Your favorite Sci-fi movies?

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savs165

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I know there is a TV/Movie board, but lets face it, this is THE board to talk about Sci-fi.

What are you favorite Sci-fi movies?

Im only recently getting in to Sci-fi (Im more of a fantasy guy).

I recently watched a movie called "Sunshine", and it was fantastic.

What are your guys favorites?
 
So many to choose from. These would be my likely Top 10 in no particular order:

Gattaca
Soylent Green
2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Planet of the Apes (Heston, not Wahlberg)
Alien
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Rennie, not Reeves)
The Man from Earth
War of the Worlds (Barry, not Cruise)
Star Wars

I'm sure I'm missing something so I'll reserve the right to revise.
 
Not including Star Wars cause I have always seen that as Space Fantasy...

2001
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Blade Runner
Alien
War of the Worlds (not Cruise)
Planet of the Apes (Heston)
 
Glelas said:
Not including Star Wars cause I have always seen that as Space Fantasy...
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Got that right! Even the producers said that in 1977.

Time magazine, May 30, 1977 issue:

"But as Lucas and Producer Kurtz quickly point out, Star Wars is not science fiction but space fantasy. 'Space fantasy allows you more rein to say what you want to say,' explains Kurtz. 'So that's what we call it.'"
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http://blogs.starwars.com/danwallace/15/comments

2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Aliens [I think this is horror rather than sci-fi but it is so damn good]
Planet of the Apes (Heston)
The Abyss *Special Edition*
The Matrix Trilogy [I consider The Matrix to be unique. Metaphysical science fiction? LOL]

psik

PS - The first Alien movie is so much like It: The-terror-from-beyond-space it cracks me the hell up.
 
Terminator 1 & 2
Abyss
Aliens
Total Recall
Impostor
Mission to Mars
Sunshine
 
Well, my tastes are a bit different :D

Titan AE
Kaena: The Prophecy
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

I enjoyed many of the movies already mentioned, but I wouldn't call them favorites.
 
Maybe Im crazy, but I actually liked the Cruise verson of War of the Worlds. Not because of him though. Obviously the original is better, but I still liked it.
 
savs165 said:
Maybe Im crazy, but I actually liked the Cruise verson of War of the Worlds. Not because of him though. Obviously the original is better, but I still liked it.
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I liked it too, especially the special effects!
 
psikeyhackr said:
Got that right! Even the producers said that in 1977.


http://blogs.starwars.com/danwallace/15/comments

2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Aliens [I think this is horror rather than sci-fi but it is so damn good]
Planet of the Apes (Heston)
The Abyss *Special Edition*
The Matrix Trilogy [I consider The Matrix to be unique. Metaphysical science fiction? LOL]

psik

PS - The first Alien movie is so much like It: The-terror-from-beyond-space it cracks me the hell up.
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Producers, and directors, say lots of things, doesn't make them true. Just look at Ridley Scott and Blade Runner. Sure Scott says Deckard IS a replicant but there is nothing definitive in the movie that states he is. Just clues that point to him possibly being one. You can't leave a movie up to interpretation and then try and state outside the medium that there is one definitive interpretation.

RE: Abyss: Did nobody else find the "If you don't make world peace we will destroy you" ending nauseating? I would have listed Abyss as decent right up to one of the worst endings ever which totally ruined the movie for me.
 
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As for my favs

Star Wars(first trilogy only, obviously)
Matrix (first movie only, obviously)
Aliens
12 Monkeys
Blade Runner
Sunshine
Planet of the Apes (original)
Terminator 1&2
 
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Michigan said:
Matrix (first movie only, obviously)
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:D :D

But you don't get Neo's meeting with The Architect until Reloaded. Then you find out the Neo is the 6th ONE. But why is he the 6th.

The world was created in SIX days. God rested on the 7th.

When Neo is picked up by the Agents in #1 you see him in the interrogation room through the multiple monitors of on The Architect's wall. That doesn't make sense until movie #2.

But it is Neo's accidental creation of the replicating Smith in #1 that gives him the bargaining power to deal with The Source in #3.

The Matrix Trilogy takes analysis to see how interesting it is. What do you expect from SCIENCE fiction?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysbczEYvKY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnn3Y9v_cww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR2tr702eVU

psik
 
Alien
Blade Runner
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Forbidden Planet
Terminator
Star Wars V - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars VI - Return of the Jedi
Star Wars IV - A New Hope
The Matrix
Star Wars III - Revenge of the Sith
 
Those with a query mark (?) after are movies I have not seen myself but which seem heavily recommended.

12 Monkeys (?)
2001
A Clockwork Orange
Alphaville
Beauty and the Beast
Beetlejuice
Black Orpheus
Brazil
Carnival of Souls
Charly (?)
Dark City (?)
Dr. Strangelove
Edward Scissorhands (?)
Excalibur
Hogfather
Jabberwocky (?)
Labyrinth (?)
MirrorMask (?)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Orphée
Pan's Labyrinth
Solaris (not sure which--I believe the earlier was supposed to be the better)
The 10th Victim (?)
The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen
The Fisher King (?) [and is this really fantasy?]
The Illusionist (?)
The Last Starfighter
The Last Unicorn (?)
The Man in the White Suit
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Nightmare Before Christmas (marginally)
The Prestige (?)
The Quiet Earth
The Seventh Seal
Time Bandits
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Yellow Submarine
Young Frankenstein
 
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