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I really like pandorum for some reason, and new resident evil is pretty good



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Splice, worth a watch but not that great.

Repo Men

Didn't mind repo men, was ok.

I don't know what frame of reference makes soylent green recent?

Splice looked a bit 'B' .. might give it a go.

Did you really expect anything from that film matchy?

predators (2010)... oh wait you said decent :(
damn that was a s*** movie.. the main character was totally unconvincing.

don't know what frame of reference makes soylent green recent?

Didn't see the part about recent.. just the part about you wanted to eat green flesh

Have seen them. Lovely Bones was good but SO LONG. The director had a huge wank over the other-side stuff. It was cute for awhile but holy s*** there is HOURS OF IT.

Race to Witch Mountain was fun but its ultimately a kids flick.

Book of Eli was pretty good imo!

Ah well due to the miracle of modern linux ISO peering software, I may now have 1.5 of those 3. :P

Check out Serenity. It's a Sci-fi movie AND a Western.

serenity doesn't count as recent does it?

if so you should waste your brain on Babylon ad (movie) and babylon 5 (tv series - 5 seasons quite possibly the best sci fi ever for its time)

now its anything post 2000 or so
v for vendetta
war of the worlds
children of men

Yeh Watchmen was great except for the blue dong. Unnecessary!

I miss BSG so much :(

I swear I've watched almost everything in this thread. I may have a sci-fi problem ><

Don't know if you saw the BSG movie The Plan, it wasn't great. Caprica has also been so-so, started great, but was just cancelled.

Stargate Universe I'm quite liking.

Back To The Future Blu-Ray
Aliens series Blu-Ray
They don't make them like they used to

The Ruins?

Charlie Jade - TV series, a bit slow but pretty good.

Franklyn - Has an alternate world thing going on for it.

Invasion - Another TV series set in the Florida Keys about glowing lights in the water.

Nightwatch and its sequel Daywatch - Sort of scifi, sort of fantasy. Based on a couple of russian novels by Sergei Lukyanenko. Would also recommend the novels if you are in to reading good books.

I thought The Box was alright, mostly drama/mystery with just enough sci-fi to be interesting. Great performance from Frank Langella in the supporting role as well.

Trailer is here

What was that movie where they goto some aztec temple and are held there by a gang of mexicans with ak47's ... made to stay ontop of the temple...

Is it the one with the killer plant growing all over it, and the reason they have to stay there is so they dont spread the plant... then they die one by one?

I thought Book of Eli was s***. The only positive outcome of a world-wide apocalyptic event would be if all religious texts were wiped out of existence.

Spoiler:
AMFG HE WAS BLIND; MAKES STORY S***. MAKES THE ABOUT MYSTICAL SKY DADDY SAVING HIS WORDS (when he can't be bothered saving his people) RATHER THAN APPRECIATING THE ARTISTIC MERIT OF THE BIBLE.


Primer is good, but kinda rapes your brain.

The first half of Sunshine rocked when you think that people are just going bats*** insane and killing themselves/each other. Spoiler:
Story turns to s*** when you find out that some radiation-burnt psycho is killing everybody with super human strength/endurance/stealth/speed.
To me it felt like the first half of the movie was made in the UK and the second half in the US, and they just joined the giant chunks together. Kick ass cast of actors in it though.

Moon was a f*****g RAD movie... it's a bit of an emotional roller-coaster.

IMO, oldschool sci fi is the best. A Boy and his Dog, Blade Runner, Aliens, Terminator, Planet of the Apes (old ones, not Marky-Mark), The Matrix (OK not so old), 12 Monkeys ... can't go past it. I tend to prefer my sci-fi a bit more dystopic than techy, like A Boy and his Dog, A Clockwork Orange, Children of Men.

Also, if you're going a bit older, Event Horizon is awesome.

Also, The Road is a really good post apocalyptic piece. Not so much action, but some great acting and some great scenes, and its a much more 'real' look at how f***ed up s*** would be in that sort of world.

I'm usually ok with bleak, but had to stop the road around a point involving a basement and something jumping out.

On that topic though, perhaps my favourite movie of all time is a 2000 Australian TV Movie called On The Beach, well worth checking out with minimal spoilers. Is also sci fi.

If the movie had just been about saving the Bible based on its artistic and cultural worth; I would have been fine with it. It was the insistence on divine intervention that put me off. Apart from that though, the acting, action scenes and OMFG MILA KUNIS were great.

I agree that it did have implications of religious reality at the end. Obviously the story was that God has a hand in events.

But I just didn't feel that it was preachy at all, or that it was a vehicle for challenging my beliefs, mostly because it was obviously fiction? It never really occured to me that I was supposed to take the movie seriously. Monkey Magic didn't make me Buddhist, this won't make me into a Catholic.

The Island.

awesome tune

I honestly don't understand how some people think the book of eli was religious propaganda, trying to force the bible down our throat.

I thought it was brilliant and was completely stunned at the twist. But the OC chick annoyed, due to her voice not her body.

I thought it was a sort of cool movie overall - great setting and Gary Oldman awesome as usual. But I had a high background level of annoyance throughout the whole movie because I was waiting to see how the Bible stuff would play out, which was slightly exacerbated by the twist.

But even though I am a nutbag religious hater - I did like the fact that the whole premise of the movie was using the Bible as a system of control over the mindless drones. JUST LIKE IN REAL LIFE!!!!!

I'm not a huge Denzel fan, but he's good in the old sci-fi movie Virtuosity (with Russell Crowe), which i reckon is a good romp!

Damo, i think you are thinking of Rachel Bilson. Wrong actress.

I liked the Book of Eli. Simple story.

Oh have you seen Contact? It's not exactly recent but is possibly my favourite movie ever, well worth it if not.

Wasn't a fan of AI, but thought Contact remained excellent throughout, for many different reasons. (characters, plot, presentation, philosophies, potential realism)

Recently saw Predator (the new one) didn't mind it actually thought was going to be s*** but it turned out ok.

Pandorum not bad kinda predictable :/ but pretty good pop-corn flick, I enjoyed it.

Repoman was pretty cool and present and interesting theory about what could happen with artificial organs and morality implications etc.

I really liked the book of Eli (looked fantastic on Blu-ray BTW :) ). You could replaced just about any religious text for that book really. The premise really isn't about the "book" per se but it's really about how some people could use religion as an excuse to do some pretty nasty things i.e. brain washing people etc.

Shutter Island was good - probably not strictly sci-fi I guess but more of thriller type movie. Though it does have some science in it about psychology etc.

Day Breakers not bad at all with the added bonus of being shot on location in Brisbane!@? I quite like a new twist on the old vampire theme.

Not so new but short list of the ones I enjoyed
12 Monkeys
Gataca
28 Days later
Children of Men
Event Horizon
Pitch black
The X-Files Movie
V for Vendetta (is it even sci-fi? ... meh I liked it anyway)

Wasn't a fan of AI, but thought Contact remained excellent throughout, for many different reasons. (characters, plot, presentation, philosophies, potential realism)

Read the book (by Carl Sagan), much better than the movie.

Has anyone suggestion Equilibrium? Good movie, stars Christian Bale.

opec, I agree about pandorum and repo men. Repo men could have been better if it wasn't for jude law.

Don't see daybreakers as sci-fi, was a vampire movie. Quite crap even if it was filmed in brisbane.