Best Sci Fi movie

[ngc7293]

Some of my favorite movies are on that thread of hated movies

The Matrix series
Star Trek II and IV
(didn't like Star Trek the pajama party)
Gattaca
Blade Runner
Ultra Violet
5th Element
Dune
Star Wars (4-6)
Westworld
Mad Max series
Tron
MiB 1&2
Frequency
Sin City
Watchmen

 

[Too Much Fun]

I just realized I forgot "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"! I can't believe it, since there's no way I've enjoyed any sci-fi movie more (or more times) than that one, so I guess my top five ranking would be:

1) Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2) Star Trek: First Contact
3) Twelve Monkeys
4) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
5) Alien

Honourable mention to "The X-Files" (aka "Fight the Future"). Nice to see "Men in Black" being mentioned. I just saw "Them!" recently and I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves sci-fi. It is much better than its goofy premise suggests.

 

[zakkrusz]

Akira
Appleseed (2004)
Appleseed: Ex Machina
Avatar
The Book of Eli
The Chronicles of Riddick
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Equilibrium
Frequency
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Independence Day
Iron Man
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park II: The Lost World
Jurassic Park III
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
Moon
Pale Cocoon
Paprika (2006)
Patlabor: The Movie
Patlabor 2: The Movie
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Serenity
Spriggan
Stargate
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek (2009)
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Terminator: Salvation
Transformers Films (including the animated one)
X-Files: Fight the Future
X-Files: I want to Believe

 

[The Master of Tarquin Hill]

There is no best Sci-Fi film.

Sorry.

 

[startrekrcks]

Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Star Trek 09
Star Trek First Contact is one of the best out of the TNG movies, it is great.

 

[Rii]

To add to those already listed:

The Fountain
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

[Deckerd]

Oh let me think...

Blade Runner

 

[Mistral]

To add to the (biggest) list- Alphaville
A Boy and His Dog
Silent Running

 

[Deckerd]

The message of Silent Running was way ahead of its time.

 

[Myasishchev]

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

Man, I love Moonraker.

Since it calls for one... probably The Truman Show.

 

[Chris_Johnston]

2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[Shazam!]

There is no best Sci-Fi film.

Yes there is; Blade Runner.

 

[Myasishchev]

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?

Ah, I see now why you take it personally.

As for the question, I dunno. Anybody that's into "good" or "hard" or "intellectual" sci-fi or whatever is already a huge Goddamn nerd, so being condescended to by them for being a nerd myself is logically impossible.

 

[startrekrcks]

Aww there's nothing to be ashamed of if you are a Trek fan not that I been one when I was growing up I became a fan after last summer's Star Trek film and have loved Star Trek ever since.

 

[JarodRussell]

Primer

 

[Gojira]

When World's Collide
The Time Machine (1960)
Star Wars (original trilogy)
Back to the Future Trilogy
Alien
Aliens
E.T.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Matrix
I Robot
Avatar
District 9
The Day the Earth Stood Still
War of the Worlds (1953)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Forbidden Planet
Soylent Green
Star Trek (I, II, III, IV, VI, First Contact, Star Trek)*
Jurassic Park
Independence Day
Godzilla (1954)

* I do like every Star Trek movie but I think those are the best.

 

[Greg Cox]

If I had to choose one, probably the original PLANET OF THE APES.

 

[Starbreaker]

My personal favorites:

Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country
Minority Report
Avatar
The Fountain
The Matrix
The Prestige
The Final Cut
Star Wars
Children of Men
Solaris