Best SCIFI Movies

[osnafrank]

What are your Favorites ?

Here are some of mine.


Sunshine
Interstellar
Star Trek Wrath of Kahn, First Contact
The Machine
Moon
2001
Black Star
Ex Machina
Gravity
Alien/Aliens
Blade Runner
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
District 9

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[Dana Jean]

Logan's Run
Soylent Green
Omega Man
Westworld
The Stepford Wives -- The OLD one with Katherine Ross
The Illustrated Man

 

[Doc Creed]

Inception
E.T.
Terminator
Jurassic Park

 

[Zone D Dad]

Logan's Run
Soylent Green
Omega Man
Westworld
The Stepford Wives
The Illustrated Man

Love those 70's flix, especially Logan's Run and Westworld (also on my list). I'd also include Alien and Blade Runner.
My others:
Gattaca
12 Monkeys
I'm not sure that I'd put Edge of Tomorrow on my favorites list, but it's great fun all the same.

 

[recitador]

in no particular order

equilibrium
matrix (the original more than the sequels, although i don't hate them as much as most)
inception
star trek: first contact (i like them all, but to me that wins out of all the movies)
the original star wars trilogy
jurassic park
back to the future
alien and aliens
terminator and terminator 2
et
fifth element
the thing
12 monkeys
galaxy quest
invasion of the body snatchers (although which version is debatable, also may as well throw the faculty into that debate, as it's also good but essentially the same thing)


really there are more, but there's a list to get you started lol

 

[ghost19]

Alien
Aliens
Pandorum
2010 The Year We Make Contact
Blade Runner
All the Star Trek movies

 

[skimom2]

Blade Runner
Aliens
Sunshine
Solaris
Gattaca
Moon
The new Planet of the Apes series (all 3)
Interstellar
Enemy Mine

This is as far as I got before all the subgenres started driving me nuts! Where, exactly, is the line between sci-fi and fantasy? (Star Wars) And horror (Event Horizon)? And comedy (Galaxy Quest)? How about social commentary (Alien Nation)?

I love movies. I guess I have to leave it there.

 

[Blake]

Alien;Aliens;Bladerunner;event horizon; tron; scanners; close encouters;westworld;invasion of the body snatchers;them!;mad max one and two;damnation alley; capricorn one; Judge Dredd(2012);escape from new york;the island of dr moreau(1970's); the brood;altered states; also heaps of 1950's/60's movies

 

[no bounce no play]

The movies I especially like that y'all have already mentioned are...
Logan's Run
Jurassic Park
District 9
Interstellar
Blade Runner

Other sci-fi movies I love...
They Live
Cube
Tremors
Forbidden Planet
28 Days Later
THX 1138
Source Code
Lake Placid (I'm not actually sure if this can be considered sci-fi but I love it so I'm including it lol)

 

[recitador]

The movies I especially like that y'all have already mentioned are...
Logan's Run
Jurassic Park
District 9
Interstellar
Blade Runner

Other sci-fi movies I love...
They Live
Cube
Tremors
Forbidden Planet
28 Days Later
THX 1138
Source Code
Lake Placid (I'm not actually sure if this can be considered sci-fi but I love it so I'm including it lol)

oh, forgot tremors. the original was so fun. might technically be closer to horror, but who cares.

 

[fljoe0]

No particular order

The Terminator
Inception
Alien
2001
Children of Men
Planet Of The Apes
12 Monkeys
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Gattaca

 

[no bounce no play]

No particular order

The Terminator
Inception
Alien
2001
Children of Men
Planet Of The Apes
12 Monkeys
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Gattaca

I was going to include Children of Men on my list but that movie really really really disturbed me, which I guess was its intent - making it a great movie but....

 

[Zone D Dad]

I draw a pretty hard line between sci-fi and horror, so I wouldn't normally include The Thing or Scanners (I love 'em both for what it's worth, except for Stephen Lack's horrible performance in the latter). Maybe I should reconsider the whole genre thing. What about a film like The Prestige? I think I could make an argument to include that in the sci-fi category.

 

[recitador]

I draw a pretty hard line between sci-fi and horror, so I wouldn't normally include The Thing or Scanners (I love 'em both for what it's worth, except for Stephen Lack's horrible performance in the latter). Maybe I should reconsider the whole genre thing. What about a film like The Prestige? I think I could make an argument to include that in the sci-fi category.

the thing gets in because it's about an alien . . . i honestly don't know if i've seen scanners so can't speak to that. there's certainly movies that are sci fi and horror together. doesn't the payoff of prestige have something to do with technology? i think it would be able to be counted.

 

[no bounce no play]

I forgot Langoliers! How could I do that??? I loved those toothy pacmen

 

[prufrock21]

Them
The day the earth stood still
Creature from the black lagoon
Godzilla (original version)

 

[Zone D Dad]

the thing gets in because it's about an alien . . . i honestly don't know if i've seen scanners so can't speak to that. there's certainly movies that are sci fi and horror together. doesn't the payoff of prestige have something to do with technology? i think it would be able to be counted.

Yeah, I can see The Thing. I just never considered it. Yes - The Prestige does incorporate some sci-fi elements near the end. I don't think that's really a spoiler of any kind.

 

[Mr Nobody]

Blade Runner
Alien/Aliens
The Thing
They Live!
Escape from New York
District 9
Westworld
Logan's Run
Stalker (is it SF, or is it just a film about a journey to a room?)
Moon
Enemy Mine
Predator
Dune
The Terminator/Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Planet of the Apes
Star Trek ("Prime" universe; I even like Star Trek V for the Kirk/Spock/McCoy friendship dynamic - even if it sometimes goes too far into the comedic - and the "What does God need with a starship?"/"Who am I? Don't you know? Aren't you God?" stuff)
Demolition Man (Sandra Bullock. Need I say more? )
The Fifth Element
Jurassic Park
Quatermass/Quatermass 2/Quatermass and the Pit
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the one with Donald Sutherland, et al, since it's the first version I saw)

 

[recitador]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the one with Donald Sutherland, et al, since it's the first version I saw)

he also did a movie which was probably inspired somewhat by that movie, only in this case the aliens just rode on your back while controlling your mind. the puppet masters. it's not bad either.