LET'S RANK THE BEST SCI FI MOVIES OF ALL TIME!

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(put in alphabetical order to get the voting started)

A L I E N
Blade Runner
AVATAR!
Matrix
Dune
Dune 2
2010 The Year We Make Contact
Contact
Blade Runner 2
Aliens
Terminator
Terminator 2
Arrival
The Arrival with Charlie Sheen
Predator
Predator 2
Aliens vs Predator
PROMETHEUS
Prey
Star Trek VI: the undiscovered country
The Thing
The Thing (2011)
It came from outer space
Invasion of the bodysnatchies
The Abyss
Logan's Run
 
Easy.

1) John Carpenter’s The Thing
2) Blade Runner
3) A Clockwork Orange
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey
5) Predator

I’d add Gattaca, Planet of the Apes, Escape from New York, and Dredd to your original list. Then I’d take anything with “Star Trek” in the name and toss it…all trash. Lastly, I’d re-sort the list using the standard alphabet:)
 
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No particular order:

Dark City
Wall*E
Children of Men
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1950s and 1970s)
The Thing (1950s & 1980s)
Alien
Aliens
Predator
Blade Runner
Dune
Dune 2
Snowpiercer
Iron Giant
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Day the Earth Stood Still
Inception
Planet Of the Apes
Contact
2001
2010
Metropolis
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Outland
Primer
Ex Machina
Monsters
Another Earth
Melancholia
The Endless
The Sound of My Voice
The Vast of Night
Night of the Comet
Buckaroo Bonzai
Europa Report
Donnie Darko
2046
Moon
Rogue One
The Andromeda Strain
Jurassic Park
District 9
City of Lost Children
Sunshine
The Fifth Element
Pan’s Labyrinth
Godzilla Minis One
Gojira
Midnight Special
Repo Man
Pitch Black
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Arrival
Edge of Tomorrow
Annihilation
Interstellar
Looper
Pi
The Abyss
Prince of Darkness
Forbidden Planet
Star Trek II Wrath of Kahn
Apollo 18
Apollo 13*
Them!
Starman
They Live
Mars Attacks!
Independence Day
Edge of Tomorrow
Gattaca
Event Horizon
Idiocracy
Never Let Me Go
12 Monkeys
 
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Blade Runner
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Minority Report
Ex Machina
Total Recall
Star Wars
Back to the Future
Vanilla Sky
 
Arrival and Children of Men are incredible films worthy of all sorts of praise.

Blade Runner and 2001 are the greatest pure Sci Fi films of all time. Alien, Terminator, Back to the Future, Clockwork, Looper, Close Encounters should all be on the list somewhere...I also really enjoy Moon, 12 Monkeys, and ET.

Star Trek 2, 3, 4, and 6 are solid films, but not great films.

Star Wars ANH and ESB deserve to be on the list, but I think those are more fantasy than sci fi - the hero's journey filled with gods and monsters - the story is just set in space.
 
nycfan said:
No particular order:

Dark City
Wall*E
Children of Men
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1950s and 1970s)
The Thing (1950s & 1980s)
Alien
Aliens
Predator
Blade Runner
Dune
Dune 2
Snowpiercer
Iron Giant
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Day the Earth Stood Still
Inception
Planet Of the Apes
Contact
2001
2010
Metropolis
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Outland
Primer
Ex Machina
Monsters
Another Earth
Melancholia
The Endless
The Sound of My Voice
The Vast of Night
Night of the Comet
Buckaroo Bonzai
Europa Report
Donnie Darko
2046
Moon
Rogue One
The Andromeda Strain
Jurassic Park
District 9
City of Lost Children
Sunshine
The Fifth Element
Pan’s Labyrinth
Godzilla Minis One
Gojira
Midnight Special
Repo Man
Pitch Black
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Arrival
Edge of Tomorrow
Annihilation
Interstellar
Looper
Pi
The Abyss
Prince of Darkness
Forbidden Planet
Star Trek II Wrath of Kahn
Apollo 18
Apollo 13*
Them!
Starman
They Live
Mars Attacks!
Independence Day
Day After Tomorrow
Gattaca
Event Horizon
Idiocracy
Never Let Me Go
12 Monkeys
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I think it’s clear to us all that Buckaroo Bonzai stands alone at the top of that list.
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I'm going to give a shout out to the Buck Rogers movie serial.

It consisted of 15 minute episodes. Each Saturday my hometown theater ran a Buck Rogers episode as the lead in to a feature length movie aimed at kid audiences
 
heelinhell said:
I'm going to give a shout out to the Buck Rogers movie serial.

It consisted of 15 minute episodes. Each Saturday my hometown theater ran a Buck Rogers episode as the lead in to a feature length movie aimed at kid audiences
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You deserve the shout out. Sounds like you’ve been a science-fiction fan longer than there’s been science. Props.
 
Incredible Shrinking MAan 1957
War of the Worlds 1953
Earth vs the Flying Saucers
The Blob 1958
The Fly 1958
 
As a non-reader of Dune, I absolutely loved the recent movies, while understanding a lot of readers had gripes.

Growing up, nothing competed with Aliens.

He gets a lot of deserved shit, but I can heartily enjoy repeat viewings of Inception and Interstellar.

Art houses often do a great job with barebones sci-fi, e.g. Sunshine, Mother, Ex Machina, and Prospect.

As an adult, I may have spent more time with Edge of Tomorrow than any other sci-fi movie, not because it's my favorite content but because it's a streamlined mix of action, comedy, likable characters, plot device I tend to enjoy, and got replayed on cable over and over (in a time when cable still had relevancy).
 
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It would be hard to overstate the advances in special effects b/w The Terminator and T2, which was one of the first movies to really make me think “This shit looks real.” Plus the story was great and the irresistible hook of former hatred and feared bad guy is now the good guy battling an even more hatred and feared bad guy.

That latter element lost most of its charm in subsequent offerings but in T2 it worked great. Plus Linda Hamilton went from relatively passive victim in Terminator to legit badass in T2, which was a welcome development. I’m sure there were depictions of female badasses previous to that but I can’t think of many as effective or as badass as Hamilton in T2..
 
This admission is a sad commentary.on my life: if you don't count NYCFan's post with the long list, I have seen every movie mentioned in this thread. No wonder I've never accomplished anything in my life, apparently all I was doing was watching science fiction movies. And that doesn't even consider all the science fiction novels I've read that never even made it to the silver screen. B/T/W, the number of movies on NYCFan's long list that I have not seen can be counted on two hands.
 
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