Last Great Sci-Fi Film?

@XENOWHAT Me too, I liked em' both.

Last great film, IMO,"Blade Runner". Good but not great: "The Thing", "Fifth Element", "12 Monkeys" and "Alien Ressurection". my2cents

Biehn_Bandit wrote: "Planets are cooler than outer space. Only so much you can do on a ship. Alien and 2001 are the only movies that have made it interesting, imo. Even Star Trek (TV) was only really interesting when they touched down. The 5th Elements was like something right out of Metal Hurlant. Starship Troopers was fun. Dumb, but fun." I agree, and for me, it's because both "Alien" and ( particularly ) " 2001" conveyed the complete and total isolation of outer space more effectively than any other movies I've ever seen. I think a lot of people didn't really get the 1940's-propaganda-movie political satire of "Starship Toopers." A buddy and I went to see it, and we were the only people laughing in the whole audience.

@ Biehn_Bandit How could i forget Starship Trooper. The Special Effects in that movie were awesome. Goofy but alot of fun. IMO the SE in Starship Troopers was alot better then that SW movie that can't be named.

Paul Verhoeven is a great satirist. I shouldn't say the movie was dumb, but there was some bad acting by some bad actors in it. Don't know if this was intentional or not.

I Love "Verhoevy" all of his "shiznit"

Tobe Hoppers Invaders From Mars was great too !!!

Ok guys, the following is from 1997 or so, and let's face it... Starship Troopers is a pretty cool hardcore-space-sci fi movie. Of course the Verhoeven one.

Supposedly they're making a new animated series. The Roughneck Chronicles were good but animation has come along way since then.

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@XENOWHAT Yeah you are right! The Roughnecks Chronicles were kind of cool. Let's wait for the new series. Cheers!

oh snap, forgot about Verhoeven last two best flicks *according to the specs laid out by the OP* - Total Recall (the new one will be crap, I can sniff it out already) - Starship Troopers

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The casting for "Starship Troopers" was spot-on. They hired kids who looked [i]earnest[/i] and said their lines very [i]earnestly[/i]. The entire movie is over-the-top hilarious, IMO. I actually thought it was better in that regard, than "Robocop."

This is what i mean the SE were alot more seamless in this movie than the SW Attack of the phantom sith were Lucas went wrong is that whole movie looked too sterile(interaction between bug and human looked real). BTW I noticed nobody mentioned John Carter as a good SCI-Fi movie. I had low expectations for it but left he theater entertained so much so i went back twice which is rare. Admittingly I never read any of the "mars" series books and i know a lot changed but still enjoyed it.

watch them rate the new Total Recall PG-13 we know you're a businessman Ridley, but Jeez, do the right thing

@artyoh Agreed that was what VH was trying to get across. A total militiristic society. Actually some of uniforms reminded me of Nazis. To this day the scene above and the one were they drop in on the planet are some great SE.

Exactly.....we dehumanized the Germans, and to a much larger extent, the Japanese, during WWII....even forced them into glorified concentration camps...to some extent, we became what we feared most.

Now "species"(horror & sci-fi) by far was not a very good movie however it raised some interesting questions. Using our own DNA to destroy us. So I wondered if the "sil" exists in the same universe as a the alien. Both are Gigeresque and the species must have some advanced society to create our own destroyer.

Species and Splice were both interesting T&A sci fi concepts that failed as movies, but they don't fit the original intention of this thread