Whats your favorite sci fi movie of all time?
 

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Whats your favorite sci fi movie?

Remember "The Forbidden Planet"? where an ancient race of aliens purged all their negative emotions with this giant computer and now its raging wild against the last human caretaker of the city?

Did you see the movie "Serenity"? I thought it was a fun entertaining movie version of a cool series. Not my all time favorite though.

How about War of the worlds? The original that is.

Or the classic Star Wars first movie?

What else?

spaceballs

Yeah that was funny as hell. Mel Brooks is a genious. hehe

Difficult to narrow it down to just one.

Among my faves are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien & Aliens, Predator, The Thing (Carpenter's remake), The Abyss (although the ending sucked)...and the first two Terminators.

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http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/images/dav.../aliens_34.jpg the alien series, if i can only take one its aliens

I like my sci-fi to be intelligent, so I'd go with

Blade Runner

Alien

Another classic!

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According to your nick you should have said "2001 - A Space Oddysey":winkwink:

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the origional radio broadcast of war of the worlds is hands down the best story ever....anything that causes mass suicides hasta be the winner...one thought i have every day almost.....Imagine if the major news networks pulled this today, with video of people getting wasted by aliens and shit how many people would off themselves...

Stargate and the following 8 seasons

Yes but Spaceballs beats it out by a hairball. Barf getting his foot crushed was just too funny :1orglaugh

Terminator 2

Howard the Duck :1orglaugh

Yeah true, dont forget about dork jedi though :1orglaugh

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The supposed mass panic during the original H.G. Wells radio broadcast of War of the Worlds was largely exaggerated and mostly an urban myth. There was no mass exodus of people, rioting or pandemonium as the story goes.

if true it still gets my vote as #1

I would have a fairly large list though my tastes are varied.

The Thing (both original and remake)
Event horizon (sci-fi/horror)
Blade Runner
Plan 9 from outer space (classic and must be on list)
Planet of the Apes
Alien (first one)
Robocop (first one)
Star wars (original & empire)
Soylent Green
Akira (animated)
A clockwork orange
The day the earth stood still.
The Road warrior (first one)

I would have to agree.. but It's a toss up between Alien and Aleins.. I also always like the Star Wars orginals, but nothings better than a good scare.

Although I disagree with some of your choices we see eye to eye for the most part. You are missing "Dark City"! :thumbsup

Do spiderman and X Men count as Sci fi?
then Spiderman 1 & 2, and Xmen 2

Not a movie but I'm really enjoying the new Battlestar Gallactica series.

Spannow : The day the earth stood still is a definate classic! MOre of a pollitical movie than just a sci fi movie.

I think Deep Space 9 was the best written TV Star Trek series mostly because it was episodic. The story was continued from one show to the next.

There hasnt been any great new Sci Fi movies in some years now.

Forgot about Dark City.
So what did you dissagree with, I am curious.

ALIEN was the first serious big budget, scifi horror / thriller where the creature wasn't some clumsy guy in a rubber suit with no expression. This monster was frightening because it was presented seriously. It had a life-cycle, it was fast and killed indescriminently - as it would in nature. Audiences had never been "hunted" like that in space before - ergo it was a huge success and became the yardstick by which all others were measured - and still are. As much for set design and technique as Blade Runner and Star Wars, it set the standard for scifi horror...:2 cents:

My votes:

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I also must toss in Gattica. I had spaced this movie though it does paint a very possible and brutal picture of the future.

Oh yeah, one of the absolute best and underrated flicks ever made - awesome! :thumbsup :thumbsup

Oh trust me I know.. I was a kid like 10 and I bugged my parents into letting me watch Alien.. LoL I couldn't sleep with out being scared to death for months.. :1orglaugh

Best thing about the movie Alien is it still fits in this day and age as a top movie. Meaning it could still hold it's own today. I wish they would re-release it to the theaters in it's orginal format.

Aliens was also a damn good movie, but after that, they kinda killed the series with the other releases IMO.

:) The Thing - I AGREE

:( Event horizon - I DISAGREE - Paul Anderson has yet to make a great film start to finish and although this one started strong, like so many of his previous films, it fizzled out half-way through and ended in a heaping mess.

:) Blade Runner - I AGREE

:( Plan 9 from outer space - C'mon man you serious? - I DISAGREE

:( Planet of the Apes - I DISAGREE - It never lived up to its potential based on the rich ape environment and culture fleshed out in the book. It was made too early, before it could've been done justice via our CGI today - even Tim Burton blew it. This needs Peter Jackson attention!

:) Alien - I AGREE

:) Robocop - I AGREE

:) Star wars - I AGREE

:( Soylent Green - I DISAGREE - Like Logun's Run (which is currently slated to enter preproduction) it was made too early to do it justice beyond bad 70s designs and cheesiness.

:) Akira - I AGREE (but animation is in its own genre)

:) A clockwork - I AGREE

:) The day the earth stood still - I AGREE

:( The Road warrior - I DISAGREE - Although I will agree that this film set the standard for envisioning post-apocolyptic chaos I don't feel it was one of the greatest scifi films ever made.

A few that haven't been mentioned:

THX 1138
Farenheight 451
The Matrix
The Terminator
1984
The Island

BrainStorm with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood. Awesome 80's movie

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Starship Troopers. Holy shit, it was like Melrose place, only in space, with lots of awsome battle scenes and people being totally oblivious to having a 10x10 inch gash in their arm.

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I mean goddam, how many bullets did it take to kill one of those things? I wish I wasn't a retard, I'd make a bunch of animated gifs of the best scenes from the movie :pimp

I did a quick mental inventory and here are my favorites:

Alien
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Aliens
The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Revenge of the Sith
X2
The Wrath of Khan
Dark City
The Terminator
Blade Runner
Superman the Movie
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The Day The Earth Stood Still
War of the Worlds (original)
The Thing (original and remake)
Back to the Future
Metropolis
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2001 A Space Odyssey

The original Planet of the Apes.
Mad Max.
Alien/Aliens

is The Matrix considered Sci-Fi?

well I loved that one, as well as I, Robot. then again I havent seen many older movies!

THE DUNE MINISERIES! movie wasn't horrible either. but the dune and children of dune miniseriesseses were great

star wars of course, clockwork orange, serenity, i robot (stfu), all great stuff

Yes bdjuf, the Matrix is considered scifi, however, it is a shameful ripoff of Dark City. Check out that film, it originally told the same essential story as all 3 Matrix movies - in one film! :thumbsup

blade runner - the original theatrical version and then the director's cut

i didn't like serenity - and i love firefly.

Hmm.... no one mentioned this?? :error

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jurassic park
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superman is overrated :2 cents:

I remember that one, definitely a great flick.

Brings to mind another from that same era - think it was called Dreamscape (Dennis Quaid?)

Soylent Green !

yeah Im in for this movie. ID4

Event Horizon was excellent. So was 2010.

Leroy

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Aliens.....

stargate
spaceballs
aliens
enemy mine
tron
Mib
ID4
and many many many many more

Battlefield Earth was one of faves

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And The Chronicles of Riddick

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might also add:
Terminator 2
Star Wars
Star trek motion pictures
The Terminator
Blade Runner
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Barbarella
War of the Worlds
The Thing
Back to the Future
Metropolis
Flash Gordon
E.T.
The Abyss
2001 A Space Odyssey

Serenity just made my top favorite, Event Horizon is also great, Star Wars etc