Best Sci Fi movies

[Moiraine]

Go.

(I'm hoping people will name some I haven't seen yet)

[NUance]

I should make my own top ten list sometime.  Blade Runner and Terminator 2 would be high on the list.  Tom Cruise has been in a couple good ones: Minority Report and Edge of Tomorrow.  Gattaca is very solid, but didn't receive a lot of fanfare.  A true sleeper is Frailty.  Another that would be high on my list is Serenity.  But to really appreciate Serenity you'd have to first watch the one season series of Firefly.   Another of my favorites is Twelve Monkeys. 

[huKSer]

2001: A Space Odyssey and the original Planet of the Apes, oh and The Time Machine

[The Dude]

My favorite of all time is the original Planet of the Apes.

 

 

[RedDenver]

7 hours ago, NUance said:

I should make my own top ten list sometime.  Blade Runner and Terminator 2 would be high on the list.  Tom Cruise has been in a couple good ones: Minority Report and Edge of Tomorrow.  Gattaca is very solid, but didn't receive a lot of fanfare.  A true sleeper is Frailty.  Another that would be high on my list is Serenity.  But to really appreciate Serenity you'd have to first watch the one season series of Firefly.   Another of my favorites is Twelve Monkeys. 

 

46 minutes ago, The Dude said:

My favorite of all time is the original Planet of the Apes.

These are all solid picks. Frailty is great.

 

I'd add: original Star Wars trilogy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still (the one from the 1950's not the more recent one), Alien, Aliens, Predator, Matrix (only the first one), Back to the Future, Ex Machina

[Moiraine]

Ok that gives me a couple to try already. I've seen most of them (which I expected).

 

Is The Thing very scary? Not a big fan of horror movies.

 

I've tried watching 2001: before but got a little bored. Maybe I'll try it again.

 

 

If any of you ever need to compromise with a lady friend, About Time is a sci fi romantic comedy.

[The Dude]

4 hours ago, Moiraine said:

Is The Thing very scary? Not a big fan of horror movies.

 

No.  It's more about the paranoia and gradual decay of rational behavior.  John Carpenter's best movie imo.  It's better than the book.

[TonyStalloni]

7 hours ago, huKSer said:

2001: A Space Odyssey and the original Planet of the Apes, oh and The Time Machine

The 1960 or the 2002 version?

[commando]

1 that i liked that isn't listed yet is the martian

[JJ Husker]

Many good ones mentioned so far. Here's a few more.

Westworld.

Escape From New York

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the one with Donald Sutherland)

All of the newer Star Trek movies.

Soylent Green

 

My favorites

Minority Report (even though I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan)

Original Planet of the Apes

Matrix trilogy

Plus a lot of the old cheesy 50's sci fi

Sci Fi is probably my favorite genre.

 

[MLB 51]

1. Arrival 2016 with Amy Adams was pretty good.

2. ET

3. Close Encounters of the 3rd kind

4. The Terminator movies

5.  K-Pax

6. John Carter

7. Jupiter Ascending

8.  The Divergent movies

9.  Prometheus

10. The Alien movies

11. The Riddick movies

12. Paul

[huKSer]

16 hours ago, TonyStalloni said:

The 1960 or the 2002 version?

 

 

The original The Time Machine

[RedDenver]

On 5/26/2018 at 7:09 PM, MLB 51 said:

6. John Carter

7. Jupiter Ascending

8.  The Divergent movies

9.  Prometheus

I have to push back and say 6 and 7 were awful, just awful. 8 and 9 were mediocre.