Favourite Sci Fi Films?

[HairyArsedBloke]

- Starship Troopers (I can watch it again and again!)
- Dark Star
- Contact (Jodie Foster)
- Bladerunner
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version)

-What!
-Oh yeah
-May the Gods preserve us from that one
-Yeah baby. Not the original release with that voice over.
-Yup.

As it happens I saw that last one a couple of weeks ago and I though it was brilliant. I could not see the point of a re-make.

I'd agree with Close Encounters and 2001 too.

I saw Moon the other day; I liked that one.

Edit.

V for Vendetta (does that count?)

[Platypus]

Excellent so far...

Moon is on my wish list (not seen it yet)

I hope they do make Rendezvous with Rama.

There's a few I haven't seen... e.g. Enemy Mine in particular sounds really worth a look.

Slight tangent - I recently saw Surrogates and Pandorum at the cinema - enjoyed both very much. District 9 was very overrated IMO.

Keep 'em coming!!

[Clippy]

Don't know if these fall within your criteria:

Back to the Future - the whole trilogy
Big Trouble in Little China
Escape from New York
Capricorn One

[AtW]

Back to the Future - the whole trilogy

#3 was total tulip

If it was really possible to go back they'd do it and erase #3 from existance...

[minestrone]

I do like the recent Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds.

This father/son exchange always makes me smile.....

Robbie Ferrier: What is it? Is it terrorists?
Ray Ferrier: These came from some place else.
Robbie Ferrier: What do you mean, like, Europe?
Ray Ferrier: No, Robbie, not like Europe!

That is a great bit in that film which is a great film. Intersting how sci fi always goes best with a bit of current context, War of the worlds as the radio show showed. Planet of the apes as well.

I will always go with Empire strikes back, if the other 5 films were as good as that...

First star trek film was champion as well.

[Zippy]

Blade Runner
The Day The Earth Stood Still (original)
Terminator 2
Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
LOTR - Return of the King
and ...
Plan 9 From Outer Space

[Board Game Geek]

LOTR : Any of them
Bladerunner ofc. Genius film starring my favourite actor, Rutger Hauer.
Princess Bride for swashbuckling and humour done well.
Alien 2 : Good hardcore action
Starship Troopers
Predator 1
Willow, because it's cute and lovable
Willow, because she's cute and lovable
2001
Dark Star because its quirky, kooky and reminds me of my Traveller RPG games.
I, Robot

[Stan.goodvibes]

2001. The SFX still holds up over 40 years later - check out the BluRay edition...

I have to say, after never having seen 2001 until someone decided to buy it for me for Xmas (I've since had them professionally killed), that 2001 has to be THE most immensely over-rated boring piece of drivel ever commited to celluloid.

I don't give a continental that technically there is no sound in space, watching a plastic-looking 'spaceship' crawl across the screen for 5 minutes with no sound at all... I'd rather have a root canal.

Stanley Kubrick should have been shot for making this movie, at least then he wouldn't have gone on to make that pile of pish that had Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in it.

[Stan.goodvibes]

Now where was I? Oh yes, top sci fi movies...

Forbidden Planet (Leslie Nielson - brilliant!)

Alien, possibly only surpassed by Aliens 2

The Hidden (80's classic that is STILL watchable)

Predator

Matrix 1,2,3

Serenity (and Firefly - The Best TV Show That Was Canned Ever)

[Diver]

• Fifth Element
• 2012
• Predator
• The Thing - the John Carpenter version
• The Thing from Another World (1950's version)
• Aliens + Alien v Predator
• Star Wars - all
• The Matrix (all)
• Event Horizon
• Brazil
• The Terminator 1 & 2