I’d heard that there were people who liked A History of Violence, but until now I hadn’t known any.
For people who recommended Quatermass:
How do you get it in the US? I assume you mean the BCC versions, not the Hammer Film remakes/adaptations, and I’ve never found them in a non-PAL format…and I’ve looked because I’ve long wanted to see them. Got a source I couldn’t ferret out on my own?
I enjoyed both Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Spiderwick Chronicles quite a bit more than I had expected.
Monster House was good fun too.
Thanks to everyone!
Unfortunately, I have seen about 90% of these, even the obscure and weird ones (Brazil, Star Wars). But I did dig through and find a few that I put on my Netflix queue.
Of course, that doesn’t mean to stop posting. Please continue!
Night Watch &* Day Watch* - a pair of Russian fantasy/occult films. Brilliant.
*Trancers * a young Helen Hunt and a great plot
Robot Jox is a great fantasty flick.
Robot Wars is good, maybe even a bit better than Robot Jox
A fascinating but disturbing sci fi movie is “Strange Days” with Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett. If you can stomach graphic sexual violence, it is completely compelling.
I liked “Solaris” and hated “2001: A Space Odyssey.” I recall being truly bored by “2001.”
We just watched “Eragorn” today, and it wasn’t bad. No big surprises, but it kept us entertained for two hours.
If you can get your hands on it, I’d recommend the miniseries of “The Stand” by Stephen King, too. There were a couple of casting mis-steps (Molly Ringwald, I’m looking at you), but overall I really enjoyed it.
Naw, Molly’s biggest problem was that she wasn’t as cute as she was five years prior. The biggest miscast in The Stand was the woman who played Nadine Cross. I don’t think I ever saw a worse interpretation of a literary character than that one - she completely missed the point of the character.
Goonies
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Explorers
Flight of the Navigator
Weird Science
Monster Squad
Big Trouble In Little China
Romancing the Stone
National Treasure
The Librarian
Sneakers
King Kong (2005)
A Knight’s Tale
Dinotopia
Ewok Movies: Caravan of Courage/Battle for Endor
Spy Kids
Nim’s Island
Muppet Treasure Island
Treasure Planet
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Titan AE
Anastasia
An American Tail
Is that a movie about a ranger-king that changed one letter of its name, or a misspelling of a movie about a dragon who did the same?
“Science” and “fiction” but not really “science fiction”, Sneakers was my first DVD purchase.
Oh, and go see Planet 51 if you haven’t already. Nice homage to '50s Sci-Fi.
I remember seeing this series when it first came out, and was really missing it about this time last year. Nobody had it for rent, so I ended up buying a copy on Amazon.
Boy, it didn’t age well. The first half was as good as always, but it really fell down in the second half. It was so dumb that I had to force myself to watch all of it, and I promptly sold it on Amazon Marketplace when I was done.
Actually, I mean both. You can’t really get he first Quatermass serial – the whole thing doesn’t exist, so you have to get the film version (which has a very different ending) There werepeople who would supply you with the BBC serial versions – I’ve got Quatermass and the Pit. I thought you could get it on DVD as well, and recall seeing it on the internet, but I can’t find it now.
there was a remake of the original serial in 2005, but I’ve never seen that, or seen it availoable.
Gormenghast. Christopher Lee. Stephen Fry. John Rhys Meyers. Totally worth a watch.
You might consider exploring Japanese sci-fi. Something by Miyazaki or …
Damn! I completely forgot:
The Hidden
Oh yeah - I think I’d blocked out all memory of Laura San Giacomo as Nadine Cross out of my head. 
It’s a shame that they got those two main characters so wrong, when they did such a stellar job of casting pretty much everyone else.
BigT - I knew I should have looked up that name before I posted. Eragon, that’s it.
campy:
Latitude Zero
Indy:
Able Edwards
Do they have to be good? Acción Mutante is one of those movies so bad it’s good. It’s a pity Spain and France have no tradition of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” parties, because the writers for this one were that crazy. Alex de la Iglesia’s first work had a budget along the lines of “bring your own makeup;” after this one and El día de la Bestia (horror) he’s been behaving himself. AM is his craziest by a couple Arkham Asylum’s worth (looking at Guerricaechevarria’s own list of credits, I think it’s probably G. who should get credited for the amounts of crazy on display, but that lastname is a handicap).
I came across this selection of old SF movies on DVD form Warner Brothers, unfortunately they are not remastered but still interesting if you enjoyed old SF films like Genesis 2 with John Saxon, Earth 2 from (1971), and Countdown.
http://www.wbshop.com/Countdown/1000095478,default,pd.html?cgid=