Ryujin
Legend
I would say that "Stardust" only loses in comparison to "The Princess Bride", but is a fine movie in its own right.
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Scifi/fantasy to watch with mom
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Ralif Redhammer
Legend
When I was a teenager, I rented The Man Who Fell to Earth one Thanksgiving with the family, figuring "Oh, David Bowie is cool." I nearly died of embarrassment, covering my head with a napkin!
It's only really sci-fi/fantasy adjacent, but what about The Guild?
It's only really sci-fi/fantasy adjacent, but what about The Guild?
Gotta chime in that Resident Alien is one of the few Sci-Fi shows MY mom showed any interest in. She watched a couple episodes with me and got a kick out of them. She’s not a fan of the genre, so that’s HUGE in my book.
Ryujin
Legend
Season 2 starts on Jan. 26th.
AtomicPope
Hero
Netflix has a few series and movies that are definitely worthy of a mention:
* Stranger Things (4 seasons) - it taps into the 80's nostalgia of sci-fi and horror (E.T., Firestarter, The Thing) combined with 80's kid adventure (Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). It's a family friendly show about 80's kids in small town Indiana where one kid ends up missing, and it's up to his friends to find him.
* The OA (2 seasons) - a low key sci-fi/fantasy show where the 1st season is flawless for its execution of the unreliable narrator. Unique in its execution you could stop at season 1 as season 2 has a completely different style, a more traditional sci-fi/fantasy narrative. Season 2 breaks the 4th wall in a way that no other show has before.
* I Am Mother (movie) - a sci-fi movie about an AI keeping the last human alive. The AI raises a human as its child, teaching her how to be human and develop into an adult. It becomes clear the AI isn't telling us everything, but how much it's lying remains to be seen by the last surviving human and whether or not the AI will allow her to live if she discovers the truth.
* Orbiter 9 (movie) - a Spanish language sci-fi movie about a dystopian earth where a human is born in space and living as a guinea pig for scientists on earth. Then one day there's a malfunction on Orbiter 9, and a scientist decides to interfere with the mission.
* Stargate (movie) - 90's sci-fi movie that launched a half-a-dozen tv series spin offs. The premise is simple and complex: ancient Egypt was created by aliens, and only one Egyptologist figured it out. Since he understands the language more than anyone, he's called to decipher the StarGate, an alien technology that opens a rift in space to another Stargate. On the other side is another Egypt, but it's still ruled by Aliens.
* Minority Report (movie) - John (Tom Cruise) is the lead detective of the Pre-Crime division, a police unit that arrests people moments before they commit murder. The images of the future come from 3 Pre-Cogs, psychics kept in a drug-sedated REM stat. Murders have been nearly eradicated. Then one day images of John committing murder appear. He has less than 36 hours to solve the crime before he's locked away.
* Let Me In (movie) - a low-budget horror drama that follows troubled kids into what could be a death cult where nothing is as what it seems. The movie is unique in the psychological motives of the kids and adults are extremely well played in both script and acting, with no over-the-top dialogue or grandstanding performances.
* Stranger Things (4 seasons) - it taps into the 80's nostalgia of sci-fi and horror (E.T., Firestarter, The Thing) combined with 80's kid adventure (Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). It's a family friendly show about 80's kids in small town Indiana where one kid ends up missing, and it's up to his friends to find him.
* The OA (2 seasons) - a low key sci-fi/fantasy show where the 1st season is flawless for its execution of the unreliable narrator. Unique in its execution you could stop at season 1 as season 2 has a completely different style, a more traditional sci-fi/fantasy narrative. Season 2 breaks the 4th wall in a way that no other show has before.
* I Am Mother (movie) - a sci-fi movie about an AI keeping the last human alive. The AI raises a human as its child, teaching her how to be human and develop into an adult. It becomes clear the AI isn't telling us everything, but how much it's lying remains to be seen by the last surviving human and whether or not the AI will allow her to live if she discovers the truth.
* Orbiter 9 (movie) - a Spanish language sci-fi movie about a dystopian earth where a human is born in space and living as a guinea pig for scientists on earth. Then one day there's a malfunction on Orbiter 9, and a scientist decides to interfere with the mission.
* Stargate (movie) - 90's sci-fi movie that launched a half-a-dozen tv series spin offs. The premise is simple and complex: ancient Egypt was created by aliens, and only one Egyptologist figured it out. Since he understands the language more than anyone, he's called to decipher the StarGate, an alien technology that opens a rift in space to another Stargate. On the other side is another Egypt, but it's still ruled by Aliens.
* Minority Report (movie) - John (Tom Cruise) is the lead detective of the Pre-Crime division, a police unit that arrests people moments before they commit murder. The images of the future come from 3 Pre-Cogs, psychics kept in a drug-sedated REM stat. Murders have been nearly eradicated. Then one day images of John committing murder appear. He has less than 36 hours to solve the crime before he's locked away.
* Let Me In (movie) - a low-budget horror drama that follows troubled kids into what could be a death cult where nothing is as what it seems. The movie is unique in the psychological motives of the kids and adults are extremely well played in both script and acting, with no over-the-top dialogue or grandstanding performances.
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payn
Glory to Marik
Carful searching this one because there is also a violent horror movie about a child vampire sharing the same name.
Ryujin
Legend
Co-starring a very young Chloë Grace Moretz. It's very good but yeah, pretty violent IIRC.
payn
Glory to Marik
The original Swedish is slightly better, but the American adaption is still quite good too. Just its certainly not what the OP is looking for.
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