I'm thinking a couple of Star Trek movies, the one with the Genesis device and the one with the whales (III and IV?).
And I'm thinking of Avatar.
And that one from the 70's with the greenhouse in space, Logan's Run?
That odd one with Hugh Jackman, that kind of mystical Buddhist green house one.
What else? I'm thinking there's more, but I'm blank on it.
The 70s greenhouse movie is Silent Running, with Bruce Dern - a fantastic movie directed by Douglas Trumball, FX maestro behind 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. Silent Running is a clear influence on Pixar's masterpiece Wall-E, which would also fall into the "green" sub-genre.
The Buddhist greenhouse movie is The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky. I wouldn't say it's about the preservation of the planet, though - it's a more intimate story exploring eternal love.
Nice calls, rooee. Can you think of any green sci fi?
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I guess The Abyss (Special Edition) has similarities to Avatar, in terms of possessing a message about caring for the planet and each other. And it's the better James Cameron film.
2001: A Space Odyssey isn't overtly a "green" movie, but it holds a mirror up to modern man, and ends with the ultimate hopeful image for our species.
In the 80s, Hayao Miyazaki made a beautiful fantasy sci-fi film about ecological responsibility called Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
The Mad Max sequels combine post-apocalyptic fetishism with an exploration of man's hunger for oil.
Another cautionary vision of the apocalypse is The Road, in which the colour green was actually digitally removed in post-production.
Soylent Green depicts a future where overpopulation and lack of food calls for desperate measures...
Sorry I can't be of more help.
Thanks. Some of those I've never seen, and I've never even heard of the Japanese one. I'll check them out.
shareActually, Miyazaki has a fair amount of "green" in most his movies.
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) and Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) are good examples of this.
Anime overall is a good place to find "green" movies, sci-fi or otherwise.
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I was thinking at least one of his movies. I think Laputa may count too with there not really being any magic or spirituality, and it features the eponymous castle amongst the clouds. (Not to mention Gulliver's Travels being considered Sci-Fi.)
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I'm making a movie list out of this thread for future references. Great discussion.
shareThanks! I'd forgotten about this thread, but since then I think I've seen some more Green SF. Maybe Final Fantasy IV, The Spirits Within. And another anime, I think this one was French, Kaena, that was pretty green. I suppose a lot of the green SF movies are post-apocalyptic, so they are green because they show a world that is dead or nearly so. And after this post, I saw Nausicaä and then most of Miyazaki's other films, definitely a green theme in many. Also, speaking of Japanese directors, Kirasawa had a surreal green sequence in Dreams which might be loosely called SF.
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