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Name 5 intellegent SF films you have seen
Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Started conversation Aug 5, 2004
The title says it all and grew out of the I Robot film conversation.
I read lots of SF(and I'm a chick)and I robot is my favourite Asimov.I've been very disappointed by most SF films based on original SF books.
However my list includes some that are based on books and are as good as the original or better.
1 Blade Runner.
2 Gattaca
3.Andromeda Strain
4 Day of the Triffids (the Howard Keel version)
5 Dark Star
Name 5 intellegent SF films you have seen
Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Aug 5, 2004
1. Minority Report
2. Equilibrium
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Ghost in the Shell
5. Alien
The last one was a real struggle, and I'm sure I could come up with a better choice with time.
Name 5 intellegent SF films you have seen
Ged42 Posted Aug 5, 2004
Trying to think of ones that haven't already been said.
In no particular order
2001
12 Monkeys
Akira
City of Lost Children
Donnie Darko (?)
Name 5 intellegent SF films you have seen
A Super Furry Animal Posted Aug 5, 2004
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
What can I say? I like 'em all! And some of my faves have already been picked. 
The Lathe Of Heaven
RF
Name 5 intellegent SF films you have seen
Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Aug 6, 2004
1.Soylent Green
2.Silent Running
3.Solaris
This is getting difficult. I'll leave it at that for now.
Name 5 intellegent SF films you have seen
Xanatic Posted Aug 6, 2004
Contact
The Abyss
Jurassic Park
Name 5 intellegent SF films you have seen
Orcus Posted Aug 6, 2004
Jurassic Park = Intelligent 
Sorry, but I disagree in case you hadn't noticed
The Forbidden Planet
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
The Matrix
K Pax
Star Trek - First Contact
Contact
Solaris (have only seen the Clooney version)
I'm also thinking of The Man who Fell to Earth, and Logan's Run but it has been a couple of decades since I saw them and I have no idea how they would play today.
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
U168592 Posted Aug 6, 2004
1. Brazil
2. Dark City
3. The Astronaut's Wife
4. Metropolis (the Fritz Lang original)
5. The Handmaid's Tale
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Ross Posted Aug 6, 2004
Metropolis - Fritz Lang
Dr Strangelove
Blade Runner
2001
Silent Running
honorable mentions to:
Contact - except the last 15 minutes!
The Handmaids Tale
Solyent Green
Dark Star
Brazil
Akira - my favourite anime film
Solyaris - the 1972 Russian version
Clockwork Orange
War of the Worlds (1953 version)
Andromeda Strain
Capricorn One
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Ross Posted Aug 6, 2004
Yes - though it is very much of its time what with conspiracy theories and all that
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 6, 2004
Wasn't Logan's Run a mini-series, rather than a film?
Besides which, the series is infamous in SF circles witha rather different reason these days.
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Orcus Posted Aug 6, 2004
Logan's run began as a film - yet another excuse for wotsername from the Railway Children and American Werewolf in London to bare all 
I preferred the TV series meself
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 6, 2004
Oh yes, that's right. I've seen bits of the series floating around.
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Xanatic Posted Aug 6, 2004
Yeah, I´ve seen Capricorn One. Wouldn´t class that as intelligent.
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Michael York starred in the film (which was quite different from the book). I don't remember the series.
>>Besides which, the series is infamous in SF circles witha rather different reason these days.<<
Go on then....?
Still thinking of SF from my youth - Zardoz , and what was that Western set in the future (starring Yul Brynner?)? Planet of the Apes (the original). I'm sure I'd find them all hard to watch now, but either loved them or found them very interesting at the time. The same is true of SF books - loved Heinlen and can't stand him now.
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Ross Posted Aug 6, 2004
Westworld - was the film with Yul Brynner
Name 5 intelligent SF films you have seen
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 6, 2004
Zardoz makes me
It's held up as example of Caucasian biasis, as in "It was all a bit Logan's Run", due to the complete and utter lack of non-white faces in it.
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Name 5 intellegent SF films you have seen
- 1: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Aug 5, 2004)
- 2: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Aug 5, 2004)
- 3: Ged42 (Aug 5, 2004)
- 4: A Super Furry Animal (Aug 5, 2004)
- 5: Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque (Aug 6, 2004)
- 6: Xanatic (Aug 6, 2004)
- 7: Orcus (Aug 6, 2004)
- 8: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Aug 6, 2004)
- 9: U168592 (Aug 6, 2004)
- 10: Ross (Aug 6, 2004)
- 11: Xanatic (Aug 6, 2004)
- 12: Ross (Aug 6, 2004)
- 13: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Aug 6, 2004)
- 14: Orcus (Aug 6, 2004)
- 15: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Aug 6, 2004)
- 16: Xanatic (Aug 6, 2004)
- 17: Ross (Aug 6, 2004)
- 18: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Aug 6, 2004)
- 19: Ross (Aug 6, 2004)
- 20: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Aug 6, 2004)
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