What Are The Best / Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movies?

[Butch7999]

Not sure why there's a 1990 cut-off, but here are a dozen of our pre-1990 favourites
and our top 10 from 1990 onward, surely arguable depending on one's taste
and on one's definition of what does and doesn't qualify as "sci-fi"...

The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
Colossus: The Forbin Project, 1970
Silent Running, 1972
Sleeper, 1973
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978
Alien, 1979
Blade Runner, 1982
The Thing, 1982
Lifeforce, 1985
Aliens, 1986

Total Recall, 1990
Contact, 1997
Dark City, 1998
Galaxy Quest, 1999
Solaris, 2002
The Host, 2006
Cloverfield, 2008
Apollo 18, 2011
World War Z, 2013
Arrival, 2016

[mikemb]

My top 5:

The Giant Behemoth (1959)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Target Earth (1954)
Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956)
The Monitors (1969)

Mike

[White Borders]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

Not sure why there's a 1990 cut-off

There's not a 1990 cutoff or a limit. There are also many that I like 1990-present, such as Hunger Games, Jurassic Park, The Martian. I might share those in a future post. 1990 was just a good break-point for me. BTW - It was very hard for me to leave "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Soylent Green" off of my list.

[rats60]

My top 10 regardless of date
The Empire Strikes Back
A Clockwork Orange
The Matrix
Back to the Future
Inception
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
Interstellar
Mad Max Fury Road
Blade Runner
2001 A Space Odyssey

[Butch7999]

Hey, we hear ya. We could easily have compiled a Top 50 of our own favourites, and several on our list above
are "on the bubble," subject to replacement by Forbidden Planet, Soylent Green, The Martian,
Return of the Living Dead, and more, depending on our mood and our ever-shifting definition of "sci-fi"
at any particular moment. Along with the obligatory obvious choices, we deliberately included a few
slightly more obscure films that other sci-fi fans here might have overlooked...

[2dueces]

All the above are excellent choices!

[Prof_Plum]

guess these would be considered sci-fi

Godzilla movies
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Attack of the 50 ft Woman
Them!
Flash Gordon - with Buster Crabbe
...and there was another old black and white series where some 'hero' guy would put on a helmet and be able to fly, can't remember the name (rocketman????)