#the best scifi movie

[lesraarsel]

ALIEN: ROMULUS

happy with how the xenomorph turned not, not so much with andy and raine :(

[rootsinthefuture]

Cinematic science fiction was characterised in the 1950s above all as an adventure centred on space (the theme of the literary space opera), whether it was setting out from our planet to explore its infinity (The Forbidden Planet, 1956), or its mysterious inhabitants visiting our Earth, often revealing less than benevolent intentions. In this sense, Pedro Jvanisevic's film, breaks away from this vein, exploring the future of humanity among Android robots, anticipating Blade Runner and other films of this genre.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

VINCENT PRICE -

THE TINGLER (1959) dir. William Castle

[aimasup]

sure i COULD ramble about how ai is one of the multiple things that check all the marks of humanity's seven deadly sins but would that be extreme

^^^ possibly insufficiently educated

[charlieswebb]

my favorite genre depends on the medium

movies? scifi/ thrillers

books? fantasy

audio plays? horror

[pharawee]

So. The Hell Guard pilot. It's incredibly cheesy and kind of nondescript (except for the over-the-top fantasy elements).

But. The Chains of Heart pilot had a way cheaper and cheesier feel than the series too. Plus, this already has lots of sponsors and an announcement for 2025. I like the novel and I like the cast and I like over-the-top genre shows so count me in. 🤡

[ricisidro]

#GodzillaMinusOne (2023), #action #scifi film by #TakashiYamazaki is the 37th film in the #Godzilla #ゴジラ franchise.

It was a recepient of multiple awards including #Oscars2024 Best Visual Effects.

It is streaming online on Amazon #PrimeVideo.

[novadreii]

rewatched arrival for the hundredth time. this movie never fails to gut punch me with its approach to determinism. louise embracing her future that she knows every moment of, despite the tremendous loss and pain it contains, with open arms. she doesn't hesitate, or ruminate on how she can try and change it. she accepts it all, the good and the bad, because what she gains is worth it, so many times over for her. she steels herself against a certain future and runs forward to meet it all, to love, learn, and lose, and trusts and leans on herself to live through it all. because that's what life is; it's the joy and the suffering. to try and isolate the joy alone is madness, futility in its purest definition.

comparing her line of thinking to a palindrome (how she named her daughter, hannah), the movie kept emphasizing, "it's the same backwards as it is forwards." it doesn't matter if you can see the end; life is the same whether you live it "forwards" (without knowledge of the future) or "backwards" (with foresight). it doesn't change the significance of your life experiences; to try and avoid certain future pain just because you have the knowledge of it is a zero sum game. you think you win because you avoided pain, but you also avoided the joy that preceded it. the metamorphosis. so you still lose if you try to win, and vice-versa.

all you can do is rush forward and take it all head-on. see this whole beautiful mess as your one most precious gift; this one life, this one chance, a laughably miniature blip on the colossus that is linear time, to experience all there is to feel before you return back to an eternity without perception. it's all worth it, because only in living a full-fledged life open to everything it has to offer does the experience of living turn out to be greater than the sum of its parts; it's in trying to beat the system (avoid pain) that we actually lose.

"if you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?"

"maybe i'd say what i feel more often. i...i don't know."

[eat-the-lemons]

Here's a movie that everybody should watch at least once in their lifetime: Garbage Theory/Űrpiknik. (Tldr at the end)

This movie is an absolute masterpiece, telling the story of a music enthusiast alien and a quote unquote 'troubled' college girl spending a night together in Budapest, searching for the singer Zalatnay Sarolta, meeting a wide cast of people, ranging from a nosy delivery driver to an alien with superpowers, and saving the earth from ultimate destruction.

There is just so much happening in this movie, and it's only a bit over an hour long; there's family drama, befriending dogs, a gay nightclub... everything.

It is also very aesthetically pleasing, the coloured lighting really adds to the atmosphere, and the costume designs are absolutely amazing.

There are some hungarian pop culture references (eg. clips from the movie Cat City are sometimes played, and Zalatnay Sarolta is a famous hungarian singer) but I'm convinced this movie is for literally everyone. There's character developement, sci-fi superpower stuff, humour, angst...

There are definitely some triggering topics involved (such as eating disorders and suicide) and the film also features blood and mildly graphic imagery, so if you're sensitive to any of that, you might want to give this a miss.

But if you're not, the movie's on netflix and hbo with english subtitles, and I can guarantee it will absolutely draw you in.

It's definitely something of an underground thing, a lot of people disregarded it even before the release, saying it was most likely just gonna be the general superhero storyline, however, for me, it was definitely a pleasant surprise.

Tldr: this movie might be slightly disturbing for some viewers, and some jokes might work a little better with hungarian people, but it is truly phenomenal and very, very underrated.

[thewritingpossum]

Currently rereading this french scifi book that's all about a bunch of medievalish people building this absurdly high cathedral (and by 'high' i mean that none of the living human in this book ever got out of what they call the cathedral and touched the actual ground)in an attempt to reach God but then the big plot twist is that the ruling class are actually a bunch of almost immortal alien beings who accidentally crashed on Earth during the actual Middle Ages, need to be at a certain height to launch their rocket and go back to their planet and therefore used the people's faith and whatever ingineering they had at this point to reach their goals, not caring that it would take centuries and centuries because it's litterally just a few hours for them and honestly this could be such a cool movie, somebody please adapt this thing right now

[destroyingeverythingold]

[rootsinthefuture]

2001, a space Odyssey with lego

[wizardnuke]

yall have got to watch pacific rim im telling you. incredibly sincere movie about humans who pilot big fuckoff robots to fight aliens that come out of a rift in the ocean. mad scientists that have something gay going on. cartoonish mob boss. all of humanity working together to survive. every other character has ptsd and its treated incredibly well. big explosions. scientifically proven soulmates. idris elba is there and he kicks ass

[roosterarts]

"The drop was a shambles from the start. Fifty ships were in our piece of it and they were supposed to come out of Cherenkov drive and into reaction drive so perfectly coordinated that they could hit orbit and drop us, in formation and where we were supposed to hit, without even making one planet circuit to dress up their own formation. I supposed this is difficult. Shucks. I know it is. But when it slips, it leaves the M.I. holding the sack.

We were lucky at that, because the Valley Forge and every Navy file in her bought it before we ever hit the ground. In that tight, fast formation (4.7 miles/sec. orbital speed is not a stroll) she collided with the Ypres and both ships were destroyed."

- Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

[luca-ercolani]

Arrival: director... Quentin Tarantino 😄

(Via: Screenise on Facebook)