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So far this year I have watched Metropolis and Zardoz for the first time. What are some other must see SciFi movies?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Forbidden Planet, Logan's Run, Death Race 2000, The Day the Earth Stood Still, ...

What's your cutoff for "classic"? Are we talking about the classic film era, or anything older than 25 years?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

All great picks. Forbidden Planet trips me out because young Leslie Nielsen, as a dashing leading man, in a non-comedy role is just wild to see heh. The plot is fun and the effects actually hold up really well for the age.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great picks. I'm not too concerned with the timing. Even more recent, soon to be classics, are fair game.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Well in that case:

  • The Matrix
  • Dark City
  • Pi
  • Confluence
  • Predestination
  • Primer
  • Brazil
  • Time Bandits
  • Gremlins
  • They Live!
  • Escape from NY/LA
  • Big Trouble in Little China
  • The Fifth Element
  • 12 Monkeys
  • Six String Samurai
  • Robocop
  • Total Recall
  • Terminator & Terminator 2
  • Event Horizon
  • Stargate
  • Johnny Mnemonic
  • Soldier
  • The Truman Show
  • Mars Attacks!
  • Demolition Man
  • Starship Troopers
  • Tank Girl
  • Cube
  • Species
  • Men in Black
  • Iron Sky
  • Robot Jox

... and many more!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A few you missed:

  • Johnny Mnemonic
  • ExistenZ
  • The 13th Floor
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • WarGames
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Truman Show is great but I'm not really sure I would put it in a list of sci fi classics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Being John Malkovich is in a similar vein.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Truman Show is stealth sci-fi. It has literal world-building.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Would make a good double feature with Inception.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, now that I think about it, if you described Truman show to someone that has never seen it, they would have to think it was sci-fi. But it's done so well and plays so close to the realm of possibility that I've never really considered it sci-fi...
Whatever it is, it's brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Alien
Aliens
Alien3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Glad you included Primer. That's the only mandatory one imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@lemmyng This is the list I was about to pit together so ty

@MooseGas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Love the campiness of Death Race 2000