Favorite Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars, The Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Terminator 2

DUNE (both versions), Highlander (all - although not quite sci-fi ), Star Wars (the first one, with VGER), Close Encounters (of the third kind)

Stargate, Starwars, The Original Matrix, Cube, Fifth Element

Serenity

The Day The Earth Stood Still, Army of Darkness, Close Encounters…, Silent Running…plus the ones listed

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Alien
Blade Runner
5th Element
Matrix

OK, Operation Takedown doesn’t seem to be a real movie. At least according to IMDB.

Is ‘The Explorer’ the original 1915 version or the later 1955 version?
Is ‘The Navigator’ actually titled ‘The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey’?

No one liked 2001 A Space Odyssey? Or Spaceballs? Transformers? I, Robot?

I too place The Last Starfighter in my top 10 favorite scifi movies. Every time I see it I regret that a sequel was never made. Maybe because that wonderful Robert Preston died a few years after making the movie. Too bad, as I could envision at least 2 sequels. Too bad.

2001 A Space Odyssey, Forbidden Planet, Jurassic Park, Altered States, The Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner, Alien, The Andromeda Strain, Silent Running, Logan’s Run, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Day the Earth Stood Still, When Worlds Collide, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The War of the Worlds (first version), Frankenstein (even though it’s usually considered a horror movie), and Metropolis. And no, I’m not as old as some of these films.

This is just a list of acquired movies that I have seen:
Short Circuit
2001: A Space Odyssey
Batteries Not INcluded
Contact
Dune (2000 version with Sting)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Forbidden Planet
Hellboy
I, Robot
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Space Cowboys
Spaceballs
Tron
The War of the Worlds (1953)

Not necessarily in this order.

You guys are obviously a little younger than me. You didn’t even mention such classics as ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ (first SERIOUS SF movie), ‘Forbidden Planet’ (just as big a cinematic FX leap as Starwars), ‘2001, a Space Odyssey’, or even ‘Dune’ or ‘Alien’. These are all milestones in the advancement of SF in movies.

Where are the classics like Forbidden Planet, Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thing? How quickly they forget!

Foul!

You’re mixing SciFi & Fantasy. Would you call the Wizard of Oz SciFi?

Time Bandits and Labyrinth do not belong in the same group as Blade Runner and the Matrix. Hitchhiker’s Guide is more like SpaceBalls.

Also, judging from the list above, you definitely should see Mirror Mask.

And I love The Fifth Element but it needs it’s own category. SciFantasy? SciFan?

Of course, all of this, IMHO
Tks…Fletch

OMG how can you leave out Aliens? Where is Terminator? 2001: A Space Odyssey? E.T. The Extra-Terestrial? Close Encounters Of the Third Kind? Independence Day? …um geez only 5? now that is science fiction.

You missed the best movie of all……..Forbidden Planet

You’ve left out some classics such as “Forbidden Planet”, “The Day the Earth Stood Still” , “Earth Vs the Flying Sausers” , “2001″ and the original “War of the Worlds”. There are many more but all are probably older than most of you guys. Cheers!

How could you leave out some of the BEST movies of all times???? The Thing (both Howard Hawks and John Carpenter). The Day the Earth Stood Still.

2001: A Space Odyssey (never been a film like it)
Star Wars (wins over Empire because it invented that universe)
Alien (ultimate malevolence)
Blade Runner (thoughtful dystopia)
Aliens (as action-packed as the original was slow and creepy)

The classic sci-fi flick that predates all those listed is: The Day The Earth
Stood Still — made in 1951. It has a feeling of plausability without relying on spectacular special effects.
See :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfpSXI8_UpY

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Tell me this does not take you back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-IH4v25yOs

Ahhh, the memories. :)

Serenity, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Forbidden Planet, The Thing (with Kurt Russel)

A lot of flash over substance in that list. Try Forbidden Planet(1956) or Things to Come(1936). Both are very long in the tooth but ground breaking in their day.

Day the Earth Stood Still
Bladerunner
Matrix
Navigator
Alien

What - NONE of the “Planet of the Apes” movies made the list?!?!?!?

How could ANYONE forget Moses (err… Charlton Heston) saying “Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty Ape” ;););)

Empire Strikes Back
Flash Gordon (Thanks for the reminder, Joe!)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2010: The Year We Make Contact
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
The Time Machine (1960)
and I can’t believe no one mentioned Back To The Future yet.

BTW, The first Star TREK had V’ger, not Star Wars, Brie.

Cheers!

Nobody here saw The Quiet Earth? Superbly well-made movie, and the amazing premise is something that could actually happen in the next few years.

Several classics: Conquest of Space (1955);
The Angry Red Planet (1960);
Dark City (1998);
Explorers (1985);
Ice Pirates (1984);
It Came From Outer Space (1953);
Planet of the Apes (1968);
Invaders from Mars (1953);
along with Star Wars (all of them), Forbidden Planet, The Last Starfighter,,etc.

Day the earth stood still
Forbidden planet
Tobor the great
The seven faces of DR Lao
First men in the moon

I’ve two favourites- The Flight of the Navigator about a boy who is ‘chosen’ by an AI UFO to help it home through time and space and Time Bandits about a boy who gets caught up in a plot by dwarfs who have stolen a map of the universe from God. Both of them entertaining and give cause to consider the mysteries of time and space- and the Superior Being!

Oh, and K-Pak. Kevin Spacey- is he a nut or an alien? If you start thinking, the list gets longer. And I am not prticularly a Sci-Fi fan!

I’ve two favourites- The Flight of the Navigator about a boy who is ‘chosen’ by an AI UFO to help it home through time and space and Time Bandits about a boy who gets caught up in a plot by dwarfs who have stolen a map of the universe from God. Both of them entertaining and give cause to consider the mysteries of time and space- and the Superior Being!
Oh, and K-Pak. Kevin Spacey- is he a nut or an alien? If you start thinking, the list gets longer. And I am not particularly a Sci-Fi fan!

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Logan’s Run
Planet Of The Apes (any of the 5)
Omega Man

After 2001, maybe the best SF film ever is one not mentioned here: the made-for-TV film of the Ursula LeGuin novel, The Lathe of Heaven.

2001
2010
Stargate
Back to the future 1-3

Two words for you, “Young Buck!” Yes the list does show your youth.

Here’s one no one has mentioned, “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”. I used to love watching this movie as a kid. Sure the special effects are antiquated, but still a decent story, and impossible to find, not even on Netflix.

Uncle buck lol.

mars attack

The Day the Earth Stood Still & War of the Worlds

I can’t believe you missed some of the best movies of all time. Here is my choice:
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2001
The original Star Wars Trilogy
Matrix

New movies may be flashier but nothing beats a great story. You can tell a great movie when the story can stand alone.

strange, ID4 has been on HD cable lately.

you forgot movies like Hackers, War Games, Colossus the Forbin Project, Johny Mneumonic.

Logun’s Run,
All of the Planet of the Apes Films,
Alien, and Aliens
Omega Man,
Back to the Future (all three movies)
Independence Day
Men in Black,
War of the Worlds (old and new)

TV shows
“V”
Stargate

My Top 5:

Blade Runner: A cult classic that started the whole cyber-punk film genre and dystopian future setting also presenting hard core questions like what makes one human.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Long before Spielberg’s sci-fi disaster War of the Worlds this took everyday average folks and brought them into extraordinary events that made it very believable. Great acting, story and film score.

Tron: Games, evil corporate computer AI, circuit board effects and more computers. True geek sci-fi.

Logan’s Run, Dune, 2001… ok, more then 5 favs.

I have to agree with Chris about Alien/s but although i could never watch the movies ever again i did find the concepts behind the film/s interesting. Take HR Giger’s dark world, that is what really made the first film alive and truly alien. The man really deserved more credit over the years but was screwed all too often. It is these bizzare worlds that make sci-fi so fascinating to watch.

I have to say that Independance Day is sci-fi but Sci-Fi Blockbuster to be fair here. It had too many settings that say sci-fi even though it takes place in modern day. Aliens, invasion, alien high-tech and telepathy. Blockbusters can fall under many genres like techno-thrillers, action/adventure and horror.

At last. This video was blasphemous until you put “First Contact at the top”, well done! A Sci-Fi discussion without a word for any trek? They all need to go back to Sci-Fi school, with their heads hung in shame while Warf escorts them to their classes! :D

In no order:

Blade Runner
Close Encounter of the Third Kind
Minority Report
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Stargate
I, Robot

actually nuber 5 is first then goes to one. Stargate is my favorite (movie and both series)

There were no aliens “popping” out of anyone in the original War Of The Worlds. Are you confusing this film with the original “Body Snatchers”? In that movie, “pods” were put close to a sleeping person, and a body would “pop” out and become that person. Gene Barry was in the version of War of the Worlds that I was referring to. It has great flying saucers and I love the scene when an alien ship crashes into an old farm house.

When Worlds Collide is a classic, and I am surprised nobody mentioned it. Maybe my age is showing.

sci-fi/action
sci-fi/horror
sci-fi comedy

aint they all sci-fi??

Starship Troopers is my favorite sci-fi-movie.

I forgot, Terminator1&2 (sci-fi?), Matrix-trilogy, Aliens (Alien 2) and Total Recall were great sci-fi’s too.

Back to the Future!

Aliens/event horizon are sci fi and horror

star wars isn’t sci fi it is sci fantasy. If you are going to be anal about cats try to get it right. Basically you think sci fi is anything geeky, without the cool. Like Star Trek.

I guess cause they hare cross genre you cant really name them the top sci-fis of all time…

Of course the top five would have to be purely based off sci-fi genre.

Omega man, Soylent Green, Blade runner.
I have a question? Does anyone remember an early version of Colossus: The Forbin Project with Gregory Peck? Or was it another actor?
As Marcus stated, it’s a great movie if it stand on the Story alone without all the glitz and graphic voilence. With New Movies you no longer have to use your emagination. What a Loss….

this guys abit of a douchebag

Alien rocks u useless techno weenie! whats the one with harrison ford…. cant believe u didn’t pick bladerunner as first! what a **** video

just to point out this youtube video is **** not “Bladerunner”; which is so awesome it hurts

” impostor ” with Gary Sinise is a great sci fi movie. Im surprised that no one mentionned it

Quartermass and the Pit, or here in the US, 5 Million Years to Earth.

I am agree with 2001 it’s a unique sci-fi movie

Dude “The Day The Earth Stood Still”??? Are you joking???Not hating though……….

yeah STARGATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

does anyone know the Sci-fi movie thats like animated and it’s like cave people, that are like pets to these giant blue people?

It’s french. It’s called “La Planète sauvage”. English title: The fantastic Planet”.

Oh my god Thank you so much! Been looking for ages! hahaha! thanks mate.

Buckaroo Banzai in Fifth Dimension
Brother from Another Planet
Brazil
Blade Runner
Alien 1,2 and 4
Star Wars
La Jetee
12 Monkeys
Firefly
Pi

planet of the apes?