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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
It's hard to pinpoint "one" single movie...
2001: A Space Odyssey or The Matrix would probably take my top vote. But....
Blade Runner
Soylent Green
Altered States
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Phase IV
Silent Running
Planet of the Apes
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars (though not strictly science fiction)
Forbidden Planet
Metropolis
They Live
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Time Machine
The Fly
Robocop
Starship Troopers
Terminator
Alien
Aliens
The Invasion
Pitch Black
John Carpenter's The Thing
Enemy Mine
The Lathe Of Heaven (tv movie)
Dark City
The War Of The Worlds (both versions)
Minority Report
Gataca
The Brood
The Omega Man
The Day of the Triffids
Logan's Run
The Road Warrior
The New Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (plus Wrath Of Khan and The Voyage Home)
... are all seminal in one way or another. And I'm probably forgetting a bunch, that don't even "seem" like sci-fi like Back to the Future but which actually follow principles very nicely...
You could even say movies like 28 Days
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Great list. Good to see you have 2 Charlton Heston classics on the list. BTW I had no idea they made a TV movie out of Lathe of Heaven. I will have to look for that. Read the book twice.
Your right there are so many but I would throw in
Dune - Sci Fi Channels mini series
Contact
The Dark Knight
Andromeda Strain
and Two Schwarzenegger Classics:
Predator
Total Recall
(you could actually make an argument for T2)
I wish that Hollywood would some day do a movie on the John Carter of Mars books