What is your favourite Sci-Fi Movie of all time

Morlock

Hi all , Geek that I am , I am looking to add to my Sci-fi Movies . I am looking for the cheesiest geek feast Sci Fi movies. and I am asking for your top 3 only ,

1. The Time Machine (1960) version, my user name being a big clue, the morlocks in this film are just the best ever, dodgy rubber costumes, glowing eyes the Eloi, perfect blond people !!!

2. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)

3. Twelve Monkeys

If this was a top ten I would have added " Star wars " Back the The future. anyway let me know what you like , thanks

uch

Star Wars, all of them

gipi

Sci-fi cheese?

The fifth element...(cheesy with extra cheese)
Dark Star (cheesy but great)
Stargate (where it all began!)

That's apart from the Star Wars / Blade Runner / Total Recall classics!

Captain Chaos

Event Horizon.
Starship Troopers.
Logan's Run.

All classics there for me. The effects in ST from 1997 put alot of CGI today to shame.

Overflow

Blade Runner
Prometheus
Aliens
Event Horizon
Contact
Abyss

Supermensch

Top 3 sci-fi;

Alien (with no 's')
Minority Report
Cube

Top 3 cheesy sci-fi;

Total Recall
Tron
Star Wars

Shellakybooky

Total Recall
Blade Runner
Minority Report
Primer
Logan's Run
Wrath of Khan
T2
Alien
Contact

Reg'stoy

If it's cheesy you're looking for, then go no further than Battle beyond the stars.

If it's cheesy but still watchable then as above go for Logan's Run.

Pawwed Rig

Top 3

Empire Strikes Back
Star Trek first Contact
And I will throw 'District 9' in there for something different. Thought it was a great movie


Ah crap who can stick to 3
2001 a Space Odyssey
Matrix
Cloverfield
Terminator
Predator
Alien

For cheesy you need look no further than The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:D
Extra Mozarella Avatar and ET

telecinesk

1. Logans Run
2.Soilent Green
3.Bladerunner.. After all its gonna come true.

nyarlothothep

No one has mentioned Total Recall yet? The film everyone secretly loves but are afraid to admit. Or Robocop? Or ghostbusters?

gipi

No-one mentioned Total Recall yet

*cough, cough*

gipi wrote: »

Sci-fi cheese?

The fifth element...(cheesy with extra cheese)
Dark Star (cheesy but great)
Stargate (where it all began!)

That's apart from the Star Wars / Blade Runner / Total Recall classics!

zom

New version just ahead:

Total Ripoff (Total Recall Comparison - 1990 vs 2012)

Capt'n Midnight

Metropolis
Things to come
Frankenstein
The Invisible Man

This Island Earth
The day the Earth stood still
When Worlds Collide
The War of the Worlds
Forbidden Planet
The Quatermass Experiment

Plan 9 from outer space

The Blob
Gojira
Them

Zab

Nobody has mentioned Moon yet. I also have a fondness for Outland .

Dude111

I like too many to list

Jason Todd

Hmmm...

Star Trek: First Contact
Aliens
War of the Worlds
The Matrix
District 9
Children of Men
Jurassic Park

I also have a soft spot for Evolution :o:o

SoapMcTavish

VANILLA SKY is a great Sci-Fi flick .. caught it the other night on TV .. had forgotten how good it is.

Also - HARDWARE showed up on my horizon lately - go Lemmy.

:pac:

Son Of A Vidic

Love the Star Wars and Star Trek movies, but my top three would be.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
Aliens.
The Abyss.

EZ24GET

I like a lot of Sci Fi films and horror films too, but I think the one that I love not just enjoy is "Enemy Mine" .

tricky D

SoapMcTavish wrote: »

Also - HARDWARE showed up on my horizon lately - go Lemmy.

:pac:

What a soundtrack too:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099740/soundtrack

PiL, Ministry, Iggy, Motörhead.

stabeek

Women in Love.

Rubecula

Some old classics I liked include:

This Island Earth

The Quatermass Experiment

Forbidden Planet

Quii

Roadhouse...

Swayze was a Cyborg, no doubt

merlie

The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original)
When two worlds collide
2001 A Space Odyssey
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Cocoon

EZ24GET

I do love the first Gort. it's not easy to just pick one.

poppyvally

star trek. The one with the whale, cant think of the name. Cant think of any other of that type of ****e that was memorable

poppyvally

star trek. The one with the whale, cant think of the name. Cant think of any other of that type of sh1te that was memorable

Capt'n Midnight

District 9

The Thing 1982

Forbidden Planet

Metropolis

Wall E

Frankenstein 1931 (watch the originals and then Son of Frankenstein)

Westworld

Things to come 1936

Dune




Cheese

Plan 9 from outer space

Battle beyond the stars

The Fifth Element

Starship Troopers

Barbarella

Flash Gordon 1980

Earth vs The Flying Saucers (Mars Attacks)

Sleeper




and the wtf

Zardoz

Old Ben

I remember the first "Day the Earth Stood Still" and the first time I saw it in an afternoon matinee on BBC2 back in the 70s.

2001 was great, and as we are talking years then 1984 was also very good.

One of my very favourites though was Brazil. How Sci Fi was that. :cool: I'd watch it over and over. I must get one of the kids to buy me it on DVD for Christmas.

I liked that one with the girl in the underground building killing all the zombies as well. Late night viewing but can't remember what its called.

Pawwed Rig

Old Ben wrote: »

I liked that one with the girl in the underground building killing all the zombies as well. Late night viewing but can't remember what its called.

Resident Evil?

Old Ben

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Resident Evil?

Resident Evil. Well done.

Has anyone seen "Things To Come". It was great. Youngsters are only interested in computer graphics these days. Things to come is an old, old movie but it had a real backbone for science fiction story. It was made in the forties but if memory serves me right, its set in the future which is actually now!

Old Ben

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Resident Evil?

I just made sense of your name as well. Very funny!

Pawwed Rig

Old Ben wrote: »

Has anyone seen "Things To Come". It was great. Youngsters are only interested in computer graphics these days. Things to come is an old, old movie but it had a real backbone for science fiction story. It was made in the forties but if memory serves me right, its set in the future which is actually now!

Sounds interesting. HG Wells.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come

1936 though? Is it not a bit too retro for movies?

Not sure I 100% agree with you about special effects. A good movie will shine through regardless of the CGI. Avatar for example. Huge amounts of effects but you can put silk pajamas on a pig but it is still a pig.

Capt'n Midnight

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come

1936 though? Is it not a bit too retro for movies?

Things to Come is a product of it's times, wonderful stiff upper lips all round. And when you consider that is the same age as the Flash Gorden serial it's even more impressive. And if you like hard science fiction rather than fantasy it scores big there too.


The book is worth reading as well.


Metropolis is an even older classic from the silent age

cml387

It must have been really scary for people who had seen Things To Come to then experience the real thing in 1939.

Highly recommended, plus a brilliant musical score.

Sligo Quay

Conquest of space, a little known movie made in 1955 about a mission to Mars, not over the top and very realistic, a movie before its time.

Capt'n Midnight

For more old classics
http://archive.org/details/SciFi_Horror

Capt'n Midnight

Things to come - download

http://archive.org/details/things_to_come_ipod
http://archive.org/details/ThingsToCome_835
http://archive.org/details/things_to_come_ipod_version

BTW, there are three separate pages in Internet Archive for this same movie, Things To Come, and they all list different files (and apparently different formats) without any explanations in regard to those formats (vis-a-vis iPod or PC or whatever). NOT a criticism of your site but rather just pointing out that I've wasted nearly an entire day trying to make an iPod file play on a PC because the page description didn't mention the iPod encoding.


Also one of the worst films ever made
http://archive.org/details/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians_ipod

melekalikimaka

stargate
fifth element
event horizon

warwick

I hope I am not digressing the topic but I loved these TV series especially-
Space 1999
Blakes 7
and V (The original)

cml387

warwick wrote: »

I hope I am not digressing the topic but I loved these TV series especially-
Space 1999
Blakes 7
and V (The original)

Interesting about V.

ITV showed the whole series in 1984 opposite the Olympics on BBC.
On another website soeone said this was the most memorable 1984 Olypic memory (that and Zola Budd V Mary Slaney).

Pawwed Rig

cml387 wrote: »

(that and Zola Budd V Mary Slaney).

What about Carl Lewis?:D

Had a major thing for Diana for a long time:p

badger57

Back To The Future

Capt'n Midnight

Here's an odd one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navigator:_A_Medieval_Odyssey
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095709/

Xim1

star wars!

BizzyC

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Plan 9 from outer space

Great movie...
Did you know Bela Lugosi died in the middle of making that? They replaced him mid-movie and made the new guy keep his face covered with the cape in every scene from then on...


Has anyone mentioned DUNE yet?

FutureGuy

Contact

Setun

merlie wrote: »

The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original)
When two worlds collide
2001 A Space Odyssey
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Cocoon

Ha! I thought I was the only person who likes Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's hammy and a bit mental at times, but you can appreciate what they were trying to do. It's strangely prescient too - the man/machine discussion about privacy for example.

I've actually been researching a lot of these cold war era sci-fi movies over the last few months, it's amazing how the political atmosphere in the US was articulated in these films. IBM seemed to build its 1960s marketing strategy off the back of Forbidden Planet and Robby the Robot, and also sponsored a lot of films to try to illustrate computers as friendly devices. A lot of these movies seem dated and naive now, but at the time they were serving a very serious political purpose!

Sligo Quay

merlie wrote: »

2001 A Space Odyssey
Cocoon

Whatever about this Stanley Kubrick classic of 1968, yes 1968, a film well before its time, it has to have the greatest soundtrack of all time, that music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

Capt'n Midnight

Sligo Quay wrote: »

Whatever about this Stanley Kubrick classic of 1968, yes 1968, a film well before its time, it has to have the greatest soundtrack of all time, that music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_%28Strauss%29

Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical treatise of the same name. The composer conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt
...
The initial fanfare – entitled "Sunrise"