"Top 10 Sci-fi films?" Topic

The Bug strikes again.

My question was: what are your top ten sci-fi films?

Forbidden Planet
The Time Machine
Predator
Aliens
Star Trek III
The Empire Strikes Back
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Them
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Thing

Too many to chose from. How about:

Them
Forbidden Planet
20 Million Miles to Earth
Silent Running
Alien
Aliens
Blade Runner
ST Wrath of Khan
StarGate
Independence Day (1996)

Forbidden Planet
Them
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Empire Strikes Back
Time Machine
Blade Runner
Rogue One
Time Bandits
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Altered States

Sort of a personal favorite but I would add Dark Star to the list.

Also add When Worlds Collide, This Island Earth, and the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Aliens
Heavy Metal
Blade Runner
Them
The Thing 1980
Wrath of Khan
District 9
Akira

Far too many to choose from so, a quick check shows these are the ones I've watched this month;

Predator
Aliens
Dark Star
This island Earth
Them (Giant Ants! A man needs cheesy 50's SF darn it!)
IT (John Carpenter, obviously)
On the Beach
First men on the Moon (Luna Caterpillars!)
Silent Running
Soylent Green

You could do your top twenty or top 50 sci-fi films, if ten is too hard to narrow down to.

Hard to dispute the above but in no particular order

Mad Max Road Warrior
Forbidden Planet
Alien
Aliens
Terminator
Star Wars
The Thing (early version)
When Worlds Collide
Wrath of Khan
Planet of the Apes 1968

really want King Kong and Escape from New York to my list

2001: A Space Odyssey
Arrival
Contact
Dune
The Matrix
Dark City
Gattaca

Most "Sci-Fi" is just action movies set in outer space. I prefer more thought provoking science fiction like the above. But I still like a well made space yarn on occasion.

Star Wars (episodes 4,5,6)
Starship Troopers
Aliens

Forbidden Planet
Them
2001
Omega man
Star wars
Empire strikes back
Alien
Aliens
Terminator
Guardians of the Galaxy

Starship Troopers
Escape from New York
Super 8
2019 After the fall of New York
Warriors of the Wasteland/The New Barbarians
Le Dernier Combat/The Last Battle
Planet of the Apes (1963)
The City of Lost Children
Flash Gordon (1980)
Star Wars Tale Rogue One

Here's my list:

Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) -- Granddaddy of 'em all.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1954) -- Best Disney film ever. Definitive VSF.
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) -- Hardboiled detective Mike Hammer vs. "The Great Whatsit". Film noir for the atomic age.
Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, 1976) -- Released eleven months before Star Wars!
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) -- Post-apocalypse, Miyazaki style.
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985) -- I used to hate it, now I think it's Gilliam's chef d'oeuvre.
Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995) -- One of my absolute favorite films.
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) -- It's just so much fun!
Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998) -- Unique blend of dark fantasy and science fiction. Look for the Director's Cut.
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006) -- Animation director Kon made only a handful of films before his death in 2010. I feel he deserves to be better-known.

Ron

P.S. These are just my nominees; I tried not to duplicate everyone else's list. I didn't think I could come up with ten, but in the end, I had to cut a few!

Ex Machina
Back to the Future
Buckaroo Banzai
Avatar
The Terminator
District 9
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Blade Runner
Cloverfield
Total Recall

Didn't we already do this or something similar?

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Matrix
The Terminator
Star Wars: A New Hope
Metropolis
Star Trek: Frist Contact
THX 1138
They Live

They Live that's the one with the line " I'm here to kick ass or chew bubble gum and I 'm all out of bubble gum" right?

10 faves not listed yet:

Return of the Jedi
Battle Beyond the Stars
Voyage of the Rock Aliens
Starcrash
The Green Slime
Dr. Who and the Daleks
Daleks — Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
Wall-E
Tank Girl
Heavy Metal

2010- yes, the sequel
The Martian
Bladerunner
Star Trek 2
Aliens
Forbidden Planet
Flash Gordon – though it embarrasses me to no end
Serenity
Jurassic Park
Galaxy Quest

Could we amend the poll to remove the Star Trek and Star Wars movies?

I doubt that they would not dominate the top slots, and skew the results, resulting in fewer interesting recommendations and discussion.

Kind of like asking who are the second through eleventh greatest basketball players of all time? Even if you disagree with the presumed #1, he's still going to be #1 and knock other out of discussion.

+1 to the proposed amendment.

+2 There should be a separate poll with just Star Wars and Star Trek movies.

The Lathe of Heaven (for hard sf fans) link

My list with out the two star trek movies that would have been there.

Alien
Aliens
Terminator
Terminator 2
Total recall (the original one)
12 monkeys
Gattaca
Interstellar
contact
Back to future

1 Star Wars
2 ST: Wrath of Khan
3 Battlefield Los Angeles
4 The Fifth Element
5 John Carter of Mars
6 Guardians of the Galaxy
7 Stargate
8 Pitch Black
9 Chronicles of Riddick
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