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steepdecline | December 13, 2008 12:03 AM | in Movies

What movie should I rent tonight? Looking for something in the scifi space.... thought provoking, etc.

Please give me at least three options and if you have a youtube video of the trailer all the better. Links to rotten tomato is great too.

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BEST ANSWER chosen by asker | jennydeluxe | December 13, 2008 12:09 AM

i just saw 'let the right one in' and it was a gorgeous, haunting, ethereal vampire flick....might be up your alley!

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Just watched the film, what a great recommendation!!!

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sara | December 13, 2008 12:10 AM

Firefly (Serenity)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BvP99-Ci6k

2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ

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mrbabyman | December 13, 2008 12:10 AM

Try Solaris, either the Tarkovsky original or the Soderbergh remake. It's pretty heady. If you want even more cerebral, try Tarkovsky's Stalker. It'll twist your brain (they even based a video game on it!)

source(s):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/

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lon | December 13, 2008 03:18 AM

I'd go for the Tarkovsky "Solaris" over the Soderbergh. Soderbergh's version isn't bad, per se, but it feels a bit more on the nose. The icy remove that makes the original so involving and other-worldly feels like more of a pretense in the remake. And I think George Clooney is under-playing to the point of getting lost. He's not being subtle; he's just not really bothering to act. "Stalker" is also highly weird and brilliant.

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lon | December 13, 2008 12:14 AM

You may have seen it, but "Children of Men" is my favorite sci-fi film in recent memory. I also think Spielberg's "Minority Report" from a few years back is seriously underrated. Great action, cool effects, interesting social commentary about the pervasiveness of modern advertising and a surprisingly grim view of humanity's potential from the guy who made "ET" and "Close Encounters."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBaiKsYUdvg

Oh, and Linklater's "Scanner Darkly" is quite thought-provoking, beautifully animated and super-trippy. "Donnie Darko" also brilliantly toes the line between comedy, sci-fi, horror and coming-of-age drama. "Dark City" is just a brilliant film, picking up future noir where "Blade Runner" left off. Like "The Matrix," only better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbPgYx9GolQ