Last Great Sci-Fi Film?

YES Pitch Black was definitely under appreciated. Moon I thought was great, but that's because Sam Rockwell did such a great job, and not so much a space-horror flick but a psychological "thriller" set in space.

One of my personal favourites... PITCH BLACK. Its a very underappreciated flim, and was shot with a very small budget. Stylistically, I think its a very beautifully shot movie... and as the title may indicate, 3/4 of the movie are very dark scenes... but I think it works. If you have never seen it, give it a look... Dont knock it because it stars Vin Diesel! (One of his very first movies btw).

It's very good question..quality space-based sci fi movies are few and far between. I always have high hopes for new ones that look good, but usually get disappointed. As Phil says, Pitch Black [i]was[/i] pretty good, Moon was ok, Sunshine, ok, Solaris was a bore. I liked Serenity and the last Trek re-boot, but then you're getting out of the realm of sci fi/horror. None of the above have the quality of ALIEN/ALIENS

I liked SUNSHINE. Not a perfect film by any stretch of the imagination, but it did for me what I like sci-fi to do.

I watched Battleship last night, really enjoyed it. It reminded you a bit of transformers but not as slow and personally thought it was better. Considering it was based on a game from guessing co ordinates they done well to put a decent storyline to it. Also i said it before with AvP, if they had put anywhere near the budget that they did with Battleship $200million we would of got a smilar result if not better and not hacked a great movie franchise to pieces before it had begun. A real shame but a big thumbs up for Battleship

Pulserilfe - surely you're kidding?

With what part? But NO

also on topic, the budget required to make convincing sci-fi is on the large side, so has to appeal to a large demographic. The "Shakespeare in space" that most people, myself included, on this forum want (and by that I mean realistic character and script driven movies) do not have the potential market that a large budget requires. So we have to feed off the scraps like Sunshine and Moon (neither of which are that good imo)

- Equilibrium - Terminator 4 - Apollo18

Pulserifle - just that Battleship was good. It looks appalling - although I have not seen it - just really thought it would be awful. Maybe I should give it a try?

did they say " YOU SUNK MY BATTLE SHIP!" whats next, connect 4 the movie? i gotcha... diagonally!!! i liked the new star trek movie too, but im a trekkie hehe. my only complaint is no sexy androids... hopefully they will fix that problem in the sequel.

Moon was good considering it was made for £2-3 millon while Sunshine for all the hype it got was poor.

Yeah m8, battleship for being based on a game actually turned out quite good. With its big budget its been done like the transformers format but less kidish. So if you like like a lot of action, cgi its worth a watch. Although i was quite happy, the 1st trailer I got to see was Prometheus :)

remember, the OP set a very narrow genre here: sci fi, space-based, and horror. Don't think Equilibrium, T4 or Battleship fit that criteria Didn't see it, but read that Apollo 18 was awful. Battleship looks like another cgi crap-fest from the trailer (in the tradition of Skyline)

Skyline was rubbish! Apollo 18 was about alien rocks and Jim just because there is cgi you think prometheus will be rubbish too? Please try to keep an open mind and not write things off before you have seen them or don't like how something is done, cause you making assumptions and thats just silly.

Has anyone watched 'Cargo'? It's a German sci-fi based off world. I was pleasantly suprised by it. I enjoyed moon immensely considering the budget.

@Pulserifle no, I'm all for good cgi when it's used well in service of a good story. I'm just saying my *impression* of Battleship (plus what reviews I've read) from the trailer is that it's all about the Alien bombs blowing up cities. I hope I'm wrong - I will check it out when it comes out on B-ray.

Ah np m8 /hug Yeah i had said in my post before yours, if you liked action and cgi it was worth a watch. I didn't expect big things from it but came out happy.

The last horror sci if film was Apollo 18 which was not very good, it was ok

The last great sci-fi movies were Moon, Sunshine, Children of Men and District 9. I know that some of them dont fit exactly in the topics author description but I thought that they are worth to be remembered. Besides the limitations I also liked The Thing Prequel. Cheers mates ;)