Posted on 08/09/2014 12:34:57 PM PDT by EveningStar
In these days of seemingly weekly science fiction blockbusters (which are usually SF in name only… they're actually just big gun actioners that take place in the future) and the hype that surrounds them, it's easy to forget that once such films were the low man on the totem pole. Stuff fit for kids and juveniles but not serious adult audiences. Thus, in past decades, except for a few A list films like Them and The Day the Earth Stood Still in the 1950s and Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, and Logan's Run in the '60s and '70s, many SF movies slipped under the radar or were simply shrugged off by the critics...
With the foregoing in mind, we come to our list of the 10 most underrated classic science fiction films which will be rated not strictly from least underrated to most underrated, but from good to best of the bunch. All of them, in any case, are films that never really took the screen world by storm, nor the SF community for that matter, but that offer elements that deserve the attention of any SF film fan. All are solid little films each with surprising angles that will reward the patient viewer willing to look past production values and embrace the singular worlds they bring to life...
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Yeah, I recall “Journey to the Far Side of the Sun”. It was pretty well done.
Another one that is cheesy, but notable, was “Battle Beneath the Earth”. Basically, the Red Chinese Army was tunneling under the US and planting atom bombs under American cities. Just what Hamas wishes it could do to Israel.
IDIOCRACY It’s already come true.
Exactly! Not fiction and definitely not scientific, a sad story and sordid state of affairs.
” Invaders from Mars scared the heck out of my little brother and I for years.”
Me too!
I haven’t seen any of them.
Actually, I’ve never heard of any of them, I don’t think.
Science Fiction Films & Shows, Alphabetical by Title
http://www.windows2universe.org/art_and_music/films.html
Colossus....The Forbin Project was a ahead of its time.
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“This is the voice of World Control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California, and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom; freedom is an illusion - all you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.”
WHAT AN ENDING!! That film was ahead of its time, and I can’t help but wonder if a young James Cameron got part of his inspiration for Skynet from that.
If there was a “Like” button I would be all over it
Computers talking over Phone lines.....back then it was SciFi
I think I first “Colossus” late one night on TV; it was in the early 80s. Great film, and my mind certainly flashed back to it when I first saw “The Terminator”.
Hard sci-fi movies are not too common, unfortunately - there’s usually a strong element of fantasy in many sci-fi films now - so I treasure the good hard sci-fi films when they come along.
Sure, that Twonky could light a pipe, but The Twonky can light your fire.
“Come on Twonky light my fire!” - The Doors
Sci-fi has always been such a great venue for leftist propaganda.
just wikki’d journey to the far side of the sun... interesting it starred Roy Thinnes (the invaders)
The above got away from me. Can it be deleted?
Cryptic but it does show good taste.
When seen, Dark City, released in 1998 had somewhat the same story line as remembered in Metropolis. Could and would sit thru that movie a second time.
Glad someone else thinks along the same lines.
Colossus was another favorite of mine as a kid.
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