I’ve got a friend coming over in a couple days and we decided we were in the mood to watch some old fashioned sci-fi. Or, something newer would work as well. I’d like to find something with a leftist bent, but I’m unsure where to start, or what’s out there. I’ve never been a big movie buff.
Suggestions?
Thank you all for your suggestions! If I remember, I’ll let you know what we pick.
To The Stars By Hard Ways (1981) might be the most beloved Soviet scifi. The hero ship is a sanitation vessel!
Road to the Stars (1957) is about trying to rescue stranded cosmonauts.
Ikarie XB-1 (1963) a Czechoslovak film about Earth’s first mission to seek first contact. It pioneers Trek tropes about a spacious, luxurious interstellar vessel with gender equality, and some allege Roddenberry may have seen it during his navy days and taken notes.
This Quiet Earth
Depending on what you consider old, I liked Brazil and Silent Running when I watched them recently.
I gotta go with The Matrix (1999) It’s sci-fi action. great all round. a nearly perfect movie.
EDIT: and Alien (1979) sci-fi horror.
