I'll watch anything, doesn't even have to be heavy into fiction but the more unique the better. Also non English films are fine if it has subs. I really need to make a letterboxd account one of these days so I can track what I watch better.
Cheers.
Have you seen Severance? It's a TV show rather than a movie but the first season is out on Apple TV and it's pretty good dystopian Sci fi. It's got some good wotker solidarity politics in it. I didn't wanna pay apple so I just streamed it on lookmovie2.to but you gotta make sure you have a VPN. Every friend that I've suggested it to loved it and it was even worth a second watch through.
goddamn, Severance is so good I want to be frozen and brought back only when the second season comes out
Right? I had to get a couple friends to watch it so I could talk to somebody about it because it one of those shows where if you mention anything about it you spoil something and I just ended up watching the whole thing again with then. Easily one of my favorite shows.
Redline (2009) is the movie to watch if you liked podracing and wanted an entire fuckin movie based off of it
Shit is beautifully animated with a banging soundtrack, just look at this first scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL10Gt2uags
I fucking love the intro
Space car... space car... spacecar......... and a pontiac.
I think the middle is the best part. 2 Krytons is the only acceptable number.
that's how i felt about the Expanse, the first few episodes were pretty boring but im so glad i stuck with it. thanks
Alien and Aliens. Alien 3 but it's weird. Alien Ressurection is okay. Skip Alien v Predator.
The Abyss
The 1994 Jurassic Park
Event Horizon
Disney's Black Hole is fun if you can find it
i have watched Babylon 5 probably 2 full times at this point. I use to watch them all the time when they did back to back reruns on TNT or whatever network it was. It's a great show, glad you mentioned it cause everyone should check it out
I really liked Arrival, also Natalie Portman did a film based on a book series called Annihilation which I liked as well, though it takes some liberties with the plot.
yeah i suppose that one is worth a rewatch, saw it around when it came out. i did enjoy it
Don't let the plot synopsis fool you, Upgrade (2018) is a really fun and engaging sci-fi action movie. I almost skipped it because it sounded like Death Wish revenge porn, but it's actually a really clever movie, at a brisk 90 minutes so it doesn't keep you for too long.
i did watch this! it is great, a lot better than i expected. they hardly wasted a single minute on it, was definitely really well made and entertaining
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
Near the end it gets a bit antiquated with its views on homosexuality, but it's such an amazing book. General relativity dictates an interstellar war, so while a full military career feels like a couple years the distance travelled means you're 20+ years ahead of Earth. The protagonist tries to reintegrate into a new society before rejoining the military and repeating the process to rise through the ranks. All the while centuries passing instead of years means nobody remembers what the war is for.
edit: I'd also consider it the antiwar version of Starship Troopers. It's generally pretty similar in how it covers a combat squad against a hated enemy, but Haldeman wrote it after coming home from the Vietnam War and becoming disillusioned.
i had this rec a long time ago and completely forgot about it thanks
I really liked Under the Skin (2013). Might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but definitely original.
Predestination (2014) was good imo, but don’t look up anything about it online before watching.
If you haven’t seen Sorry to Bother You (2018), you absolutely need to.
Under the skin was really good. Probably one of the best Sci-fi films of the twenty teens. It basically is a rip off of an early Sci-Fi idea for the first half. Second half is a new but not amazingly original or complex but its all done with an original perspective pace and style that it is gripping and confusing and intense in just the right amounts.
Sorry to Bother You
was one of my favorite films of that year! Have seen Predestination but not Under the Skin so thanks
Prospect is a really good space western from a few years ago. It has a simple story and the costuming and world design is really cool.
Sunshine. The premise is a bit on the silly side (they need to nuke the sun to start it up again) but it's a really amazingly gripping film and the soundtrack is fantastic.
