The only thing that gets me to the gym is watching science fiction movies on my iPhone. Can you recommend some more based on the criteria inside?
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Jun 5, 2013 -
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What is the significance of the unhappy couple (wife is hospitalized) midway in the movie Upstream Color?
posted by mnemonic
on Apr 25, 2013 -
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Sci-Fi movie identification halp. Watched a movie when I was a kid that I thought was Futureworld, viewed Futureworld recently, beginning and ending are totally different. And yet certain things/scenes meshed. Am I imagining things? Maybe meshing two different films?
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posted by disconnect
on Mar 6, 2013 -
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Name that science fiction story / movie: Two people in love with each other are trapped in a box. The box is possibly in some alternative dimension with a Panopticon-type God person. I think the story was written by a famous sci fi author.
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posted by Apropos of Something
on Dec 30, 2012 -
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I'm looking for an online video from a couple years back. It is a short scifi movie shot in the first person, which features a scientist waking up in a lab, looking out the window to see a giant tower shooting a beam into the sky, and then grabbing a black cube with lights on it, which appears to have some sort of strange powers. It was hosted on a website which had some other seemingly related material. I don't know if it was from an ARG, or a standalone video, or what, but I'd really like to watch it again.
posted by cthuljew
on Oct 4, 2012 -
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I've seen The Twilight Zone. I've seen The Outer Limits. I've seen Tales From the Darkside. I've seen (and, puns notwithstanding, was bored by) Tales From the Crypt. I've seen Night Gallery. What else is there for me to see?
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posted by windykites
on Sep 14, 2012 -
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Name This Film: I'm trying to remember the name of a dystopian/SciFi film I saw years back in the 90s, could have been from the 80s. The premise must have been similar to City of Ember, with a kid or teen in an underground city. I remember pipes or tubes featuring prominently, and think they were in the title too.
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posted by ts;dr
on Jun 16, 2012 -
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What strange sci-fi movie or show am I sort-of remembering from ~20-22 years ago featuring a woman giving birth to an egg through her belly button?
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posted by shortyJBot
on Jun 9, 2012 -
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Transfer, the 2010 German movie: questions! (big spoilers inside; avoid if you haven't seen this awesome movie)
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posted by lorimer
on May 25, 2012 -
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Please help me find the names of three vaguely recalled movies from my past: a teen flick from the 80s, a dubbed (possibly Italian) horror film from the 70s, and a scifi adventure from the 60s (maybe)?
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posted by coolxcool=rad
on Apr 29, 2012 -
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Can you name the movie or TV show
this image is from? Looks like a classic sci-fi film, though I can’t tell if the set is a spaceship or a submersible.
posted by scamper
on Sep 11, 2011 -
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Asking for a friend: vaguely remembered movie filter. Something about bodies and colors...
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posted by bug138
on Jun 4, 2011 -
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Can you help me find a sci-fi movie from the '80s with a floating brain in it? I only saw bits of it at the video store.
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posted by qbject
on Jan 15, 2011 -
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I'm looking for a movie: Scifi, set in space/on a spaceship, probably late 70s release, that has as a plot element humans hiding from a nefarious computer or machine that would stick a needle in the back of the person's head (possibly into a port) when person was caught.
posted by yiftach
on Apr 28, 2010 -
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Sci-Fi Movie Filter: Trying to locate the title of a movie I saw in the late 80's. It was set in the US in the near future. A private eye or cop was trying to track down someone smuggling a deadly drug or chemical that - when it came in contact with the human body - dissolved it in a fantastically gruesome fashion with smoke and screaming.
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posted by ninazer0
on Nov 1, 2009 -
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I remember going to see a movie in the 70s, falling asleep in the theater. I woke up during a confusing, killer-death-ray-satellite takes control scene. What the hell could I have been watching?
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posted by anelsewhere
on Jan 13, 2009 -
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1980s-90s movie: An alien spacecraft had to upload the galaxy's map into the 90% of a kid's brain that was unused.
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posted by theiconoclast31
on Oct 29, 2007 -
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My friend is searching for the title of a low-budget B-monster movie. The plot: The crew of a spaceship find a derelict spacecraft and awaken a demon/alien creature who possesses the crew one by one. Also, the movie might star Kurt Russell.
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posted by shoseph
on May 30, 2007 -
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Remember my request for
sci-fi music? Six months later, I'm finally ready to make my CD mix. Almost. Last night I figured out how to record mp3 audio from DVD on my Mac, and now I want to rip key dialogue snippets from classic sci-fi films. I went for Khan spitting at Kirk from his grave, but there's too much incidental music. I think maybe I can get Ripley signing off.
What other short, iconic soundclips from sci-fi films should I look for? The intro to the old
Battlestar Galactica? Something from
Logan's Run?
Blade Runner bits? Eerie, ethereal, otherworldly, outer-space stuff is best. (Bonus points if you can direct me to a source that's already done the work for me; right now I'm looking at a several-week Netflix slog.)
posted by jdroth
on Sep 19, 2006 -
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I'm trying to remember a cheesy sci fi flick from...the 80's maybe. I can't remember much except there was something about a spaceship that crashlanded somewhere, and there was a "sci fi babe" on board...there was probably some sort of talking robot too. The most memorable thing about the movie was that the music was (stolen) from the movie Somewhere in Time was used...or at least something similar. Can anyone help me identify this movie?
posted by edjusted
on Jun 29, 2006 -
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I'm looking for the name of a movie i once saw half of.
Ive talked to some friends about it and some of them seem to remember it to - its all a little vague though, sorry bout that. This whole thing is spoiler-ridden, for obvious reasons, so if you start to read it and
a) havent seen the movie before and
b) would kind of like to
i'd suggest you stop when you think it starts to get good, because i've put down what i THINK the ending is.
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posted by lowest.common.denominator
on Oct 10, 2005 -
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