The Ten Best Sci Fi Movies! - Progressive Rock Music Forum

In no particular order:

Aliens

Blade Runner

A Scanner Darkly

Akira

Ghost In The Shell

Star Wars (the whole damn thing)

Moon

Total Recall (not that bs remake)

Terminator 2

Dark City

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Interstellar and Avatar are the most loved Sci-Fi movies that received a huge response from allover the world.More than Avatar its Interstellar which is a purely Sci-Fi movie which is based on time travel and exploring new world for the human beings on the earth.

Davesax1965 wrote:

Two Tarkovsky movies

Stalker

Solaris

STALKER, specially stands out, although I'm not sure it fits as a Sci-Fi film as much as it does a sort of post-apocalyptic film.

I have no films to add to this fine list ... but I'm a great fan of FORBIDDEN PLANET and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (the original, please!!!) ... and a couple of other Ray Harryhausen films as well, though these days, watching them, the best thing in them is the music by Bernard Herrmann.

This is a tough area for me, since some of the best novels in Science Fiction have never really had a good/great adaptation done to the screen, and even the best one (BLADE RUNNER), was changed so much from the book but many things in Sci-Fi have been ignored, or simply too hard to illustrate and make the fans happy.

2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY is nice to watch, but I'm not sure it stands up to the original novel. And one of his best, CHILDHOOD'S END, will be really difficult to bring to the screen as it is a strong indictment to the religious and commercial flavor of this time. The Overlords, do NOT, have the answer for you!

CITY OF LOST CHILDREN and DELICATESSEN, are two films that defy description and in many ways stand alone in an area that defies description. The inventiveness of both is amazing to watch, and the images are great.

THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUCHAUSEN probably fits as Sci-Fi, but its comedic side has a tendency to break that, and even adding someone like Robin Williams, has a tendency to bring it down from there and turn it into a satire. Still its transitions (try the one from the theater ... the face turns left and you are somewhere else!) are so far out there and Sci-Fi, it's not funny. 12 MONKEES also fits, in many ways, although its weirdness and turning it into a love story in the end, has a tendency to break it up for me.

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^ I also love those films. I do prefer Stalker to Solaris (love the Lem novel). I love the imagination on display with City of Lost Children and Delicatessen.

I prefer Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to Clarke's short story The Sentinel and to his novel that came out shortly after the film. One of my favourite adaptations is Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (I'm not keen on the look of the TV adaptation based on the trailer).

As for Blade Runner, it is indeed so very different from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I adore Phillip K. Dick, but most of the adaptations of his works haven't worked that well for me. I really liked the film version of A Scanner Darkly. If I were to adapt one, I might do Ubik.

For a few modern "cinema fantastique" ones that I loved the look of, Under the Skin worked really well for me, but then I tend to favour so-called art house film. I also loved The Lobster, Snowpiercer and the Girl with All the Gifts. Moon was good too. I think Arrival was the last SF film I saw in the cinema, as I missed seeing Blade Runner 2049 on the big screen (I appreciated the approach of the sequel, but it didn't altogether work for me).

Clockwork Orange is above all a crime /drama film

BaldFriede wrote:

Logan wrote:

As for Blade Runner, it is indeed so very different from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I adore Phillip K. Dick, but most of the adaptations of his works haven't worked that well for me. I really liked the film version of A Scanner Darkly. If I were to adapt one, I might do Ubik.

"Ubik" is my second favorite of Dick, after "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch". Would not be easy to make either into a movie though.

"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is my favourite too. Another favourite of mine is Dr. Bloodmoney. Filming any of those would present their challenges. Ubik is fairly simple story, but also non-linear, and I wouldn't want it as a CGI or overly FX driven or ridden spectacle. I think it would be doable as a relatively low-budget, experimental art house type film. Been ages since I read it, but at the time I thought it would be pretty workable.

1.Terminator movies

2. Star Trek movies with original cast specially IV

3. The Martian

4. Blade Runner

5. The Thing

6.Solaris

BaldJean wrote:

noni wrote:

1.Terminator movies

2. Star Trek movies with original cast specially IV

3. The Martian

4. Blade Runner

5. The Thing

6.Solaris

the 1982 version by John Carpenter or the 2011 version by Matthijs van Heijningen of "The Thing"? or the original movie from 1951 titled "The Thing from Another World" by Christian Nyby, of which both the other movies are remakes of?

all 3 movies are based on a 1938 sf-novella by Don A. Stuart (a pseudonym of John W. Campbell) titled "Who Goes There?"

The 2011 movie was a prequel to the 1982 remake, although it played out pretty much the same way. It ends where the Carpenter movie begins.

^ The 1951 version featured none other than Marshall Matt Dillion (James Arness) of Gun Smoke fame as the Thing.

BaldJean wrote:

...In the 60s and 70s there were a lot of brilliant horror movies, like the Roman Polanski trilogy "Repulsion" (1965), "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "The Tenant" (1974) ...

That RP gets thought as a horror director, is strange for me. He is, for lack of a better set of words, an "observer", though many times, his camera takes on the very personna he is trying to show ... TESS is an excellent example of that and watch some of the scenes ... the camera becomes first person, and in at least one case, it is very scary and uncomfortable.

The other 3 films, for me, had a lot more of RP's cleverness with the camera in his hands ... witness, the great ballroom shot in "THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS", and then the most famous camera shot of his, being in "ROSEMARY'S BABY" where the camera is situated in the dark outside and the shot is looking through the door into a bed on the left, and we can only see the last foot or two of the bed ... and EVERYONE in the theater, turned their heads to try and see what was on the other side of the door!

Such is the power of film, that even our reactions are ... yeah ... you got it! Totally silly.

BTW, not a sci-fi film but a must see film ... "VISIONS OF LIGHT" is about cinematographers, and in hearing many of them talk, you find out some of the crazy beauty that so many films became ... it's almost total sci-fi for me, because even as a director, so much of that stuff is never really thought of ... most directors think about a linear story and dialogue kind of thing, so seeing a visual something else ... that a director took up, changes the whole thing around. And this always came away best in film with great music, for which Bernard Herrman, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vangelis, Maurice Jarre, Nino Rota ... are fondly remembered, even though for many of us, we can't even name many of these films.

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