Your best/favoutite SciFi Movies of all time!?!

I cannot believe this... I read this thread and decided i absolutely had to make a name and post.

How is the movie ALIENS not on anyones lists? hello? one of the best movies ever made? and u guys neglected Predator too!

*disclaimer
The sequels to both of those movies sucked hugely:bugeye:

 

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Fun. My list may include a bit of non-scifi, so bare with....

2001: A Space Odysee
The Terminator(2)
Independance Day
Star Wars(1,2,4,5,6)
The Matrix, Matrix Reloaded
Total Recall
Bruce Campbell vrs the Army of Darkness
Evil Dead 2
2010: The Year We make Contact
War of the Worlds
Babylon 5: In the Begining


Some of those obviously weren't top of the line movies, but I thought they were fun(Army of Darkness is an exception, as it was made so on purpose I suspect)....

 

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Total Recall? that movie was painful to watch. Schwarzeneggar at his... I wont say worst, because Collateral Damage was pretty bad too. Lets just say, not his best.

(spell check on Schwarzeneggar anyone?)

 

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ah, i missed this topic before...

i love sci fi!

Terminator 1&2 (3 doesn't cut it for me, although good action)
Matrix, naturally
Aliens 1&2 (of course 2 is better) 3 and 4 just was too painful...*sigh*
Fifth element
Star Wars (all of them)
Predator 1 (ah, thanks for reminding me, splunk)
2001: Space Odyssey (kubricks masterpiece)
Mad Max
Time bandits
(there's more but i can't think of it now)

 

Best ALL TIME sci-fi movies

1. The Day The Earth Stood Still

2. This Island Earth

3. The Forbidden Planet

4. The War of The Worlds

5. The Time Machine

6. Kronos

7. The Day Of The Triffids

8. Invaders From Mars (the original version 1963 i think)

9. The Fly (the original version 1962 i think)

10. 2001: A Space Odessey

11. When Worlds Collide

12. Earth Vs. Flying Saucers

13. Dark Star

14. Marooned

15. Them

16. It (1 and 2)

17. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

18. The Black Hole

19. Saturn 5

20. The Andriomedia Strain

These are but a few of 100's that I liked.

 

Children of Dune
Dune (both origanal movie and Scifi channel one)
Solaris (the origanal one)
Matrix (1 and 2)

of course its obvious i live for dune

 

I also loved Children of Dune. Just got the DVD a few weeks ago.

 

c'mon guys!

Dont miss the great tv-series stargate-sg1

 

This is for movies, not Tv shows.

 

UberDragon.....

Stargate was a movie first then became a TV series.

 

Where has this thread been hiding?

Okay, Sci-Fi, my favourite genre.

In no particular order...

1 - Stargate
I just love the concept behind this film and puts a huge spin on ancient myths and legends

2 - Aliens
Vietnam film in space. Lots of action, lots of firepower and lots of aliens

3 - War of the Worlds
A classic no matter how bad it looks today

4 - The Last Starfighter
Childhood memories *sniff*

5 - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Hoth Battle is still amazing

6 - Blade Runner
Not directors cut, too slow paced. Also a little too close don't you think.

7 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Although the US government was a little too friendly with those aliens

8 - Akira
I know it's manga but it's even in the Top 100 Sci-Fi films of all time and very well deserved

9 - Mad Max
There's something about this Post-Apocolyptic film that strikes a chord with me

10 - The Thing
I believe this was one of the last decent movies Kurt Russel ever made

11 - Soldier
I stand corrected, this was his last good movie

12 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
What's to explain?

13 - Back to the Future
Another classic!

14 - Equlibrium
My new favourite film, I never thought anything would topple Platoon.

15 - Metropolis
This was on C5 the other week and was way ahead of it's time, I applaude this film

 

Star Wars, Alien and Fifth Element. I'm not too into this end of SciFi.

BUT............................!

You just have to let me include Labyrinth and Dark Crystal. They are SO SciFi, and I love them!

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Science fiction is fiction about science, so it usually includes space films. I think this is because science's greatest acheivement has been to discover 'the universe', that exists outside out our solar system. Films probably initially began to record stories within books, chronologically, so the earlist books were recorded first, i.e. bible stories and plays etc. However commercial films seem to have taken off from where books departed: science fiction probably dominated the book market in the seventies, and thus with the wide availability of electrical goods, such as televisions and video players, at that time, came a new medium that has now become dominant.

The universe itself seems to have become the focus of attention, however fictions of science will probably begin to introduce notions of time travel, and other such areas of the unkown. Ideas about time travel have begun to seep through in the film format, under a scientific label, however maybe science didn't create these ideas at all. Maybe they have always been here.

I know one such time travel film (a remake) was written decades ago. Science fiction has already produced other ideas that have been presented as films, such as notions that viruses and bacteria could attack humanity, and who knows what science fiction will be produced in the future.

It is quite interesting that science, something that prides itself on producing observable and testable facts, has to boost it's status with fictional stories about itself.

It might also be interesting to compare the 'revenue' (re venue) of science of science (fact) to fiction of science. Bascially science fiction makes the statement "look, this could be true". All of this could be true. It could.

I hope I've made sense and I hope I haven't dragged on a bit.

 

1.) Terminator 3.
2.) Star Trek: Nemesis.
3.) Aliens.
4.) Fifth Element.
5.) Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan.

Terminator I is good, but too much techno music.

The Matrix is alright, but everytime I see it I wanna' kill Keannu.

 

1) star wars
2) space balls
3) aliens
4) action mutante
5) odyssey 2001

 

Ooops...how did I forget Spaceballs? I guess I didn't think we were including spoofs.

 

STAR WARS (all, especially Return of the Jedi)


Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

 

Yeah I don't think Keanu is much of an actor; He's so wooden. However I think the Matrix worked for him.

Sorry Keanu (if your listening).

 

Blade Runner