11 Science Fiction Movies You Need To Watch This Weekend!
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I made another virtual science fiction movie festival to enjoy.
Masters of Time: amzn.to/44sWGTT
La Jette: amzn.to/4b1MaWj
Akira: amzn.to/3JQVpfL
Gattaca: amzn.to/4dmHgom
Piranha: amzn.to/3y1cOQl
These Final Hours: amzn.to/4a3m0B2
Panic In Year Zero: amzn.to/44sPoj4
Safety Not Guaranteed: amzn.to/4bmkZFf
Alphaville: amzn.to/3JM0fLk
Strange Days: amzn.to/3QsMncK
Aniara: amzn.to/3WlKbYp
00:00 Intro
00:27 Masters of Time
02:18 La Jette
04:44 Akira
06:18 Gattaca
08:40 Piranha
11:37 These Final Hours
14:23 Panic In Year Zero
17:01 Safety Not Guaranteed
18:53 Alphaville
21:46 Strange Days
24:16 Aniara
26:28 Outro
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I was watching a lot of apocalypse movies but These Final Hours hit me in a way that I didn't want to watch another world ending movie for a long time.
It has depth and compassion. It really works.
All great choices! I'd add the 1980 version of Lathe of Heaven based on Ursula K. LeGuin's book of the same name. This was a relatively low budget movie shot by the New York City Public Television station WNET. Truly an excellent movie that explores reality. Another honorable mention is Overdrawn at the Memory Bank staring Raul Julia and is another US public television production.
Both good but I have trouble finding decent copies of them.
@@terrytalksmovies I have a MP4 copy of Lathe...part of the problem is that they were originally shot on video tape, much like the earlier Dr. Who episodes, so the quality, for the time, was pretty good, but hasn't stood the test of time.
Hi Terry. Great films and I really appreciate your summary and thoughts on each film. I added so many to my wishlist. I love the idea of a science fiction film festival. Piranha is a favorite. As you were presenting your list, I started thinking about Outland (1981) with Sean Connery/Peter Boyle and also Moon (2009) with Sam Rockwell which are two of my favorites. Science fiction is one of my favorite film genres. Hope you have a great weekend.
Outland is basically High Noon, so it loses points with me. Moon is more interesting and the director Duncan Jones is an interesting guy. He's active and interactive on Twitter in a good way. Hi to you and Jessi, too.
Le Jette is AMAZING! I got to see in on the big screen in the early 1990s. My mid-20s little brain was completely blown away by that experience!
I love how it tells a fairly complex SF story with mostly still images and words. Genius.
Big fan of “Strange Days”. My friend worked with Juliette Lewis in the set of the Octavia Spencer movie “Ma” a few years ago. She talked about her father Geoffrey too.
Geoffrey was much better when he ditched the wig.
I still haven't seen 12 Monkeys but I knew about it and found La Jetee on a "Shorts" DVD at a thrift store. Alphaville is also one of my favorites. Something about both of these B&W french films have in common is their lack of big budgets, fantastical sets ir costumes. And both are so engaging. Perhaps its like a book, where it makes you need to use your own imagination. Both I love for their poetic suggestion. Also I loved Gandahar and Fantastic Planet, so I'll have to add Masters of Time to my Playlist.
You can't go wrong with Time Masters.
I saw "Safety Not Guaranteed" on streaming a few years ago. It was not what I was expecting, and was so much better than I thought. It's really cute and quirky.
It's very underrated.
Well I took you advice (or instructions!) and found La Jetee on YT and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. I've always thought I'd find it somewhat incomprehensible when hearing about it in the past.
Strange Days is absolutely one of my favourites.
Glad you enjoyed La Jette. 😀
Another enjoyable mini-movie fest. Saw Alphaville for the first time a couple of months ago. Awesome film. It is scary as it could be how our society may end up like. Piranha is a hoot; fun little movie. Panic in Year Zero is a bleak dark film. Have not seen it in a long time. Enjoyed all three of these, The others I have not seen. La Jette interests me.
Go for it!
Another great list Here's my second Sci-Fi festival list:
Earth Girls are Easy - 1988
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers - 1956
Tremors - 1990
Johnny Mnemonic - 1995
Frequency - 2000
Westworld - 1973
Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle) - 1983 (French)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion - 1997 (Japanese)
The Prestige - 2006
Marjorie Prime - 2017
John Carter - 2012
Attack the Block - 2011
9 - 2009
Now do a Fantasy film festival!
Great idea. I will. 😀
I saw Strange Days back in 1995 and I felt like it had a good point to make about living life in the past by reliving old memories instead of moving on to new experiences. But I also felt like it pushed that point aside in favor of, yet another movie centered around a police conspiracy. I suppose Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron felt like that was an important topic in the wake of the Rodney King beating and the riots that followed, but in the end, it was just another run of the mill drama about police corruption.
There's also a Tupac aspect to Strange Days, too. It's also an unashamedly political science fiction movie.
Another good bunch of choices! I’ve wanted to see Les Maitres de Temps for years, so would love to track down a version (yes, even streaming). I’ve had La Jetee for a couple of years without watching it (I have a horrendous backlog to catch up on). These Final Hours and Safety Not Guaranteed both sound good so I’ll chase them down, if I can. I’ve seen most of the rest even if I don’t recall them too well. Perhaps you’ll do a third iteration at some point? Your choices have been so good thus far. Many thanks, Terry!
This video is going well with the audience, so a third is definitely on the cards.
Oh good heavens. The Duplass brothers are my wife's nephews. (Their mom is Phyl's little sister.) Just for s---s and g-----s , their film "Cyrus" is loosely based on Phyl and our son Cyrus. (Since I stole the families formerly full time on call, live in spinster baby sitter, I don't rate even skewering.) Phyl still loves the boys as she refers to them. Family dynamics are such a hoot!
Stay safe. This "Special Subject film Festival" idea has real potential.
Thanks so much. The Duplass Bros are great film makers. They don't follow styles or trends, do their own thing and do it in unique ways. Love their stuff. 😀❤📽
Another Sci-fi Saturday treat thank you Terry. Cool new look ...the black beanie & jumper combo make you look very James Bond or Ocean's 11 heist mode. I hope you aren't planning anything risky after the video?😉
If I was planning a caper, it would be silly to tell anyone about it. 😉
@@terrytalksmovies Double bluff perfect alibi
I caught These final hours on tv while living in the Philippines. It’s a rather impactful movie. Also I love strange days
Both very underrated movies.
I shall watch Piranha in honor of a great man who has just left us.
Here is to you, Mr. Corman. You leave behind a lot of awesome cheese and I thank you for it.
Indeed. I'll cover that in tomorrow's livestream.
@@terrytalksmoviesAwesome. Those news... Yeah, they hurt. Suffice to say four years ago his work kept me sane. Ish.
Saw Alphaville back when I was 18 in my intro to film analysis class. It was one of the films of the French new wave the other was Breathless and I think Jules and Jim. We had to write film jounals as assignments and I remember trying to make sense of the scene where a guy gets killed in a pool by aqua ballet swimmers with knives. I think I wrote that only a computer could come up with an execution so weird. Really I had no idea wtf was going on 😅
I like movies that confuse me. It stretches me and my worldview of what cinema is.
I've seen all but 4 of these movies: Masters of Time, Safety Not Guaranteed, Strange Days, and Aniara. And I'm now interested in all of those 4. I've said earlier that there are great similarities, or at least an homage, in Gattaca to Alphaville; why else would all of the cars in Gattaca be French ones from the 60s? I saw Piranha at the drive-in and you've described it perfectly. La Jette is a great summary of 12 Monkeys, and These Final Hours is a terrific (West) Australian film that stays in your mind for quite a while. And everyone from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Bart Simpson have done the Akira slide (there's a great compilation video available on CZcams). You've got a pretty good schedule for a science-fiction festival, hopefully this will be an annual event.
I might even make it more than annual. 😀
Great video. back in the 70s and 80s the Orson Welles, theater ran a 24 hour festival over holiday weekend in February. more than a few movies from this list played over the years.
24 Hour festivals were fun, except for the hygiene of some of the audience.
I believe Panic in Year Zero is based on the book,Death of Grass. I do agree with your opinion about how people cooperate in a disaster. The Mad Max acopalypse theme has always bugged me.
Nope. No Blade of Grass was based on Death of Grass.
Masters of Time used to be on DVD through Masters of Cinema, but I think it's been OOP for years.
Strange Days is one I want to see again. Saw it at the cinema when it came out and found it quite fascinating.
You make Alphaville sound more interesting than I remember it being (with a handful of exceptions I am *not* a Godard fan). I shall give that one another go, though.
If you don't dig Godard you could always try Varda or Demy. 😀
Strange Days is pure awesomeness. Good story, very entertaining, excellent actors. And a great soundtrack.
There was a interesting forerunner of "Running Man" in Germany. There is a 1970(!!!) version called "Das Millionenspiel", based on the short story "The Price of Peril" by Robert Sheckley.
I've heard of it but not seen Das Millionenspiel, Andreas. 😀
Seen all of these but I think I'll have to re-watch Safety not Guaranteed as it didn't seem to make much of an impression on that first viewing. Great list Terry - one that doesn't lean on pew pew action blockbusters. 👍
The Pew Pew stuff can work, but there also has to be something behind it.
Great list. I have seen all but Piranha. As a Roger Corman film it should be fun. 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
Most RC films are fun if you're in the right head space. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies 😉
Alphaville is kind of special. You can take it literally, or you can treat it as metaphor. It can be interpreted as the popular theme of the period of democracy versus communism. It can also be thought of in a more interesting manner as Americans visiting foreign countries. Touching on the idea of the not uncommon view some Americans have of other places being absolutely alien.
Paris in the 1960s was innately fascinating, anyway.
I’d forgotten about Ariana and Stange Days. I’m having a blast getting a shopping list together to add to the library.
Happy to help, Boris. 😀
Sharing the love for Safety Not Guaranteed and These Final Hours., both been favourites of mine for a few years too.
The best genre films are rarely the biggest ones. 😀
I'm a little late......but Aniara is the reason i found your channel and your review was the reason is subscribed..thanks
My pleasure. I'm glad I can share the good stuff. 😀
Some of my favourite Scifi movies there. It's been over 20 years since I saw Alphaville, time for a rewatch.
100% yes, Colin. 😀
You've got me interested in These Final Hours. Safety Not Guaranteed is one of those good little movies which can still wander out of one's memory, so thank you for the reminder. And I LOVE Strange Days. Thanks, Ter.
Always a pleasure, William.
These Final Hours, I missed and will definitely check out. Have a toy Akira motorcycle on my shelf. I hope it never gets remade.
So do I. We need a remake of Akira like a submarine needs screen doors.
Apparantly Bandai Namco, together with Otomo for as far as I know, it working on a Akira series that is a new adaptation of the Manga.
A Hollywood live action Akira movie by Taika Waititi sounds like the worst thing ever.
Strange Days was a movie worth watching more than once. It had as part of the story something that is usually horribly done, at least in movies I've seen. A member of the cast has a singing role (I'm not a lover of musicals) portrayed by Juliette Lewis. It was NOT terrible! It was actually pretty good and surprisingly it even made sense for the story.
Gratuitous nudity in a movie is fine, not so for gratuitous singing!
I grew up watching gratuitious nudity in 1970s movies. It's one my cinematic love languages. 😉😀
Wow, what a great festival this is/would be! All the movies you mention that I've seen I totally loved. ( _La Jetée_ especialment! 😍😍😍 First saw it and had my heart broken by it when I was a romantic teenager, and it didn't disappoint when I watched it again as an adult.) And the movies I haven't seen sound totally awesome.
Thanks, Karl. Glad you liked it.
Seen La Jette, Akira, Gattaca, Piranha, Panic in Year Zero, Alphaville, Strange Days, Aniara. I like to think my suggestions influenced you, one of many anyway. I was looking for La Jette right after I read 12 Monkeys was a remake. The others sound worth seeking out, Did I see Moebius on the credits for Masters of Time? That's going to the top of my list. I found the TV version. of Aniara on YT.
Yep it's a Moebius designed movie.
I thought your first film was gonna be "Fantastic Planet" for a minute. That one I've seen, but haven't seen "Les Maitres", but it sounds like another good one. Saw "Le Jetee", many years ago, but maybe a rewatch is in order. It was such an interesting experiment. Same thing goes for "Gattaca". I think I have copies of all of Joe Dante's movies except "Piranha". Should get a copy, as I've never seen it. I remember reading his "Dante's Inferno" column in "Castle of Frankenstein" magazine, when I was a kid (and he wasn't much older). "Panic" is and old AIP favorite. "Alphaville" is one I've heard of all my life, but still haven't seen. Guess I'm just going to have to put it on my amazon list.
Definitely. Alphaville is groovy.
If you like Fantastic Planet and Les Maitres Du Tempts you should definitely also check out Gandahar by the same director (also mentioned in the video).
Gattaca, Aniara and Alphaville I have to see. (You can't beat old b/w french movies)
Terry, will either of your virtual film festivals feature an IMAX screen ? I really, really want to see Stanley Kubrick's spacey journey thing on a massive screen with fantastic surround sound !
I've only seen IMAX once many years ago. Worth it?
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You bet your curly whiskers it is, Terry. IMAX fills your field of vision and just draws you into the movie even more. Of course, only certain movies benefit from an IMAX treatment. I mean don't rush along to see Carry on Cleo in IMAX. You need huge panoramic scale visuals to show off IMAX. Science fiction movies are great in IMAX. And imagine seeing James Whale's Frankenstein in IMAX. WOW !
Yep, please consider an IMAX screen for your Melbourne Luna Science Fiction Movie Festival 🙂
really great festival selection! i really hope "Masters of Time" will finally get some proper Blu-ray treatment. As you say, it's kind of hard to find and the only way i got to see it was through seeing it here on CZcams. Safety Not Guaranteed was a real find...but shame that Colin Trevorrow's career went skyward (failing upward?) in the worst kind of way...Jurassic Park films! as a result all that subtlety and humanity went right out the window...but no doubt a good pay day for Colin. aaah Hollywood eats its children!
The J Park films Trevorrow did are probably a retirement plan. The bucks in the bank might let him get the clout to make good, smaller films in future.
Thank you as always a great list of movies. I'm a big fan of PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO. Ray Milan also directed the western A MAN ALONE. In it he plays a man who comes upon a stagecoach that's been robbed with all the passengers killed. He's later accused of the robbery and murders. it's definitely worth checking out.
Thanks for the tip, William. 😀
I watch a lot of Y'tube videos of all sorts but yours is the only one that I take notes on.
I did the same with Scorsese's documentaries on cinema. I love that kind of engagement. Thanks!
I do like "Strange Days". I think I've watched it twice.
I didn't like Gattaca but that's because I really don't like Ethan Hawke.
I thought "Safety Not Guaranteed" was enjoyable.
Thank you for sharing your list.
My pleasure. I don't expect everyone to agree with my choices but I like sharing them in case someone hasn't been aware of them. 😀
I visited Perth in the late 1990s. It was a beautiful city. Saw an amazing fireworks show downtown.
I love Perth.
_Gattaca_ is one of my favorites, loved the production design with electric retrofuturistic cars and mid-century brutalist buildings. Why was Jude Law in two successive movies where his identity is stolen?
I'd really like to see _Strange Days_ again, but it looks like I'll have to give in and buy a region-free blu-ray player--it's one more added to my list that aren't available for streaming or on region 1 or A media.
A region-free player opens things up enormously. It's a good investment.
L-O-V-E Akira in any form! In the late '80s, I was a manager of a small comic book store and picked up the VHS version and was mesmerized by the biker scenes and the genetic transformation scenes even though the sound was recorded on a medium that wasn't designed to give it the full potential it deserved. Over a decade later, I found a DVD copy of it and still loved the story but was slightly less disappointment with the sound quality. A couple of years ago, I found and bought the Blu-Ray edition. W-O-W! I don't have a 4K system but I might consider it if just to hear as well as see this classic. I also saw "Alphaville" on a badly dubbed VHS tape. I'll hunt it down in the original French soon. Isn't it out through The Criterion Collection? I'll look for it. Was "No Blade of Grass" the Cornell Wilde film that you were thinking about? That was a little too dystopic for my liking. Have you seen "The Final Programme?" I think that would be a good addition to your collection. Thanks for another informative review on several interesting films. I might give "Gattaca" a try even though I've read a few unfavorable reviews about it.
I was going to add The Final Programme but I forgot to mention it. Originally there were going to be 12 in the video, but I slipped up. 😉😀
@@terrytalksmovies No problem. Collectively, we're all like kids in a candy store when we watch and talk about segments like this. "What did I miss? What am I forgetting?" Maybe you can do a segment about it next Saturday. I'd like to see it.
Good selection of films that I have not seen, yet.Cheers Terry and loved ones.✌️
Thanks so much, Stuart. 😀
Being a Moebius fan I’m an enthusiastic fan of Masters of Time. I think MAX’s Scavengers Reign took a lot of inspiration from it.
Probably did. Moebius inspired a LOT of subsequent works.
I haven't seen many of the films on your list. I've seen Le Jette, Alphaville and Akira. Some of the others sound interesting and some do not. I'll have to hunt them down. Thanks.
Enjoy, Don!
I'll have to find some of these, enticing reviews. Anyone that likes Akira should watch Ghost in the Shell, the original, not one of the many derivatives.
Yep. The OG Ghost In The Shell is solid cyberpunk with incredible visuals and action.
@@terrytalksmovies ... and an engaging story about the line between human and machine intelligence, shades of Blade Runner, which preceded both manga and film by several years
Strange Days didn't grab me on first viewing (I didn't know what kind of sci-fi to expect going in), but it has become a firm favourite and a highly enjoyable rewatch. A really great performance from Fiennes as a very sweaty and damaged protagonist. It was also the beginning of my Angela Basset crush and has me shouting at the screen about what an undeserving idiot he is 😉
It's definitely worth that second viewing. There's so much going on that it takes a couple of watches to fully absorb the film. I love that.
Thank you for the great recommendations.
Glad you like them. Have fun.
I am really liking the faux movie festival format
Thank you. It's a fine format to program for. I wander around the shelves until something there days 'fuck yeah!' to me.😀😉
Isn't Paris an alien world in real life? It seemed so last time I was there.
Why are so many Australian sci-fi films set in dystopian earth? Am I right in thinking that Thunderdome was the Sydney Opera House?
I've been considering a trip to Perth, but in a civilised country, Scotland.
Both Perths are cool. Paris was wonderfully alien 20 years ago when I was there. 😀
I feel a little attacked by this video, several of these are sitting on my shelves still waiting for a rainy day...
Looking back France has produced quite a bit of the science fiction I've watched or read over the years, starting with the French/Japanese adaptation of The Odyssey I watched as a kid, Ulysses 31.
Ulysses 31 was great fun. It showed on TV here in the afternoons and was wonderfully different from every other cartoon showing at the time.
@@terrytalksmovies If it was dubbed, I've seen it. I'll have to hunt it down in the original French...
Time Masters is on CZcams in acceptable condition..
Cool. Thanks! 😀
I've heard of a good many of these but the only one I've seen to date is GATTACA. Got to check out some of the others.
Enjoy! You should find some things you like there.
Alphaville - This may sound petty, but I have a really hard time taking this film seriously when the hero drives to another planet in his car. Frankly, I don't understand why the film is set on another planet when the director obviously didn't want to show any kind of space travel. It would have made much more sense to simply set the film in a high-tech, futuristic city here on Earth. In fact, the first time I saw this, I was convinced that someone mistranslated the subtitles.
The point is that Paris was in places, futuristic. Lemmy drove a Ford GALAXIE after all. Science fiction isn't necessarily about the props. Godard stripped those away and put a movie private eye into an alien culture, while having the avocadoes to shoot it in an existing city and carefully choosing his locations. I like it.
@@terrytalksmovies He could just have easily have said that an Earth city had installed a computer, which then went out of control and took over. If you replace the dialog about being on another planet with being in a futuristic city, and showed it to someone who'd never seen it before, they would have no idea that it was supposed to be set on another planet.
It's kind of like making a time travel movie where the hero can travel in time just by putting on his coat, and then the different time periods are represented by current cities and towns.
These Final Hours is certainly a testament to what can be done with a good script and very little money - it even had the 'honour' of having its ending shamelessly ripped off by Lucasfilm.
Setting an end of the world film in Perth seems to call for an Ava Gardner style comment, but let's leave that 'honour' with Melbourne😊
I believe the director has just wrapped a zombie movie filmed in Western Australia.
Before heading over here, don't neglect to watch Day/Strike of the Panther on Brollie, to see Perth in all of its ghastly 1980s glory...
I have the blu-ray of Day and Strike. Seems like a weird vanity project Brian Trenchard-Smith did for the money.
@@terrytalksmovies Yes, I'd be curious to know where the money came from, since it was entirely self-financed. Probably some dodgy W.A. Inc. era tax-scam. But it is a tribute to Trenchard-Smith that he actually made the films reasonably watchable, and the films themselves are a different kind of tribute to The Perth That Brian Burke Made...
Just watched 'the time masters'
How was it for ya?
@@terrytalksmovies It was good. I prefer fantastic planet.
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HBO did a comedy series along the lines of Aniara called Avenue 5.
It's nothing like Aniara. Aniara is mindblowingly good. Playing it for yucks misinterprets the whole thrust of the movie. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies Prehaps. Also in the years since seeing I think I may have mixed my memories of it with the miniseries Ascension.
There's only one great adaptation of I am Legend and it's this one: czcams.com/video/stkc-E-qXVk/video.html Great show, BTW.
The Simpsons is so 1997... 😉
Shame on me !!!
I'm french but i've never seen "Les Maitres du Temps" !!
It's correctable. Such an underrated hidden gem of a movie.
I was with you until you brought GATTICA IN THE MIX.
It was such a boring movie. The hatred and callousness his family showed toward him put me off.
Piranha, I loved it as a kid, so it stays.
"These Final Hours" I have to check out.
"Panic in Year Zero," is a classic!
"Aniara" I liked, and I would have liked it more but for the subtitles. They drive me crazy at times.
The remainder of the list I have to check out.
Definitely check them out. Let's agree to disagree on Gattaca.
@@terrytalksmovies We can do that.
I took the "boring" aspects of the Gataca world to be a central plot point. In the unbound pursuit of "excellence" the elites of that world have abandoned difference and inspiration. A static culture is headed for ruin.