Sci-Fi recommendations

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Fabian P

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Can anyone recommend any of the following:

1) Films depicting humans discovering extra terrestrial life in a realistic way, like not 'ooh evil aliens destroying earth' as in Independence Day.

2) Films set in or featuring realistic depictions of the future.
 
Here are some sci fi films from my list

Damnation Alley (1977
Demolition Man (1993)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Terminator films
signs 2002
The Final Countdown (1980
Total Recall
Night of the Comet (1984
The Thing (1982
starman
 
See I was kind of going for a specific type of film:

Think 2001: a space oddessy, first contact, mission to mars from the alien point of view and AI, time machine and bicentennial man from the future.

Something a bit slower paced that is more science/exploration and less action/war.
 
For realistic (ie not idealist) view of the future, it has to be "Blade runner", one of the best sf films of all time.

For deep space exploration, "Red planet" is quite good, and "Dark Star" is just brilliantly darkly-humourous. "Silent running" is a real cautionary/eco-tale in space, and I would also recommend, on certain levels, "Event horizon", though in fairness that's more of a horror-story-in-space than a scifi movie...

Oh yeah, and another good "future" movie is "Logan's run", though again how you can quantify the depiction of the future as "realistic" is hard to imagine, since the future by its very nature is unknown to us. If you mean movies that show NOW, as the future, and are close, then ok, but otherwise it could all be true, couldnt it?
 
Contact.
Alien.
Aliens.
Serenity.
Blade Runner.

(I like Total Recall as a film, but I wouldn't rate it for realism. It's not the sort of film where you should be wondering about the gravity on Mars, or how long it takes to get there, or to phone home again afterwarRAB, or what would happen if you turned a planet's core into air in about 4 seconRAB.)
 
That's the one I was gonna suggest. It does one of those rare things - it actually plays with the possibilities of its premise and keeps the twists coming.

It also feels very much like a believable future in 20-50 years time.
 
OP, it's a TV show, not a movie but if you havent already watched it you might enjoy the new Battlestar Galactica. The mini series will give you a flavour.

Also, from the makers of BSG, you may enjoy Virtuality.
 
As part of preproduction Spielberg had a bit of a brainstorming session with some scientists, sociologists, engineers, etc. to thrash out what the world would be like in the near future.
 
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