Comments on: Most Underrated Science Fiction & Fantasy Movies

By: Gregory Purcell

Gregory Purcell — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:29:16 +0000

How about

Village of the Dmned 1960

The Girl from Monday 2005

The Blood of Heroes 1989

Village of the Dmned 1960

District B13 2004

The Girl from Monday 2005

Night watch 2004 & Day watch 2006

Idiocracy 2006

Mongol 2007

Doomsday 2008

All great movies no one has heard of.

By: erjones

erjones — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:41:16 +0000

Good to see “The Quiet Earth” - great film - disturbing, funny, haunting.
I especially like it when a good sci-fi is not space horse-opera, as it were

By: Huggkruka

Huggkruka — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:37:45 +0000

Quiet Earth was the first sci-fi movie not set in space I saw as a kid. I still love it, the ending, as you say, sticks with you. The score is also amazing.

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10 Best Post-Apocalypses | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:23:06 +0000

[…] Quiet Earth (1985) I mentioned this film before in Science Not Fiction’s list of the 10 Most Underrated Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies, but it deserves to appear again — a scientist awakes to find a world in which (almost) every […]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:53:49 +0000

The Arrival
Completely overshadowed by the Independence Day marketing machine, gave a good twist to the alien invasion story before X-Files: Fight the Future rehashed it. An awesome soundtrack, and I’m not a soundtrack kind of person. It’s a crying shame this thing hasn’t been offered anamorphic on DVD yet.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:50:13 +0000

The Man on Earth.

By: Stephen Cass

Stephen Cass — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:26:52 +0000

Larry Fantastic: I don’t know about the original Solaris. While it was amazing in many ways, there was just a little too much highway footage… Primer is terrific, but as it was a Sundance winner, and received a fair amount of press (I interviewed Carruth myself!), I’m not sure if it’s underrated though…

By: Larry Fantastic

Larry Fantastic — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:07:17 +0000

But serious folks — if we’re talking about great UNDERRATED sci-fi films you must include Solaris (Tarkovsky’s original not Soderbergh’s misstep - though not as underrated as it is forgotten), Primer, Pi, Donnie Darko, 1984 and good ol’ Soylent Green and the original Planet of the Apes film — well, at least the first couple.

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Of Hackers and Batmen | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:58:08 +0000

[…] the huge hype, The Dark Knight was definitely not overrated. The movie has heft and complexity, while never letting its momentum flag. And while everyone is […]

By: 10 Best Science Fiction Movie Endings | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:26:33 +0000

[…] you saw my list of underrated science fiction movies, you’ll know that I love a good ending. For me a great ending is when the movie really uses […]

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Hellboy 2: needed more hell | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:53:17 +0000

[…] I mentioned before, I expected a few of this summer’s big science fiction movies to be overrated: sadly, for me, […]

By: Stephen Cass

Stephen Cass — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:44:40 +0000

Kolten:

The Andromeda Strain is a great movie, but like Bladerunner, I don’t think it’s underrated. As for The Fountain, well you can tell from my list that a good ending is important to me, and I will forgive much for one, but if the movie’s admittedly slow pace was enough to make you stop watching, the ending may not offer enough of a pay off for you.

By: Kolten

Kolten — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:03:43 +0000

- The original “Andromeda Strain” was excellent. I stumbled upon it while flipping channels one day and was absolutely enthralled.

- THX should have definately made the list.

- The Fountain I didn’t even finish watching. Maybe I will just to see the ending (is it that good?)

- Dark City and (to a lesser extent) Existenz are both good shows, and under-rated.

By: Stephen Cass

Stephen Cass — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:31:45 +0000

Chilton:

I have to agree that with Zino that Bladerunner isn’t underrated, even though it didn’t do very well at the box office when it was first released. THX-1138 I go back and forth on — while there are some very cool things in that movie, for me I didn’t quite feel like I was pulled into the movie’s world enough.

By: ser.phobos

ser.phobos — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:48:03 +0000

Dark City was LAME! You don’t need high tension music for an entire movie, honestly, you don’t. They would play that music if a nose was being blown or teeth being brushed. Nice concept, but it was poorly executed. I’ll tell you what’s missing from this list: Intacto.