the movie you need to see is called primer.also, dark city and the quiet earth. both flawed but still pretty good.

Silent running, the running man, cool runnings...

Hard Sci-Fi. It could happen.

Dark Star.Seconding Silent Running. One of my favourites of all time, even if I do weep like a child every time I see it.

I don't know if it's sci fi exactly, but The Fountain is an amazing film. The soundtrack is stunning too, from the same composer as Moon.

On the Silver Globe directed by Andrzej Żuławski.Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

it seems the focus here is films. well i know nothing about sci-fi films, really nothing. but when it comes to literature, the genre of "hard" sci-fi has only produced one dude that really blows me away, and that's stanislaw lem. solaris and eden are my favorites. his master's voice is really good also.i only half enjoyed the recent film adaptation of solaris. i'm told the earlier one, by tarkovsky, is much better, but apparently lem himself liked neither, thought they were just movies about love in space, and had diluted the original message. i can see that, with the one i've seen at least. but tarkovsky's stalker, as mentioned in this thread, is really great. i love that film.asimov, clarke, that stuff never really clicked with me. frankly, not at all.most sci-fi authors i like are certainly not hard SF -- pkd, herbert, gibson, burroughs. front-runner choices perhaps but i can't get enough of those dudes.

Plastic Eggs wrote:And any of Cronenberg's more whacked out, sci-fi leaning films - Naked Lunch and Videodrome especially.While both rad films, they are not what the original poster is looking for: "hard" a.k.a. realistic or theoretically plausible science fiction. Naked Lunch might make you hard, but insert cock joke here. Actually, "naked lunch" is a good slang term for exposed penis.

enframed wrote:Cilantro wrote:Timecrimes That's the one I was trying to remember. Good film.Soundtrack by Qüëënsrÿchë

Timecrimes Also, its fun to revisit corny eighties sci-fi: Ice Pirates, Enemy Mine, Dreamscape, My Science Project, Running Man, Saturn 3, C.H.U.D., Real Genius....