Sci-Fi movies

allanb49

What's your favorite and most loved Sci fi movie

Best ones out there
Ones you like personally no matter how bad
Guilty Pleasures

Want a binge next weekend.

tony1kenobi

Empire.

allanb49

as in the magizine?

Glico Man

I really like Serenity, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Star Wars etc

allanb49

seen most of the classics something obscure or forgotten :P

Captain Chaos

Event Horizon
Equilibrium
Starship Troopers
Ghosts of Mars.

They would be in my querky list, apart from the more traditional obvious classics.

chopperbyrne

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is still the best pure Sci-Fi film I've ever seen.

For Sci-Fi/Other Genre there are far too many to list.

Aliens is my favourite film of all time and I love The Thing too.

Sad Professor

2001: A Space Odyssey.

Nothing else in the sci-fi genre comes close to the brilliance of this film imo.

FunnyStuff

Stargate

ElBarco

The new star trek makes a good Sunday afternoon for me

Spiritoftheseventies

Blade Runner

nyarlothothep

Total Recall, so many quotes, Robocop, blade runner, 2001, ghostbusters, 12 monkeys, Terminator 1-2, Alien, Aliens, BTTF trilogy.

DazMarz

Best ones out there:

-Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
-Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
-Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi
-Alien
-Aliens
-The Matrix
-The Terminator
-Terminator II: Judgement Day
-Mad Max
-The Road Warrior (Mad Max II)
-Underworld
-Escape From New York

Ones you like personally no matter how bad:

-Independence Day
-Spaceballs
-Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith
Guilty Pleasures:

-Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
-Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones
-Escape From L.A.
-I Am Legend

Klingon Hamlet

Here's my list of re-watchables:

• Sunshine
• Star Trek II / VI / Star Trek 2009
• Starship Troopers
• Serenity (watch Firefly first!)
• The Matrix
• The Empire Strikes Back
• The Fifth Element
• Aliens
• Terminator 2 Extreme Edition
• Predator
  and finally, the best...
  Moon

Sir Gallagher

Westworld, quality 70's sci-fi/western starring Yul Bryner.

Pride Fighter

Total Recall, Terminator 1 and 2, The Running Man, Logans Run, Outland, The Omega Man, Planet of the Apes, Most Star Treks, Stargate, Starship Troopers, Robocop 1,2,3, Alien, Aliens, Rollerball, Night of the Comet, The 6th Day, Demolition Man and many many more:D:D

Reeni

So so many but my absolute favourites -2001:A Space Odyssey and Star Treks The Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home, especially The Voyage Home, god such a great film!

dunworth1

Robocop simple as

spiritcrusher

Dark City. One of the great hidden gems of sci-fi.

Ridley

Don't really have favourite movies but some I like:

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey
Alien/s/3
The Matrix
Escape from New York/LA
The One
Jurassic Park
Akira
I, Robot
Terminator/T2
Galaxy Quest
Back to the Future/Part II/Part III
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Highlander and the Star Wars saga aswell but I consider them more fantasy.

DazMarz wrote: »

Best ones out there:

...

-Escape From New York

...

Guilty Pleasures:
... -Escape From L.A....

How do you differentiate the two? LA's pretty much just a clone of the first film with a better version of the theme tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqn7J5rg6C4

ArseBurger

Some classics that will no doubt be forgotten:

Dark Star
Logan's Run
Silent Running
Capricorn One
Soylent Green
The Omega Man
The Andromeda Strain
THX 1138
Slaughterhouse Five
1984
Brazil
Demon Seed

deathstarkiller

Ridley wrote: »

How do you differentiate the two? LA's pretty much just a clone of the first film with a better version of the theme tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqn7J5rg6C4

Well I would consider myself a huge fan of John Carpenter movies.
Escape from New York is one my favourites. For me it's perfect in it's pacing, maybe not for todays audience who are used to quick cuts and shaky cam. The music is amazing. Snake Plissken is just a great anti-hero. Kurt Russells performance is perfect. The fact that Plissken tries so hard to be the bad ass that his name seems to suggest yet under it all he ultimately wants to do good and that actually annoys him always puts a smile on my face. Then you've got a fantastic cast, Ernest Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Donald Pleasance, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau and Lee Van Cleef. It's a movie of it's time. It feels early 80's. It had a small budget yet it manages to look like New York is a prison.

I Love Escape from L.A. but it's a whole different ball game. It's big budget yet looks a bit naff at times, it's like an MTV version of the first film but in a way that was on purpose. This was L.A. so it had to be a little more of an ott prison, it's the silly town, Hollywood. Despite all the dodgy stuff and sillyness Russell got it bang on and that's what holds it together. Here's Snake walking through all this crap and he hasn't changed at all. It also has a great original ending.

Feck ya, now I wanna watch em both again.

Sanjuro

IMHO, the best sci-fi films of the last decade are the following... no particular order-


Moon
District 9
Star Trek
The Prestige
Primer
Children Of Men
2046
Serenity
Sunshine
The Fountain

JP Liz V1

Serenity

budhabob

spiritcrusher wrote: »

Dark City. One of the great hidden gems of sci-fi.

+1

Fanny Cradock

The 70's were a golden age for sci-fi films. Logan's Run, Omega Man (based on I am legend, but with funkier hairdos) Colossus: The Forbin Project are to mention a few of the better ones.

podgemonster

Star Wars III, IV, V, VI
Alien Vs. Predator
Avatar

lizardfudge

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

Colossus: The Forbin Project are to mention a few of the better ones.

That's a great film. And definitely one not enough people have seen.

I'm going to suggest Forbidden Planet. To me it's the purest science fiction film there is.

It has this incredible sense of awe throughout... fantastic special effects that still hold up perfectly well and a wonderful concept behind it all.

uncleoswald

Some gems that may not have been mentioned:

Outland: a western set in deep space, apparently it was Duncan Jones biggest influence for Moon.

Primer: a complete head f*ck of a movie that tries to look at the actual logistics of time travel, be thankful Back to the Future didn't take things as seriously.

Castle in the Sky: A typically stunning Miyasaki fairy tale with sci-fi themes.

fuelinjection

Alien 3, science fiction without the science weapons. Perfect.

karma_

A lot of the best and my favorites have already been mentioned but heres a few:

The Great;

Gattaca
Children of Men
The Thing
Fahrenheit 451

The Good;

Cube
Pitch Black
Chronicles of Riddick
Screamers
Outlander

Nichololas

Blade Runner
Brazil
Children of Men
The Thing
Alien
Outland
Dark City
Ghost in the Shell
Twelve Monkeys

Skerries

heres some of my favourites not mentioned
12:01
Solaris
Metropolis
Akira
Predator
Dune
1984
The 5th Element
Invasion of the body snatchers
The Abyss
Mad Max 1-3
Donnie Darko
Tron
Delicatessen

Galvasean

Alright guys, there's an awful lot of listing (the bad kind of listing) without reasoning going on.

I think the OP has plenty of viewing material for his upcoming binge.

Happy viewing.