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Post by kevin on May 26, 2018 9:31:27 GMT
What are your top 20 favorite sci-fi movies? It's a bit difficult to be sure when something really is sci-fi and when it is more fantasy or horror, but I tried my best.
I decided not to count Fury Road as sci-fi, otherwise it would've been at #6.
My list:
1. Blade Runner 2049 / Denis Villeneuve / 2017
2. The Empire Strikes Back / Irvin Kirshner / 1980
3. Alien / Ridley Scott / 1979
4. Inception / Christopher Nolan / 2010
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick / 1968
6. The Thing / John Carpenter / 1982
7. Star Wars / George Lucas / 1977
8. Annihilation / Alex Garland / 2018
9. Gravity / Alfonson Cuarón / 2013
10. Jurassic Park / Steven Spielberg / 1993
11. Aliens / James Cameron / 1986
12. Wall-E / Andrew Stanton / 2008
13. Back to the Future / Robert Zemeckis / 1985
14. Interstellar / Christopher Nolan / 2014
15. Arrival / Denis Villeneuve / 2015
16. Children of Men / Alfonso Cuarón / 2013
17. Blade Runner / Ridley Scott / 1982
18. Snowpiercer / Bong Joon-ho / 2013
19. Ex Machina / Alex Garland / 2015
20. E.T. / Steven Spielberg / 1982
HM: Avatar, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Her, Moon, Looper, V For Vendetta, Edge of Tomorrow.
What is your top 10 or top 20?
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Post by anthonyrocks on May 26, 2018 9:53:46 GMT
1. John Carpenter's THE THING
2. Aliens
3. Alien
4. STAR TREK VI - The Undiscovered Country
5. STAR TREK II - The Wrath of Khan
6. The Thing (2011)
7. Independence Day
8. Jurassic Park
9. STAR WARS - The Force Awakens
10. 2010
11. Stargate
12. Predator
13. Gravity
14. STAR TREK - Generations
15. STAR TREK - First Contact
16. Avatar
17. The Abyss
18. The Terminator
19. Alien 3 (The Assembly Cut)
20. Event Horizon
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Post by tastytomatoes on May 26, 2018 10:12:10 GMT
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick / 1968
2. Blade Runner / Ridley Scott / 1982
3. The Thing / John Carpenter / 1982
4. Brazil / Terry Gilliam / 1985
5. Aliens / James Cameron / 1986
6. Terminator 2 / James Cameron / 1991
7. 12 Monkeys / Terry Gilliam / 1995
8. The Fifth Element / Luc Besson / 1997
9. V for Vendetta / James McTeigue / 2005
10. The Prestige / Christopher Nolan / 2006
11. Avatar / James Cameron / 2009
12. Inception / Christopher Nolan / 2010
13. Gravity / Alfonson Cuarón / 2013
14. Children of Men / Alfonso Cuarón / 2013
15. Interstellar / Christopher Nolan / 2014
16. Edge of Tomorrow / Doug Liman / 2014
17. Guardians of the Galaxy / James Gunn / 2014
18. Arrival / Denis Villeneuve / 2015
19. Ex Machina / Alex Garland / 2015
20. The Lobster / Yorgos Lanthimos / 2015
Can't rank them, so I'll just go by year. In bold are my top 5.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on May 26, 2018 11:19:41 GMT
Blade Runner
The Kindred
Super Mario Bros. The Movie
Aliens
Independence Day
Gravity
The Lawnmower Man
Robocop
Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie
The Terminator
Terminator 2 Judgement Day
Back to the Future
Back to the Future 2
Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 26, 2018 12:05:08 GMT
The Thing (1982)
Blade Runner
empire Strikes Back
2001
thevTerminator
star Wars
Alien
return of the Jedi
robocop (original)
moon
Children of Men
the Force Awakens
alien3
total Recall
Predator
Starship Troopers
close encounters
Gravity
Edge of Tomorrow
wall e
Her
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Post by Reggie_Stration on May 26, 2018 12:55:56 GMT
Alien
Aliens
The Terminator
Blade Runner
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Edge of Tomorrow
Terminator 2
The Thing
Predator
The Matrix
Star Trek
Minority Report
Mad Max 2
Children of Men
Star Wars
Total Recall
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Back to the Future
The Prestige
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Post by NJtoTX on May 26, 2018 13:17:28 GMT
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. City of Lost Children (1995)
3. Back to the Future (1985)
4. Resurrection (1980)
5. Groundhog Day (1993)
6. The Terminator (1984)
7. Sleeper (1973)
8. Brazil (1985)
9. Frankenstein (1931)
10. Defending Your Life (1991)
11. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
12. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
13. King Kong (1933)
14. Planet of the Apes (1968)
15. Dark Star (1974)
16. Frankenhooker (1990)
17. Cocoon (1985)
18. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
19. Blade Runner (1982)
20. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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Post by Reggie_Stration on May 26, 2018 13:20:40 GMT
A few of these may not qualify. 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2. City of Lost Children (1995) 3. Back to the Future (1985) 4. Resurrection (1980) 5. Groundhog Day (1993) 6. The Terminator (1984) 7. Sleeper (1973) 8. The Birds (1963) 9. Brazil (1985) 10. Frankenstein (1931) 11. Defending Your Life (1991) 12. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) 13. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 14. King Kong (1933) 15. Planet of the Apes (1968) 16. Dark Star (1974) 17. Frankenhooker (1990) 18. The Sixth Sense (1999) 19. Cocoon (1985) 20. The Exorcist (1973) Yeah, I wouldn't consider The Birds, The Sixth Sense or The Exorcist as sci-fi films at all. |
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Post by NJtoTX on May 26, 2018 13:28:46 GMT
Yeah, I wouldn't consider The Birds, The Sixth Sense or The Exorcist as sci-fi films at all. Ok, editing. But the Birds is a fictional massing and attack by birds which has some scientific basis. If that isn't, King Kong isn't, though tha is one of its genres at IMDb. And I can make cases for the other two. |
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on May 26, 2018 13:42:24 GMT
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) is the one film always missing from these lists (that should be on them).
One of the greatest, most prescient SF films ever.
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Post by Reggie_Stration on May 26, 2018 13:51:37 GMT
Yeah, I wouldn't consider The Birds, The Sixth Sense or The Exorcist as sci-fi films at all. Ok, editing. But the Birds is a fictional massing and attack by birds which has some scientific basis. If that isn't, King Kong isn't, though tha is one of its genres at IMDb. And I can make cases for the other two. Sure, you could make cases for a lot of horror films being sci-fi. Poltergeist would be another. I think it comes down to what one expects to see from those genres. Sci-fi for me is always associated with futuristic/space elements or something way outside the realm of science as we know it such as Jurassic Park or King Kong (although I consider this more fantasy), whereas for the supernatural, as a rule I'd tend to consider them horror. |
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Post by NJtoTX on May 26, 2018 14:16:30 GMT
Ok, editing. But the Birds is a fictional massing and attack by birds which has some scientific basis. If that isn't, King Kong isn't, though tha is one of its genres at IMDb. And I can make cases for the other two. Sure, you could make cases for a lot of horror films being sci-fi. Poltergeist would be another. I think it comes down to what one expects to see from those genres. Sci-fi for me is always associated with futuristic/space elements or something way outside the realm of science as we know it such as Jurassic Park or King Kong (although I consider this more fantasy), whereas for the supernatural, as a rule I'd tend to consider them horror. I don't consider Star Wars sci-fi. Just some allegorical archetypal fantasy shit. I was expecting sci-fi when I saw it in 1977 after waiting in line over an hour, and it completely pissed me off. |
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Post by movielover on May 26, 2018 15:30:59 GMT
The Matrix
Predator
Dark City
The Thing (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Innerspace
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
Minority Report
The Empire Strikes Back
Back to the Future
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Aliens
Contact
Terminator 2
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
The Butterfly Effect
Twelve Monkeys
The Terminator
The Road Warrior
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Post by mikef6 on May 26, 2018 16:46:37 GMT
I find it impossible to rank large numbers of individual titles so here are 20 great films science fiction films in chronologiacl order.
Island of Lost Souls / Erle C. Kenton (1932)
Berkeley Square / Frank Lloyd (1933)
The Invisible Man / James Whale (1933)
King Kong / Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
The Thing from Another World / Christian Nyby (1951)
The War of the Worlds / Byron Haskin (1953)
Gojira / Ishirô Honda (1954)
Them! / Gordon Douglas (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers / Don Siegel (1956)
The Incredible Shrinking Man / Jack Arnold (1957)
The Time Machine / George Pal (1960)
The Birds / Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
Fail-Safe / Sidney Lumet (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) / George Miller (1981)
The Terminator / James Cameron (1984)
Back To The Future / Robert Zemeckis (1985)
Aliens / James Cameron (1986)
Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes) / Nacho Vigalondo (2007)
Predestination / Michael And Peter Spierig (2014)
And, what the hey, here is another essential 10 in chrono order.
On the Beach / Stanley Kramer (1959)
Seconds / John Frankenheimer (1966)
Ghost Busters / Ivan Reitman (1984)
Gattaca / Andrew Niccol (1997)
Existenz / David Cronenberg (1999)
Frequency / Gregory Hoblit (2000)
Primer / Shane Carruth (2004)
Children Of Men / Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
Moon / Duncan Jones (2009)
Gravity / Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
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Post by NJtoTX on May 26, 2018 16:57:01 GMT
Frequency / Gregory Hoblit (2000) I really liked the time displacement and the father-son relationship across time in the 1st act and had high hopes for the movie. Review I wrote at the time: |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 17:29:44 GMT
NOTE: I’m not counting ‘Star Wars’ as science fiction nor ‘The Thing’ which I count as horror (my #1 horror film of all time)
1. Alien - fuck off Kubrick, 2001 ain’t got nothing on this!
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Children of Men
4. Aliens (best action film ever made and by far Cameron’s best work)
5. Arrival
6. Blade Runner
7. 2001 A Space Odessey
8. Gravity
9. Annihilation
10. E.T.
11. Ex Machina
Are we counting the terminator movies, inception and Jurassic Park as sci fi?
Note: Films I need to rewatch or watch for the first time that could potentially make the list: Brazil, interstellar, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, her
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Post by mikef6 on May 26, 2018 17:36:47 GMT
Frequency / Gregory Hoblit (2000) I really liked the time displacement and the father-son relationship across time in the 1st act and had high hopes for the movie. Review I wrote at the time: I agree with a lot of what you said but I think the plot construction of having the current story slowly converge on the changing past story was very interesting and satisfying. Besides, I just have a built in bias in favor of time travel movies. I have, however, become too sensitive of typical movie cliches and, even in the best of films, I will become distracted when something obvious pops up. In "Frequency," it is the long debunked idea that setting off a ceiling sprinkler in one room will cause the entire building to be flooded. I was disappointed that this played such a large part in the crime plot. This is one of the main reasons that "Frequency" landed in my second tier of favorites rather than the first. |
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Post by gspdude on May 26, 2018 17:44:50 GMT
Using IMDB's determination of Sci Fi.
1.King Kong (1933)
2.The Thing from Another World
3.The Matrix
4.Forbidden Planet
5.Serenity
6.The Terminator
7.Godzlla, King of the Monsters
8.Aliens
9.Alien
10.Gravity
11.Colossus: the Forbin Project (thanks for the reminder SuperDevilDoctor)
12.Star Trek (2009)
13.The 13th Floor
14.Preditor
15.The Thing
16.Intersteller
17.Prometheus
18.The Road Warrior
19.Frankenstein (1931)
20.X-Men: First Class
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 21:11:02 GMT
1. Inception
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Blade Runner
5. The Prestige
6. War for the Planet of the Apes
7. V for Vendetta
8. Her
9. Alien
10. Mad Max: Fury Road
11. The Matrix
12. Back to the Future
13. Children of Men
14. The Thing
15. Interstellar
16. Edge of Tomorrow
17. Aliens
18. Wall-E
19. Arrival
20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 26, 2018 22:07:08 GMT
A few of these may not qualify. 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2. City of Lost Children (1995) 3. Back to the Future (1985) 4. Resurrection (1980) 5. Groundhog Day (1993) 6. The Terminator (1984) 7. Sleeper (1973) 8. The Birds (1963) 9. Brazil (1985) 10. Frankenstein (1931) 11. Defending Your Life (1991) 12. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) 13. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 14. King Kong (1933) 15. Planet of the Apes (1968) 16. Dark Star (1974) 17. Frankenhooker (1990) 18. The Sixth Sense (1999) 19. Cocoon (1985) 20. The Exorcist (1973) Yeah, I wouldn't consider The Birds, The Sixth Sense or The Exorcist as sci-fi films at all. Yeah they are definitely not |
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