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What's the name of that bozo who got duped into marrying Kim Kardashian and the marriage turned out to be a sham for advertisement/reality TV money? Poor fella had no idea that it was a setup and the girl was playing him the whole time lol.. they had like a beach wedding and all that.....that's almost like a real life Truman incident...in this case the guy being the clueless Truman in real life!! Further proof The Truman Show was fairly realistic !!
No one mentioned Jeff Bridges' Starman which was an awesome movie. I still enjoy watching it. A few others worth mentioning: Red Planet, Mission to Mars, Event Horizon and Sphere.
Really? Do you even know what Othello was about? It is just plain silly to label that awesome Sci-Fi movie as "Othello in outer space".
I have to disagree with The Truman Show. I don't see how it would qualify as a Sci-Fi. It had fiction but where is the Sci element? It was nothing more than a social drama, imho.
"The Truman Show" is listed on numerous Best Sci-Fi Movies lists. They've even shown the film at Sci-Fi cons I've been too. I've always viewed it as Sci-Fi.
This says it best: 3. The Truman Show
Like Inception, this is another film that everyone's probably seen — but they'll get more out of a second viewing. Truman Show takes place in a near future where reality television has reached new extremes — Truman is a man who's been raised inside a fake world, surrounded by actors and under constant surveillance by television producers. This movie raises all manner of science fictional questions about reality and selfhood, while also remaining just close enough to our world to be really jarring. It's a dystopia for people who find most dystopias too weird or implausible
Sorry Mark S. I still don't see The Truman Show as a sci fi. All seems doable, at an exorbitant cost of course, okay may be not ALL , but nothing completely out-of-the-world. Might stretch the imaginations a bit for a 90's movie but still not a sci-fi imho !
I am curious, would you call "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" a sci-fi ? To me, that actually seems closer to being a "sci-fi" than The Truman Show!
Both of these movies are among Jim Carrrey's best though !!
Speculative Fiction. These are both Sci-Fi movies.
Planet of the Apes. The original. Not a perfect film, but still a classic.
Watch it again.
I'll generally watch any well-done film at least 4 times, once just to watch, once for the dialog, then the cinematography, then the acting and direction.
Notice how they are dwarfed by the surrounding landscape as they walk through the "Forbidden Zone."
It gives you an image with a double-meaning: they are insignificant creatures on this planet, and man is insignificant in both the world and universe around him. And they are lonely. And then of course, Heston's classic line when the first meet the humans: "If this is the best they've got, we'll be running this planet in 6 months" and then the apes come out of the wood-line to attack.
Most people pick up on the racial overtones of White vs Black, but it was more than that: Light vs Dark; Good vs Evil; East vs West; Man vs Nature, and then of course the satirical attack on religion, with the ape having a soul because only the Simian has the "divine spark" and "Did you forget what is written on the 13th Scroll?" etc
It was really a well-done film.
The remake sucked.
Okay, I will watch Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet, since so many have interesting opinions on it. I just watched Minority Report a couple of months ago, and I thought was it was fairly good.
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Anybody remember "The Andromeda Strain"? I thought it was pretty good, although it's pretty old.
I just saw that again a few weeks ago. It's kind of dated with its use of the split panels for dialog, but that was the "new thing" at the time. It was a great story. The remake sucked.
I rather enjoyed The Day the Earth Stood Still, but the remake sucked.
I found Soylent Green to be sort of anti-climatic too, but I always preferred the Omega Man.
One film I would recommend is Brazil. That's a futuristic sci-fi fantasy. Very nicely done.
I'll generally watch any well-done film at least 4 times, once just to watch, once for the dialog, then the cinematography, then the acting and direction.
Notice how they are dwarfed by the surrounding landscape as they walk through the "Forbidden Zone."
It gives you an image with a double-meaning: they are insignificant creatures on this planet, and man is insignificant in both the world and universe around him. And they are lonely. And then of course, Heston's classic line when the first meet the humans: "If this is the best they've got, we'll be running this planet in 6 months" and then the apes come out of the wood-line to attack.
Most people pick up on the racial overtones of White vs Black, but it was more than that: Light vs Dark; Good vs Evil; East vs West; Man vs Nature, and then of course the satirical attack on religion, with the ape having a soul because only the Simian has the "divine spark" and "Did you forget what is written on the 13th Scroll?" etc
It was really a well-done film.
The remake sucked.
Okay, I will watch Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet, since so many have interesting opinions on it. I just watched Minority Report a couple of months ago, and I thought was it was fairly good.
I just saw that again a few weeks ago. It's kind of dated with its use of the split panels for dialog, but that was the "new thing" at the time. It was a great story. The remake sucked.
I rather enjoyed The Day the Earth Stood Still, but the remake sucked.
I found Soylent Green to be sort of anti-climatic too, but I always preferred the Omega Man.
One film I would recommend is Brazil. That's a futuristic sci-fi fantasy. Very nicely done.
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Mircea
I'd be interested in your take on the latest POA about how it all started. I thought it had some good concepts.........
La jetee, which was the basis for 12 Monkeys, is pretty seminal.
The Incredible Shrinking Man is my usual choice for thoughtful early sci-fi.
Blade Runner is I'd say my favorite movie anyway, but for sci-fi I think...
Alien has the most powerful gender/social/political/psychological symbolic punch. I also think Alien 3 is totally under-rated.
Starship Troopers is hilarious (and relevant still).
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, but nothing completely out-of-the-world. Might stretch the imaginations a bit for a 90's movie but still not a sci-fi imho 
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? To me, that actually seems closer to being a "sci-fi" than The Truman Show!
