Sci-Fi phase... Help with titles!

[etmoviesb]

Dear everyone,

a friend of mine and me often see movies together as we share the fine taste of b-movies. Now we are seeing Godzilla and other monster movies.

But soon we want to pass to Sci-Fi, while I am quite the connoisseur (eheh) of giant monster movies, I am not really in Sci-Fi so I would like to ask for help.

At the moment we have this on list:
Galaxina [1980],
Forbidden Planet [1956],
Space Mutiny [1988],
Star Wars [1977] (thanks to Harmy's Star Wars Despecialized Edition)...

As Forbidden Planet [1956] shows the movies do not need to be bad. Nonetheless we don't mind, as reader of this website you know what I mean :)


So? What do you suggest from Sci-Fi old timers?

[RCMerchant]

.INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS-both versions-from '56 and '75 are excellent.
.the THING (1982)
.PLAN 9 from OUTER SPACE (1959)
.ROBOT MONSTER (1953)
.ALIEN (1979)
.IT CONQUER THE WORLD (1956)
.2001: A SPACE ODDESSY (1968)
.THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955)
.WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)

Even as bad as ROBOT MONSTER and PLAN 9 are-they are hugly entertaining-much more so then the tedious GALAXINA.

[etmoviesb]

How could I forget:
Starcrash [1978], I already seen this one years ago. An incredible experience.

Thanks for suggestions, they look quite nice. Yet, according to the Borntreger's review of Galaxina, it should not be so bad... However I read more negative reviews around. I guess you did not like it?


Any other?

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

The Black Hole... I have such fondness for this one. But it hasn't aged all that weel, plus it was a kid's show mostly.

It's slow but I've always liked Silent Runnning.
-Ed

[VenomX73]

Invasion of Astro Monster (1965) aka Monster Zero (1965)

[The Burgomaster]

* GALAXY OF TERROR
* THE BLOB (Steve McQueen version)
* BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS
* PLANET OF THE APES (Charlton Heston version)

[JaseSF]

It Came From Outer Space
It! The Terror From Beyond Space
The Green Slime
Fiend Without a Face
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
20 Million Miles to Earth
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Them!
Quatermass films
Soylent Green
The Omega Man

[etmoviesb]

Really a nice list, I would add:
Pandorum [2009]

and do anyone have seen Ender's Game [2013]?

[JaseSF]

Forgot to add earlier:

The Time Machine (1960)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Monolith Monsters
The Deadly Mantis
The Giant Claw
The Brain from Planet Arous
Journey to the Seventh Planet
The Angry Red Planet
Planet of the Vampires
Queen of Outer Space
Queen of Blood
Rodan
The H-Man
The Mysterians
Gorath
Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster

[bob]

Aliens

[lester1/2jr]

The Lathe of Heaven and The Illustrated Man are some good purist type sci fi. the former is the better movie but the only existing copy isn't the best quality and its pretty cheap production to begin with.

Phase 4 is pretty perfect combination of high and not so high art. it's an animals attack movie at it's base but somehow its so much more

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

The Lathe of Heaven and The Illustrated Man are some good purist type sci fi. the former is the better movie but the only existing copy isn't the best quality and its pretty cheap production to begin with.

Phase 4 is pretty perfect combination of high and not so high art. it's an animals attack movie at it's base but somehow its so much more

Phase 4 is the ant one isn't it?

[bob]

Bad Taste (1989)

This is a splatter science fiction horror comedy film. 

[lester1/2jr]

Ed- Yes. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's THE ant one

[etmoviesb]

Bad Taste (1989)

Oh... yes. And from my favorite director too! While it is not sci-fi, about goriness, I prefer the never Braindead (1992). Jackson is a genius.

Little off-topic parenthesis, do anyone have seen the newest movie of Jackson? Lovely Bones?