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Ten Favorite Science Fiction Films

Scottie Ferguso​n

9 months ago

What’s your list? Mine:

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Empire Strikes Back
Blade Runner
The Terminator
A Clockwork Orange
Alien
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Videodrome
Star Wars
Aliens

Alex

9 months ago

A Clockwork Orange
2046
2001: A Space Odyssey
District 9
Blade Runner
E.T
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Happening
Children of Men
Back to the future 2

tomas.r​oges

9 months ago

Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Ikarie XB-1 (Polak)
Planet of the Vampires (Bava)
The War Game (Watkins)
Alphaville (Godard)
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
La Jetee (Marker)
Mauvais Sang (Carax)
Time of The Wolf (Hanake)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)

TheArsh​Man

9 months ago

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
3. E.T: The Extra Terrestrial
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Stalker
6. Solaris (Tarkovsky)
7. Videodrome
8. Forbidden Planet
9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
10. La Jetee

Honourable Mentions

Metropolis
The Host
A Scanner Darkly
Children of Men
Brand Upon the Brain!
Alien
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Minority Report
The Day the Earth Stood Still (50’s version)

Dr. Pepper

9 months ago

2001
Alphaville
Starship Troopers
Alien
Blade Runner
Solaris
Gattaca
Dark City
Brazil
Save The Green Planet
World On A Wire

Jr Heim

9 months ago

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Blade Runner
3. Stalker
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
5. Brazil
6. Children of Men
7. The Thing
8. Solaris
9. Aliens
10. Videodrome

Some others:

-Moon
-District 9
-Metropolis
-Alien
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Kris Bedecki

9 months ago

1. Blade Runner
2. Brazil
3. The Thing
4. The Fountain
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Videodrome
7. Alien
8. Back to the Future
9. 12 Monkeys
10. Star Wars

NRH

9 months ago

no order:

Dark Star
World on a Wire
Alphaville
2001
Stalker
The Man Who Fell to Earth
On the Silver Globe
Mad Max 2
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Steamboat Willy

christo​pher sepesy

9 months ago

No mention of all those wonderfully-cheesy-yet-startlingly-prophetic 70s entries …?

Rollerball, Westworld, Logan’s Run, Silent Running, The Omega Man, Soylent Green … and, the greatest of all, Planet of the Apes.

Rupert Pupkin

9 months ago

No Order:

Alien
The Thing
Blade Runner
12 Monkeys
2001
Sunshine
Star Wars
A Clockwork Orange
The Fountain
Back to the Future

I know a few of them are not strictly considered sci-fi films but whatever…

floserb​er

9 months ago

2001, a space odyssey
Brazil
Metropolis
La planète sauvage
La jetée
Stalker
Le dernier combat
Soylent Green
Invasion of the body snatchers
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Jaspar Lamar Crabb

9 months ago

Planet of the Apes (68)
Alien
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (78)
The Thing (82)
La Jetee
THX 1138
Brother from Another Planet
Forbidden Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Fahrenheit 451

and….
2001
Aliens
Star Wars
Zardoz
Brazil
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Outland
Bladerunner

mauries

9 months ago

Invasion of the body snatchers (1956)
The incredible Shrinking Man
THX 1138
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Blade Runner
Alien
Planet of The Apes
Phase IV
Westworld
Starship Troopers

And also:
Tarantula, The Thing, Close encounters of the third kind, Barbarella, Creature from the black lagoon

Brad S.

9 months ago

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) The Empire Strikes Back
3) Star Wars
3) E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial
4) Blade Runner
5) Close Encounter of the Third Kind
6) Alien
7) Metropolis
8) Back to the Future
9) Return of the Jedi
10) Solaris

AfterHo​urs

9 months ago

1. Metropolis-Lang (1927) [The Complete Metropolis, 147 min]
2. Brazil-Gilliam (1985) [The Final Cut, 142 min]
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey-Kubrick (1968)
4. Blade Runner-Scott (1982) [The Final Cut, 117 min]
5. Aliens-Cameron (1986) [Theatrical Cut, 137 min]
6. Stalker-Tarkovsky (1979)
7. Zardoz-Boorman (1972)
8. Play Time-Tati (1967)*
9. The City of Lost Children-Jeunet (1995)*
10. 12 Monkeys-Gilliam (1995)

*Play Time & City of Lost Children questionable choices for Sci-Fi (both are only mildly so). If we remove those, then possible choices, following 12 Monkeys would be: Pi-Aronofsky (1998) (again, questionable); The Terminator-Cameron (1984), & The Road Warrior-Miller (1981)…

Adrock

9 months ago

GATTACA
A. I.

No Order-

Blade Runner
Sunshine
Star Wars
Outland
City of Lost Children
Brazil
Planet of the Apes
Logan’s Run
The Fountain
Flash Gordon

Non so

Il pianeta delle scimmie
Star Wars

Non so

Il pianeta delle scimmie
Star Wars

AxelUmo​g

9 months ago

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Solaris (Tarkovsky)
4. The Fly
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. 12 Monkeys
7. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
8. The Day of the Dolphin
9. The Prestige
10. The Face of Another

g legs

9 months ago

Outland is a pretty underrated sci fi film, good to see it on your list Uli.

ruby stevens

9 months ago

omg the day of the dolphin. i’m sure i’ve seen this as a kid and had completely forgotten it

anyway long as i’m here

(no order)

blade runner
brazil
alien
the terminator
invasion of the body snatchers (siegel)
robocop
planet of the vampires
the man who fell to earth
minority report
children of men

Pierre

9 months ago

@CHRISTO​PHER SEPESY – how about Phase 4 or Colossus: The Forbin Project?

2001
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Stalker
Solaris
Silent Running
La Jete
Primer
Minority Report
THX 1138
Robocop

HM:
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
Sleep Dealer
The Fly (remake)
Starship Troopers
Dark Star

Matt Parks

9 months ago

Metropolis
2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Silent Running
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
Flash Gordon
Zardoz
Alien
The Terminator

Damn, forgot Enemy Mine and Wrath of Khan

ralch

9 months ago

Voyage to the Moon — Méliès
Aelita: Queen of Mars — Protazanov
La Jetée — Marker
Alphaville — Godard
2001: A Space Odyssey — Kubrick
Stalker — Tarkovsky
The Empire Strikes Back — Kershner
Until the End of the World — Wenders
The Matrix — Wachowskis
AI Artificial Intelligence — Spielberg

I don’t consider Children of Men sci-fi.

Jirin

9 months ago

Children Of Men
Stalker
Solaris
Alien
Blade Runner
Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars
Star Trek VI
Minority Report
The Fly

2001 is a great film, but it’s not great as scifi.

@Ralch

What do you consider it?

ralch

9 months ago

An action drama set in a dystopian future, with an allegorical component. It is fiction, but I don’t much see the science in it.

AxelUmo​g

9 months ago

Not great as sci-fi? Hm, I think I disagree with that.

Matt Parks

9 months ago

“I don’t much see the science in it”

That makes it “soft” sci-fi rather than “hard” sci-fi.