Your First Science Fiction Film?

Tough one. I just do NOT have the wonderful memory some of you have! lol. One that was very early on though was The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. A Ray Harryhausen dinosaur running amok in New York. It scared me to pieces when I was a little kid watching it.

To this day my favorite Harryhausen film.
 
Gordian Knot said:
Tough one. I just do NOT have the wonderful memory some of you have! lol. One that was very early on though was The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. A Ray Harryhausen dinosaur running amok in New York. It scared me to pieces when I was a little kid watching it.

To this day my favorite Harryhausen film.
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Based on a story by Ray Bradbury. In turn, this film caught the attention of John Huston, who then signed up Bradbury to write the screenplay for Moby Dick as a result. According to Bradbury, Huston's logic was that The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms was about a big creature and so was Moby Dick. At least that's what I heard him say once.
 
I have no clue. But I was into them fairly early, probably would have been in the '50s.
 
Action Avenue said:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original) Liked this movie quite a bit, however, I think it's one of the rare exceptions in which the remake from 1978 was a better movie.
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Good call Action,

I remember jumping in fright when the man-dog plant-thing appeared on the telly...aah, but I was only a little whipper snapper at the time, I'm more manly in my fright response now.

It also has a scene, I believe from memory, where one of the characters mentions Starmaker by Olaf stapledon, so thats double SF greatness.
 
Mine must have been Innerspace (I suppose that's a sci-fi/comedy/romance) - on rented video around 1987/8 or something like that. Not the best film ever but I quite liked it at the time. I may have seen Star Wars on the telly first, but I can't remember exactly - seemed to always be on at Christmas when I was a kid!
 
Galacticdefender said:
The Star Wars movies were probably the first SF films I saw. Ha, I feel rally young compared to most of you here :p
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The 1977 Star Wars was an event in Science Fiction/Fantasy films. Really a quantum leap in Special Effects while still maintaining likable characters. A good place to start. My youngest became involved with Science Fiction/Fantasy when I took her to see the 1997 Special Edition.
 
I hesitated as I thought I must be mistaken but I think it was actually Alien for me - and I was probably 5. I think my teenage sister wanted to watch it on TV and had little interest in BBFC opinions.

Then again my dad is a big Trekkie so I probably caught bits of Wrath of Khan without realising - actually I do now remember having a distinct fear of Ear Wigs so maybe it did go in?
 
I was another Star Wars baby. I was there at the Odeon with my tupperware flask of diluted orange juice and elasticated waist trousers.
 
I think it was Back to the Future, i'm not to sure its that or maybe Ghostbusters.
 
I can't remember, but I do remember BBC2 having a science fiction season at some point before I was 10. It introduced me to such classics as Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Invaders From Mars, When Worlds Collide.

They don't make them like they used to, but maybe that's more to do with our expectations.
 
Impossible for me to remember. As far back as I can recall, I would sit entranced in front of the television by anything with a monster in it. (I can recall looking through television listings, where they listed movies under various genres. Back then they didn't list science fiction or horror; the categories were things like "Drama" and "Comedy" and "Musical." The things I enjoyed were all classified as "Melodrama." I was so young I had no idea what that word meant. I thought it meant it had a monster in it. Imagine my disappointment when I would tune in only to find myself watching a crime story or something!)

My most profound movie experience, at the tender age of twelve, was going to see 2001: A Space Odyssey.
 
It's really hard to remember that far back.
We watched Earth VS the Flying Saucers on TV at night.
So it was probably the Angry Red Planet at the drive in. 1959 I was 8 years old
 
No idea. Actually, no idea how I got started liking SF at all, now I think about it, and whether TV or books came first. Mind you, I have trouble remembering last week, so maybe that's not surprising.

I remember a BBC 2 sci fi 'festival' and I remember all sorts of classics like Them!, The Day The Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth and more. I remember being disappointed we weren't going to make it home from my grandparents to see Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Things is, though I know I was watching those because I already liked SF. Dr Who, Space 1999, UFO, Thunderbirds, Star Trek (now known as TOS) and more were all in there early in the mix. I know I was very SF biased from a very early age... but don't know how that came about.

Book-wise, there was Hitchikers, and Nicholas Fisk's Splatterbang, and some Andre Norton. Lord of the Rings (ok ok, I know, that's SFantasy not fiction)... but again, the first one that made me go "This is it! SF is my thing!" I dunno.
 
Mine was probably some crummy black and white effort from the 1950s with a gal in trouble. It seemed to me as I was growing up that that all SF films from the 50s were like that!
 
Was she draped in a swoon over the menacing arms of a robot while a spacesuited blonde haired hero aimed his laser pistol at the offending mechanoid?
 
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