Best Sci Fi movie

[startrekrcks]

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2001 A Space Odyssey
Planet of the Apes
Bicetennial Man my personal favourite.
Any others you can think of
Post your thoughts

 

[FalTorPan]

My top five favorite sci-fi films are:

Blade Runner
Forbidden Planet
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars
Plan 9 from Outer Space

 

[xortex]

Zardoz. Nobody knows what's science fiction anymore. It's not only the future of things we know but the future of things we don't know.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Alien
Blade Runner
Planet of the Apes
2001
Soylent Green

The best sci-fi action movie is Robocop, followed by the first two Mad Max films.

 

[Admiral2]

Ever?

The Day The Earth Stood Still (the original)

Followed by:

Forbidden Planet
War of the Worlds (original)
The Thing From Another World
Alien

 

[xortex]

Somehow I thought it was 'Singing in the Rain' That wasn't real rain.

 

[Kirkman1987]

The Day The Earth Stood Still (the original)

Forgetting that movie in my list has been my greatest embarrassment of the day. There's just so many great sci-fi movies.

 

[JiNX-01]

Wow. All my nominations are already here.

 

[gturner]

Stars Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Highlander II: The Quickening
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

 

[xortex]

Actually in the future we will all be able to sing and dance like Gene Kelley. Question is will we use it for good or evil.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

er...worst

Stars Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Highlander II: The Quickening
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

LOL.

Let me see if I can add to that great list...
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Stars Wars: Episode II: AOTC
(IMHO solely for the acting by Hayden Christensen)

 

[gturner]

What is it about movies with colons?

 

[Kirkman1987]

Re: er...worst

Stars Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Highlander II: The Quickening
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

LOL.

Let me see if I can add to that great list...
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Stars Wars: Episode II: AOTC
(IMHO solely for the acting by Hayden Christensen)

Moonraker

 

[Harvey]

Re: er...worst

An excessive list, to be sure...

12 Monkeys
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
Aliens
Blade Runner
Brazil
Children of Men
A Clockwork Orange
Dark City
The Empire Strikes Back
The Fly (1986)
Forbidden Planet
Gattaca
Moon
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Primer
A Scanner Darkly
Solaris (1972)
Solaris (2002)
Soylent Green
Stalker
Starship Troopers
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars
The Thing (1982)

 

[Trek4Ever]

Off the top of my head, my incomplete list includes in no order:

Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
The Thing (1982)
Alien
Aliens
Blade Runner
E.T.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Strange Days
The Matrix
Dark City
Gattaca
Avatar
District 9
Children of Men
Wall-E
Star Trek IV
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1950s version)
War of the Worlds (1953)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Star Wars Episode III
Serenity
Forbidden Planet
Star Trek II
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek (2009)
The Abyss
The Terminator
Sunshine
Escape From New York
Starman
Terminator 2
Jurassic Park

 

[Too Much Fun]

Personal favourite: "Twelve Monkeys"
Best overall: "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951)

I laugh so hard all throughout "Twelve Monkeys" because I love how crazy Bruce Willis looks, sounds, and acts so that no one believes him, even though everything he's saying is true. Somehow, I can take that movie seriously and find it really intriguing and moving while at the same time laughing my ass off. There's a really twisted genius to it. No other movie has a funnier depiction of someone beating someone else to death.

 

[RyanKCR]

Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Wars
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Blade Runner
The Fifth Element
Forbidden Planet
War of the Worlds (original)
Time Machine (both)
The Matrix
Planet of the Apes
2001
2010


I know there are more but I don't have my list here.

 

[Too Much Fun]

When I was in university, I took a class called Apocalyptic Science Fiction and the teacher asked every student what their favourite science fiction movie was. I said, "Star Trek: First Contact" and everyone laughed at me. Not because of which Star Trek movie I mentioned, but the fact that I picked a Star Trek movie. I know because they were already starting to laugh after I'd only say Star Trek. Has anyone else ever been looked down upon for considering a Star Trek movie near the pinnacle of sci-fi? I was ashamed at the time, but I don't care now. I still think my favourite Star Trek movies (II, IV, and VIII) are better than 90% of sci-fi. "Star Trek: First Contact" is my next favourite after the others I mentioned.

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Dark City" or "Equilibrium" yet. I thought both were amazing. I know a lot of people out there think "Equilibirum" is dumb, but I seriously think it's the best of all the dystopia/negative vision of the future movies. I like it more than "Blade Runner" AND "Nineteen Eighty-Four", although I thought the latter was a decent adaptation. "Minority Report" was cool too.

 

[Harvey]

I was an undergraduate film student, and was certainly mocked a few times for being such a big fan of Star Trek, yeah. But then the new movie came out, and it was less of a big deal.

I don't really care either way.

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Gattaca
Moon
Sunshine
E.T.
Mad Max
The Road Warrior
WALL-E
The Thing
The Terminator
Blade Runner