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    For many years I have been having visions of a sci-fi movie I viewed as a kid (I was born in 1984 which should help situate the timeframe). It's difficult to know how much of it is borne of imagination or mixed memories, but my intuition suggests it was a movie - I can vividly recall enacting scenes of it with my friends, taking up specific character roles, and so on.

    All I recall is that the movie had a dystopian flavour. I don't know if the characters were in some kind of future landscape (my gut says they were) here on earth or whether they were in some kind of special zone. I do feel that it did not take place on a different planet, etc.

    Each character followed a kind of general template - the bulky, brawny guy who I think had some kind of large weapon, at least one woman who may have been sharp/intelligent, and perhaps one either main character, with a possible fourth I can't recall.

    They seemed to be in some kind of large-scale battle, against the odds, kind of war. The movie definately had comic elements, but was not overly a comedy.

    I realise this is intensely vague. My one scene-recall is about the brawny guy in a scene of relative devastation (a kind of terminator vibe, blueish scene with metallic surroundings) perhaps making a wise-crack to another team member. He has a weapon of some kind, perhaps prosthetic.

    Sorry for the lack of details, but I am hoping someone can make some connections.

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    Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

    The Matrix, perhaps? Or The Fifth Element? Mind you, neither of these were B-movies, they were both huge box-office hits, so maybe not these two.
    Another one that comes to mind is Tron, which came out the year you were born and which you may have seen as a repeat on TV. That was set in a computer-generated virtual reality world.

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    • #3
      Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

      Certainly a B-movie in my recollection - none of the mainstream, popular sci-fi movies from the 90s onwards (I am a fan of these). I first viewed this film in what I think must have been the early rather than late 90s and at an age when I would not have been so aware as when I viewed the Matrix etc. Not Tron either which is quite a vivid movie for me as I suspect it was for many. It's something a little more obscure than these. Thank you for the response

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      • #4
        Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

        Try this wiki link that lists 80's sci fi films.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_of_the_1980s

        Personally,it sound like the film: Escape from New York to me,which starred Kurt Russell.




        I hope it is the film you were thinking of.

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        • #5
          Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

          Trancers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trancers

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          • #6
            Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

            First of all thanks everyone!

            I don't think it is Trancers - from what I recall there was not too much action on Earth - or an Earth we would recognize. Although Escape from New York kind of has that same edge I know that movie too well for it to be the same one.

            I am going to try the list too just in case!

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            • #7
              Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

              Sounds a bit like a 1997 film called Hybrid

              http://filmsandtv.com/genre.php?gs=1990Sci-Fi&pg=8

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              • #8
                Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

                I *think* I may have found it - through some link clicking on youtube via the Hybrid trailer - I believe it was this movie:
                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtlFI...eature=related
                A.P.E.X. (1994).

                I am not absolutely certain, but it is by far the closest I have seen to what I have in mind yet.

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                • #9
                  Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

                  Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=z351Gqxiv8E

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                  • #10
                    Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

                    Could it have been Screamers 1995

                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50rO2ICyc2A
                    80's 80's 80's

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                    • #11
                      Re: Sci Fi Movie - vague description

                      A wild guess........Salute Of The Jugger?

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