Awesome Science Fiction

While it still tells us nothing about the plot, the CG visuals in this gladiatorial fight between John Carter and some nasty, furry creatures give us something fun to watch while we chew on our popcorn.

(NSFW: Language) RL7 is a war machine, a robot made for combat. But it keeps having what it claims are memories and dreams. A short film by concept designer and VFX artist Aaron Sims.

YouTuber heresjohnny1991 re-cut footage from Alien and mashed it up with style the teaser for Prometheus. Prometheus seems more epic, but the Alien tagline is way better.

Ridley Scott returns to science fiction, sending a team of explorers on a journey to discover the origins of mankind. Scott denies the film is an Alien prequel, but it takes place in the Alien universe.

(NSFW: Language) A man convicted of espionage is offered freedom if he rescues the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates in MS ONE Maximum Security.

The music sounds awfully familiar, and the CGI isn’t up to Avatar standards, but we’re still impressed with this concept trailer for Alex Popov’s sci-fi action flick, which he says cost just $150 to make.

It’s been 10 years since the last MIB, but we’re stoked for Agents K and J to get back on the job, saving Earth from all manner of crazy aliens, and cracking us up along the way. Out May 2012.

The new trailer reveals way more of the incredible environments, spacecrafts, and creature animations from Andrew Stanton’s (Finding Nemo/Wall-E) first live-action film. Oh, and is Led Zeppelin from Mars?

With impressive visuals like these, it starts out looking like a Blade Runner clone, but Stargate Studios short film eventually turns into an action-packed thriller on the streets of San Francisco.

This present-day science fiction drops us into the middle of an attack by invisible alien invaders, stranding a group of young people in Moscow who must fight for the survival of the planet.

Who says cosplay has to be complex? Don you favorite Doctor’s garb with these photographic t-shirts that embody the full, flamboyant outfits of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 10th Doctors.

Director Mike Cahill’s allegorical tale follows an MIT astrophysics student, fascinated by the discovery of a second Earth, who crashes her car and kills a family while distracted by the new planet.

After watching this trailer for J.J. Abrams new flick, you can really see the influence of Producer Steven Spielberg. The mystery, magic and action remind us of classics like E.T. and Close Encounters.

Almost 30 years after Elliot helped E.T. to phone home, his planetary brothers and sisters return to Earth… to kick our asses and rip our limbs off. Our only hope: Operation Reese’s Pieces.

Angels & Airwaves’ Tom DeLonge (formerly of Blink 182) produced and created the music for William Eubank’s Love, a film about an astronaut who becomes stranded out in orbit, alone.

After a few teasers that showed us just barely a clue as to what this action/sci-fi flick might hold, we finally get to see how our planet meets its demise when the aliens attempt to colonize Earth.

Lushly directed and well executed, Ben Craig’s Modern Times was made with more love than money and will transport you to another dimension, in less than four minutes. (Thanks Landon!)

The director of District 9 is up to something, but we don’t know what. This hidden teaser showed up in the latest iPad issue of Wired, and all we know is that it’s creepy, and leaves us wanting for more.

A man wakes up in the body of a stranger, and it turns out he’s actually in a program which lets him live the final minutes of a person’s life, and is there to figure out who blew up the train he is on.

The talented Faith Pearson was challenged with incorporating old ink cartridges into her artwork. She transformed them into geeky, humorous works of art with heavy sci-fi and pop culture references.

In this live-action teaser for the latest in the Resistance series, we take a deeper look into Resistance 3’s brutal and war-torn universe. It’s expected out sometime in 2011, and we can’t wait.

This upcoming sci-fi flick from the Brothers Strause (of AvP: Requiem) tells the story of the arrival of aliens on planet Earth. From the looks of things, it doesn’t go bode well for us human occupants.

Check out all the security cameras and get a little taste of the bugged out terror that’s to come in this teaser for Paranormal Activity 2, due out in October in the US. Tod Williams directs.