11 Science Fiction Movies You Need To Watch This Weekend!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 😅

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!

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.

I caught These final hours on tv while living in the Philippines. It’s a rather impactful movie. Also I love strange days

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.

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 YouTube). You've got a pretty good schedule for a science-fiction festival, hopefully this will be an annual event.

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.