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I'm in a Sci-Fi mood and would like to watch something I haven't seen before. (every episode of Star Trek feels familiar to me now.)

Can anyone recommend a good sci-fi film that isn't included in a basic DVD collection? (Star Wars, Stargate, etc.)
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science-fiction_films

Good Lord.
Where to begin?

In absolutely no order whatsoever:
Logan's Run
Metropolis
The Time Machine (original)
Silent Running
The Black Hole (before the remake lets out)
RoboCop (before the remake lets out)
Dune
Starship Troopers
Mad Max trilogy
Saturn 3
original The Day The Earth Stood Still & War of the Worlds
E.T.
Lifeforce
Mars Attacks!
Charlton Heston in Soylent Green & Planet of The Apes
12 Monkeys
 
Farscape
Dark Angel
Eureka
The Questor Tapes (TV Pilot movie)
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicle (Season One)
The Martian Chronicle (Mini Series based on Ray Bradberry's novel)

Movies
Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow
The Colossus of NY
 
Gattaca
Minority Report
The new Battlestar Galactica series
Blade Runner
Serenity
Cloverfield
1984
Super8
Stalker
 
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Soylent Green
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 - the 2008 remake was awful IMHO)
Galaxy Quest
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Twelve Monkeys
Planet of the Apes (1968) Most of the sequels are pretty good, too.
Forbidden Planet
Contact
Wall-E
Outland
Moon
THX 1138
 
Check out some of the old Outer Limits shows. Much of what is called Sci Fi these days are nothing but action movies in space.
 
Check out Pioneer One

Pioneer One

6 part Indie Hard Sci-Fi series that was completely paid for through crowdfunding.

Synopsis - A mysterious spaceship has entered Earth's atmosphere. A US Department of Homeland Security investigation has uncovered a live human being in a Soviet space suit in an unstable condition. A note in Russian, found at the crash site, claims the man is the child of cosmonauts living at a base on Mars.

It won best Drama Pilot at New York Television Festival

I was hooked.

Season 2 apparently on the way
 
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Here is a few ideas a TV show called Sliders.
http://www.hulu.com/sliders

A movie called Time Cop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPLHgw54h4


I also recommend the Highlander Series if you have not seen it.

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Speaking of the old Outer Limits, I enjoyed catching the newer Outer Limits on late night TV some years ago.
 
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Star Trek TNG had a good episode for a porn parody:

"Masculine and feminine. I understand" -- Nagillum

"Yes. That is how we propogate our species" -- Picard
"Please demonstrate" -- Nagillum
 
Okay, no disrespect to all the other folks, who have named many a great sci-fi films. But I believe we're supposed to name great sci-fi films that have gone overlooked. Here's a couple off the top of my head --

Moon
Dark City
The Arrival
Reign of Fire

(listed in order of relative overlooked awesomeness)
 
mussonman said:
Lol, I've seen every episode of Futurama at least 50 times (except the newer ones, which are the best.)
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There are things I just want to plain out steal for my next project -- with the "what if" machine topping my list! It would also be cool to build a film around a couple of unstable doomday devices! :)
 
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