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Poll Question: Which ones are your favourites?
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    Posted: March 27 2022 at 06:25
The thing is, The Thing is here this time! LOL

I again used a list. This time there's no chronology. And also, IGN put the movies from best to worst (actually vice versa).

Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/best-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time

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Hi,

Tough decisions, but BLADE RUNNER is one of my favorite films of all time, and the one film that I think deserves this more, is FORBIDDEN PLANET, that had so many "firsts" when it came out, including Walt Disney doing animation and refusing credit for it, because they thought the film was not gonna last 3 days! And goodness ... isn't Robbie our favorite party friend?

Some good things. I enjoyed, though I am not a Sci-Fi fan for sure.

BRAZIL - trippy as heck, and a dream of a film. Literally!

2001, A Space Odyssey - Has aged terribly and seeing it today is really pushing your boredom, and in the end, not satisfying. The trip scene, is done much better in a Gaspar Noe film, that is insane in the first place!

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND - Was very neat and far out to watch, specially the full version that never got to theaters. (Saw a preview and the film was 20 minutes longer, and comments said ... you got it ... it was too long!). I don't think, (have to check) if this has EVER been released fully.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - Gort had his fun, and so did we ... gosh we need a Gort right now melting some tanks and __________________

E.T. - Fun film to enjoy and watch. Not sure we need to see bikes over the moon, but what the heck. Hollywood shlock on parade!

BACK TO THE FUTURE - Actually enjoyed watching these, although it was a bit hokey and silly, but it was fun. The cleverness of the design and ideas, made it fun, and the two leads made it cool.

STAR WARS - Fell out of them after the first one. Sitting n a theater with the sound under your bum, and a carbon copy of Pink Floyd's Quadraphonic Sound all around the theater, was fun for half an hour, but a total overdose in the last 30 minutes. Didn't bother seeing any more after the hand surgery on the 2nd film!

That only leaves 3 films I have not seen. METROPOLIS is not a great film, but it showed a design and view of film that helped film improve and get better all around. It felt like a German Opera without the singers. The same Beyruth sets of the 1920's which were amazing and very beautiful, but they were "empty stages" more or less with some incredible color shows which the film turned to shadows.

By the way ... you can tell who "owns" IGN ... almost everything listed is from the factory that needs to be dismantled by ... someone! It's not about hos good the films are, and listing more than one SW is ridiculous, since almost all the other films were not half as good. But the commercial aspect of its sales is more important for you to see it listed as valuable, and ignore so many other fabulous foreign films.



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Wall-E. The lost treasure of animation. Also, the best robot love story ever.

Back to the Future a close second.

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^ Multiple votes are allowed. And I totally agree about Wall-E.
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I am definitely an Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) guy, although I do like the original very much as well.

Lots of faves of mine here, and I have seen all of them.  

My top eight probably are (and while I could vote for all of those, Ill go with the top three there as those have consistently made top lists of mine since I was a teenager -- Brazil and A CLockwork Orange are always compared in my head):

A Clockwork Orange 
Brazil
2001: A Space Odyssey 
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 
Planet of the Apes
Alien
The Thing
The Day the Earth Stood Still

Starship Troopers I also love, and Ex Machina, and Blade Runner and Metropolis....

Most of these I really like, not a big fan of Terminator 2 (watched it gain recently, prefer the original), Aliens or Back to the Future.

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And any sci-fi best list that does not include ZardoZ can be comfortably sneered at.* ;)


* Although, to be honest, it would be more likely to make worst of lists.


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Great list indeed. Many great films, but some that I personally have never been able to enjoy and find rather ridiculous (Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park...) or that I never really got into (the Star Wars saga and the Star Trek thingies...).
From a Hollywoodian classic entertainment point of view the Spielberg movies are classics, indeed, and I very much like Back to the Future, Wall-E and Inception, but they're not my personal favorites. I could vote for at least 8 films from this list (2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Alien, The Matrix, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Metropolis, Terminator 2, Brazil...).

I would add the silent Soviet classic Aelita, by Yakov Protazanov (1924), a really wonderful film...

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I wold like to throw in "Welt am Draht" ("World on a Wire") by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Here the trailer:


It should replace "The Matrix" (which is totally overrated and just an FX-spectacle).

And where is "Silent Running"? Or "Phase IV"? "Soylent Green"? "City of the Damned" (the original, not the remake)? "Dark Star"?


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1-) Welt am Draht is not a movie but a series with 2 epiodes. (IMDb says it is a TV mini series, and Wikipedia says it is a television serial.)

2-) The Matrix is a fantastic and groundbreaking movie.

3-) I didn't make the list myself.

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Originally posted by Archisorcerus Archisorcerus wrote:

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1-) Welt am Draht is not a movie but a series with 2 epiodes. (IMDb says it is a TV mini series, and Wikipedia says it is a television serial.)

2-) The Matrix is a fantastic and groundbreaking movie.

3-) I didn't make the list myself.

"Welt am Draht" is a movie split up into two parts because the whole thing is three hours long, which the TV-channel did not want to send in one part.

"Welt am Draht" predates "The Matrix" by twenty-six years and deals with similar issues, so how is "The Matrix" groundbreaking (except for some cool FX, which is not what I am looking for in a movie)?


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^ Did I ever say that it is groundbreaking in dealing with issues? You and your partner are repeating the same things over and over again. OK, the Matrix is s real stinker for you. I totally respect that. But repeating the same thing does not make the movie worse than it is, but it makes you (two) look like clinically obsessed persons. Enough is enough, really.
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Invaders From Mars (the original) should have been in the mix. Bought one of those special edition DVDs of it back in the '90s, and it was an awful print. Still a bitchin' film that does not cry out for a remake.

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Originally posted by Archisorcerus Archisorcerus wrote:

^ Did I ever say that it is groundbreaking in dealing with issues? You and your partner are repeating the same things over and over again. OK, the Matrix is s real stinker for you. I totally respect that. But repeating the same thing does not make the movie worse than it is, but it makes you (two) look like clinically obsessed persons. Enough is enough, really.

I'm really curious: In what regard do you think "The Matrix" is groundbreaking? Because I don't see it. I can understand why some people love these kind of action movies, but what is so groundbreaking about that movie?


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Archisorcerus Archisorcerus wrote:

^ Did I ever say that it is groundbreaking in dealing with issues? You and your partner are repeating the same things over and over again. OK, the Matrix is s real stinker for you. I totally respect that. But repeating the same thing does not make the movie worse than it is, but it makes you (two) look like clinically obsessed persons. Enough is enough, really.

I'm really curious: In what regard do you think "The Matrix" is groundbreaking? Because I don't see it. I can understand why some people love these kind of action movies, but what is so groundbreaking about that movie?

Well, technically its camerawork is definitely groundbreaking. You can see that together with the FX and action thing, but it inspired many films that succeeded it, and some of them were not in the vein of the Matrix at all. Also the amalgamation of film noir, sci-fi and adventure was unique in the film, I think. Perhaps Dark City can compete with it, but the Matrix conveys a real philosophy within the sci-fi framework. That cannot be seen in Dark City. It was plain sci-fi/fantasy.

Honestly I haven't seen Welt am Draht yet. But I'll do it soon. Really. You made me curious, if that means anything. Smile

BTW, The Matrix is not among my absolute favourite movies. I liked Nirvana (1997) and eXistenZ (1999) a lot better. I recall that you and Jeanine also liked the latter.

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^^I'm sure most think of "Bullet Time" as the defining characteristic when they think innovative.
Otherwise, I'm hard pressed to find much else truly innovative.
The story's been done before, the action, while impressive choreography, was in line with many others. As for the wire work, I've seen way better in Japanese films.


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The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) is a great movie, interesting entertaining and creepy.
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I think Inception is one of the most overrated films in history. I watched it twice. First at the cinema. So, this is a subjective view, for sure. I'm a fan of Nolan's many films, including Insomnia. But, not of Inception or his Batman films.

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^ it's a fine movie. 

I think Avatar is totally overrated, style over substance, although I admire the effort that was put into that movie. 
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^ Avatar was OK, but yes overrated. I agree. At the IMAX, you might change your view though. LOL Some movies really impress at the IMAX theatres. Most people think it should just be a better cinematic experience than at the regular theatres, but I can say that there's a TREMENDOUS difference.

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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I am definitely an Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) guy, although I do like the original very much as well.

Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is pretty much a perfect film, one of the rare exceptions when a remake eclipses its predecessor. He got it down to a science with the paranoia, claustrophobia and the erasure of individuality and humanity as we know it.

(Did you watch the 2007 version, with Kidman and Craig, titled simply The Invasion? Disappointing. I can't believe they left out the "scream"!)

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

My top eight probably are (and while I could vote for all of those, Ill go with the top three there as those have consistently made top lists of mine since I was a teenager -- Brazil and A CLockwork Orange are always compared in my head):

A Clockwork Orange 
Brazil
2001: A Space Odyssey 
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 
Planet of the Apes
Alien
The Thing
The Day the Earth Stood Still

Starship Troopers I also love, and Ex Machina, and Blade Runner and Metropolis....

I love all those films. I'd probably have a 3-way tie with Clockwork, Blade Runner and the original Alien for sheer atmospheric bliss. And the scores are tops.

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Most of these I really like, not a big fan of Terminator 2 (watched it gain recently, prefer the original), Aliens or Back to the Future.

I file all of them under "films I never need to watch again."


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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

I think Avatar is totally overrated, style over substance, although I admire the effort that was put into that movie. 

Ah, James Cameron's non-classic, Avatar.

A textbook example of a gilded turd. LOL
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