Favourite Sci-fi movie??

[danielgould]

Hey guys and girls. So scifi is my favourite film genre with some of my most enjoyed films being, Terminator 2, Looper, A.I, Alien, Blade runner and of course, Starwars.
Who agrees with some of my top scifi films? What are your favourites and why?

 

[MPorter]

Brazil is not just one of my top sci-fi movies of all time but one of my top movies period. Terry Gilliam doing a weird dystopian future piece. Just a marvelous movie. I go back and watch it once a year or so and I keep expecting to find it dated but it keeps holding up.

Alien/Aliens: I love the first one as a horror movie. The second is what I think an action movie should strive to be. Plus it's one of the few sequels that actually holds up to the original.

I like your choices, Daniel. You can't go wrong with Blade Runner. I'm not a big fan of A.I. and I think Terminator 2 is a fun movie but not a particularly good one. If you're measuring on enjoyment of a film I'll give you Terminator 2 and throw in The Matrix.

~Mike

 

[Rodders]

Star Wars, Blade Runner and Alien/Aliens I definitely agree with.

I'd like to add John Carpenter's the Thing, Silent Running, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.

 

[Abernovo]

Alien/Aliens and Blade Runner are brilliant. Rodders, Silent Running is one of my favourite films. 2001: A Space Oddysey and Logan's Run still push my buttons. Serenity, even if only because it gave some sort of wrap-up to Firefly. Most recently, Moon.


Sorry, I think I might be one of the few who liked, but was never totally captivated by Star Wars or Star Trek.

 

[Bick]

Bladerunner
Alien
Outland
Silent Running
2001
Dark City

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Argh, Aber, we need a night to chat sci fi films and books... i love Logan's Run. Like Aliens, too, love cheesy rubbish to chill out to (yes, I watch Independence Day ) , love the original trilogy Star Wars, Bladerunner, Fifth Element.

 

[J-Sun]

No argument with Terminator 2 (I love it and Terminator), Alien (I love it and Aliens and actually prefer Aliens), Blade Runner, or Star Wars (and Empire/Return to a lesser extent). Didn't have any interest in seeing Looper or AI so I can't agree or argue there.

Abernovo: agreed on adding 2001 (and I'd even add 2010) and Serenity. And you're not alone - I like the original cast Star Trek movies fine mostly, but I'm not the biggest fan, either. Love Star Wars, though.

On a lesser scale, I'd throw in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Dark Star, GalaxyQuest, and The Road Warrior (I think called Mad Max 2 in some other places) and, from the 50s, I really like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and aspects of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

MPorter: just picked up Brazil the other day and will see it soon.

springs: I wouldn't put it on a list of actual "favorites" but, for what it is, I like Independence Day, too.

 

[steve12553]

Forbidden Planet-ground-breaking, thoughtful and nearly as old as me.

 

[Gordian Knot]

You beat me to it Steve! On both points!!!!!

 

[Foxbat]

Of the top of my head...........
Charly
Soylent Green
They Live
The Incredible Shrinking Man
War Of The Worlds (not the remake)
The Time Machine
The Time Travelers.......and many more.

 

[biodroid]

Star Trek Into Darkness, that movie checks all the right boxes and adds a few more of its own.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Favourite SF films as opposed to best?:

The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Forbidden Planet
Repo Man
Solaris (the original)
Flesh (sic) Gordon
Megamind
Planet of the Apes (the original)
The Mesa of Lost Women
Space Thing
Videodrome
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Mystery Men
Salute of the Juggers
Ikarie XB 1
Gremloids (aka Hyperspace)
Tron
Yor: Hunter From the Future
Starcrash
The Astro-Zombies

etc.

 

[danielgould]

I'd like to add John Carpenter's the Thing, Silent Running, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.[/QUOTE]

J.C's The Thing!! Yes! How could I forget this movie!
Also reminds me I forgot to put the 1986's The Fly to my list.

 

[Parson]

I don't watch many movies period. But I loved Star Wars (now "New Hope" bleh!) and Charley has always been on my list of all time greats.

Fifth Element is in my opinion one of the worst movies ever made. I felt utterly cheated by it. The ending still makes me wretch!

 

[Mouse]

I love Fifth Element!

Serenity's probably my fave though. I am a leaf on the wind... Oh god! Blub.

 

[Abernovo]

Argh, Aber, we need a night to chat sci fi films and books... i love Logan's Run. Like Aliens, too, love cheesy rubbish to chill out to (yes, I watch Independence Day ) , love the original trilogy Star Wars, Bladerunner, Fifth Element.

I like Independence Day. Old B Movie styling and derring-do. Any time, springs. You know where I am.

Speaking of B Movie styling, there's always Battle Beyond the Stars, a shameless rip-off of The Magnificent Seven (itself a Western remake of The Seven Samurai). Pure emmental, but fun!

I love Fifth Element!

Serenity's probably my fave though. I am a leaf on the wind... Oh god! Blub.

Mouse, that was an 'Eep' moment!

I have another shameful admission. I've never seen The Fifth Element.

 

[Mouse]

Well go watch it, Aber. Go watch it immediately!

 

[Parson]

Abernovo --- Please save yourself from two hours of utter rip off. There are maybe a 2 or 3 good scenes in the movie. The aliens are ridiculous. The weaponry was straight out of 1960. The believability was was a notch or two above absolute zero. And the ending looked like something someone dreamed up during a weekend drug binge.

 

[biodroid]

Fifth Element[/I] is in my opinion one of the worst movies ever made. I felt utterly cheated by it. The ending still makes me wretch!

Agreed, I was expecting so much more but at least Milla Jovovich was the real star but she seems to choose the wrong movies.

 

[svalbard]

Flash Gorden is my all time favourite sci-fi movie. It did not take itself too seriously and it also had one of the all time great soundtracks.