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Best SF Movies
Solaris [2003] [DVD]Solaris [2003] [DVD]
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.18
Tarkovsky can keep his nineteen hour avant-garde bumfreezer... Soderburg, McElhone and Clooney are top notch, awesome production design, amazing musical score. Hypnotic cinema.
Alien [DVD] [1979]Alien [DVD] [1979]
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Disposable astronauts and a giant penis with teeth. Edgy bonkers SF from the seventies.
They Live [DVD] [1989]They Live [DVD] [1989]
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'I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum.' Rowdy Roddy Piper is designated meathead for another John Carpenter classic. OBEY!
Aliens [1986] [DVD]Aliens [1986] [DVD]
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Not better than the original, just a different approach to the genre. Superb production design - from titles to slime, a compelling, entropic future vision.
Silent Running [DVD] [1972]Silent Running [DVD] [1972]
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Bruce Dern murders his buddies and runs off into the cosmos with some robots and a bunch of plants. Reefer madness? As a child, I cried when one of the robots gets it.
Forbidden Planet - 50th Anniversary 2 Disc Special Edition [1956] [DVD]Forbidden Planet - 50th Anniversary 2 Disc Special Edition [1956] [DVD]
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Monsters from the Id!! Superb fifties SF!
The Thing From Another World [DVD] [1951]The Thing From Another World [DVD] [1951]
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If you're a fan of the Carpenter remake, go to the original, it's a blast.
This Island Earth [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]This Island Earth [DVD] [1955] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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No PAL version? Catch it on BBC 2 in the middle of the night sometime! A great movie monster and some tall foreheads.
Invaders From Mars [DVD] [1953]Invaders From Mars [DVD] [1953]
Buy new: £9.98
Green Martians! Stock footage of the army! Wholesome Americans doing naughty things. Anti-communist allegory gets no more blatant than this. Awesome movie!
Blade Runner (Remastered Directors Cut)Blade Runner (Remastered Directors Cut)
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darkest and dirtiest of them all, this is the grandaddy of SF noir. stylish, creepy, beautiful.
The Matrix Trilogy : Matrix / Matrix Reloaded / Matrix Revolutions (3 Disc Box Set) [DVD] [1999]The Matrix Trilogy : Matrix / Matrix Reloaded / Matrix Revolutions (3 Disc Box Set) [DVD] [1999]
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The best SF trilogy ever. And I am a Starwars fan. The first one is best, the last two are pottier than an Amsterdam coffeehouse, but win out on sheer verve and spectacle.
War Of The Worlds (2 Disc Special Edition) [2005] [DVD]War Of The Worlds (2 Disc Special Edition) [2005] [DVD]
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I always loved the fifties version, but this one really knocked me out. The first half hour is superbly atmospheric, and the sequence at the ferry is absolutely terrifying.