Name your fave vintage sci-fi movie...

[scott.cr]

Just looking for some DVDs to add to my collection. Recently received "The Day the Earth Stood Still" - GREAT movie. I see people on IMDB.com complaining that there's too much talking and not enough action, but I think the dialogue is engrossing. (CPFers, coming from the same vein/interest in science, would probably agree with me.)

(I suppose to some of you kids out there, Star Wars and Back to the Future might qualify as "vintage" hahaha...)

 

[AlphaTea]

Yup, that is one of my favorires.
I also liked:
Forbidden Planet
Fantastic Voyage
20K Leagues Under the Sea
Frankenstien (with Boris Karloff)
Dracula (with Bella Lagosi)
Them
Jeez, I could go on for a while, there are so many

 

[WNG]

The original version of The Thing.
John Carpenter's remake is very good too.

Forbidden Planet. Talk about before its time. So many concepts.
Nice tribute done for it in Babylon 5.

Alien....I guess that's vintage now.

 

[parnass]

The Thing (original version)
Forbidden Planet
Invaders from Mars
Them

Cheesy sci fi honorable mentions:
Rodan
The Crawling Eye

 

[tradderran]

Forbidden planet. teenagers form outer space. The moon men.
beyond the stars. 100000 miles from earth.
Great B moves.
1957 Chev convertible your best gal and the drive in on saturday night.
those were the days my friend. Also 19cent Ethel gas. .25 hamburgers 5 cent
coke Yes we had it made.
Now if I only had a time machine :candle:

 

[cave dave]

I'm watching all of the Planet of the Apes series this month. Borrowed them from a friend.

 

[cslinger]

Planet of the Apes series
Them (I love this movie)
20KL Under The Sea (Disney) Love this movie too.

and for my left field, not vintage, not even good per say but great fun........They Live. Its time to kickass and chew bubblegum and I'm all outta gum.

 

[StevieRay]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/

Brainstorm 1983 with Natalie Wood and Christoopher Walken

 

[Nitroz]

ALIEN 1979 Sigourney Weaver The best IMO.

Sorta vintage

 

[nerdgineer]

Don't know what you consider vintage. Besides the ones already mentioned:

This Island Earth (not available in DVD as far as I know).

Lots of old campy ones, mostly where something got radioactive and then REAL BIG:

Praying Mantis, Tarantula, Octopus (actually a 5 tentacles Pentopus), etc.

Great old British Sci-Fi from Hammer Studios:

The Thing in the Pit (also called "Quatermass and the Pit" and "5 Million Years to Earth", I think)
The Creeping Unknown

 

[Nitroz]

War of the Worlds 1953

 

[powernoodle]

The Blob
Fantastic Voyage
Soilent Green
Andromeda Strain

cheers

 

[clarky]

Enemy Mine, not vintage in the grand scheme of things, but I was born in 1980.

 

[LowBat]

Either "Plan 9 from Outer Space" or "The Creeping Terror". :laughing:

Seriously, I think it had to be the late Stanley Kubricks "2001: A Space Odyssey"

 

[Uncle Bob]

The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Fly

 

[AndyTiedye]

2001

 

[JanCPF]

Yup. 2001 - end of discusion

 

[The_LED_Museum]

The Andromeda Strain
2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[nikon]

That one with the pods replacing everyone on Earth. Why can't I remember the name? :hairpull:

The day of the triffids.

 

[will]

Creature From The Black Lagoon

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes -