And The Greatest Science Fiction Movie Of All Time Is...

[J. Falcon]

Runner Up:




Honorable Mentions:
The Thing
2001: A Space Odyssey
Terminator 2

[Rochard]

I don't like either of them, although I haven't seen Blad Runner since I was a little kid.

I think Star Wars should be up the top scifi movie.

[dyna mo]

I prolly would not disagree.

I learned recently that the father of science fiction is actually a mother- mary shelley. I didn't know that Frankenstein was the of first science fiction. I would prolly have to have that in my top 5.

[2MuchMark]

Forbidden Planet, 1956, with Leslie Nielsen and Walter Pidgeon. Just amazing and holds up real well today.

[J. Falcon]

I don't like either of them, although I haven't seen Blad Runner since I was a little kid.

I think Star Wars should be up the top scifi movie.

I watched Blade Runner as a kid too. Watched it again about 6 years ago, and once more last year. Truly amazing in every sense of the word.

[dyna mo]

many of the scenes in Blade Runner were filmed at a building a couple blocks from my studio here in downtown Los Angeles- the Bradburry building, it's spectacular!

[Manfap]

Never seen Blade Runner, Always mean to but it never crops up on tv, suppose will have to drop the $$ on the dvd

[Scott McD]

Star Wars - 'A new hope' will always be my number 1 choice.

Followed by 'Aliens'...

[Choopa_Pardo]

I agree wholeheartedly with the initial post.

[michael.kickass]

Blade Runner is amazing but I would have placed Alien in #1.

[seeandsee]

Alien, Predator and zillion more to choose from

[JockoHomo]

Never seen Blade Runner, Always mean to but it never crops up on tv, suppose will have to drop the $$ on the dvd

Your sci-fi education is seriously lacking then as it is a classic and I agree that it is probably the most realistic look into the probable future that has ever been produced.

It is not about aliens or anything like that...it is a movie that predicts and shows you a future that is rapidly going more and more true with each passing year.

Highly recommend you watch it tonight!

[CDSmith]

Blade Runner's a top 20 for sure, but wouldn't be #1 for me. I'd have put Event Horizon in the list close to Blade Runner.

My top 5 would include Star Wars ep. IV (the first one that ever came out), War of the Worlds (the original), Serenity, The Matrix, Cocoon. Oldies on the list would include Angry Red Planet (1959), The Flying Saucer (1950), and 1973's animated classic Fantastic Planet.

SW-Empire Strikes Back, Alien, Aliens, ST-The Wrath of Kahn, and The Day the Earth Stood Still all tend to Rank well on most top lists out there.

Several titles are interchangeable as #1.

[nico-t]

I don't like either of them, although I haven't seen Blad Runner since I was a little kid.

I think Star Wars should be up the top scifi movie.

what

all star wars movies are horrible childish movies, it's like they're made for kids. Alien is a brilliant movie, as well as Aliens.. deserves to be amongst the top. I remember i liked the style of Blade Runner but i only seen it once.
Terminator 2 is one of my all time favourite movies, the thing is brilliant... the list is spot on.

[the Shemp]

one of the worst:

[NaughtyVisions]

It is not about aliens or anything like that...it is a movie that predicts and shows you a future that is rapidly going more and more true with each passing year.

By that token:

[Magnetron]

Dark City

The Terminator

[2MuchMark]

Your sci-fi education is seriously lacking then as it is a classic and I agree that it is probably the most realistic look into the probable future that has ever been produced.

It is not about aliens or anything like that...it is a movie that predicts and shows you a future that is rapidly going more and more true with each passing year.

Highly recommend you watch it tonight!

What movie did you watch?

Human Clones? Nope.
Flying Cars? Nope
Off world colonies? Nope
Genetic Manipulation to make little people as pets? Nope.
Video Phone phone booths? Nope


Blade Runner is excellent and one of my all time favourite Sci-fi's but none of its predictions have come true.

Holy shit! 2 More of my favourite all time movies. I've watched both of these movies 20 times easy. Love them both.

[JockoHomo]

What movie did you watch?

Human Clones? Nope.
Flying Cars? Nope
Off world colonies? Nope
Genetic Manipulation to make little people as pets? Nope.
Video Phone phone booths? Nope


Blade Runner is excellent and one of my all time favourite Sci-fi's but none of its predictions have come true.

Holy shit! 2 More of my favourite all time movies. I've watched both of these movies 20 times easy. Love them both.

Next time I watch it I will skip dropping acid first.

[J. Falcon]

Next time I watch it I will skip dropping acid first.

It's a great movie to watch on acid, the whole thing is like a dream.

[J. Falcon]

Blade Runner is excellent and one of my all time favourite Sci-fi's but none of its predictions have come true.

Not really a prediction, but there is a scene in the movie where they use a software very much like photoshop.

[brassmonkey]

1. total recall
2. the fifth element
3. blade runner

[SilentKnight]

The obvious ones already mentioned...I'd have to add 'Contact' among my top 5 faves (although they ruined the ending - Sagan's original ending in the novel was much better IMO).

[Walrus]

The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Close Encounters of The Third Kind.

Blade Runner has a great look to it and holds up visually today. But it's content doesn't deserve it's place as "greatest" sci-fi movie. I think you guys need to look past just the visuals on some of these movies you're rating as the "best" sci-fi ever. Total Recall 1990 hasn't aged that well visually for instance. It was always meant I think as a campy sci-fi movie.

[MaDalton]

IMDB says:

Star Wars Episode V - The Emipre strikes back
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/reference

from a cultural point of view I'd probably say 2001
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/reference

and from a "this is so absurd, I can't believe it" point of view: Dark Star
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945/reference

[huey]

Strange Days is a good over looked sci-fi.

[AmeliaG]

First Star Wars, T2, Buckeroo Banzai all on my list. I liked Blade Runner, but it actually seems better watching it at a later age than it did when I first saw it.

[John-ACWM]

Hard to tell but Alien and Star Wars are some awesome sci-fi movies.

[NatalieMojoHost]

I ran across Fifth Element on TV recently, and surprisingly - still watched it, and enjoyed it. Even though this must be the 100th time I've seen it. That's a good indicator of a good movie.

A solid one that wasn't named yet - Gattaca

Nobody brought up Avatar yet? No way!

[RandazzoXXX]

Star Wars isn't even Science Fiction, it's fantasy like Lord of the Rings, etc. Just because it has space ships or aliens doesn't make it science fiction. At best it's a "space opera", but calling it one of the best Science Fiction movies of all-time is pretty silly. Then again, putting The Thing or Terminator 2 on such a list is equally as absurd.

[CurrentlySober]

i lick any bodies 'runs' [logans' Included]

[J. Falcon]

Then again, putting The Thing or Terminator 2 on such a list is equally as absurd.

How do you figure? They are both awesome science fiction movies.

[Triple-A]

I just love The Fifth Element - one movie I can watch again and again

[Relentless]

Bland runner is the clear #1 but it's also fairly old.
In recent years the best by far is District 9

[dready]

Everyone puts Blade Runner and 2001 at the top. There are so many other good films, such as:

THX1138
12 Monkeys
The Terminator
The Matrix
Moon
District 9
Fahrenheit 451
Dark City

[RampantTV]

the 1st Matrix and although some will find this a contentious choice, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

[Evil Chris]

Tough to rank them... I'd rather just point out a few faves.

[Cherry7]

Solaris...The original Russian version.

Contagion

[rogueteens]

I learned recently that the father of science fiction is actually a mother- mary shelley. I didn't know that Frankenstein was the of first science fiction. I would prolly have to have that in my top 5.

No it wasn't, not by a long chalk. The history behind the book is fascinating though, well worth reading up on it's genesis.

[dyna mo]

No it wasn't, not by a long chalk. The history behind the book is fascinating though, well worth reading up on it's genesis.

According to the documentary I watched it was. What science fiction was written prior to Frankenstein?

[VinceRuth]

Looks great !

[dyna mo]

I ran across Fifth Element on TV recently, and surprisingly - still watched it, and enjoyed it. Even though this must be the 100th time I've seen it. That's a good indicator of a good movie.

A solid one that wasn't named yet - Gattaca

Nobody brought up Avatar yet? No way!

I'm with you on 5th element and gattaca!

[DVTimes]

Forbidden Planet, 1956, with Leslie Nielsen and Walter Pidgeon. Just amazing and holds up real well today.

still looks great

i watched the blu ray and the thing about that is you can see when she swims nude in fact its a body thing to make her look nude.

[rogueteens]

According to the documentary I watched it was. What science fiction was written prior to Frankenstein?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction#History

[PornDiscounts-V]

You forgot the 911 conspiracy movies

[dyna mo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction#History

I'll see your wiki link and raise you 3 links with quotes:

Brian Aldiss claims Frankenstein represents "the first seminal work to which the label Science Fiction can be logically attached".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...ern_precursors

The origins of SF
If we require that "science fiction" be in some sense fiction about modern science and technology (which seems a reasonable demand), then the genre could not have begun until the late18th century.

And the first bonafide science fiction classic is probably Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)--a gothic tale of technoscientific aspiration, hubris, and retribution that continues to gain fans not only in Hollywood (five different productions in the 1990s!) but among contemporary SF readers as well.

http://condor.depaul.edu/dsimpson/awtech/scifi.htm

Labeled "the first great myth of the industrial age" in the form of a novel that many now accept as the progenitor of modern science fiction: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/sfhist.html

[fitzmulti]

Without question, mine are:
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), followed by War Of The Worlds (1953)

[Best-In-BC]

Blade Runner to me is the most overrated movie of all time, yes, its excellent but not nearly as good or as important as many others.

[brassmonkey]

I ran across Fifth Element on TV recently, and surprisingly - still watched it, and enjoyed it. Even though this must be the 100th time I've seen it. That's a good indicator of a good movie.

A solid one that wasn't named yet - Gattaca

Nobody brought up Avatar yet? No way!

space indians? nope some of you will watch any bullshit movie time machine was a good one (original)

[rogueteens]

I'll see your wiki link and raise you 3 links with quotes:




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...ern_precursors

"the first seminal work to which the label Science Fiction can be logically attached".
He means its the first great sci-fi work, not the very first book.

http://condor.depaul.edu/dsimpson/awtech/scifi.htm

that's just an opinion though, a book about going to the moon surely must be sci-fi? one called Somnium written in 1608 does that, Isaac Asimov considers it the first sci-fi book. Or how about the ancient stories of the Ramayana written in the 4 century BC which is often used by ancient astronaut theorists as proof of alien visits. that's just two examples

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/sfhist.html

"a novel that many now accept as the progenitor of modern science fiction"