I love Sci fi but I'm very picky (discuss.online)

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Most of my favourite books/movies/TV shows are Sci fi - I love Mary Shelley, slaughterhouse five, annihilation (both the book and the movie), The Thing, x files, the invasion, and the OA. This feels like a pretty wide variety of writing styles when I line them up but 90% of the sci fi I read/watch I just don't enjoy at all. It's a shame because when I love something sci fi I feel like it's changed my whole life, but when it comes to finding new things I can just enjoy its easier to go through other genres. Is anyone else like this? Does anyone have reccomendations based on what I do like?

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[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The common factor seems to be more grounded Earth-based sci-fi with a smidge of horror and perhaps some mystery, rather than space battles.

In that case, films and TV:

Early Cronenberg up to eXistenZ (perhaps Crimes of the Future, if you really like that)
Society
The Faculty
Save the Green Planet
Under the Skin
They Live
The Mist
A Quiet Place
Cube series
Slither
Splice
Splinter
The Reanimator series
From Beyond
Phantasm series
Tetsuo
Cloverfield (and 10 Cloverfield Lane)
The Host
Predator series
The Void
Fringe TV series, as you liked The X-Files. I presume you have watched Millennium?
BrainDead (2016 TV series)
The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker TV series
Truthseekers (2020 TV series)
Lovecraft Country - book and series
Eerie Indiana
Ultraviolet (1998 UK TV series)
Tokyo Gore Police and others by the same team, like Meatball Machine and Machine Girl
Gantz
The Girl With All the Gifts - book and series
Timecrimes
Pi
Bad Taste
Grabbers
Body Melt
Wild Zero
Pontypool
The Objective
District 9
Firebase and have a look at the others they have done, especially Zygote
Love, Death and Robots
Matango
Xtro
John Dies at the End - read the books first
Frankenstein's Army
Overlord
Quatermass and the Pit, as well as other Quatermass films and series
The Deadly Spawn
The Man With X-ray Eyes
Village of the Damned (1960)
The Illustrated Man (1969)
Take Shelter

And one with spaceships in it: Starship Troopers

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That goes a little too hard into horror, so also try:

The Truman Show
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Looper
Source Code
Minority Report
12 Monkeys
Donnie Darko
Vanilla Sky
Dark City
Being John Malkovich

Although they are all pretty obvious. Might have to ponder this more.

edit: also:

The Arrival (1996) - instead of Arrival that I'll assume you've seen
Resident Alien - TV series and comics
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Rupture (2016)
The Watch (2012)
Alien Raiders (2008)
Threshold (2005 TV series)
Invasion (2005 TV series)
The Forgotten (2004)

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a great list!

12 monkeys is also a series. It's not as good as the movie, but still amazing.

Edit: more into the light scifi genre, Jennifer Government

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