my favorite science fiction films....

I'm not into Ape Planet or little green men form other worlds - it has to be 'science' 'fiction' !

One of the very first televised sci-fi programmas was Quatermass. It was a very low budget show sent out live by the BBC. I was very young when it was broadcast and used to watch it from behind the settee so that I could hide it was too scary !!!

Then great thing about science fistion is that it often comes true in time. Men on the Moon, rockets to Mars, genetic enginering etc......

Soylent Green : A 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green".

GATTACA :  Ethan Hawke plays Vincent Freeman, a man wishing to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut, but whose genes were deemed too inferior for the job. The film asks hard questions about issues of DNA and genetic information: how do genes make the person? Which is stronger – genetic code or the human spirit? The film came out in 1997, when genetic engineering was in full swing and the human chromosome was being frenziedly mapped out. Nearly 15 years later, do we view things differently?

K-PAX : is as an adult drama of self-discovery, blessed by the talents of costars Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey. Bridges plays Manhattan psychiatrist Mark Powell, who thinks he's seen it all until he's assigned to analyze Prot (Spacey), a psychiatric patient who claims to be from a distant planet called K-PAX. Powell is convinced that Prot is "a convincing delusional," but his cynicism turns to open-minded fascination as Prot's case reveals a combination of otherworldly insight and all-too-human trauma, prompting an earthbound explanation for Prot's allegedly alien origins. This curiously engrossing drama allows Spacey to create a provocative and humorously eccentric enigma, while Bridges superbly conveys his character's compassionate empathy. Their finely shaded performances raise K-PAX above the forced ambiguity of its ending, which is both thought-provoking and open to ones own interpretation.