Five Favorite Science Fiction Movies - Mine and Yours

[soundmotor]

Favorite five that don't include Blade Runner and don't repeat the preceding, hmmmm, that's tough...

In no particular order -

Colossus, The Forbin Project
Forbidden Planet
Terminator
THX 1138
Robocop

Runners up -

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Minority Report
Hardware
Scanners
Outland

 

[luke85]

my top 5 runner ups

 

[SA-708]

Blade Runner
Wall-E
Alien
Westworld
Soylent Green

Honorable Mention: Metropolis

 

[Poinzy]

I have 2 favorites:
King Kong (1933): it's hard to categorize, but I think of it as chiefly science fiction.
Things to Come (1936).

 

[nailer]

Speaking of District 9, I recently watched Chappie, which is the latest from the same director. Although it was pretty much panned, I thought it was really good. I especially liked Shartlo Copley's voice and motion capture work for the title character. He was also the lead in District 9.

Another I really liked was The Edge of Tomorrow. Sometimes Tom Cruise does really good Sci-Fi.

Sorry this isn't a list... I'm not good a lists.

I too liked Chappie. WTF do critics know anyway.

 

[nailer]

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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
STAR TREK (I take them as one series of a great movie)
BLADE RUNNER (1982)
STALKER (1979)
THE FLY (1958)

I know you want only 5, but I love the following very much too:
GATTACA (1997)
TOTAL RECALL
ALIENS (the first one)
THE MATRIX
INCEPTION

Five was pretty much an arbitrary lazy choice on my part. Could have said ten which in turn would've required more thought and typing on my part. There would've also been numerous movies vying for the tenth spot just like there is for fifth.

 

[soundmotor]

That almost made my list. It's a perfect summer film and good sci-fi too. When I had my Advent projection TV set up I used this film to demo it.

One thing that rig did great is render green in spectacular fashion and Predator showed that off.

 

[nailer]

Inspiration^^^^^^

Who Goes There?, Joseph W. Campbell, Jr., 1938

 

[tubed]

Comedic relief
Mars Attacks! ack ack, ack

 

[soundmotor]

Comedic relief
Mars Attacks! ack ack, ack

OT but Mars Attacks nearly made my list. It's more of a goof though and watched for a laugh. We usually pair it with Idiocracy or similar. However... It figured prominently in our Halloween display last year. My wife gets 99% of the credit, all figures were scratchbuilt by her. I did the A/V which is easy comparatively. We had ~30 kids crammed onto our 8x6 landing and spilling into the yard at one point not wanting to leave. Not sure what we're are going to for Halloween next after this one -

 

[kdooley]

Only five is gonna be tough and these would probably change tommorrow:

Forbidden Planet
The Thing From Another Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Them
Blade Runner

 

[bluestime]

2001
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
War Of The Worlds (early 1950's version)
This Island Earth
Sunshine

 

[tubed]

Invasion of the body Snatchers (1956)

 

[pdm4606]

My all time favorite is still "War With the Worlds" 1953(I think). In it's day it was better than anything made in the last 40 years. A breakthrough movie for the 50's.

 

[NAD80]

There is so many ways to go on this one.
War of the Worlds (53)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (51)
When World Collide
Them
Invasion of the Body Snatchers(56)
I could list a ton of flicks I've enjoyed over the years. My question would then be is have you seen them all that I list?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films_of_the_1950s thru now.

 

[Alobar]

Terminator 3
Matrix
Red Planet
Supernova
Stargate

 

[NAD80]

nailer got it right on John W Campbell. For 1938 not the easiest story to film. If anybody's interested on the classic SF reading. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_(Bookshelf)

 

[Raynald]

For me there are three that stand above the rest, chronologically they are:

Forbidden Planet
2001
Blade Runner

Then: Primer

After that it could be a good scrap between Arrival, 12 Monkeys/La Jetée, The Man Who Fell To Earth, pretty much all versions of The Thing, Inception, THX1138, The Andromeda Strain, Five Million Years To Earth/Quatermass and the Pit....

 

[Archguy]

There is more but
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Metropolis (1927)
When Worlds Collide (1951)

Took these four from your list, which also contains a couple I've not yet seen.

For my money, "The Day The Earth Stood Still" is the best ever.
Invasion of the body Snatchers (1956) would make five total.

Separately, I also thought of Alex Proyas's "Dark City" and
Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" though I'm not sure either
is technically "Science Fiction"...

 

[Raynald]

Yes, Dark City was a brilliant movie.