Average rating: 3.50   70% from 1 member


Silent Running

Very influential, completely watchabable classic, with cute robots.
  • Silent Running on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Bruce Dern,  Cliff Potts,  Jesse Vint
    Director: Douglas Trumbull
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In a grim future, Earth is so overdeveloped plants can no longer survive. Giant greenhouses in orbit carry samples of Earth's dying forests. When the government decides they are too expensive to maintain, one committed crew member will stop at nothing to save them. Screenplay by Steven Bochco and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,610 members

2001 - A Space Odyssey

Kubrick's science fiction classic with a psychedlic ending.

Blade Runner

The first of the new breed - no shiny suits, or bright white backgrounds in this.
  • Blade Runner on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Rutger Hauer,  Edward James Olmos
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four illegal humanoids, led by Rutger Hauer, have infiltrated 21st Century Los Angeles. Blade Runner hitman Harrison Ford, is recruited to eliminate the convincing android beings before they cause any damage or create unrest in the paranoid hi-tech urban society.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 43,463 members

Solaris

Russian mind f*ck

The Man Who Fell To Earth

I love Bowie!
  • The Man Who Fell To Earth on DVD (1976)
    Starring: David Bowie,  Rip Torn,  Candy Clark
    Director: Nicolas Roeg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi tale based on the novel by Walter Tevis, a humanoid alien from a dried-up husk of a planet falls to Earth in a spaceship--and later falls again metaphorically through alcohol abuse and the manipulations of a hostile culture. Arriving as a secret ambassador from a dying ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,544 members

Starship Troopers

More Heinlein than Heinlein.

Robocop Trilogy

Better than you think.

Dark Star

Spacemen on dope and an existential bomb.
  • Dark Star on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Brian Narelle,  Dan O'Bannon,  Dre Pahich
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The first film from John Carpenter is a hilarious romp in a not-so-glamourous spaceship into the outer reaches of space. A team of astronauts manning the beat-up spaceship Dark Star are on a mission across the universe to seek out and destroy unstable planets. The journey is wrought with mishaps ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 5,915 members

Total Recall

More Dick than dick
  • Total Recall on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Sharon Stone,  Michael Ironside
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as Quaid, a 2084 construction worker haunted by dreams of Mars in this crowd-pleasing science fiction spectacle. Against the wishes of his sexy blonde wife (Sharon Stone), Quaid goes to Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories, so he can remember ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 26,003 members

Rollerball

1970s futuristic death game.
  • Rollerball on DVD (1975)
    Starring: James Caan,  John Houseman,  Maud Adams
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the year 2018, Jonathan E is a superstar of a sport called Rollerball, which is a combination of rugby, roller derby, hockey and motorcycle racing. Rollerball is a sport run by the Energy Corporation, one of many such conglomerates running the planet in a time when countries and individual ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,900 member




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