Top 10 Underrated Science Fiction Movies 

THANK YOU! I didn't want to go through all 13 freaking minutes just to know.

This should be higher up!

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Don't forget the ones between #2 and #1 that should have actually been on the list.

Equilibrium? really? wtf

Couldn't agree more.

You're kidding right ? Please tell me it's a joke

I loved that movie too. The action sequence helped inspired a scene in the anime of a robot killing Vampires in rapid movements like from the intro. I'm happy that I own the movie for Blu-Ray.

+Jake Rollingson I think if you're going to include a Chris Bale movie they should have included Reign of Fire....Better and more original than Equilibrium. Equilibrium would not exist if it wasn't trying to be the Matrix and it has a lot of Ok What moments.

+3rd Gunman Can you give me some similarities between the two?

because it wasnt underrated

Europa report

One of my all-time favorites

Agreed.

Gattaca!!! Awesome. Liked Clooney's Solaris too

It's cool because it's weird. Like Sin City. Like The Breed. Like The Abominable Dr. Phibes. Which aren't scifi but who cares.

It's wank

Makes the matrix feel like a bit of a rip off of it too. good film

As was Predestination.

Good movie

gattaca. great choice

***** thx

***** Watch Gattaca. You'll love it.

Thanks for mentioning "Dark City," one of my all-time favorites. It deserves a lot more attention.

yup Gattaca and Dark City rank Highly for me too. I'll have to look up 13th floor.

yea theyve gotten better with their lists lol

and they're still making their content in 720p midway through 2016...

I agree - this is one of their best and most palatable! I normally don't much care for the woman's narration of these - sometimes to where as much as I'd like to continue watching and get the data, I have to turn it off. I would say this is the best that she has ever done - it's the 1st time I could tolerate her pretty much all the way through and she didn't go over the top with sarcasm, etc. :-)

So you think that even toilet paper commercials need to be in 4K so you can understand them. 720P is more than enough, 480P is ok for most, but of course, not from (modern/mainstream) technical point of view. You are lucky that they are not in 144P

Our society already wastes food, water, and most of our lives. Why waste bandwidth too?

First S-F movie I can remember. Sounds cheap, but it taught me a lot about tolerance, forgiveness and friendship

That’s been one of my favourites for years. Not very well known either.

Agreed. Very good. I forgot the name, so very happy to find this again!

This movie is ripe for a remake.

It's one of the many films inspired by the books (in this case a short story) by Philip K Dick. More famous examples would include "Blade Runner" and "Total Recall". I read the short story the latter was based on ("We can remember it for you wholesale") and at the end was left thinking, WTF?

Pandorum was a strange film.

+Revonda Ball Such a good movie

Substance D IKR?

+Revonda Ball thank you. philip k dick rules.

***** Isn't that enough? BTW, it's called rotoscope.

Yes! Gattaca had a look, feel and story line that reminded me of some of the really good original Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, with no burdening and distracting effects - just great acting and a compelling story line.

By what measure is Gattaca underrated? It is very highly rated and has won several awards. And it is a cult classic even if it performed poorly at the box office. Plus it is one that people always talk about. The movies on this list half of them I never even heard about. I would much rather have a list of movies that many people missed than a list of movies everyone talks about.

John McDonald the poor box office sales and being a lack of household name is what makes it underrated. Underrated doesn't mean not good it means not that many people have heard of it compared to how great it was. it should be far more well-known.

You seem to misunderstand my point. Gattaca is not underrated. It has won 6 of the 11 awards it was nominated for, it has mostly positive reviews. And it tops many a best sci-fi list. That is the very definition of well known. This is a list of movies people don't know because people barely talk about them. I don't know who you hang around but I have talked to people I thought had little to no interest in sci-fi that knew Gattaca.

The Most Great Uma, and those hips, walking, when she was young.

Right on.

yep.i thought it wonderful..brilliant!.so glad you mentioned it

most memorable but you forgot it.

@@AnnaBucci yea i've been waiting for someone to point that out.

Check out "Hell in th Pacific". A remake, set in WW2 with American and Japanese officers. Excellent!

Yes, quite underrated. (Though for those who like just eye-candy, such a movie may not be for them. (Unless they got a thing for Alicia Vikander, but she ain't nude in this one guys.)

+Harry S , I liked Thirteenth Floor. It would be at the lower end of the list but yeah, it definitely had you going.

+Harry S Yea I would've liked to see the 13th Floor at like number 10 thru 7 on this list. Great movie. One of my favorites. I almost wish it was a ten episode mini-series that expanded more on the world in 1937 Los Angeles, and if you could go into the simulation for as long as you wanted.

Good movie. But it's not as good as first matrix. (But still better than last matrix)

After first matrix matrix become crap and one of the brothers become sister. They prefer to gain money rather to film good sequels (Martix 2 was relatively ok). They had cool scenarios for sequels, but changed them to make more money. Greedy fucks.

+Harry S I honestly think The Thirteenth Floor beat The Matrix to the punch on what was supposed to be the The Matrix's own ending. That is to say, I'm totally convinced that it was the Wachowski's orginal intention to reveal that the "real world" in their film(s) actually turns out to be another "layer" of matrix. A matrix within a matrix, if you will. That premise would've perfectly explained a bunch of the shit in the Matrix sequels that made no sense, like Neo having "matrix-like" powers outside the matrix. And from a practical standpoint (as far as The Matrix universe goes), if you're an artificial hyper-intelligence trying to enslave mankind essentially through some kind of super-real virtual reality, what's the best security safeguard against the possibility of some of those humans "waking up" (which the machines had to know was a possibility)? Another false-reality layer on top of the first. But then Thirteenth Floor kinda did that idea before the Wachowski's got around to their ending, pretty much forcing them to do something different with The Matrix. Just my opinion. But I do think The Matrix would've wrapped up much neater with a Thirteenth Floor type of ending. It would've just made more sense.

I have the same story!! i just recalled the ending that upset me as a kid ...and yeah i recall the smoking scene now that you mention it! cheers!

Clyde Rain i must be a wee bit older than you; i remembered 1st & foremost the 3 robots that hang with Bruce Dern. i cried for them when i 1st saw the movie!😢

Clyde Rain actually i remembered their names & when he taught them to play poker.

That freaking film makes me sob like a baby EVERY FUCKING TIME. 'Tis why I rarely watch it even though it's so great.

Serai3 hey Serai3 When i was a kid, in ONE week i saw "Silent Running"; "The Omega Man"; and "Soylent Green". Talk about crying!!!✌💜

THX 1138 is good because not only would a society like (allowing AI to control society) that work, but it might be necessary for long term survival.

Gattaca....hellz yeah! Logan's Run is old and dated, but the underlying message is still true.✌

Original solaris is sublime

@@PhoenixLyon two words that every young lad knew 'Jenny' and 'Agutter'. Enough said.

Prefer the newer Solaris -

thanks

Ugly Head! ;) Enemy Mine is a great movie..

Thanks

Dennis Quad is one of the most under-rated actors ever. He's amazing in everything he's in. 2010 had terrible acting.

John Karavitis Equilibrium was terrible.

You're the man now Dog of course it is sci fi and it’s great but it is not underrated

I got here from a Gattaca trailer!

Pretty sure it's a romantic comedy

@@wingerding not only, Gattaka is about strength to develop oneself and to struggle desperately making one's dreams true in any circumstances, it is about choice of what and who you gonna be that makes difference (last scenes of two brothers was amazing)

I don't know what people think science fiction is? Starships battleing in the space? Time travelling? Aliens? It's much more than that. One of the best underrated sci-fi (B) movies I ever seen, there was not a single "space/cosmos" scene, not a single fire, none sofisticated gizmo/technology, no aliens and the very unique time travelling was the same every single one of us is able to experience. It's called aging. As a matter of fact, almost of the entire movie consists in a group of college teachers reunned in a living room just talking...

I thought that 2010 was a good movie too.

Excellent is the adjective tou seek.

+Bishop Howells . Had to keep scrolling the comments to see if anyone else mentioned "The Quiet Earth". Good sci-fi doesn't have to be loaded up with expensive FX :-}

*high fives you both*

+Bishop Howells Pandorum, In Time, Screamers, 13 floor, Serenity, Impostor, Push.

Screamers, good call. It gave me nightmares about Teddy Bears for weeks!

+Bishop Howells I agree with you that "Quiet Earth" should be on this list. Maybe they need a top 10 FOREIGN Underrated movies.

I f king loved Children of Men. That was a great film and had an even better source material

I think Matrix was inspired by Dark City, good movie overall but matrix is better

Dark City for real. Matrix totally ripped off of it

Thank you thank you thanky you. Watchmojo is such a clickbait.

Thanks for the list watchmojo I've not seen or heard of any of these apart from Moon. Its funny i saw a top ten underrated sci fi movie video list yesterday on another youtube channel and they put Moon at number ten, I definetly agree it should be nearer 1 than ten. Also Solaris is worth a mention I think.

Um... Event Horizon? And also... Europa Report was fucking awesome!

Thanks

Thank you so much

MOVIE PUNDIT ("Outland")

J. Collins I do like outland, but I'm talking about outlander with Jim caviezel, john hurt, ron perlman, sophia Myles, it's pretty good.

MOVIE PUNDIT does Caviezel go back in time in that one, to a viking era or maybe germanic tribe it's coming back to me now some kind of alien that preys on the tribe maybe caviziel was hunting it in the future am i close?

MOVIE PUNDIT and oops my bad

J. Collins no worries and yeah that's the one.

That's not an underrated movie.

@@syedjafferimam5789 Predestination made $5.4 million at the box office. I'm pretty sure that meant practically nobody watched it in theatres. I'd call that pretty underrated.

Thank you!! Say it again.

An almost perfect adaptation of a Heinlein short story.

+nOnOy borbun I wouldn't call Dark City underrated, I've only seen it discussed pretty positively.

+nOnOy borbun Yeah I was wondering if perhaps Dark City wasn't underrated and that's why it's not here. I think it's acknowledged as one of the greats. Predates The Matrix, and is in my all-time top 10.

+nOnOy borbun Both movies were awesome. The darker and tripier the movie the better.

Dark city you are right

+nOnOy borbun neither of those are underrated. Both great movies but not underrated.

Plus it had Jennifer Connolly. :)

since everyone loved it and had glowing revies never though it was underrated. although why on earth the Directors Cut doesn't get much love I have no idea. it's way better than the theatrical. Really awkward only way to keep it is on vudu. Blu ray not so much

You know how you (I) watch a film and think: "This movie is a lot like...." This one is so original, I couldn't come up with a comparison.

I watched it maybe 5 years ago, apart from the visuals I've forgotten everything that happened. not sure if I'm getting senile or if the story was forgettable

@haingis - You were supposed to forget. Mr. Hand is pleased.

mine too!

Yep. Especially these days. And the Joan Baez songs add an extra layer of melancholy.

@@lisagulick4144 I agree, I first saw it in the cinema, The end when the robot Dewie is seen lovingly watering the plants with the old watering can. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. Even the toughest men, were balling their eyes out. The soundtrack is simply amazing too. Using Joan Baez was inspired.

The director of wall-e said he was inspired by this movie. He also used the valley forge console design for the escape pod in wall-e among other things.

Bruce Dern is amazingly underrated. He’s played some excellent roles, but my favourite will always be Mr. Rumsfield in “The ‘Burbs.” “They’re daring each other to ring the doorbell!” 😄

ie. Locke

Chris Kozma it was an amazing modern take on classic sci fi I loved it

ouch... i love Tom Hardy but this one of the worst experience i've ever had at cinema.

Locke was a great movie, Tom Hardy did a great job.

yea moon is good ☺

Yes!!!

+Kevin Kral Silent Running was a great film in spite of the fact that the little Celestron telescope could not have gotten the detail of Earth that was shown from that distance. I like Joan Baez's voice.

+Swinde I do too. That guy is probably some rap "music" fan or something and therefore WOULD say HER singing is "odious".

Never seen Silent Running, but was very pleased to see Strange Days mentioned. It's a great film, and I've loved it since I first saw it on tape after it went to video. Angela Bassett is so amazingly kick ass and amazing in this movie! i had such a girl crush on her!

+MrBfg586 Silent Running is the worst movie I've ever seen.

Great movie...

Brilliant film that survives multiple watchings. My idea of true sci-fi.

@@albertloan396 "true sci-fi" is well-put for this movie. Good scifi is where the fantastical serves the ideas instead of the other way around.

Scared the life out of teenage me!

Cecil The Mystic Knight GOod woman movie

Haven't seen it since I was a kid. It seemed like a great movie. Babylon 5 reminds me of this movie somehow.

I was obsessed with this movie as a kid

Yes, I thought Enemy Mine deserves more than an honorable mention and didn't know it was "underrated". I thought it was kind of a cult classic. Everyone I've ever known who saw it really liked it.

@@debraprince4511 One of the few that me and all my friends plus our parents thought was great. I've shown it to girlfriends that were younger than me and missed it, everyone loves Enemy Mine. How many times do people cry during Sci-fi?

+I “Ish” Monique K-PAX was like Rain Man, except interesting.

Interstellar?

+Mircea Donciu 8.6/10 @ IMBD is not underrated.

+Cazimir Bzh It takes place in the future and he's going into space...it's sci fi.

+I Monique “Ish” I'd say Gattaca is a great movie, but had much more media coverage than the ones in the list.

He won an Academy Award so I don't think he's that underrated.

Agreed!

+Matse Kase Whats that one about? I checked out the trailer but it didnt make me any the wiser.

+Phil Hunter it's based in the area where the chernobyl accident happened. It's about people called stalkers who effectively live in the area after visiting it and becoming attached to it. It's a bit difficult to describe without giving away too much.

Matse Kase I might give it a try. Thanks.

+Matse Kase !!!??.. if its about the chernobyl accident then I'm very impressed!!.. as the movie was made 6 years BEFORE the accident!!

And the score, so amazing.

Yup, Surface of the Sun is still one of the best musical pieces I've heard on film.

ThatKiwiGuy My favorite is Kaneda's Death.

Prometheus: its a good prequel to Alien.

+Steve -O the scene when they are all watching Mercury pass the Sun.. The score is so haunting, the photography is so brilliant! The camera even focuses on the actor's wrist watch.. Like a metaphor for time. Simply superb.

So cheesy and stupid. Stephen kings worst

Bronson pinchot was good in it.

fairfeatherfiend The gun fu is awesome

U R right.

So R U

It's "Gun Kata," heathen lol. And yeah, totally. Even if it IS a ripoff of Fahrenheit 451...still one of the best ripoffs of all time.

1984 as well!

+majinraptor Yeah Sunshine is just so good in every single way!!!

+majinraptor I watched most of them. And Sunshine isn't my favorite. It is fun to watch to but the plot holes are miles deep if you understand anything about space physics.

DuRoehre90210 Leeway :)

I've never heard of Sunshine, but it's the only film on the list I haven't seen before that I now want to watch.

007Kiristo Watch it!

I might have to rewatch it. I remember not liking it at the time cause I basically just thought it was an Event Horizon rip-off. But that was years ago and I haven't seen it since.

Event Horizon = LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME! :-)

Someone recommended it so I saw it. There's four of us already!

Seen it, and it was mind boggling, I had to watch an explanation on the ending, because I didn't catch it the first time.

Primer was _great_ ... and made on a seven thousand dollar budget. That's just nuts.

Not the only one

Usually i spot many flaws in movies like that, not in this one. That alone made it awesome. :)

Made me cry when I first watched it on TV aged 13...

Bruce Dern was known for playing bad guys but 'Silent Running' made me love him in all his roles. It's a truly underrated film that still holds up today. I remember wanting to cry at the end because Huey, Dewey & Louie had become real to me and I didn't want Dewey to be lonely.

@@azazelzel6954 it was the first film that made me cry, was a young lad when i saw it on tv.

It's gross, but really good

100%

Except that anyone who watches it has to watch another video explaining the timeline.

@@dantrim3937 no

@@dantrim3937 thats why we watch films twice...

Underrated

The fog! Omg! Loveeeee ittttt!

+Dialask Isel The Man From Earth is great. Watch it now if you like Twilight Zone type sci-fi

+Dialask Isel Oh yes, The Man From Earth ...

+Dialask Isel Man from earth is one of my personal favorites.

I didn't like it. Full of holes. I would rather watch "Requeim For Methuselah" from the original Star Trek series. It certainly made a statement about University Academics and our public school system though. A great concept and could be a great Sci-Fi movie but not this one. 2/10.

Regarding Man from earth

+Corey Vaughn-Patterson Agreed

Seconed

+Corey Vaughn-Patterson Equilibrium is overrated, it's just a bad rip off of Matrix, with the terrible acting of Christian Bale and a stupid script.

+Nuts pseudo I'd say it's more of a rip off of 1984 and THX-81 than of the Matrix.

Saw it last year for the first time and the movie still stands as a good movie. good action and story

I meant the quintessential “Gun Kata” moment

good one!

yep!! agree

Dark City is one of my all time favorites.

Dark City is not quite "underrated," but it's close.

patrick macmillan t bytytttttyvzvs

Oh man the signal was great. I watched it w my chic who's not even into sci-fi but she totally enjoyed it.

+Rami Al Ahmad Oh jesus I'm still scarred from Event Horizon

Yea, gateway to hell will do that to ya.

+Rami Al Ahmad Yeah, the Laurence Fishburne movie "the signal" is awesome (not to be confused with the zombie horror one)

+Rami Al Ahmad I loved Event Horizon, I still do, it was shocking, and trippy, but all in all I'll even admit that it was a bad movie. Want to watch Event Horizon done right, this list's #2 spot Sunshine gave me everything Event Horizon gave me but at a higher quality(story, dialogue, acting, effects, just everything was superior) but Event Horizon still has a place in my heart as well.

She looked so vulnerable in her panties at the beginning you had to fall in love.

germanire Love, lust... whatever... part of life is unattainable dreams... Karen did "it" for me ❤️

Great movie. Jeff Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award. Didn't win, but an amazing performance none the less.

+Jan Hald I was just about to comment that and saw yours. It deserves an honorable mention at the very least. Gattaca is a very underrated movie!

Yep it's a beautiful movie, and the subject matter is so relevant today even! It's more like science fact maybe!

***** Well it's a pretty old move now, but I still know many people who have never heard of it. It's not the first Sci-Fi movie that comes to peoples minds, which is why I think it's underrated.

I was going to mention Gattaca, but I guess you beat me to it :-)

Gattaca is not underrated

I love that movie. An the actor is underated to. He is a great actor

Frequency is absolutely brilliant. Criminally underrated.

Annihilation gave me the heebee jeebees. I had trouble sleeping sleeping for days afterward. .

@@marilyncook2706 That bear scene gave me nightmares

Loved that one.

OMFG YES!

100% agreed. Brilliant Movie that is completely character driven.

YES! "Man from earth" is fantastic

Absolutely agree it is very underrated. Watched it a few times. The dialogs are gold.

+buda1604 I concur.

+buda1604 Agreed fully. I'm sure it will become a cult classic tho.

We are not hauling the cargos, We are the cargos. 🤣

I forgot about Forbidden Planet, a fantastic and very cerebral sci fi movie from the 50,s. It's the kind of movie that needs a remake or update of some kind.

@@quasarte4701 No, it's fine just the way it is.

@@vahi37 Yes it is just fine, you are correct. The animation is very trippy. I would love to see what it would look like using some of the more modern animation methods.

Awe inspiring work from Rockwell. Jeez, that guy can handle anything.

*AND* watch it alone! Also Sunshine, do not have anyone else around. It's a special journey.

For me it's right up there with 2001!

Yes, Equilibrium. Nuff said.

handsdown!

Perfect movie? It's a horribly written movie with a stupid premise. Sure, there's some nice concepts in there but it's an OVERRATED movie.

+Cao Cao Underrated.

Badass ending...hmm...you mean this: :) ?

The book it's based on is even better!

@@princessstomper8068 I hope so, hated the movie

Yeah, except the whole basis of the movies w/ the Worm Holes is not scientific at all... and the aliens...

It was not "under-rated." It was very well reviewed and received.

@@SeanKlisiewecz So, your criticism of a science "fiction" film is that its science is "fiction." Hmm.

Is warp speed or hyper drive more scientific than wormholes ? (Einstein Rosen tunnels are theoretically possible at least)

Totally agree with that . 12 Monkeys ain´t underrated . It has something special , that I always get stuck in it , when it´s showed on TV . I just always was wondering , why the Character of Madeline Stowe kept saying " I remember You too" , since for her , it wasn´t the past :)

Did you really try to say that Brazil is underrated. I am yet to see a top 100 best movies list that doesn't mention Brazil and it was Nominated for 2 Oscars .

Filip Cordas No I definitely think Brazil is an amazing film, one of the best dystopian films I have ever seen. And, yes it did win awards and has made many people's lists. I'm just saying that sometimes critically acclaimed films can be under appreciated by the average, undiscriminating film viewer. It seems I have struck a nerve with other Brazil fans with my comments. I never meant to say Brazil is not a high quality film. It certainly is. I was just wondering how many other people truly appreciate the film and Terry Gilliam as an accomplished film maker.

I can say that Brazil is really underrated here in Brazil. What an irony.

I agree! Absolutely love both of those films...

Wasn't difficult, being the only actor and all

@@stonward i guess that's sarcasm right?

Agreed. He also deserved one for Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind

@@beneaththebeneath Or 7 psychopats.

“Moon” is one of the most over-rated SF movies of all time. I still can’t believe it was given a Hugo Award. A fellow longtime fan and I saw it together shortly after it opened. All the way through we kept turning to each other to whisper, “But that doesn’t make sense!” The writer/director's intentions were good, but he didn’t really understand SF extrapolation. Instead, he arbitrarily assembled a bunch of SF tropes and linked them with an illogical plot. Both the basic premise and the “big surprise” are utterly ridiculous. The whole setup makes no scientific or economic sense.

Mr. Google helps

+Randomnick123 Oh yeah, I knew that once. You've reminded me of it again. :)

+Randomnick123 You blew my mind sir.

And that is absolutely accidental. Read the book.

That Kid With A Camera So, what does it chance even it would be accidental? Its still the same.

It was really good story for such a low budget.

Agreed, the first one was brilliant but the sequel's not so much

meh, i thought cube was about average

"Cube" was a good paranoia movie that was, for the most part, impossible. "Cube 2" was more solid sci-fi with an attempt to show a hypercube (a four-dimensional "cube") which, ultimately, was more satisfying, to me. I've not seen the third, although I'm told it's truly horrible.

CUBE, NOTHING, CYPHER, Dark City, Event Horizon, Immortal

Cube... what can I say, it is, an will always be, high on the mind fuck list for me!

Some interesting points you guys have got. I agree that Equilibrium just came out at the wrong time, so everyone just compared it to The Matrix. but then, if it weren't for that film, Equilibrium wouldn't exist. Pitch Black should definitely be on the list. I think it was superior to the other Riddick films, as it had a more human feel to it. It didn't have the silly 'magic' that the other films had. I'm surprised not to see Coherence on here though. Especially since Primer was. If you guys haven't seen it, I'd recommend it.

swamdono I saw Equilibrium on Netflix. at the final battle I'm like, "Wait. How is this on Netflix? Netflix usually has the shitty sequels or B movies. This is EXcellent!" I was pleasantly surprised with everything from the acting to the scenes and choreography. As far as dystopian movies go, its one of the best IMO. You can tell they put a good amount of thought into it. Equilibrium should have gotten at least as much press as Minority Report.

Public library and your friendly neighbourhood bootleg stores are the best places to get all underrated, overrated or whatever rated movies. I don't get bound by Netflix of whatever I want to watch

Strawberryknight I wouldn't either except my wife's work friend assigned her to his account so we get it free. Ya know....free electronic babysitter...I'm all for that.

+Broseph Argon it came to theaters in Florida in between the matrix sequels I thought it was amazing but both times I went to see it I was the only one in the theater

Really like that movie. Who didn't adore the three little robots!

Ive seen that movie many, many times. It never fails to move me even today.

Like hellraiser in space...completely underrated film👌🏻

Fuck Yeah!! I was about say that, but you already have!

yeahh used to watch that one everytime it was on tv

what? really? hmm

@@topkek670 HELL yeah 😁

Dark City yes! Great film that, one that anyone can enjoy.

Outland was awesome, and the production values of Black Hole are amazing!

@@sl9sl9 and lifeforce it even has patric stewart in that one :)

+Mursukorva Oh and lol it was on the list ^^

+Mursukorva I'm glad it finally gets a recognition! It was a great movie.

Yeah it's a great movie

I think the antagonist was really random but I don't think it was that out of place. He realised that all things come to an end and by completing his mission he is interfering with nature. He wanted to let the chips to fall where they may. That's a genuine thing to think about and it drove his character mad. I really loved the setup of the movie. How there was Icarus 1 and how they found it and shit

The CGI is good, but scenario is fucked up.

Silent Running is my pick. But Equilibrium does kick ass would be my second choice on the list.

Andromeda Strain is universally critically acclaimed... how can it be underrated??

Agreed.

THX-1138 isn't exactly considered underrated. Colossus: The Forbin Project is a great movie not a lot of people know about. I'd forgotten about it until I saw your comment. Going to watch it now!

Thank you, I was going to mention it myself. The Forbin Project was an intelligent well executed movie that I always watched when I got the chance. I haven't seen it in a long, long time. I'm wondering if it can still be watched without seeming to be terribly dated. I'm going to try and track it down and watch it again.

C:TFP has dated itself in the sense that it's a story that's really only possible in the 1970s tech age in the scenario of Cold War. Not sure a remake or update put into our modern times would even work outside of its time frame without it losing its uniqueness and edge and just becoming another SkyNet movie.

I found a copy on DVD. While a 'bit' dated, it's still a good film. I found THX-1138 to be just, well, depressing.

QuantumRift I watched Colossus: The Forbin Project last night. It's still a good movie and while it's definitely dated, I don't have any more issues with that than I do with movies from to 50's and 60's.. You just have to be willing to enjoy the story rather than the science - which is usually very wrong.. Lol

The original Russian great. They're both really good. I guess the Russian one is a bit more grimy and edgy.

+keyo langford (hqsguitarist) the american one was trash imo

oh shit I forgot about that film Confusing as fuck though

I still don't get that film. Was it adapted from some novel? Arthur C Clark's 2001 novel kinda helped me to get most of what was happening on Kubricks loose adaptation...

Its based on the Book written by Stanislaw Lem, but to warn you, he goes in extreme detail describing everything (characters, landscapes,...). anyways a great book tho.

very good movie but The Day the Earth Stood Still is its equal

...which is why it did not make the "under-rated" list.