Old school sci-fi

Ignoring popular things like The Time Machine etc, some of these are better known, some a bit 'B' movie style but all are watchable.

Forbidden Planet
The Lathe of Heaven
The Andromeda Strain
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Fahrenheit 451
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Children of the Damned
 
swordtrombonefish said:
Ignoring popular things like The Time Machine etc, some of these are better known, some a bit 'B' movie style but all are watchable.

Forbidden Planet
The Lathe of Heaven
The Andromeda Strain
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Fahrenheit 451
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Children of the Damned
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Forbidden Planet is one of my all time favs. It pretty much has everything you would expect from a 50s space movie. Brilliant for its time.
 
I love science fiction and used to devour sci-fi books when I was a teenager. Unfortunately there are not that many that have translated well into film, and only one, the great 2001: A Space Odussey that was better than the book.

There's a list below from wiki of all the 70s sci-fi films but not a lot that i could really recommend. Tarkovsky's Stalker is one, Silent Running and the original Westworld two others. Surprisingly the original Alien and Mad Max were made in 79.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films_of_the_1970s

Of the TV shows I'm an unashamed Star Trek fan although the original series is very dated, but then most TV of that time is. I used to love Blakes 7 (still available on You Tube I think) but it looks like it was made 100 years ago - but then you look at early Doctor Who and you realise it was just the technology. The ideas were still there.
 
Cheers for all the recommends (y)

I feel the opposite way about sci-fi Pierre. Never really like the books love the film's. I think it's that my imagination needs a little push before it gets going.
 
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