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Indeed! This is a worth entrant as sci-fi as social commentary.
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I didn't see Dune in this thread anywhere.
And what of the classic Coneheads ^
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Rubbish
Rubbish
is why... 
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I did see Dune in the thread and I like that movie, as well as the book.
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Of the more science than fantasy kind: Aliens
Guided bullets: tested in Afghanistan
Man-portable RADAR to find enemies behind cover: tested in Afghanistan
VTOL dropship: V-22 Osprey
Wheeled APC for the US: M1126 Stryker
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I'd add:
Edge of Tomorrow
Gravity
And I'd remove a lot of yours... sorry! For example, I'd remove A Clockwork Orange. Disgusting movie, and I'm not easily disgusted.
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TNCaver wrote: A Clockwork Orange. Disgusting movie, and I'm not easily disgusted.
Pretty tame by today's standards and you have to bear in mind that most movies are of their time, in other words they often reflect culture and society at that time. On top of which Kubrick. Alos, disgust is in the brain of the beholder - I can't disqualify because your stomach turns!
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That movie was of my time (I was in high school in 1971), so I get the context. And yeah, it's tame by today's standards, and I try to avoid similar movies regardless of when they were produced. I understand that the original novel by Anthony Burgess had a different ending that helped some. I've never read it.
Maybe it's my age and the way my life philosophy has developed over the years, but I find the world is full enough of real evil that I don't wish to experience more of it in the fiction I watch.
Hey, other folk love that movie, and hail it as a classic. That's cool, I don't judge people for their tastes, we're not clones, it just isn't for me.
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Funny how Edge of Tomorrow shares a common idea with The Groundhog Day.
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Odd, but I've never seen Groundhog Day. I guess I should watch it someday. I've never been a big Bill Murray fan, even from SNL.
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This Island Earth
I always longed to receive a crate from Unit 16 so that I too could build an Interocitor.
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How you missed Battlestar Galactica, I have no idea.
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Because it's a TV show with no general release movie attached - all broadcast on TV or straight to Video, AFAIK.
You could always start a best TV sci-fi show list...
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Ender's Game[^]
I watched it at my son's place a few weeks back, then read the book. The movie is reasonably true to the book.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I think "Logan's Run" (1976) and "Lucy" (2014) belong on the list.
Also I think we should mention The Green Slime[^] (1968). It's a Japanese movie with a mostly American cast. Strictly B-grade cheese but when you watch it, it becomes obvious where the ideas for "Alien" & "Armageddon" came from. Loads of B-movie fun.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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Logan's Run - excellent film. Lucy was ok
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The Blob.
Steve McQueen; Color By Deluxe. A masterpiece.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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You forgot some 80's schlock. 
Real Genius
Weird Science
The Wraith
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Enemy Mine (1985) - a little corny in the middle, but overall a great move.
The Stuff (1985) - definitely corny, but fun to watch.
Electric Dreams (1984) - A sentient PC that tried to write love songs, a young Virginia Madsen and most of the music done by Culture Club; what's not to love.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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I'll watch any Sci-fi movie once. However I have considered the following to be intellectual (no in any particular order).
1. The Abyss (1989)
2. Sphere (1998)
3. Mission To Mars (2000)
I know you said Movies only, but I found some of the episodes in Star Trek (TV Series) to be equally intellectual. I don't find Star Trek movies to be so.
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"Invention". Bah, Humbug!
Now, there certainly is the realization of something possible another hasn't otherwise deduced prior to oneself doing to the same ... and patenting it.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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And what is your opinion about "The mothers of invention" ?
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After a lengthy thread about which sci-fi franchise is best... I declare the winners to be:
1: Stargate (except the new one which is probably yet another dumb prequel)
2: Star Trek
3: Firefly/Serenity
4: BSG (except the final episode which was excrement).
5: Red Dwarf
6: Anything by Gerry Anderson if you're under 12 years old.
7: The Terminator.
8: Doctor Who
9: Buck Rogers
10: Dark Matter (which may go to number one in the future).
I carefully added up all of the votes then changed them to suit my own bias. Like it or lump it. 
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