Best science fiction films?

(inspired by TK421's SF thread)

Here is 1 top ten list from the Guardian, but there seems to be great debate in other lists at which I looked.

1. Blade Runner

2. 2001

3. Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back

4. Alien

5. Solaris (1972)

6. Terminator/Terminator 2

7. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

8. War of the Worlds (1953)

9. The Matrix

10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind


What say you?

#7 !!!!!!!! My favorite.

Teenagers From Outer Space I totally adore B SF movies.

The Fly (original)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Godzilla

Them

The Thing (John Carpenter) super scary

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Star Wars at the top. I like SW - have seen them numerous times, but I'm not sure they should be #1.

series. Also, "The Man Who Fell To Earth" and "Logan's Run"
and "Silent Running". I am looking
forward to seeing the new Star Trek movie.
Plus all of the above..you all mentioned...



Tikki

plenty creepy, though.


It's odd that Logan's Run, which asks really cool questions, doesn't seem to be that well-represented on these lists.

I was racking my brain trying to remember "Logan's Run". I think about that movie every now and then. That Ice Dude was creepy.

"...at least she had great taste."

That's were all the repubs went to live.

sci-fi, ever and I was inclined to agree, even with Keanu...


I agree with you about The Terminator, though.

and, War of the Worlds (any version)

Other than that, no big problems with the list.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088172/

Back in the 1970's the first two Voyager spacecraft were known to become the first two objects to leave the solar system. Carl Sagan and others convinced NASA to include a gold record/disk with sounds and sights of the world. The disk had descriptions of Earth, and a map as to where the space craft had come. At the speed of these Voyager spacecraft, it would take 50,000 years to get to the nearest star.

Well, after just a few years in space, one of the craft comes near an inhabited planet. The natives read the disk and send an ambassador to visit Earth. He had a invite (the record) but did not RSVP. As he enters the Earth's atmosphere, NORAD doesn't know who he is, so they shoot his space craft down.

It crashlands near a lake front home in Wisconsin. Even though the craft is damaged, the traveler survives and goes to the nearest house.

The resident, Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), lives alone, as she lost her husband in an accident 1-1/2 years ago. While she sleeps, the alien, in the form of a small blue light comes into the house, find a lock of the husband's hair, and through genetic manipulation, grows into a full sized man in only 5 minutes. Growing bones, tendons and muscles, makes some noise, and wakens Jenny. She sees a small child grow into a man right there on her living room floor. Imagine her surprise when the new full sized man looks just like her dead husband, The Starman (Jeff Bridges).

After her initial scare she comes to trust him (it). She knows this being is not her husband, but sure looks it, and begins to act like him. However, this being will only survive about 3 days in this form. So the home world will come for him in 3 days.

He convinces Jenny, to drive him to Winslow, Arizona. At first, she thinks she is being kidnapped. But, as he learns our language and a few of our customs, she becomes sympathetic to his cause, and helps him in his journey.

The government, however has different plans. They now have his damaged spacecraft, and quickly figure out what form the Starman has taken, and trace his car across the country. The government team, lead by Mark Shermin (Charles Martin Smith) is very crafty at tracing his moves. By the time they catch up to him in Arizona, the chase becomes a fight to the death, as the government wants to dissect the poor man!

Jenny saves the day with an insider in the government, and Starman makes his appointment with his own kind. A little like ET returning home, only with adult emotions.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106912/

This film recreates the strange events which happened November 5, 1975 in the town Snowflake, Arizona. Travis Walton works as a logger in the woods. When he and his colleagues drive home after work, they encounter an UFO. For the next five days Travis disappears and his colleagues are accused of murder. When he reappears, first he didn't remember that he was gone, but in time the terrible memories come back...

is the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
Chilling...........

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:D


I just finished reading "Walking the Bible" which looked at the Bible in the Holy Land from an historical, geographical and archaeological perspective...

The first Star Wars (ep 4) blew the mind of this 8 year old kid like nothing probably ever will again. Looking back on it today, the effects aren't so awesome and the story is a bit cheesy.

The Matrix had an outstanding story IMO - even with Keanu. I still enjoy it today. The sequels were pretty lousy though.

Some day, I'll understand what the f*ck people see in the Blade Runner. As for the Day the Earth Stood Still, I just finished downloading the new version.

Probably move Close Encounters higher. No problem with number 1 or 2.

I might add Minority Report. Still deciding on that one. Great premise, weak ending. The concept of the ending was decent, but it wasn't done well.

I don't dislike Terminator, I just think it was overrated. More of an action flick than a sci-fi flick. I have the same problem with Alien being more horror than sci-fi, but horror sci-fi is a legite category.

Total Recall was sci-fi at its best. A twisted premise to play with your concept of reality, interesting gadgets, a good story line. Underrated.

2010... I don't know why no one else ranks that one as highly as I do. It was a slow movie, a thinker's piece, but I like that. I loved the premise of HAL being evil only because humans had given him conflicting instructions. He was the ultimate innocent, twisted by his exposure to human thought. And the alien presence mimicking God and creating a new world even gave it a theological and metaphysical element missing from films like Terminator. In some ways, 2010 gave 2001 a purpose, making it more than just a mind-fuck film.

My input. It could change by the hour.

Someone should start an animated sci-fi thread. Not me, it would sink like a stone. One of you cool Loungers. :)

Dark City, Close Encounters, Blade Runner

All the other stuff I've seen is either tolerable, or simply bad (I don't consider the one Star Wars movie (A New Hope to those under thirty) to be sci-fi, and I certainly don't consider the other five to be any good).

As for The Matrix? Won't answer that one as I don't want to upset the delicate sensibilities and confusing hormones of the Fan Boyz. :P

In general order after that:

Blade Runner
Close Encounters
Alien
Aliens
Day The Earth Stood Still (original)
Empire Strikes Back
Terminator 2
Planet Of The Apes (original)
E.T.

Never seen Solaris or The Matrix