. It's a very sensitive, moving film with a great message of tolerance. It's one of the best depictions of a relationship between a human and an alien, out there. Classic sci-fi. I'd rate it at least a 9. Look at what this reviewer said, after rating it a 10: "A sci-fi gem ... one of the Great Unknowns of the genre. Simply a masterpiece ... Most sci-fi fans have never heard of this one, but I've found very few who have seen it who weren't impressed." So, with this silly rating of 6.9, it is the very definition of underrated science fiction and fits perfectly this thread. I also adore Spielberg's AI and like another user here, find it to be arguably his best film. Again, very sensitive and a great depiction of artificial intelligence. Rated 7.1, just a bit better than Enemy Mine's rating so it also qualifies for this thread. Some of the movie ratings on IMDb are just beyond my grasp. Some good films have very low ratings for no logical reasons. I think "Enemy Mine" probably has a low rating because: a) It wasn't a big budget movie with an insane marketing campaign, so many people didn't watch it back when it was released and only saw it much later, complained about the dated special effects and gave it a low rating. b) Those who did see it were expecting a lot of action and spaceship dog fights and other "Star Wars-esque" stuff. I totally agree with you that the movie is a very sensitive one and gives a great message of tolerance. And despite being set in the future with plenty of sci-fi elements and special effects, at its core it really is a movie about friendship between two very different beings. If the movie had been set in say the old days of America and it was about the friendship between a white American and a Native American, then people would have praised it a lot. But just because it is an 80s movie set in space that people immediately classify it as a cheesy B-movie. The performance of both the actors was brilliant. My favorite scene is still the one where Quaid, after having been cured in the space station, blasts open the bay door and goes to rescue Zammis.
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Post by movielover on Mar 11, 2017 17:04:58 GMT
The Langoliers (TV mini series based on a Stephen King novella)
I guess people either haven't seen it or rated it poorly due to the low-budget special effects, but my dad and I watched it on television many years ago and were glued to the screen. I later bought the DVD and have since showed it to other people over the years who all loved it too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 17:08:03 GMT
Only 6.9 rating on IMDb. Criminal. It deserves a lot more. It's a very sensitive, moving film with a great message of tolerance. It's one of the best depictions of a relationship between a human and an alien, out there. Classic sci-fi. I'd rate it at least a 9. Look at what this reviewer said, after rating it a 10: "A sci-fi gem ... one of the Great Unknowns of the genre. Simply a masterpiece ... Most sci-fi fans have never heard of this one, but I've found very few who have seen it who weren't impressed." So, with this silly rating of 6.9, it is the very definition of underrated science fiction and fits perfectly this thread. I also adore Spielberg's AI and like another user here, find it to be arguably his best film. Again, very sensitive and a great depiction of artificial intelligence. Rated 7.1, just a bit better than Enemy Mine's rating so it also qualifies for this thread. Some of the movie ratings on IMDb are just beyond my grasp. Some good films have very low ratings for no logical reasons. I think "Enemy Mine" probably has a low rating because: a) It wasn't a big budget movie with an insane marketing campaign, so many people didn't watch it back when it was released and only saw it much later, complained about the dated special effects and gave it a low rating. b) Those who did see it were expecting a lot of action and spaceship dog fights and other "Star Wars-esque" stuff. I totally agree with you that the movie is a very sensitive one and gives a great message of tolerance. And despite being set in the future with plenty of sci-fi elements and special effects, at its core it really is a movie about friendship between two very different beings. If the movie had been set in say the old days of America and it was about the friendship between a white American and a Native American, then people would have praised it a lot. But just because it is an 80s movie set in space that people immediately classify it as a cheesy B-movie. The performance of both the actors was brilliant. My favorite scene is still the one where Quaid, after having been cured in the space station, blasts open the bay door and goes to rescue Zammis. Yes, I entirely agree. Great acting all around. Most likely because it is a more cerebral movie, the teenager masses didn't rate it as high. But I do think it holds its own as pure science fiction (although it is more than that). There is enough action and suspense, in my opinion. Now, calling it a cheesy B-movie is preposterous. It is anything but. It's a spectacular sci-fi story in the classic genre, given that some of the great masters of sci-fi like Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick (and modernly, Ted Chang and his The Story of Your Life adapted as The Arrival) adopt the same idea of deep philosophical content and interpersonal issues that have the science and the futuristic aspects as the background, which for me is sci-fi at its best. I want my sci-fi to make me think, instead of just boring me with explosions and space fights and high kill count. Enemy Mine definitely does it.
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Post by ironjade on Mar 12, 2017 9:59:02 GMT
Only 6.9 rating on IMDb. Criminal. It deserves a lot more. It's a very sensitive, moving film with a great message of tolerance. It's one of the best depictions of a relationship between a human and an alien, out there. Classic sci-fi. I'd rate it at least a 9. Look at what this reviewer said, after rating it a 10: "A sci-fi gem ... one of the Great Unknowns of the genre. Simply a masterpiece ... Most sci-fi fans have never heard of this one, but I've found very few who have seen it who weren't impressed." So, with this silly rating of 6.9, it is the very definition of underrated science fiction and fits perfectly this thread. I also adore Spielberg's AI and like another user here, find it to be arguably his best film. Again, very sensitive and a great depiction of artificial intelligence. Rated 7.1, just a bit better than Enemy Mine's rating so it also qualifies for this thread. Some of the movie ratings on IMDb are just beyond my grasp. Some good films have very low ratings for no logical reasons. I think "Enemy Mine" probably has a low rating because: a) It wasn't a big budget movie with an insane marketing campaign, so many people didn't watch it back when it was released and only saw it much later, complained about the dated special effects and gave it a low rating. b) Those who did see it were expecting a lot of action and spaceship dog fights and other "Star Wars-esque" stuff. I totally agree with you that the movie is a very sensitive one and gives a great message of tolerance. And despite being set in the future with plenty of sci-fi elements and special effects, at its core it really is a movie about friendship between two very different beings. If the movie had been set in say the old days of America and it was about the friendship between a white American and a Native American, then people would have praised it a lot. But just because it is an 80s movie set in space that people immediately classify it as a cheesy B-movie. The performance of both the actors was brilliant. My favorite scene is still the one where Quaid, after having been cured in the space station, blasts open the bay door and goes to rescue Zammis. The section with the mine was created for the movie and has nothing to do with Barry Longyear's original story. Hollywood thinking being what it is, you can't have the word "mine" in the the title and not have a mine in the movie.
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Post by misstique on Mar 12, 2017 12:54:15 GMT
The section with the mine was created for the movie and has nothing to do with Barry Longyear's original story. Hollywood thinking being what it is, you can't have the word "mine" in the the title and not have a mine in the movie. I think I read that somewhere. Some studio exec thought that people would not understand that the "mine" in the title was the possessive form of the word "my".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 16:53:09 GMT
The section with the mine was created for the movie and has nothing to do with Barry Longyear's original story. Hollywood thinking being what it is, you can't have the word "mine" in the the title and not have a mine in the movie. I think I read that somewhere. Some studio exec thought that people would not understand that the "mine" in the title was the possessive form of the word "my". Really? That's kind of funny that the studio exec would think so, LOL (not that I put it past them). I never interpreted the title in any other way, and didn't even notice the pun with the slave labor mine in the movie.
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Post by ironjade on Mar 12, 2017 18:51:38 GMT
I think I read that somewhere. Some studio exec thought that people would not understand that the "mine" in the title was the possessive form of the word "my". Really? That's kind of funny that the studio exec would think so, LOL (not that I put it past them). I never interpreted the title in any other way, and didn't even notice the pun with the slave labor mine in the movie. It's said that "The Madness of King George III" had to lose the numbers from its title for its movie release because US audiences might think they'd missed the first two movies, so it's perfectly possible.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 19:15:08 GMT
Really? That's kind of funny that the studio exec would think so, LOL (not that I put it past them). I never interpreted the title in any other way, and didn't even notice the pun with the slave labor mine in the movie. It's said that "The Madness of King George III" had to lose the numbers from its title for its movie release because US audiences might think they'd missed the first two movies, so it's perfectly possible. That is hilarious!
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Post by nobelson on Mar 15, 2017 4:00:39 GMT
LEXX.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 15, 2017 19:56:15 GMT
Stargate seems to have been overshadowed by the TV shows that it spawned.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 16, 2017 16:58:00 GMT
Things to Come
Metropolis
12 Monkey's
X-The Unknown
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Post by hardball on Mar 18, 2017 14:42:00 GMT
The Langoliers (TV mini series based on a Stephen King novella) I guess people either haven't seen it or rated it poorly due to the low-budget special effects, but my dad and I watched it on television many years ago and were glued to the screen. I later bought the DVD and have since showed it to other people over the years who all loved it too. One of my favorite B sci-fi films of all time. So bad it's good. Dinah is an annoying brat and some of the dialogue between Albert and Bethany were awful, but I love it nevertheless. An underrated classic for is the 13th Floor. Sphere also.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 25, 2017 15:58:59 GMT
...sci fi book wise, anything written by Olaf Stapledon...
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