Any suggestions?
Gritty, dirty real world pschidt… small droids, hissing Co2, orange space suits, odd food, weird interfaces (but not exclusively)
Think along the lines of:
Silent Running
I could probably Google it, but where’s the fun in that?
Oh - big up Douglas Trumbull RIP
No idea is a bad idea… all thoughts welcome!
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Have you seen the “Turkish Star Wars”?
The film follows the adventures of Murat (Arkın) and Ali (Akkaya), whose spaceships crash on a desert planet following a battle, shown by using footage from Star Wars as well as Soviet and American space program newsreel clips. While hiking across...
It’s a right old trip.
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i imagine everyone has, by now… but if you haven’t, watch THX-1138. it’s one of my all-time favorite films.
THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film directed by George Lucas in his feature film directorial debut. It is set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Lucas and Walter Murch, it stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence.
THX 1138 was developed from Lucas's student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which he made in 1967 while attend...
I have the fancy version DVD of it, and the actual student film is included and it’s awesome too.
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Perhaps it doesn’t quite fit the bill but we loved “It Follows” - kind of a spooky supernatural 80s retro vibe
It Follows: Directed by David Robert Mitchell. With Bailey Spry, Carollette Phillips, Loren Bass, Keir Gilchrist. A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Also from around the same time “Under the Skin” - great Mica Levi soundtrack too
Under the Skin: Directed by Jonathan Glazer. With Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell. A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process...
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Cheers team… keep ‘em coming
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February 16, 2022, 3:56am
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Surprisingly enough the Loki TV show on Disney+
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February 16, 2022, 3:57am
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Also, a lot of John Carpenter’s 80’s stuff.
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Under the Skin is amazing
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Dark Star is a 1974 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon. It follows the crew of the deteriorating starship Dark Star, twenty years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future colonization of other planets.
Beginning as a University of Southern California student film produced from 1970 to 1972, the film was gradually expanded to feature film length by 1974, when it appeared at Filmex before ...
Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, the film combines police procedural and science fiction genres, the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity, due to the greenhouse effect...
definitely fits odd food!
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another ...
One of my favourite films, some of the acting is very bad but the atmosphere is so good
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February 16, 2022, 10:23am
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I remember being quite freaked out by this one. Terrible acting and a ridiculous finale but strangely compelling
Society is a 1989 American body horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and starring Billy Warlock, Devin DeVasquez, Evan Richards, and Ben Meyerson. Its plot follows a Beverly Hills teenager who begins to suspect that his wealthy parents are part of a gruesome cult for the social elite.
Though the film was completed in 1989, it was not released until 1992. It was Yuzna's directorial debut and was written by Rick Fry, conceived and written by Woody Keith. Screaming Mad George was responsible for ...
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Another vote for Solaris, and his later film, Stalker
Roland “Independence Day” Emmerich’s LoFi beginnings.
Moon 44 is a 1990 English-language German science fiction action film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Paré and Lisa Eichhorn alongside Brian Thompson and Malcolm McDowell. The film is set on a futuristic mining site on Moon 44, where convicts and teenage technicians are partnered. An undercover agent (Paré) must discover what has happened to missing corporate shuttles.
By 2038, all of Earth's natural resources have been depleted. Multinational ...
“In a contemporary review, Variety
Waaay better and a real mindfuck:
Primer is a 2004 American independent psychological science fiction film about the accidental discovery of time travel. The film was written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Shane Carruth, who also stars with David Sullivan.
Primer is of note for its extremely low budget, experimental plot structure, philosophical implications, and complex technical dialogue, which Carruth, a college graduate with a degree in mathematics and a former engineer, chose not to simplify for the sake of the...
And of course Neill Blomkamp’s movies, with his first one being my favorite:
District 9 is a 2009 science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp in his feature film debut, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. It is a co-production of New Zealand, the United States and South Africa. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James, and was adapted from Blomkamp's 2006 short film Alive in Joburg.
The film is partially presented in a found footage format by featuring fictional interviews, news fo...
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Nice nice…
Just remembered a couple:
The Omega Man (stylized as The Ωmega Man) is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a global pandemic. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film's producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the dystopian science-fiction film Soylent Green in 1973.
The Omega Man is the second adaptation of Matheson's novel. The firs...
The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. It is written as a report documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona. The Andromeda Strain appeared in the New York Times Best Seller list, establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer.
A team from an Air Force Base is deployed to recover a military satellite that has retu...
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February 16, 2022, 3:49pm
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There have been rumours about a sequel to district 9 for years. Can’t wait for that!
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February 16, 2022, 6:49pm
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Scanners was on my list originally then I took it off because it doesn’t have much of what the OP asked about (Co2 hissing, etc), but it’s a fantastic movie. Even with the weird acting.
