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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Quote:What a great movie.
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
10. Time After Time
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
The Voyage Home is my favourite Trek film, I just think TMP is better SF.
Yeah, I mean the idea of a space probe returning to seek out its maker is more SF than the idea of a space probe returning to... er... hang on...
Seriously - I do see your point. I'm just not sure that ST:TMP had enough impact on SF cinema to put it up with 2001, Blade Runner or Star Wars.
Personally, I think Trek is at its best when it sticks to morality plays and steers clear of hard SF.
But hey, its your list :-)
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Quote:ROTFLMAO! Yeah... point taken. I just love the feel of TMP for the SF take- but it's not "Trek" at its best.
Originally posted by ImNotHere:
Yeah, I mean the idea of a space probe returning to seek out its maker is more SF than the idea of a space probe returning to... er... hang on...
Quote:I absolutely agree.
Personally, I think Trek is at its best when it sticks to morality plays and steers clear of hard SF.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Some interesting choices and quite a few 'old school' sci-fi.
My choices for Best (not favourite) SF Movies are - in no order*:
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Alien/Aliens
Batman + Returns + Begins + Dark Knight + (hopefully) Dark Knight Rises
Star Wars (Original Trilogy of course)
Superman: The Movie
Blade Runner
The Thing (Carpenter version)
Moon
Back To The Future
Terminator 1+2
Almost included:
Serenity
Inception
Twelve Monkeys
Star Trek: TMP, II, IV or VI
Watchmen
Galaxy Quest
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Abyss
Mad Max 2
*Subject to change when one of the posters below me reminds me of that movie I'm forgetting at this moment.
"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall
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Serenity
The Day the Earth Stood Still, the great 1951 one, not the stupid P.C. remake that should have never been made....cause it was stupid!
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10) Serenity
9) Silent Running
8) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
7) Aliens
6) Superman
5) Star Wars(original trilogy with original SFX)
4) Blade Runner
3) The Terminator
2) Star Trek IV The Voyage Home
1) Planet Of The Apes(1968)
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No surprise that I own 4/5 of your list.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Regarding the odd number Trek films, I think they are great. I don't dislike any of them.
One of my favorites is The search for Spock, but The motion picture still to this very day continues to grow on me. I watched it on Blu-Ray around Christmas time, and I was really immersed in the whole thing. It's a very good movie. People that complained about it at the time got their wish a couple years later with Wrath Of Khan.
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I dislike only Generations.
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Originally posted by squarepeg1:
There're some titles I'm surprised haven't been mentioned yet like Roller Ball (the original with James Caan) or Soylent Green. Maybe I'm just showing my age.
That's the thing with Top Ten lists - you aren't just picking great or classic films, you are picking just ten of them. There will always be excellent films that don't quite make the cut.
It's also why folks 'adapt' the list and add a selection that might have gone in under other circumstances.
"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall
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