Best Sci-Fi Movies of the last 5 Years

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by bevischief

Avatar is Dancing with Wolves on another planet. I said before I saw it and still do after I watched it. Dancing with Wolves was a lot better movie.

Yep. And it's really sad, because the visual effects are just breathtaking (the closest thing to experiencing Star Wars in the theater for the first time I can remember) at least for the first half hour until you get used to them. Then you realize that you know everything that's going to happen in the movie because you've already seen it several times.

**** you Cameron.

[unlurking]

Originally Posted by frazod

Yep. And it's really sad, because the visual effects are just breathtaking (the closest thing to experiencing Star Wars in the theater for the first time I can remember) at least for the first half hour until you get used to them. Then you realize that you know everything that's going to happen in the movie because you've already seen it several times.

**** you Cameron.

Guess I'm glad I never saw Dances with Wolves. Must make me one of the few who enjoyed Avatar.

Have to give another vote to Pandorum, but I liked Solaris which most people didn't. Have to heartily agree with Moon.

This thread is making me realize we need more sci-fi movies!

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by unlurking

This thread is making me realize we need more sci-fi movies!

There are a lot of sci-fi movies (like Transformers). It's the good ones that are hard to find.

[jiveturkey]

Originally Posted by unlurking

Have to give another vote to Pandorum, but I liked Solaris which most people didn't. Have to heartily agree with Moon.

I also liked Solaris quite a bit.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by unlurking

Guess I'm glad I never saw Dances with Wolves. Must make me one of the few who enjoyed Avatar.

Have to give another vote to Pandorum, but I liked Solaris which most people didn't. Have to heartily agree with Moon.

This thread is making me realize we need more sci-fi movies!

DWW is one of those movies I'd love to experience freshly again, like Pulp Fiction. It's preachy in parts, but very moving in others. If you do watch, just try to go in with no expectations, is it like this or that, what's its message, how forced it said message. Just watch it like a recounting of one man's experience after the Civil War when he felt like a man adrift and sought a meaningful life. In that respect, and ONLY that respect, I'd break my rule of expectations and say it shares a lot with The Heart of There Will Be Blood, when it focuses on the story of a man in America striking it out on his own and how difficult and dangerous that drive can be in reality.