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The Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
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Poll Question: Which ones are your favourites?
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    Posted: August 10 2022 at 10:00
Most of my favourite films are Sci-fi films and the 80's had some absolute gems.

Blade Runner
Alien (okay its 1979 but close enough!)
John Carpenter's The Thing
The Abyss*
Brazil
Robocop
Total Recall
Predator
Terminator
The Fly **
Scanners ***

* generally recognised as the first film to use CGI. I suspect that it was after that Sci-Fi films became less interesting because of the overuse of computer generated imagery. It just can't be the same acting againt a blue screen. The Thing was actually filmed in Alaska, not some cosy film studio and the actors were well on edge. This helped generate the fantastic nail biting tension as well as the superb animatronic effects.

** included on the other poll for horror films but this is actually a great sci-fi movie as well.

*** and on the subject of David Cronenberg



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Planet Of The Apes (1968)
and 2001: A Space Odyssey


I also love Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
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Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Alita Battle Angel is one of the best movies ive seen on the big screen. It was an action filled revelation, im unsure if its as good on yhe small screen.

I don't know what it's like on the big screen (a spectacle, I presume) but it was great for me on blu-ray. It did seem like there was more to the story in the end but I presume that is because there is a sequel in the works (or at least I hope so).
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Tarkovsky's Solaris. Clockwork Orange from the list.
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Forgot about Andromeda Strain and Contact! More great ones!
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Didn't see Dune or 2010 on the list and both are worth watching imho......as well as Outland, A. I., Dark City, Man Who Fell To Earth, Contact, Arrival, etc...
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Alita Battle Angel is one of the best movies ive seen on the big screen. It was an action filled revelation, im unsure if its as good on yhe small screen.
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Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

Just need to mention two that deserve more love: the original Andromeda Strain and Colossus:The Forbin Project 

 Yes, Those are both great films. I feel like a lot of people missed those. 
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Just need to mention two that deserve more love: the original Andromeda Strain and Colossus:The Forbin Project 
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Wall-E! I love it! I've seen Wall-E on lists for animated films and even best/favorite rom-coms, but never for Best sci-fi film--of all-time! It;s like putting The Incredibles on a list of best/favorite superhero films of all-time!

Surprised to not see Minority Report or Edge of Tomorrow or Interstellar or Lucy or Scanners or the Terminator films offered up. So many good ones to choose from.

I also like low-profile films such as The Host and Jumper and Tron (both of them) and Paycheck and The Cell and Hollow Man and Altered States and Ready Player One.



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Voted for 2001, Planet of the Apes, Matrix, Day the Earth Stood Still, Close Encounters, Brazil, Ex Machina, and Wall-E.
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Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

Wow This is tough. So many good ones here. Clockwork Orange ,Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars, The Thing....
 I voted for Aliens but I could voted  voted for any of the others I mentioned

Multiple votes are allowed. Wink
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Wow This is tough. So many good ones here. Clockwork Orange ,Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars, The Thing....
 I voted for Aliens but I could have voted for any of the others I mentioned


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It's not in the poll, but my favourite sci-fi movie of all time is Runaway (1984), starring Tom Selleck (Magnum P.I.) and Gene Simmons (of Kiss) as the villain Lux Lather (or something like that). The ground-breaking movie  featured such innovative weapons as guided homing rocket bullets that could go around corners and giant robotic acid-spitting spiders! Yikes!!
 The movie was hardly a runaway success though, as it cost more money to make than it made back in box office receipts. Stern Smile



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Alien, Aliens and Blade Runner. 

Again a lot of stuff I should watch again. 
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Originally posted by Heart of the Matter Heart of the Matter wrote:

Originally posted by Hugh Manatee Hugh Manatee wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Heart of the Matter Heart of the Matter wrote:

Wasn't Avatar a rip-off of Le Guin's novel The Word For The World Is Forest?


Avatar borrowed freely from many sources. That's one. Another is Alan Dean Foster's Midworld.


Not to mention "Fern Gully" and Roger Dean Wink

Yes! Those "islands" floating on the air, I knew I had seen them before!

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And sadly, as is the case in so much Hollywood material, Roger Dean never got a mention or a thank you, or 2 cents! All stolen, and Hollywood invented it all, including the world. Embarrassed I still have not seen that film, and I have no desire to see it.
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Originally posted by Hugh Manatee Hugh Manatee wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Heart of the Matter Heart of the Matter wrote:

Wasn't Avatar a rip-off of Le Guin's novel The Word For The World Is Forest?


Avatar borrowed freely from many sources. That's one. Another is Alan Dean Foster's Midworld.


Not to mention "Fern Gully" and Roger Dean Wink

Yes! Those "islands" floating on the air, I knew I had seen them before!
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Heart of the Matter Heart of the Matter wrote:

Wasn't Avatar a rip-off of Le Guin's novel The Word For The World Is Forest?

Avatar borrowed freely from many sources. That's one. Another is Alan Dean Foster's Midworld.

Not to mention "Fern Gully" and Roger Dean Wink
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Why is Ex Machina and Inception on the list but not Interstellar? Interstellar would probably get my vote.

Edit: Ok, I voted for Back to the Future since it's probably my all time favorite movie. I didn't think of it at first because I typically don't think of it as Sci Fi for some reason although I can see how it qualifies for sure. 


Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - March 29 2022 at 15:32
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