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May 5, '11, 8:50 pm
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List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
In no particular order....
1. Runaway (Tom Selleck/Gene Simmons)
2. Blade Runner (Harrison Ford/Rutger Hauer)
3. Big Trouble in Little China (Kurt Russell)
4. Assault on Precinct 13
5. Wanted Dead or Alive (Rutger Hauer/Gene Simmons)
6. Dune (Kyle MacClachlan)
7. Tremors
8. The Hitcher
9. Copycat
10. Narrow Margin
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May 5, '11, 10:11 pm
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
And the award for the longest post title goes to *drumroll* gurneyhalleck1. (There's another gurneyhalleck up in CAF?!)
Add "Strange Days" to your list.
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May 5, '11, 10:16 pm
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Moon
The best science fiction I have ever seen on the screen!
What would l like to see on the screen?--Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.
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May 5, '11, 10:23 pm
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
I'll probably get slammed for this, but I loved Galaxy Quest!
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May 5, '11, 10:40 pm
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
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Moon
The best science fiction I have ever seen on the screen!
What would l like to see on the screen?--Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Definitely a good one!
Also: The 5th Element
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May 5, '11, 11:16 pm
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Well I know all fo those. I guess we watch the same underrated movies.
Runaway and Tremors are great movies.
1. Blade
2. Boiler Room
3. Pitch Black
4. Session 9
5. Hard to Kill
6. Hard Target
7. Unleashed
8. Last Star Fighter
I only got 8
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May 5, '11, 11:41 pm
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Dark City
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May 6, '11, 6:50 am
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Logan's Run.
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May 6, '11, 7:00 am
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Dune and Blade Runner are on encore from time to time, both huge disappointments to anyone who has read the books.
two I might actually watch if I saw them listed again, French Connection and Bullitt
I would back a Steve McQueen retrospective, any body else on?
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May 6, '11, 10:17 am
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Cannonball Run!
Will the next scene in the film be as bad as the one previous??? OR WILL IT BE EVEN WORSE?!? OH THE SUSPENSE!!! 
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May 6, '11, 7:08 pm
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Cannonball Run is the greatest! I love Jamie Farr as the shiek! Gotta love Captain Chaos! 
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Cannonball Run!
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May 8, '11, 11:11 am
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Equilibrium.
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May 13, '11, 12:20 am
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Depends on whose radar's you're talking about. Here are three new suggestions:
Ghost in the Shell is great, the makers of The Matrix were influenced by its style. The TV show is also very very good.
Event Horizon is a well done sci-fi horror film, definitely fits the "under-appreciated" criteria.
Serenity is good, but the TV show it was based on was sublime, it really is a shame it didn't continue.
I also agree with some previous posters about "The Fifth Element," "Dune," and "Blade Runner"
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May 13, '11, 12:36 am
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
I'll second Big Trouble in Little China.
Stardust *surely* must be in that list somewhere...
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May 13, '11, 6:08 am
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Re: List the top ten sci-fi/action/fantasy/thriller films you can think of that you think are awesome but flew under everyone's radar and nobody ever seems to watch or know?
Gattaca, great cast: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Alan Arkin, Elias Koteas. A sci-fi film from 1997, about a not-so-distant future where the world has in turn become so preoccupied with perfection they have turned towards eugenics and immoral liberal use of genetic manipulation to create a perfect cadre of human beings. The main character, Ethan Hawke's Vincent Freeman is an 'inferior' man in a world where inferiority denies you everything. Going through a process of attempting to gain entry into the world of those who are genetically superior to travel into space. The main themes of the movie, the triumph of the human spirit. It is a beautiful movie, well made and well done.
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