Underrated science fiction movies
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I honestly love the build up of the movie so much that I forgive the really crappy final act.
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How the hell is it underrated? If it wasnt for the success of Aliens there would have just been that one 1979 movie which wasnt that good in comparison and probably not as succesful. Aliens is a classic film which made and remade quite a few people's careers. It also spawned a decade of aliens clones.
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I saw an early vote for Primer and i have to say it is the most underrated good sci fi movie i've seen. Let's just break it out, it deals with time travel/butterfly effect blah blah. Those sci fi movies have been done with that premise easily! and let's just use inception levels... most movies deal with time travel 1 layer deep, the good ones deal with with time travel 2 layers deep (and this is where your normal middle american get's lost and can't follow a simple timeline and you spend hours explaining it to him/her if you associate with primates). The best big budget triple A movies go 3 layers deep in time travel...
But Primer, it goes to like 11, my first viewing, i actually couldn't keep track of it!
i don't know how to embed images on this forum, but i found a chart for primer you could just google image search "primer movie chart" and find others, this seems to be the most detailed.
http://cdn.unrealitymag.com/wp-conte...imer-chart.jpg
But Primer, it goes to like 11, my first viewing, i actually couldn't keep track of it!
i don't know how to embed images on this forum, but i found a chart for primer you could just google image search "primer movie chart" and find others, this seems to be the most detailed.
http://cdn.unrealitymag.com/wp-conte...imer-chart.jpg
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Yea, I think Primer is the easy winner.
Some guy at TIME made a list that was basically Primer, Dark City, Serenity, Gattaca, Silent Running. I haven't seen Silent Running, but I don't see how Serenity makes the top 5. It was alright, but it didn't really look that deeply at anything. I also didn't feel it was underrated. It was a well made space-cowboy action film, and it was received well for that. I'd put The Thirteenth Floor up there in place of it. Strange Days/Brazil are a bit redundant with Dark City. It's hard for me to accept that Gattaca is underrated since I figured it had broad appeal, but I just asked my friends on vent and none of them have seen it.
Some guy at TIME made a list that was basically Primer, Dark City, Serenity, Gattaca, Silent Running. I haven't seen Silent Running, but I don't see how Serenity makes the top 5. It was alright, but it didn't really look that deeply at anything. I also didn't feel it was underrated. It was a well made space-cowboy action film, and it was received well for that. I'd put The Thirteenth Floor up there in place of it. Strange Days/Brazil are a bit redundant with Dark City. It's hard for me to accept that Gattaca is underrated since I figured it had broad appeal, but I just asked my friends on vent and none of them have seen it.
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The 2003 SciFi Channel mini series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287839/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4) was a great take on Messiah/Children. I wish they had made some more, although God Emperor is a hell of a chunk to bite off, even for a mini series.
More would be great, but I won't complain about the 5-6 hours of good Dune awesomeness that was the miniseries.
The saga of Dune is far from over...
The saga of Dune is far from over...
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Don't know where you get "Space Jesus" from. It was a sci-fi take on Beowulf. Thought it was a great movie, and the witch chick was smokin hot.I'm assuming you actually mean Outland, so I'll throw inOutlander. Space man(Jim Caviezel) crash lands on....Earth I guess. Back in time to Viking times. So space Jesus + Vikings vs. Glowing Alien death tigerwolfmonster.
Edit: Got my hotties confused, meant the king's badass daughter. Witch chick was from Centurion I think, another underrated movie.
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don't get why dune received bad reviews. i like the movie a lot more than the miniseries myself, so it's definietly underrated imo. then again it's one of the first movies i ever saw. objectively though, lynch did a great job capturing the world and tone, while the series was more extensive.
i'd heard of Moon but not Primer. that time chart. looked it up a bit and Primer sounds terribly interesting. it's on instant play for whoever's got netflix
i'd heard of Moon but not Primer. that time chart. looked it up a bit and Primer sounds terribly interesting. it's on instant play for whoever's got netflix