Hot answers tagged science-fiction
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I believe that you are thinking of Superman 2. The villans (General Zod, Ursa and Non) had been banished from Krypton into the "Phantom Zone" which was depicted as what looked similar to a plane of glass that flew through space. Right up until Superman pushes a nuclear bomb out of Earth's atmosphere and into space to save Paris (I think). When the device ...
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It sounds like the third segment of Tales from the Darkside: The Movie -
A despondent artist named Preston (played by James Remar) witnesses a
gruesome murder by a gargoyle-like monster. The monster gets Preston
to swear to never speak of what he saw in exchange for a promise to
spare his life. After making the promise, Preston meets a beautiful
...
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There are a number of science fiction movies involving ants, and based on your memory, it might be a challenge to determine if it was truly a made-for-tv-movie...or just a very old movie that happened to be broadcast one night on the tube. Nevertheless, the closest matches to your description are:
Phase IV (1974)
It Happened at Lakewood Manor / Panic at ...
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Flight of the Navigator is pretty much like that.
From IMDb:
Davey is told that his parents reported the young boy missing in 1978, the evening that he went searching in the woods for his younger brother, referring to the incident in the past tense because it is 1985. Only Davey is still exactly the same age and everything he was from 1978, while time has ...
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This sounds a lot like Tank Girl.
First part of the plot on wikipedia says:
Set in a dystopian 2033, a comet has hit the Earth, and altered the
climate turning it into a dry and arid wasteland. There has been no
rain for over 11 years - water is extremely scarce, and what little is
available is controlled by the Water & Power company, led by ...
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The plot you've outlined reminds me of Sphere, a 1998 Sci-Fi psychological thriller film adapted from a Michael Chrichton novel — although they don't return "home", they return back to their underwater habitat.
Synopsis:
In the middle of the southern Pacific Ocean, a thousand feet below the surface, what is believed to be an alien spacecraft is ...
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The movie that you are trying to identify is probably the short film, The Price of Life (1987). An article on Yahoo notes the obvious plot similarities to In Time:
In 1987, Stephen Tolkin co-wrote and directed "The Price of Life," a brilliant short film that appeared as part of the PBS series "American Playhouse." The short also popped up on at least one ...
8
It sounds like Laserblast (1978).
". . . Billy wanders into the desert and discovers the laser cannon and pendant. He starts playing with the cannon, pretending to shoot things, then realizes he can fire the weapon while wearing the pendant. . . ."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserblast
An edited version was shown on MST3K.
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This is luck.
I've been stuck on trying to figure out what movie this was for years and couldn't figure it out. I used a lot of the same terms to Google it, and this time I added "1960s" and found it -- that's luck.
It's The Time Travellers made in 1964. I won't get into the plot, since it's a few paragraphs and I don't want to include more spoilers, but ...
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It sounds like you're referring to The Third Eye. This was a sci-fi series that aired in the very early days of Nickelodeon. (I remember watching it as a child myself). It was quite unlike all of the other Nickelodeon programming, and is the only series that I can recall from that Network that fits your description.
I also remember seeing Dr. Who later on ...
7
Sounds like The Prototype:
Source
The military tries to track down a humanoid drone that escapes from a government facility
Watch the trailer
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The scene you are talking about where the bad guys get trapped is from Superman (the first film). Jor-El (Marlon Brando) imprisons three villains Zod, Ursa and Non.
They don't feature further in that film, but are the main villains of Superman 2, when they are accidentally released.
The imprisonment scene probably may be included in Superman 2 as a recap ...
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It sounds a lot like Knowing from 2009 starring Nicolas Cage. In the movie they dig up an old time-capsule where they find a list of numbers that seems to represent various disasters that have already happened and some that are about to happen. To quote wikipedia about the last number:
The last number in the document appears to be "33" but they notice ...
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Monolith Monsters from 1957 fits your description. I have not seen it, but it is part of a giant SciFi movie collection from Amazon.Here's the blurb from Amazon: In a desperate race against time and nature, a geologist and a scientist must find a way to stop effects of killer outer-space rocks that are literally petrifying people with fear!That lead me to ...
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Could be any number of Virtual Reality movies.
Possibly Johnny Mnemonic (1995) with Keanu Reeves. Johnny is an information courier, carrying data in a chip implanted in his head. It has several scenes with virtual reality glasses and connecting to networks etc.
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The Golem (1920) is already quite human - but no robot.
In Metropolis (1927) you find a robot, which is transformed to a very human looking Maria see this youtube video
I found some hints of a 1886 film l'Eve Futur:
In 1886, the French novel l'Eve Futur featured a Thomas Edison-like mad scientist building a robot in the likeness of a woman. source
...
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I've heard the song before but I've never seen the video until now. Well I recognized Billy Drago right away. I thought that would be a big clue as to whether this was from a movie, or one time episode of something. He seems to be the only actor that can be tracked from the video other than the spliced in footage of Choke Canyon. His IMDB list him as ...
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It seems the specific answer was a show called "Into the Labyrinth" which was a component of the aforementioned "The Third Eye". Nickelodeon purchased a series of British Science Fiction and rolled it all together.
"Into the Labyrinth" starred actor "Ron Moody" (which would explain my mistake and why I couldn't locate information on IMDB.)
An excerpt (and ...
6
This sounds like Otherworld (1985):
[Source]
... the Sterling family take a tour of the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza at the same time as a once-in-ten-thousand-years conjunction of the planets.
Inside, they are abandoned by their guide, and as they try to get out, they are mysteriously transported to another planet which may or may ...
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My first guess for unclothed space vampires is always Lifeforce (1985), also known as The Space Vampires. The Wikipedia page is here. The main space vampire was played by Mathilda May:
After she kisses the space-shuttle astronaut who finds her, she can make him do things with no memory of having done them. However, the vampires usually don't kiss their ...
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Since there is no VK test to, well test, there can be no definitive disproval, but... The stated purpose of the test is merely an effective ruse. In such a way that is how "lie-detector" tests are employed. The placebo is better than no seemingly objective leverage.
Obviously "blade runners" are judge, jury and executioners. So yes! Simply put, all ...
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I think you are looking for The Love War, a made-for-TV movie from 1970 (you can see it on youtube):
Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race
have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they're being sneaky
about it: They've taken human form and they can only spot other aliens
through the use of special glasses. (imdb)
...
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Well, that's the trouble with science fiction. You see, it's fictional. You can imagine all sorts of devices but they are not an actual technology because they wouldn't actually work.
I am not a lawyer, but from the technical standpoint there would be two components to such a device; First, the engineering and scientific effort you require to actually ...
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You may already have your answer, but your description reminded me of the scene in The Simpsons episode Deep Space Homer when Homer accidentally smashes the ant farm on board the rocket and causes panic back on Earth.
So I checked The Simpsons Archive, which notes two films in its references section: Empire of the Ants and Hellstrom Chronicles. Perhaps one ...
4
The earliest fictional robots and androids in film listed on Wikipedia are:
The Dummy, played by Ben Turpin in the silent short A Clever Dummy, dating from 1917, when the term "robot" did not yet exist.
-> Doesn't count: the Dummy was made to replace a postman.
The Mechanical Man from the silent film of the same name (1921)
-> Doesn't count: the ...
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I think this is an episode of The Outer Limits called "Dead Man's Switch", which was first broadcast in April, 1997. Here's part of the IMDb plot summary:
Ben Conklin is a last-minute replacement for a long-term isolation assignment. He's advised by General James Eiger that some time ago, long range probes identified an alien force heading directly for ...
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Found your movie in the pursuit of someone else's query over at the SciFi Stack Exchange. The movie in question is Max Knight: Ultra Spy.
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It is unfortunately a very difficult question to answer from the movie alone. Yes, the VK test is challenged in the movie by Rachel - and that it takes very many more questions for Deckard to conclude that she is a Replicant - but that is about the extent of the analysis of the test in the movie. One can imagine from this scenario where a Replicant with ...
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While no continuation of the movie exists, Meet Joe Black is a remake of the 1934 movie Death Takes a Holiday, which is a movie adaptation of the musical of the same name — which, in turn, is based on the Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella.
In the end,
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My Science Project (1985)
... After Michael and his friends plug it into a power source, it
begins to materialize objects from other times and dimensions.
When
his science teacher (Dennis Hopper) experiments by plugging the orb
directly into the power grid, it starts a chain reaction that warp the
dimensions and time around it. Past, ...
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