Thread 211887840

Give me your best shit sci-fi movies.
(Trancers, Hardware, Fortress, etc)

Preferably in the "distant future" of 10 years ago or some shit. I like old scifi with lots of imagination of how the future would be.
My tolerance for garbage is high

>>211887840 (OP)
Split Second is amazing, the only bad part of the movie is the noise that the big gun at the end makes.

Class of 1999

>>211887840 (OP)

A straight to VHS classic

>>211887840 (OP)
Pic related is pure sci-fi shitkino.

>>211887840 (OP)
This and Cyborg by the same director.

Battlefield Earth

>>211887985
>>211888081
>>211888209
>>211888243
Thx bros

Only seen Scanners, it was amazing

>>211887840 (OP)
>Vicious Dog guarding a door comes out barking
>Rutger Hauer flashes his badge
>"Police, dickhead"
>Door opens
Kino

>>211888310
Nemesis is great, you are in for a treat

>>211887840 (OP)
Cherry 2000?

Definitely check out Freejack (1992)

I don't know why this movie exists but I'm glad it does. Every scene is bizarre.

>>211887840 (OP)

NIRVANA (1997) with Christopher Lambert.

Despite the piss ass budget this decent SF movie is THE closest thing I've ever seen to genuine cyberpunk on screen. It has all the tropes

- cyberspace
- a trapped A.I.
- scummy band of hackers recruited to do a "run" into cyberspace
- a burned out genius hacker
- punk culture amidst a hyper corporate society

As a bonus it also has a totally gratuitous shot of the most perfect alt-girl TITS... Heavenly, buoyant, perfect white spheres that just appear from under a punk chick's cable-knit sweater without warning

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>>211888891
>>211889026
>>211889052
>>211889087
Also thx bros, gonna be a good weekend

solarbabies

Booby Trap / Wired to Kill

>>211887840 (OP)

If you liked Hardware then you will surely like this

>>211889122
Fortress was a fun watch.

>>211888891
Freejack is so good.

>>211887840 (OP)
Rutger Hauer is also in Omega Doom, a Yojimbo rip-off that is quite charming
For me it's Death Race, the original one with Carradine and Stalone but also the Netflix one
Silent Running
Onions Green
Omega Doom
Omega Man
Fortress
Screamers
Le Dernier Combat

so so so so many

>>211887840 (OP)
Time Runner. Imagine Terminator except we're fighting aliens instead

>>211889243
>the Netflix one
I hope you're not talking about the Statham one. Don't disrespect him like that.

>>211887840 (OP)
>Rutger Hauer
Don't forget Wedlock and Omega Doom.

system wants to cut me off for spam so
>Trancers (Peter kino)
>Hardware (pic related)
>Fortress (Lambert kino)
>Screamers
the short story is bone-chilling
>Salute
>Star Crystal
Haven't seen, on the list now
>Nemesis
Solid flick, Cyborg is great
>Battlefield Earth
Hubbard kino
>Cherry 2000
Grossly underated, absurdist kino
>ROTOR
Hilarious MST3k episode
>Nirvana
Great Lambert movie
>Hardware Mentioned Again
pic related
>>211889495
I actually haven't watched the three Statham death race movies
For me it's Death Race 2000 and 2050, the Netflix movie with Malcolm MacDowell

Robot Jox

>want to watch some garbage sci-fi kino
>BLASTFIGHTER
>wtf this isn't science fiction (but it is kino)
>look it up after
>due to legal issues, the studio was forced to use that name to settle a contractual obligation to some writer they decided they hated
anyway, it's kino, and you should just mix it in with your sci-fi and watch it

>>211889649
>three Statham death race movies
kek there were three of them? The first one was cool when I was 18 and high on weed drugs but I'm not sure I could handle two more. I'll find a way to watch the netflix one, thanks.

>>211889939
even worse, anon, there were more of them that didn't even have statham

Universal Soldier doesn't get enough love

>>211889965
He's been in some real dogshit so if he turned it down it must have been awful.

>>211889087
Strange Days is legitimately kino as fuck.

>>211887840 (OP)
Cyber City Oedo 808 (dub with JP OST if you can)
Angel Cop
964 Pinocchio
Space Adventure Cobra
Bad Taste
Battle Heater
Electric Dragon 80000V
Goku Midnight Eye
I Love Maria
The Hidden
Gunhed (extended/uncut ver)
Kin-dza-dza!
Плaнeтa бypь
Zardoz
Zëiram
Zëiram 2
Pandorum
Nirvana ('97)
Fiend Without a Face
Blue Gender
First Men in the Moon
No Escape
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Soldier
Virtuosity
The Green Slime
Virus
Planet of the Vampires
Ghosts of Mars
Sexmission
Mindwarp
This Island Earth

>>211889965
There's 4 total. He's only in the first one.

>>211890083
Cmon Kindzadza isn't THAT kind of shit sci-fi movie. It's not one of those kitschy over-the-top cyberpunk action flicks (which would have been good though), it's... well...

>>211887840 (OP)
Virtuosity. Denzel Washington plays a cop trying to hunt down Russell Crowe who is an amalgamation of famous serial killers used to train police in VR. First thing I ever saw Russel Crowe in, he's chewing the scenery the entire time

Saturn 3
Solar Crisis
SpaceHunter

>>211890257
it's soviet kino

>>211887840 (OP)
Anyone who likes Rutger should check out Observer System Redux.

>>211890304
Кин-дзa-дзa is kino as fuck true but not in a so bad it's good way it's just normal good. Pretty weird by all means but still

>>211890083
great list desu

>>211890276
Spacehunter is fantastic

>>211890083
>Zardoz
Fucking Zardoz oh my god.

>tfw you delivered the load of square hogs two days late and he wants to dock your pay
look you knew my rig was slow when ya hired me

>>211890586
Easily my favorite low-budget scifi. Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared-Syn by contrast was a disappointment.

>>211890784
i forgot my picture :^(

Sweet I get to shill Death Machine again.

>>211889126
kek, so at least one other anon has seen this one

>>211887840 (OP)
Its not a shit scifi movie thread without some Frogtown

>>211887840 (OP)
You won't find anything else like it.

>>211891076
this destroyed my teenage weiner

>>211889087
seconding this
>>211887840 (OP)
Not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, because it's not action-focused, but personally I love Wild Palms, forgotten 90s cyberpunk neo-noir Twin Peaks ripoff miniseries. It's set in the distant future of 2007 in which holographic television is becoming a thing. Also something something evil megacorporations. It feels very Philip K. Dickian, psychedelic trips, people having problems with distingushing reality from fiction etc. My favorite part is Oliver Stone guest apperance in which he says "wow, everything i showed in my great movie JFK turned out to be true!".
also it's free on youtube

Oblivion 1 & 2
Low budget sci-fi western, both movies shot in succession in Romania or some shit

>>211889428
Pairs well with Slipstream.

>>211889243
>Onions Green
lol

>>211891463
that could be a movie
basedboys finding out their favorite drink is... PEOPLE

>>211891509
>movie theme starts playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oox9bJaGJ8

>>211891088
Megalopolis is the second Southland Tales-like film.

>>211891567
holy KEK

>>211887840 (OP)
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin. Very underrated animated Star Wars ripoff with some great ideas.

>>211887840 (OP)
>how you want your Star Wars movie bruh?
>call James Cameron and put a big pair of tits on the bottom
>you got it!

space truckers

>>211887985
fun movie

Caught this on Freevee recently. As Star Wars ripoffs go, It gives Starcrash a run for it's money.

>>211889052
Never heard of this film, thanks anon

>>211889052
gonna look for it based on that last part of the post

I have mixed feelings about this one. It's so bad, but you can see somebody on the production, possibly including Rutger, were really breaking their ass to make something cool.
And there are a couple of inspired performances.
But it's so bad

>>211890083
>Cyber City Oedo 808
fucking goated, also try to find it with the rory mcfarlane ost, shit bangs. The Jap OST is good as well.
https://youtu.be/BlZakDfseyo

Creature aka Titan Find, Xtro

>>211890062
I agree I am usually ready to laugh at rape but the one in this film is jarring
And it was directed by a woman!

maybe not complete shit but underrated nonetheless

>>211892018
This movie is legit pretty fucking great

>>211887840 (OP)
If you don't mind something a bit more Mad Max than Escape From New York or Blade Runner try this.

>>211894888
Checked. And part of the Blade Runner/Alien series

>>211891298
I like it too, especially the digs at Scientology. Its even got the Sea Org. Belushi is very miscast however

>>211888209
I have this on vhs. Took me about 4 tries to finish it. Kept falling asleep. Better than Ambien.

>>211889026
I remember seeing R.O.T.O.R. in the video store as a kid but never rented it. Finally saw it a couple years ago and kept thinking they should do an AIRPLANE style parody of it, starring Will Ferrel as Coldyron.

Hands of Steel and many, many others from Italy

Good thread

>>211900699
I just watched this recently. Screaming Mad George did the special effects for it and the monsters look really cool. Plus giant cockroach Mark Hamill.

>>211887840 (OP)
Cyborg

>>211889545
Came to post this.
There's two versions of this movie as well as two titles(Deadlock). One version just has a few extra scenes at Camp Holiday(prison).
They made a sequel to it with different actors. Not as good imo

>>211901861
Deadlock was the name I saw it under
when it first aired on HBO.

>They made a sequel to it with different actors. Not as good imo
Like how Fortress 2 is pretty much shit compared to the first, even with Lambert reprising the role.

Kino thread bros, haven't seen one of this kalibr in a while. Here's my rec, Dark Angel (1990), alternatively titled 'We come in peace', it's unironically one of the best buddy cop movies when it comes to protagonist dynamics. Cool ass effects, concept, everything.

Also, check out the movie The Challenge (1982), not scifi but it's low budget and incredibly kino, and not many people know it, and that is wrong.

>>211888081
Holy shit I thought I dreamed this movie

>>211891076
Need to rewatch. I watched it after They Live and I remember liking it

>>211891298
Will check out ty

>>211887840 (OP)
>My tolerance for garbage is high
i'm sending you into overdose

>>211890083
>dub with JP OST if you can
Opinion discarded, weebtroon. Shits unwatchable without the British soundtrack

>>211890912
Came here to see if anyone had mentioned Death Machine, nice one anon.

>>211889939
What's funnier is the second and third Death Race movies are prequels to the Statham one.
The second one kind of sucks because it reuses a lot of racing footage from the first movie, including parts where they very blatantly use the night footage and color correct it to make it look like daytime, but Sean Bean's in it (briefly) as the bad guy so it's not all that bad.
The third one turns it into a sort of baha rally thing so they get new cars and it's okay, and the fourth one (the only actual sequel to the first one) is in a kind of no man's land megaprison and it's not that bad either, you also get to see a lot of tits in it.
I own all four of them on blu-ray.
They're at least worth a watch if you liked the first one, while Death Race 2050 is a sequel to the original Death Race 2000 and it's very much in the same vein as that albeit possibly even stupider. I like them all.

Holy kino thread, came out with at least 20 movies to watch

>>211902715
If you've seen The Hidden (1987) the core concept is practically the same, although that one is more high budget but less balls to the wall, I feel like DA is better in that it gets batshit crazy and campy

>>211904837
>that one is more high budget
Wait, not true actually, I just assumed because it had much cleaner production. It's about the same, although Rutger could be to blame for a lot of it.

>>211887840 (OP)
Decoder
Basically unwatchable 70s-80s Eurojank.
But it does have that Cold War era German aesthetic that is sweet despite everything else.

>>211887840 (OP)
The Tetsuo series.
The films are honestly shit, but they do have their moments and the OSTs are great work out music.
The costume work is the main highlight. They really spent all their money on covering people with as much shit as they could find around the local back alley.

>>211900862
Check out the second one, Dark Hero, as well if you haven't already

>>211887840 (OP)
These threads are my favourite. Despite always having the same films posted (which are all awesome so they should be) , I still find something I haven't seen yet. I somehow haven't seen this for example >>211889052

>>211889243
>>211889649
There's a sequel called Screamers: The Hunting that has Arrow in it

>>211887840 (OP)
>shit sci-fi movies.
Gunhed 1989.

Atrocious writing that makes no sense but it has cool sets and miniatures and a great soundtrack.
Squaresoft also completely ripped off the sets when they were making the "Mako Reactors" in FF7.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097410/
>>211890083
>964 Pinocchio
That is absolutely not even worth watching. It's just awful.
>Cyber City Oedo 808 (dub with JP OST if you can)
What is wrong with you, mate?

>>211908438
Brenda Bakke my beloved

>>211906228
It's way better than the first one.

>>211888081
>jugger
'cuse me?

>>211889087
>From the Director of
>And the creator of
These are red flags.

>>211895004
>Big Production
>Big Adventure
>Big Girls
Idk, guys. You think this is for me?

>>211890083
>>211908438
>>211909383
Brenda is indeed great. Has Gunhed had a 4K remaster yet?

>>211909928
If it's not, you don't belong here

>>211901861
holy fuck i'd forgotten about nia peeples. she was hot as hell

>>211888243
>This and Cyborg by the same director.
Albert Pyun really did manage to make B-movie classics.
Even with all it’s flaws, Nemesis is still ridiculously watchable.

>>211889087
Strange Days was written by James Cameron, but supposedly handed to Kathryn Bigelow to direct, because Cameron was tied up working on something else, and Cameron wanted to make sure the film was made and released before the year 2000.

>>211890264
Traci Lords is in this, singing.
I actually bought the soundtrack for the Traci Lords song years ago.

>>211888081
>straight to VHS
The fact that this was ever possible is the reason we have so many low budget niche kini (plural of kino, get it right). Fuck those sillicon valley geniuses who allowed streaming to go portable and killed off physical media, now the likes of those will never get made again.

>>211889087
Kino soundtrack. This film is simultaneously cool and cringe.

Woke up still feeling drunk and i'm so glad I found this thread. Used to watch all these with my Dad.

>>211910595
>Nigga how do you wake up drunk? That's called a hangover it doesn't matter how you feel, if you've gone to sleep after being drunk, you're hung over when you wake up

>>211910644

I was heavy on rum until 4am, then woke up at 8:40am and it's still working away in my system. Good thing I booked today off work.

>>211910644
What if he takes alcohol intravenously in his sleep?

XChange, from 2000.
Stars Stephen Baldwin.

>>211910750
>DAMN that's some alkie shit right there nigga

>>211887985
The map paintings ware top notch.

>>211910411
>The fact that this was ever possible is the reason we have so many low budget niche kini (plural of kino, get it right). Fuck those sillicon valley geniuses who allowed streaming to go portable and killed off physical media, now the likes of those will never get made again.
“Direct to VHS” films weren’t just made to fill up “new release” slots at video stores.
The same “direct yo video” films were also made to fill air time on cable, and premium cable TV channels, usually after 10:00PM, or 12:00AM.
HBO used yo run a lot of Albert Pyun films, and also films starring Armand Assante, that were usually really good.
I suspect the film were kept in production to help train up and coming actors, and to keep lower level character actors in work.
Naomi Watts, Jon Favreau, and Xander Berkely, were all in one of these direct to cable/video films, called “Persons Unkown”, and directed by George Hickenlooper.
The same system still sort of exists, just the films eind up on streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon, or get made into short TV series.

>>211889087
The problem with this movie is that for the pedigree of people involved i.e. Cameron, Bigelow, etc. its very much below their standard. I'm not saying its a bad movie, but its the difference between Escape From New York and Escape From LA, or more to the point The Terminator and Strange Days. Both are b-movies, but only one feels like a b-movie.

>>211902715
I absolutely loved this one

>>211889052
I need a timestamp for that last part

>>211911047

I agree that it's a good movie that could have been done a lot better, so I posted it here:
>Give me your best shit sci-fi movies.

Only VHS tape I own.
Idk why but this movie makes me so nostalgic it hurts.

>>211887840 (OP)
FUCK YES
this thread was tailor-made for APEX

Nobody mentioned Ikarie XB 1

>>211888081
I had feelings for Joan Chen after this movie. Also what happened to Rutger Hauer's character in the end was unfair.

Also, have you noticed that you always have to say 'Rutger Hauer' like the full name? You can't just use one of the names like 'Keanu'. Nope, you have to use 'Rutger Hauer'.

>>211910990
the issue is even broader. in the direct to VHS/cable days, the big studios could afford to subsidize the lesser ones on account of the comparatively huge financial success of BO + physical media of the big releases, meaning cable and dtVHS could then afford to make riskier, ballsier movies for many reasons, to give their cable patrons variety, concept testing, money laundering, straight up propaganda, etc.
then streaming came along, VHS and cable got raped in the ass by Mr. Convenience, and now the former platform's players are known to work with tight profit margins, forcing them to tailor their menu especially towards consumer pull/retention which is contrary to risk taking, inhousing productions to lower costs (concentration and cloistering of talent is generally bad for the medium + internal directives prioritizing profitability), on top of the wealth of already existing slop made during the days before netflix et al. that they can just buy for pennies on the dollar. this makes it so the incentive for a coke-brained creative to pull a B masterpiece out of their ass is lessened to almost zero.

>>211888243
When I first watched Nemesis, I immidiately thought "The Wachowskis ripped a lot from some obscure 90s B movie", it is almost ridiculous how much Matrix was """inspired""" by this film, as in some scenes are basically just taken 1:1 kek.
But ye, Pyun was great, he had a clear visual style and some of his projects had ideas that were clearly way beyond the budget he got. I mean most of his filmography is garbage contract work, but the few diamonds in the rough are really that, even his really shitty movies got basically fucked over by producers, Ticker was supposed to be a mindfuck movie with Seagal as some imaginary coping mechanism of Tom Sizemores character, but the studio changed it into a subpar Seagal action movie.
Really only bad is his weird rap trilogy he did end of the 90s, it is below average on all fronts, still fun to watch given HOW bad it is, those are the actual "worst movies ever made" and not competently produced slop like "The Room".

>>211887840 (OP)

GATTACA

Nice i got at least 20 movies out of this
Thx anons

>>211887840 (OP)
Steel Dawn with Patrick Swayze

>>211910971
>map paintings

>>211890831
Is that Steven Dwarf?

>>211909811
shut the fuck up zoomer retard

the creepy fat neighbours last name something like weinstein if i recall right. distributed by miramax in the u.s.

>>211894888
check out the comic book pages published in heavy metal

These are all better movies than when sci-fi shifted over to the Cube and Megacube type movies, where they wake up in a prison. Or movies with an AI character in the near future. Or a time loop. I won’t watch anything like that anymore. The sci-fi got even cheaper than these movies where they are on location blowing shit up and having special effects or creatures. That’s why these piece of shit late 80s to mid 90s movies are good watches. They have better actors (sometimes) and have more to them.

>>211913033
>Or a time loop
Can you name 5 movies of the late 90s/early 00s with a time loop subject?

>>211911519
Holy shit, thanks anon
Saw this way back then but I didn’t know the title
Only thing I vaguely remember was the scientist got sent to a different timeline and his pregnant wife is now a solder fighting these robots

>>211911857
it's always hard to choose among movies posted in these threads because with like half they really are deservedly forgotten and mostly just bad but this writeup made me choose nemesis for my next watch, thanks anon

>>211913061
The butterfly effect, primer, the Time Machine remake, 12 monkeys. I don’t like the girl who leapt through time either. Those are kinda not what I meant, I think the 2010s movies are bad. But starting around the time of Cube because it showed a movie on a single location could get recognized. And they’d air it on SyFy. 28 days later also showed you could get away with cheap equipment. Cheap movie making. I prefer more adventure or cyberpunk

>>211913325
>The butterfly effect, primer, the Time Machine remake, 12 monkeys.
Haven't seen primer, but none of those are time loop movies, they're regular time travel movies.
A time loop movie would be Groundhog Day or that 12:00 one or whatever it was called.

>>211891303
>Battle Heater
literally cannot find part 2 anywhere online

>>211913408
it's still a loop if the movie ends where it began, just a different type of loop. just basing this on 12 monkeys, don't remember how the others ended either. also donnie darko might have been a time loop movie but i don't remember that for sure

>>211913486
>>211913408
>>211913325
is looper a time loop movie?

>>211913486
>it's still a loop if the movie ends where it began
So, any time travel movie is also a time loop movie? Because they always come back right the second they left, so it ends where it begins.

Pic related is basically a Die Hard rip off with Gruner playing a whole new line of security androids advertised for personal protection.

>>211887840 (OP)
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl
Avalon
Garm Wars: The Last Druid
Gamer
The One
District B13

>>211887840 (OP)
you want cheap sci-fi shit that's great? I got you man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stHsQEM0k5g

>>211913627
eeeh idk if that's true, what about terminator? at best they're trying to prevent changes to the timeline and maintain the status quo

I have no proof but i swear Nolan stole the core idea of this movie and made Interstellar out of it.

>>211888891
I third this. Actual good movie in 1992.

>The distant future of 2009

>>211887840 (OP)
You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma
>The Finnish Blade Runner
>cool props and characters
>sexuality
>paranoia
>a rooster sidekick

>>211892960
I liked this quite a bit. It feels like Terminator borrowed from it.

Kino thread
Always liked Johnny Mnemonic. The ending isn't good and the dolphin is retarded, but it has some solid moments and Keanu is just hammy enough to make it work.

>>211913879
wtf did i just watch

>>211914664
I second this
>>211913879
what the fuck did I and that guy just watch?

>>211914664
>>211914951
Anthology series based on Metal Hurlant Chronicles comic book series known in US under Heavy Metal name. Sadly it only got two seasons.

>>211914146
>The distant future of 2009
Escape from New York is set in the distant future of 1997.

>>211913879
>music by Jesper Kyd
Kino

>>211912888
>This is what you want
>This is what you get

>>211913643
hell yes this is one of my top five fave movies

>>211913521
it's a shit movie

>>211913643
I have a soft spot for this one

The quintessential "not for everyone".

Enemy Mine

>>211888243
Knights is also good by the same director

This is the most helpful thread in a while. On a torrenting spree here

Lifeforce (1985) counts. It was never great but always interesting, and those excellent boobas

I really liked this one would love to find more like it

>>211915755
Good movie but they definitely stole the story from alita

I've been listening to a lot of radio lately, and X-Minus One has great sci-fi stuff, mostly based on short stories by great authors.
I really like the underground city after the apocalypse trope and the ship descendants on a long voyage don't remember anything about space and earth and think the ship is the whole world trope.

>>211911740
It isn't shitty at all, the film is genuinely good.

>>211915755
I wish the lead wasn't such a dogshit actress.

>>211916159
/thread

>>211916448
>wish the lead wasn't such a dogshit actress.
So true. That's why inanimate carbon rod actors and actresses are always better.
In Rod We Trust

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen

>>211889785
Hell yes. Could watch that and these on loop forever:

>>211890586
>>211902715

>>211889785
Those are quite the short shorts

Arcade
Cypher
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance
Lady Battle Cop
The Prize of Peril
Venus Wars
Quintet
Knights
Mechanical Violator Hakaider
School in the Crosshairs
Twilight of the Dark Master

>>211890083
Based, 'I Love Maria' has a scene in which our protagonists discuss the best method to kill a dog for human consumption. And I'm pretty sure that nerd cop's house is the same one they used in 'Hard Boiled'. And I'm pretty sure Whisky is in a small part in another one of those Honk Kong kinos. Maybe even playing the same character pastiche with the same name.

>>211918061

I duly appreciate all these suggestions i've never heard of.

>>211888081
It took me fucking years to find this movie again cos it's one of those that's called different things in different territories, like blue jean cop/shakedown and dark angel/I come in peace

>>211905425
>FM Einheit
>Christiane F
konsikunet basiert

>>211887840 (OP)
>with lots of imagination of how the future would be.
ESL freaks get off my board

>>211893553
It's yojimbo with robots.
Another way of saying awesome with awesome

>>211918458
just google movie details with a decade it was made and actors names if you know them, helps a lot.

>CTRL+F "Pyun" = 3 results
You're a guun bunch of lads.

>>211918542
Yeah it's easy these days, ChatGPT is amazing at finding a film from vague half-remembered plot points, but in the early days of the internet it was not so easy.

>>211918546
*Good

>>211889087
OP asked for your best SHIT sci-fi movies, not great ones, you faggot.

>>211918546
I've counted at least 4 Pyun movies in the thread so far.

>>211918659

This was close to great, but missed the mark (you big queer etc).

>>211918637
Did it answer the Riddle of Steel?

Man, I love sci-fi, this thread is great

Can't remember the name but that movie about a cop getting his balls cut off by bad guys and going full revenge in a post-apocalyptic world. I think it was an 80s movie tjhat came out after Road Warrior straight to VHS. Might have been Italian or something.

This is so fucking shit. It's beowulf that takes place in the future except people use swords and live in a castle, Lambert keeps doing somersaults and his sword is a giant pair of scissors for some reason that's never explained. The quality of the props, effects, acting and cinematography makes Fortress 1 and 2 look like Citizen Kane in comparison.

My local video store used to dare customers to watch this (at half price) and we did it. One of those situations where you're primed to laugh at every stupid thing, and there were a lot of them.

>>211918929
Split Second is great, if you are talking about that movie.
We didn't know how good we had

This thread is a fucking goldmine
You boys are alright

Good enough to be sued by John Carpenter.

Also, Black Magic M-66

>>211912759
>sHut thE FuCk uP ZoOmEr rEtaRd

>>211919010

Nah I was talking about Rutger Hauer's Beowulf, but they dared customers to watch all kinds of shit back in the day. That's how I wound up loving Brainscan and Delta Force

>>211919326
I count this as an official Escape movie because of the legal case and it's genuinely my favourite one. Joe Gilgun's fucking great in it.

Spectral, it's basically Call of Duty ghosts and i'm not talking about the game with that exact name.

>>211919354

I love that show where he's always close to fucking his Mom

>>211919370
>Rutger Hauer's Beowulf
He was in a Beowulf movie?

>>211890083
>Gunhed

People dont know what level of kino they missed out on. Incredibly rewatchable while smoking.

>>211889785
love this one those fights are pure kino.

>>211889087
Really fucking cool movie until it starts to get preachy and topical/political half way through, which gets so on the nose and corny.

How about a sci-fi show? A spy gets a classified "super computer microchip" imbedded in his brain and it lets him hack and control any device within a certain range using his mind. It sounds like a plot out of a show made in the 70s but it was released in 2014.

>>211890264
I love this one in the 90s

I would be VERY surprised if any of you motherfuckers even heard of this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrI9oE7ttk4

>>211919814
thank you for this, this looks amazing

>>211919627
Total Recall 2070
Really good show, but more of a Philip K. Dick-verse than Arnold's TR. I liked it better than the whole tunnel to Australia thing in the TR remake.

>>211920099
As for other man and android team-up shows:
Mann&Machine
Almost Human
Logan's Run (the tv show, not the movie)

>>211919484

Nah, sorry. I mixed him up with Christopher Lambert

>>211920250
For other sci-fi shows, I have a soft spot for the Planet of the Apes tv show and cartoon.
50s Flash Gordon is great. It's strange that shows back then didn't dumb down the science like they do these days for younger viewers. You would expect a 50s sci-fi show to be all silly and shit, but no.
Tales of Tomorrow (anthology)
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

>>211918061
Solid

>>211920250
Holmes And YoYo.

If only for the rare Joe Turkel sighting
And obviously all the girls go naked

>>211891076
More effort went into this movie than I would've expected given the lead actor.

>>211918843
it's fucking kino actually and the costumes, props and and sets are mortal kombat: conquest tier, which is fine by me.
GREAT techno soundtrack too, and hot babes
>that takes place in the future except people use swords and live in a castle
it's got some steampunk stuff going on, era isn't specified, is it?
>his sword is a giant pair of scissors for some reason that's never explained
i got the impression it was a katana with an oversized guard
acting is bad enough to be entertaining, especially this guy
effects and cinematography are shit, yeah.

one of the movies mortal kombat ripped off

>>211889181
>>211890912
>>211896171
>>211903898

>>211919814
Acción mutante..Yeah I remember this back on vhs and early dvd (polygram or tartan video? can't remember which)
Day Of The Beast is one of Iglesias best.

>CTRL-F Arena
>nothing
You all disappoint me.

Also notably missing:

Circuitry Man 1-2
Future-Kill
Futuresport (set in 2025!)

>ARQ (2016)
Low budget Netflix time travel kino.

Could someone make an infographic or something of all these recommendations?

Also the Total Recall 2070 series fits this topic perfectly even though it isn't a movie.

>>211920250
>Almost Human
Man, I watched the pilot of that and fucking loved it. But then I realised it was a Sci-Fi show on Fox so I stopped myself from watching any more, because it was an absolute certainty that they'd cancel it no matter how well it did and I just couldn't bring myself to get attached to the story or characters.

>>211923475
It was mid as fuck.

>>211921407
>i got the impression it was a katana with an oversized guard
You know what, I just checked and the scene I remembered of him folding out a second blade like a knife to decapitate someone wasn't there. Now I'm wondering what similar movie I've got it mixed up with because I can't just have dreamed up the scissor sword out of nowhere.

>>211923513
>this is what butthurt fox executives actually believe

>>211923608
that does sound familiar actually, so it's either in there or we're both remembering the same movie that isn't this one

>>211923640
I watched it when it came out and the only thing i remember from it was that all of the cars were modern but aged up and the black android mc whipping his dick in front of Karl Urban.

>>211915606
>Pooper

God, we had it so good
And why is this future so lame and gay compared to almost any other depiction

>>211913643
saw this in theaters
i was a little disappointed

>>211915755
this film was a rushed job and it show
its got heart though

Absolutely blessed thread. This is exactly what I was looking for together with what Hong Kong Action cinema I could find.
Why are almost all these kini restricted to the 80s/90s?

>>211923513
Literally the point of this thread

Excuse me. Is someone out there, not having a 'good time'?

Drive (not that one) is a really fun action movie starring the chairman from Iron Chef, who was also that bald dude in John Wick 3. He's actually pretty good at action. A dude with some sort of super heart implanted in him is trying to sell it to get money and has the people that implanted it in him trying to get it back. It's a lot of fun. It also has Brittany Murphy in it for a bit and she's a diamond every time she's on screen. You're gonna think it's a Rush Hour ripoff but it came out before Rush Hour did.

Posting Polish low-budget 80s sci-fi dzieło

>>211928687
>chairman from Iron Chef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paj-b9VJtm4

Yep, that ,APB and Minority Report all right in a row.

>>211925710
Lawnmower Man 2 should be on that list, moreso than the first. Also Gamer.
TV section is missing Wild Palms and VR.5.

>>211928723
That's my favourite Beatles song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J9NpHKrKMw

>>211910397
>Albert Pyun really did manage to make B-movie classics.
The man is legit underrated.

Loved Radioactive Dreams. I recently saw Walter Hill's Streets of Fire, a film with a similar retro aesthetic and I think Pyun's film is way more entertaining than Streets of Fire.

>>211925407
Cheap sci-fi flicks don't get made when you can't bank on DVD sales to make your money back.
Now you mostly get Asylum shit where the point is just to make a meme out of everything rather than do something interesting, even if its bad.

Welcome to the terrifying world of last year!

>>211929228
>Yep, that ,APB and Minority Report all right in a row.
Meant for>>211923475

Didn't read thread but A+ posting /tv/, keep it up!

>>211922370

>>211930792
I made one with all the movies from this thread.

>>211930970
all movies minus animu*

>>211930792
>>211930970
based

>>211889052
Watching this now. Oh shit, she's back!

>>211930970

Nice work. This will prove useful.

>>211930792
Starcrash and Fortress 2 were mentioned in passing + maybe a few others but you managed to keep up pretty good otherwise.

>>211911298
>Time Runner.
that negress is very very very annoying

>>211912994
I'm not a fan of black and white versions of films shot in color. But this one is the exception, definitely makes it better. Give it that noir feeling that was missing.

cool thread, guys
I have this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_(2001_film)

going to shill rarelust.com because a lot of films in this thread I first saw them there.

>>211921407
speaking of Rhona Mitra, 2008's DOOMSDAY is a treat.

And ticks all the boxes of genre films

>>211887840 (OP)
How come old bad films look better than modern bad films (and most modern big budget films)

>>211889181
fantastic theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcKK3__8mAQ&ab_channel=Gavreal

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>>211913126
OH MY GOD I was looking this shit movie for years, not even chat gpt was helping

>>211894829
The artist spent a lot of time on the red one's muffin, didn't he

>>211887840 (OP)

Dark Side of the Moon (1990) is pretty good.

>>211934206
because back then they had to put at least a technical effort to shoot.
Limited budgets had limited film stock. Professional lighting equipment and setups were also required. Nobody wanted to waste film stock.

Nowadays you can shoot without limits thanks to digital, and digital makes it possible to shoot with natural lighting, don't even need a lighting setup.

There was also a pathway from B movies to Hollywood so lots of talented people worked in bad films before their breaks. See Roger Corman school.

>>211921094
beat me to it. Nice.

>>211887840 (OP)
posting The Hidden again

>>211894888
trips o' truth. Although it veers between underrated and overrated in the Alien / Aliens fandom.
I'd also say that Pandorum was not shit. But I am a sucker for hard SF space voyage movies.

Why has nobody mentioned picrel?

>>211932803
it makes it feel less goofier. that x-men one is a really bad example, because it just looks wrong, all the contrasts are wrong. i like the mad max black and chrome edition though.

>>211930792
based infographics chad

>>211889026
this movie has hilarious dialogue

>>211930792
Amazing

do we count this?

>>211935734
yes

>>211934431

That hits pretty hard. Giving me a NIN chub

>>211935734
yeah pretty much. this could have been a great movie but the studio fucked it.
but if you count "Soldier" then i have to force this thread to count "Event Horizon".

>>211936002
>"Event Horizon".
i do count that. i would even say sunshine and life count. they are kinda shitty but not the whole way. very watchable either way, despite flaws.

We barely even got to the creature feature stuff:

Galaxy Of Terror
Forbidden World
Inseminoid
Creepozoids
Dead Space (1991)

Or the other killer robot movies:

Chopping Mall
Deadly Friend
Evolver

>>211936571
theres so much cool movies and so little time to watch them all, bros... i remember a thread from some time ago about some retard claiming he is dont watching everything, i just cant believe that. the list is insurmountable, in every damn genre and style, there is tons of quality shit to enjoy.

>>211936753
....Or lack-of-quality shit to enjoy, in this case.

>>211936753
>>211936846
Can't we just go back to calling them B-movies?

Not B movie dogshit to be enjoyed ironically just a good sci fi thriller that flies under the radar

Watched 1994's Without Warning not that long ago and i haven't watched movie this captivating in a very long time. I watched 90 minutes version because in 2 hours long version they just added commercial breaks and i think also a bunch of "this is not real, this is a movie" signs throughout the movie

>>211936929
what is a b-movie anymore? is it just a budget thing or a quality issue? T1 is technically a slasher b-movie, but its very good anyway.

>>211928687
Incredible fight scenes in this. Makes sense it’s the same creative team from Guyver 2

>>211937176
I was around 12 when I watched that back in the 90's. As a very naive kid, of course I fell for it and in a true Orson Welles's fashion, it fucking terrified me. There weren't many tv channels back then so it was the only "news channel" at that hour of the night. In retrospect, the story was actually pretty decent.

This worked wonders with very little

>>211937410
>Incredible fight scenes in this.
Seriously. Super creative. Never even heard of the movie until I bought it on a whim. It's great.

>>211887840 (OP)
They're not garbage and saying they are is reddit try-hard irony. You like them because they have many positive qualities and you described their main one which is what all sci-fi should be about. A high-concept speculation delivered plausibly.

>split second
>shit

>>211937683
There's been a handful from the 2010's that managed to capture that feel. Osiris Child has a lot of CGI but the creature effects are all practical.
Turbo kid likewise suffers from CGI blood. Real directors exhaust the local Karo syrup supply.

Cyborg. Who doesn't want a film where the characters are named after electric guitars, amps etc?

>>211889545
>Mimi Rogers

>>211939450

Gibson Rickenbacker
Marshall Strat
Fender Tremolo
Furman Vux

I watched this as a kid without realizing, but thanks for the laugh anon.

>>211908438
Watching it now, atmosphere and props are godlike.
>>211909383
Oh, no wonder she seems familiar. It's the hot shots 2 blondie.

>>211938282
split second is trash though