The Shiny All-New 10 Best SF Movies Of All Time Thread!
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, January 22, 2012 19:03
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List time- if you dare!
MY top ten presently (subject to change without notice), in some kind of order:
Serenity/Blade Runner (tie)
Star Trek : The Motion Picture
Star Wars (the trilogy)
Aliens
Superman: The Movie
Planet Of The Apes
2001: A Space Odyssey
Moon
Solaris (recent version)
Robocop
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in order of release:
Forbidden Planet
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
2001
Blade Runner
Gattaca
Dark City
the Firefly pilot ep (title: Serenity)
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
plus Galaxy Quest (which is too different from all the others to list within them)
Keep the Shiny Side Up,
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Well, can’t really put them in any order from 1 to10, but I can list the top 10. Here they are in random order:
Serenity
Plant of the Apes ( Heston)
Galaxy Quest
Aliens
The Thing (Carpenter- should this be horror?)
Terminator
Prometheus ( yeah I’m hoping)
Superman 2
The Firefly Series ( presented all at once, does that make a movie?)
*future posting* I will update later after I wake up…….
ZBP
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Star Trek : The Motion Picture
Odd-numbered Trek!? Now, that's a brave decision... I'd have gone for The Voyage Home (somehow the most Trek-y of the films even though it was a format-breaker).
I guess The Motion Picture deserves credit for trying to do a harder SF film - but for me it comes over as a misguided attempt to make a Star Trek film in the style of 2001.
Also, while I wouldn't dare say a word against Serenity here I still see it as a desperately-needed series finale to Firefly rather than a SF movie for the ages.
Moon, I regret watching on a plane - I'd like to wipe my memory of the plot and see it again in a decent environment.
So my list would be:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Blade Runner
3. Alien (singular - yes Aliens was good too)
4. The Matrix
5. Star Wars (original trilogy: not a huge Star Wars fan but its got to be there)
6. Forbidden Planet
7. The Day The Earth Stood Still (original, of course)
8. Twelve Monkeys
9. Total Recall
10. (tie) Silent Running or Close Encounters
Contact and 2010 narrowly miss out, because I liked the books better (whereas 1,2,7 and 9 found a way of offering a different experience to the books). Lord of the Rings trilogy omitted for not being SF.
Best films never made:
Altered Carbon (Seriously, guys, you bought the rights, make the bloody film! )
His Dark Materials done as animé by someone like Studio Ghibli (I'm not even a rabid animé fan, but I think the style would fit perfectly...)
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1. Forbidden Planet
2. The Time Machine
3. Star Wars
4. The Day The Earth Stood Still
5. War Of The Worlds
6. This Island Earth
7. When Worlds Collide
8. Planet Of The Apes
9. Logan's Run
10. Time After Time
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Serenity
Brazil
12 Monkeys
Metropolis
Things To Come
Forbidden Planet
Alien
Dark City
Others that could easily be on the list depending on my mood:
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
War of the Worlds
Fantastic Planet
The Time Machine
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Moon
The Man From Earth
And I'm sure I'll think of a few others later.
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1) Serenity.
2) Alien.
3) Aliens.
4) Blade Runner.
5) 2001.
6) Star Wars.
7) Children of Men.
8) Planet of the Apes.
9) The Omega Man.
10)Pitch Black.
With honorable mention to Silent Running.
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Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
The Man From Earth
...I almost included that. Highly recommended, but be warned: it makes Moon and Gattaca look like action-packed popcorn movies!
If we're looking at brain fodder rather than explosions, I'd throw in "A Scanner Darkly", too.
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Quote:The Voyage Home is my favourite Trek film, I just think TMP is better SF.
Originally posted by ImNotHere:
Odd-numbered Trek!? Now, that's a brave decision... I'd have gone for The Voyage Home (somehow the most Trek-y of the films even though it was a format-breaker).
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Quote:Wow, original theatrical, the Donner Cut, or a fan edit?
Originally posted by zzetta13:
Superman 2
I really love that movie, but there's just too much good stuff left out of the theatrical release, and the Donner Cut leaves too much good stuff from the theatrical release out IMO.
But I watch them BOTH!
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