Your Top 5 Sci-Fi Movies

[Chordata]

This thread is funny.

It's like: "List your Top 5 Favorite Albums", and people answer:

1. All Beatles albums
2. All Rolling Stones albums
3. All Radiohead albums
4. All Jimmy Buffett albums
5. A tie between all R.E.M., Cream, and Britney Spears albums.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by Easywolf32

Which SciFi movies captured your imagination the most?

1- Alien-Aliens (Something about the Nostromo in the first one and the fact of them being in some far our System beta II reticuli).

2- The Entire Star Wars Saga. Just too damn great!

3- The Entire Terminator Series.

4- The Entire Riddick (Pitch Black) Series: Great soundtrack, great planets, great stories.

5- A tie between Doom (Great location, similar to Alien), Event Horizon, Sunshine, Dead Space: Downfall, Bladerunner and The Thing. All are great.

You say top 5, but you mentioned like 17 movies {not including anime sequels or sequels that haven't hit theater yet.} *LOL*

Logan

[demoni]

Originally Posted by O_V_N

Yes, for one reason: ewoks.

Hm, ok... I kind of have to agree with the ewok thing. But anyway. Episodes 1-3 is nowhere near 4-6.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by demoni

Hm, ok... I kind of have to agree with the ewok thing. But anyway. Episodes 1-3 is nowhere near 4-6.

I didn't say episodes 1-3 were better than episodes 4-6.

I said episode 3 is better than episode 6, and that episode 6 is better than episode 2 (and impliedly, episode 1).

I'm talking movies; not trilogies.

[krazeyeyez]

no order, and these may not be my top 5 since i am huge sci fi fan ....

1. pitch black 1

2. event horizon

3. star wars 6

4. star trek all of em

5. stargate continuum

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by demoni

+1 for your number 1.

But calling A Clockwork Orange a sci-fi is stretching it a bit... isn´t it?

thanks.

as for Clockwork, no, not really.

Sci-Fi Definition
literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

I just reject the notion that "imagined impact of science on society" must always involve anti-gravity space flight. not saying you're saying that, but i do think there is that stereotype out there.

clockwork was a masterpiece, and its themes of "sudden behavioral modification" pervade many other sci-fi classics, it just doesn't have the stereotypical space flight. doesn't matter to me.

[Chuck Norris Inc]

Bride of Frankenstein
Alien
The Thing from another world
Empire Strikes Back
Matrix

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by O_V_N

Yes, for one reason: ewoks.

What is wrong with the little furballs? They brought down the best legions of the Empire with sticks & stones

[PH3AR]

Really only need to mention one....

1.Starship Troopers!!!
then...
2.Alien 1-4
3.Minority Report
4.Star Wars 1-6
5.Predator 1-2

Honorable Mentions:
Terminator Series
Riddick Series(Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick)
Blade Runner
Total Recall
Armageddon
Paycheck

[JamesKurtovich]

Star Wars Episodes IV-VI
2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Alien
Akira

Can Children of Men be classified as sci-fi? It's depicts future events but that's it.

[Rob J in WNY]

Originally Posted by JamesKurtovich

Can Children of Men be classified as sci-fi? It's depicts future events but that's it.

Absolutely. It's futuristic vision is, in fact, quite a visionary achievement, but more to the point, is certainly based on science and technology. Like many sci-fi type films, is dystopic in nature. I see your point in asking, though, as those aspects of the movie are blended in quite well, and not to the fore of its presentation like more "traditional" sci-fi films.

Top five Sci-Fi is impossible for me, but in no particular order:

Blade Runner

Back to the Future (all 3 episodes)

Star Wars, Episodes IV & V (but enjoy all, even the horrible acting in I - III)

Alien & Aliens

Contact

Additional inclusions go to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sunshine, Gattaca, and many others.

[Codywan24]

Star Wars IV-VI
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Fifth Element
2001: A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[owa]

Another one that is really tough to narrow down since it and horror are my favorite genres.

1. Sunshine
2. Aliens
3. Serenity
4. ID4
5. Dune

[stockstar1138]

5. Star Wars
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still
3. Blade Runner
2. The Empire Strikes Back
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

[matt2009]

blade runner
empire strikes back
solaris
alien
t2

[wallendo]

Semiramdom Order"

Silent Running
2001
Blade Runner
When Worlds Collide
Planet of the Apes

honorable mention:
Terminator 2
Star Wars
Star Trek : The Wrath of Kahn
Logans Run
Planet of the Apes 2
Close Encounters of the Third Kind


I guess I am a little older than most people posting on this thread.

[Easywolf32]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

You say top 5, but you mentioned like 17 movies {not including anime sequels or sequels that haven't hit theater yet.} *LOL*

Logan

Awwwww, did I hurt your feelings dorky? Puts you in a headlock and Wham Bam Spams your head.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Easywolf32

Awwwww, did I hurt your feelings dorky? Puts you in a headlock and Wham Bam Spams your head.

I don't think you hurt his feelings, you just couldn't follow your own rules in your own thread.

[dvcmember]

In no particular order:

1 - Them!
2 - Tie The Thing (John Carpenter version) and The Thing From Another World (with James Arness)
3 - Aliens
4 - Star Trek films
5 - Star Wars films

Honorable mention: The Day the Earth Stood Still (original), Starship Troopers, Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds (Original), Flash Gordon serials featuring Buster Crabbe, Enemy Mine, Terminator 2

[uziel5000]

In no particular order:

The Empire Strikes Back
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Matrix
A New Hope
Terminator 2: Judgement Day