Name your fave vintage sci-fi movie...

scott.cr · Apr 5, 2007

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 · Apr 5, 2007

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 · Apr 5, 2007

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 · Apr 5, 2007

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

Cheesy sci fi honorable mentions:
Rodan
The Crawling Eye

tradderran · Apr 5, 2007

Forbidden planet. teenagers form outer space. The moon men.
beyond the stars. 100000 miles from earth.
Great B moves. :popcorn:

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 · Apr 5, 2007

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

cslinger · Apr 5, 2007

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 · Apr 5, 2007

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

Brainstorm 1983 with Natalie Wood and Christoopher Walken

Nitroz · Apr 5, 2007

ALIEN 1979 Sigourney Weaver The best IMO.

Sorta vintage

nerdgineer · Apr 5, 2007

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 · Apr 5, 2007

War of the Worlds 1953

powernoodle · Apr 5, 2007

The Blob
Fantastic Voyage
Soilent Green
Andromeda Strain

cheers

clarky · Apr 5, 2007

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

LowBat · Apr 5, 2007

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 · Apr 5, 2007

The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Fly
:popcorn:

AndyTiedye · Apr 5, 2007

JanCPF · Apr 5, 2007

Yup. 2001 - end of discusion

The_LED_Museum · Apr 5, 2007

The Andromeda Strain
2001: A Space Odyssey

nikon · Apr 5, 2007

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

The day of the triffids.

will · Apr 5, 2007

Creature From The Black Lagoon

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes -

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