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I always like the Lancia Stratos, Totally impractical but so cool. AND the replica versions are way better than the originals, especially with an Alfa V6 stuffed in the back.
 
So here goes, but not in any particular order of preference:
1) "Serenity". Joss Whedon's feature length film spin off from the "Firefly" TV serial. Full of action and special effects, Blew me away first time I saw it.
2) "The Fifth Element". Bruce Willis at his crazy best. Another fantastic masterpiece.
3) "Pitch Black" and the follow up "Riddick". Just watch them.
4) "Valerian" a visual feast but don't expect any great taxing of the little grey cells.
5) "Cloverfield" and the two, loosely connected, follow ups "10 Cloverfield lane" and "The Cloverfield Paradox". The first two are wonderfully weird and the second keeps you guessing right to the end, so you just have to watch the third out of curiosity if nothing else.
6) "Oblivion" Lots of great visual stuff with a bit of a twist in it's tail.
7) "Moon" Very quiet and slow to develop. See how early on in the film you can figure out what's really going on.
8) "Outland" An old film with Sean Connery which takes place on Io (moon of Jupiter). outdated special effects but good acting and quite suspenseful.
9) "Dark Star" Classic of SF to be watched for that reason if none other
10) "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" More fantasy than SF - and I'm not so much into fantasy - but I really enjoyed this one.
11) "Evolution" Quite amusing with some decent special effects and not too "scary" - in fact quite funny in parts.

Serenity, Do you know there was a very short TV series that was really rather good. the film was made to tie up the loose ends from the TV series that never got addressed.
The Fifth element really was a master piece and very much timeless still looks modern, can't believe how old it is now!

The first clover field (lost footage style) movie I likes and saw in the cinema, but I never got into the others.

Oblivion is good, if you enjoyed that its worth watching Live die repeat.

You missed Blade runner off the list, worth mentioning as the recent sequel is worth watching.
Also Total recall, the old film is now a classic but the new version manages to stand on its own.

Some other interesting left field films you might enjoy.
Gamer 2009, a new take on online life i the modern world.
Brazil 1985 a dystopian future film with a twist.
High Rise 2015 a tower block runs out of control, set in the 70s and again very dystopian.
Dooms Day 2008 Scotland has a killer virus and they cut it off from the rest of the Uk but then they need to go back to try and find a cure 20 years later, very mad max but in Scotland very apt in the current climate and where you live so you might enjoy that one a lot.

One book series I always likes was by James Herbert. The rats, Lair, Domain, domain being my Favorited when London gets attacked by an atomic bomb and survivors have to find there way out of the city, through the underground but have to contend with killer rats.

Michael Cricthton also wrote some very interesting stories that never got made into movies, my fav was Prey, hard to explain but very exciting towards the end.
 
Another fave is the late model Citroen CX Turbo 2. Magic carpet ride that handled like a sportscar. The BX Sports was a proper animal with the Peugeot 16V magnesium engine and twin side draught carbs. It never came here in RHD form.

Here's a Turbo 2 from Sweden https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1233175


Here's what I'd probably end up with https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1233001
The last of the "real" Citroens Dave? I've always admired the Maserati engined version - designated SM? - Oh, here's one I just found:
https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/citroen/sm/sm/1971/208925
What a beautiful looking car!
 
Serenity, Do you know there was a very short TV series that was really rather good. the film was made to tie up the loose ends from the TV series that never got addressed.
The Fifth element really was a master piece and very much timeless still looks modern, can't believe how old it is now!

The first clover field (lost footage style) movie I likes and saw in the cinema, but I never got into the others.

Oblivion is good, if you enjoyed that its worth watching Live die repeat.

You missed Blade runner off the list, worth mentioning as the recent sequel is worth watching.
Also Total recall, the old film is now a classic but the new version manages to stand on its own.

Some other interesting left field films you might enjoy.
Gamer 2009, a new take on online life i the modern world.
Brazil 1985 a dystopian future film with a twist.
High Rise 2015 a tower block runs out of control, set in the 70s and again very dystopian.
Dooms Day 2008 Scotland has a killer virus and they cut it off from the rest of the Uk but then they need to go back to try and find a cure 20 years later, very mad max but in Scotland very apt in the current climate and where you live so you might enjoy that one a lot.

One book series I always likes was by James Herbert. The rats, Lair, Domain, domain being my Favorited when London gets attacked by an atomic bomb and survivors have to find there way out of the city, through the underground but have to contend with killer rats.

Michael Cricthton also wrote some very interesting stories that never got made into movies, my fav was Prey, hard to explain but very exciting towards the end.

You may remember Firefly was the TV series? I knew of it but only watched a couple of episodes after I'd seen Serenity. I felt it moved along too slowly for me. Not a criticism you can level at the film. Wikipedia informs us that 14 episodes were produced but only 11 were aired before the program was pulled.

Fifth Element just has to be a classic! No more to say, except view it with a decent surround amp doing the audio - makes a big difference. I've always wondered about the sound track at the beginning where the alien ship comes down beside the pyramid. I was expecting an accompaniment of thunderous bass rumblings, but no! There is some but not what I would expect and I have the film on VHS tape and Blu Ray disc. I've played it through both my old Sony surround system and my newer Yamaha Avantage amp and MJ Acoustics Sub. The rest of the film, sound is awesome, I just find this bit puzzling.

The Cloverfield films are so different they are almost not connected. Possibly the original is the best but the other two are, in their own way, certainly worth seeing.

Live die repeat I saw in the cinema. Enjoyed it but not enough to go out and buy a copy (probably will get it when I see a sale offer)

I did miss Blade Runner didn't I. I have the original book too (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) which I bought years ago long before I saw the film. Agree the second film is very good too.

Total recall too. Arnie's head dismantling whilst you watch is pretty cool isn't it. Again the later film is very worth a look.

Haven't seen any of the films you mention in the later part of your post - I'll read some reviews and see where i go from there.

Michael Crichton's name I know well but can't remember reading any of his stuff, then again my memory often fails me these days!

Thanks for the post Andy, I enjoyed that!
 
Andy, Have you seen "Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within" A bit different and very interesting to watch. District 9 is quite entertaining too? Interstellar, Sphere, Contact?

You know I said my memory is failing these days? I just came across the new blade runner Blu Ray "hiding" under the original version in DVD! I'm afraid there really is no hope for me!
 
Andy, Have you seen "Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within" A bit different and very interesting to watch. District 9 is quite entertaining too? Interstellar, Sphere, Contact?

You know I said my memory is failing these days? I just came across the new blade runner Blu Ray "hiding" under the original version in DVD! I'm afraid there really is no hope for me!

It sounds like we have a lot of the same tastes in films.

Final fantasy I watched in the cinema way back when it came out, was groundbreaking at the time and the CGI still stands up today.

District 9 I think I saw on download when it came out not one we went to the cinema for but entertaining, not one I would
Rush to watch again maybe due to its overwhelming political tones and comments on South African apartheid.

Interstellar I think most people watched and I think I watched it again earlier in the year, Sphere and contact are old now, contact I enjoyed a lot back in the day films from around then where not so constricted by having to be the next block buster so they tried new things, have you seen event horizon gory as hell but interesting horror scifi?, sphere I barely remember but I think that was written my Michael Critcheon, he also wrote the stories behind Jurassic Park, Congo and a few others including the ER tv series.

Another one I just reminded myself of you may enjoy is Arrival with Amy Adams, aliens turn up on earth and then there is a whole story behind humans and the aliens trying to communicate with one another.
 
The last of the "real" Citroens Dave? I've always admired the Maserati engined version - designated SM? - Oh, here's one I just found:
https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/citroen/sm/sm/1971/208925
What a beautiful looking car!

The SM/Maserati is a true classic but I'm really not that keen. It's too Space 1999 for my liking.

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PS why are the old Citroens always pictured in high riding mode. They had three of not four settings. On the floor, normal, high and high high for wheel changing.
 
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hi my favorite car was the one my late father gave me for my 17th birthday , A E TYPE back in the sixtys 1938 morris 8 E TYPE. o what a motor car, it had twin su carbs, heater in rear window and a rear blind, which had a notice on it. DONOT LAUGH MRS YOUR DAUGHTER MIGHT BE IN THE BACK.
One of these?
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1243422
Have to say I didn't know they had twin carbs, was it perhaps something like an Aquaplane conversion?

I know this info is posted somewhere else on the forum so, at the risk of boring some of you, My first car was a 1930 (or thereabouts) Morris Minor which I learned to drive in by roaring round the fields. It was followed by a 1935 Mk1 Morris 8 tourer which was road legal but still got driven mostly round the hard surfaced tracks and fields. Wish I still had either of them.

Somewhere I have photographs of both cars. If I can find them I will try to scan them into my laptop using my new (bought about a month ago) Canon printer. My previous Epson could scan too but I've never tried to do it so there's another wee challenge for me. If I succeed I'll post them on here - but don't hold your breath anyone.

You gave me a jolly good laugh reminding me of the "Don't Laugh" signs. My pal had one and I really really wanted one but my Dad said he'd impound the car if dared. I knew he meant it so I chickened out. Clever idea to hide it in the roll up blind though.
 
Another one I just reminded myself of you may enjoy is Arrival with Amy Adams, aliens turn up on earth and then there is a whole story behind humans and the aliens trying to communicate with one another.

I quite enjoyed Arrival but it was quite slow wasn't it.

I also quite enjoyed "Passengers". Maybe I'm slow on the uptake but I didn't really understand the furore which it later attracted. Certainly not the greatest SF film I've seen but quite enjoyable.
 
Somewhere I have photographs of both cars. If I can find them I will try to scan them into my laptop using my new (bought about a month ago) Canon printer. My previous Epson could scan too but I've never tried to do it so there's another wee challenge for me. If I succeed I'll post them on here - but don't hold your breath anyone.

These days a smartphone photograph will do almost as good a job as a scanner.
 
These days a smartphone photograph will do almost as good a job as a scanner.
David Vizard - A hallowed name from the past. I read one of his Mini books before I modified my 1275 Cooper S back in the '60's. I did the spanner work myself but bought in a Downton head and long centre branch exhaust manifold. I changed the cam too but can't remember what I bought except it was made by Kent Cams. The car went much better but spluttered about and wouldn't pull cleanly from low revs. I loved it as I was young and it let me pretend I was driving a "monster" as you had to "clear it's throat" every now and again when in heavy traffic to stop it fouling plugs! Ah, the delusions of youth!

PS Don't have a smart 'phone Dave, but I might try with my rather good Panasonic camera. Hadn't thought to try that, thanks.
 
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PS Don't have a smart 'phone Dave, but I might try with my rather good Panasonic camera. Hadn't thought to try that, thanks.

That worked rather well Dave!

So here's Esmiralda, my 1930ish Morris Minor:

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Not a great picture but it was taken on my Kodak box camera over 50 years ago! I bought her from the station yard scrap merchant in the late '50's for peanuts. Lots of things wrong with her but she was great for romping round the fields. I learned an enormous amount about car control at quite low speeds on the mud and slippy grass. Probably spent more time going sideways than in a straight line!

And here is Genefein my 1935 (maybe '36) series 1 Morris 8:

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Picture taken in 1961 (photo is date stamped) I swapped an AJS 350 single pot scrambler for her - not sure which vehicle I had more fun with.

Oh how I wish I still had all three of them!
 
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