My favorite sci-fi films.

Forbidden Planet - I have watched this as a kid, still want to see it again. The plot was amazing.
War of The Worlds - Watch Both versions, original and Spielbergs.
2001 - The pinacle of hard sci fi films.
Solaris - Watch it in day you are in agood mood, because you will need that, but worth of course. Clockwork Orange - A distopian proto cyberpunk classic.
Westworld - get some wild androids going nuts.
The Andromeda Strain- Really astonishing film for its time.
Alien 1- The best one ever made about killer aliens
Outland - a western in space
Blade Runner - Best film ever (IMHO of course :-))
Predator 1- though not strictly sci-fi, the monster is an alien right?
Akira- Cyberpunk anime. A classic.
Total Recall - P. K Dicks based film with roaler-coaster action and Sharon Stone.
Sphere- Highly underated but really impressive.
Contact- A very good version of Carl Sagan's excellent book.
Dark City - One of the most underated films ever. Must see it.
13th Floor - part of the fake worlds not connected trilogy with the above and below mentioned films.
Matrix 1 - You probably watche it already.
Ghost in The Shell- Maybe the best cyberpunk anime ever made.
Fifth Element - The best space opera ever made. Astonishing visual.
Gattaca - genetic engineering themes.
Serenity - Watch the series first though: Firefly
Minority Report- Check the eye scene.
AI: Yeah I pretty much dig it.
The Chronicles of Riddick- This is a futuristic fantasy but hell worth it.
Wall.e - Really astonishing film though people think it is aimed to kids only.

These are my favorite ones, I am not even calling them "bests", because it would be frakkin arrogant ;-)

Galy records

Good tip:


http://www.galyrecords.com/e-store.html

You can buy Gorguts, Neuraxis, Beneath The Massacre for 14 US$ dollars including shipping to Brazil. That is exactly the same as buying a cd like Death "Symbolic" for US$ 15 in a so-called "promotion" I have seen it. The difference is one is an import and the other is a Brazilian made cd.

cd prices in Brazil

The average American makes US$ 32 000 per year according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_Joe.

Considering that he has not college background. Which gives US$ 2666,00. This person can buy a cd ( let's suppose that he pays US$ 12 for a decent cd ). Thus:

One average american could buy aprox. 222 cds per month. He would not have to import cds see it.

A person in Brazil with a degree from a good University like USP would make like ( at best of course ) US$ 15000 per year, or US$ 1215 per month.

Brazilian cds cost from US$ 11 to US$ 18,75 which takes us to 64,80 cds/month. if one wants to get good cds, one will need to import and pay from US$ 20 to US$ 30 . Hardly, not often RIO, technical metal, technical death metal bands have their albuns released in Brazil. I am not counting suriving costs like rent, food, healthy and education of course, this is a rather simple comparison.

Once you see an artist complaining that someone in Brazil downloaded mp3s ( I am not saying I download you know, I am just analysing a situation ) and this artist feels offended you can see that he has a narrow-minded view of reality. Once you see kids in USA that can buy 10 or 15 cds /month you certainly feel rather depressed. At least I do.