Seventies Sci Fi that rocks (without being Star Wars) (10 titles)
I was all about the Holy Trilogy as a kid. And I hoovered up anything set in 'Sci Fi' as a result. These precious few I still rate as worthy of your/my/some time. Please note : all the obvious ones have been avoided where possible (the last thing you need is another glowing review of Alien)
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Logan's Run
The Sci Fi Future of Logan's Run is so dated they were looking forward to Arcades with Escalators, Cyber Sex and Docklands Light Railway. Despite the Star Trek episode attire and Hornby effects this is an old school ripping yarn. Recently remade as The Island.
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Logan's Run
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
Winner of an Oscar for Best Special Effects. A dazzling preview of America in the 23rd Century, a perfect world of total pleasure, but living past 30 is a crime. Based on the novel by William F. Nolan.
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from 2,631 members
Silent Running
Hippies in space. Not the only account of such a thing but this is a 30 odd year old enviromental warning for global warming. Live Earth in Space if you will. It's also where the inspriation for R2 Units comes from. And the theme tune just seals the whole hippy vibe up nicely. Recently remade as Sunshine.
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Silent Running
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Jesse Vint
Director: Douglas Trumbull
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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 »
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from 4,564 members
Soylent Green
Gumshoe Sci Fi a whole decade before Blade Runner. this is one of the great 'twist' endings. Recently remade as Fast Food Nation...
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Soylent Green
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten
Director: Richard Fleischer
Certificate:
21st century New York City is (still) an overpopulated mess, and the only food left is Soylent Green, a soyabean and lentil concoction with an extra-special, government-mandated ingredient. As police detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates a murder, he learns of a conspiracy with bizarre ..read more »
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from 3,308 members
Demon Seed
This is a rather creepy little play on Safe As Houses. In which a hi tech on line house imprisons it's resident hottie (Julie Christe, no honestly) and impregnates her with a Computer/Grey Sludge/Actress hybrid child. Think Rosemary's Baby in the Big Brother House.
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Demon Seed
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham
Director: Donald Cammell
Certificate:
A dedicated scientist's new computer kidnaps his wife and sets out to control the world by cloning a child from her. Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz.
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from 796 members
Dark Star
Dark Star gives that bit of footage Tiananmen Square is famous for a run
for it's money as the worlds most seen Student film. More hippies in
space, but this time they're on a downer. John Carpenter's calling card
on the world of cinema is basically a remake of 2001 starring Jay and
Silent Bob.
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Dark Star
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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Slaughterhouse Five
The recently departed Kurt Vonnegurt's most famous work covers Teleportation, Nazi's, Disembodied Sentinent Beings from Jupiter and losing ones place in time.
Recently rewritten as The Time Travellers Wife... or Maybe a particulary vicious episode of Quantum Leap
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Slaughterhouse Five
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche
Director: George Roy Hill
Certificate:
A man tells his story of how he became unstuck in time and abducted by aliens.
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from 1,076 member
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
A remake which has been remade many times since. The 70's (or the Sutherland) version of IBS is by far the best. It has all of that much documented McCarthy era socio-commentary. It has way cool special/sound effects and it has Brooke Adams. Mmmm.
Recently remade as The Faculty
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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy
Director: Philip Kaufman
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In this remake of the 1956 cult classic, terror slowly and silently strikes San Francisco as the city is mysteriously covered by alien spores that produce strangely beautiful flowers. Unbeknownst to the people, the flowers are the bearers of alien pods that make a spiderlike webbing that captures ..read more »
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from 4,567 members
The Omega Man
Like the mid-80's Aussie flick The Quiet Earth, Various episodes of The Twilight Zone and that Halloween episode of The Simpsons this movie deals with the 'waking up in town all alone' scenario. He's the last Dr on Earth and the only company he has are Psychotic Mutants who call themselves 'The Family'. Die Hard Vs. The Manson Clan. Charlton Heston gets his vest on!
Recently owed a huge debt by 28 Days Later.
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The Omega Man
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
Director: Boris Sagal
Certificate:
In the aftermath of a bacteriological war, the future of mankind hangs in the balance. Only a chosen few have survived the mutating effects of germ warfare unharmed. A small enclave of healthy, stalwart resistors has formed a camp where, for the moment, they live peacefully. The other human ..read more »
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from 3,211 members
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Or "Money makes your world go bad". David Bowie drops by to borrow a
cup of water and finds we're treating him like we treat all those parts
of Earth that have nothing to drink. Recently remade as a Mini Babybell
advert (albeit with lashings more slapstick)
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The Man Who Fell To Earth
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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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 »
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from 2,537 members
Mad Max
It's hard to grasp here that Mad Max was only made possible by the success of Star Wars. But it would have probably struggled in obscurity as a low budget, violent revenge tale set in a post apocalypse Austrailia were it not for the profile Lucas bought to Sci Fi in the late 70's. This is basically Clint Eastwood territory but the sparse gasoline dependent wastelands made a star of Mel Gibson.
Possibly remade by channel hopping between an episode of Lost and a re-run of Robot Wars, or by digging out that old Fighting Fantasy novel Freeway Fighter
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Mad Max
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steven Bisley
Director: George Miller
Certificate:
Rebel bikers combat the police in a bleak post-nuclear future where the highways are bloody battlegrounds. When a gang of motorcyclists brutally murder a policeman's family he becomes Mad Max, avenger of the highways. Sequel: "The Road Warrior."
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