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

[mikemb]

Originally Posted by AustinMike

Many great movies listed. One i haven't seen listed yet is "Invaders From Mars" from 1953. I saw this on TV in about 1961 when I was 7. This is definitely in my top 10.

On a side note and not meaning to hijack the thread, another sci-fi movie I would recommend is "Plan 9 From Outer Space." It is sooooo BAD, it is kind of entertaining.

Inxvders from Mars is a great movie that scared me. Plan 9 from Outer Space is really bad but it is so funny!!

Mike

[edtiques]

No love for Independence Day?

[quinnsryche]

All 5 ORIGINAL Planet of the Apes movies
Alien
Predator
Star Wars
2001: A Space Odyssey
Terminator 2

[White Borders]

My Top 12 Sci-Fi Movies (1990 - Present)


The Martian (2015)
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Matrix (1999)
Men in Black (1997)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Pitch Black (2000)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Cube (1997)
Divergent (2014)
Prometheus (2012)
Tank Girl (1995)
Starship Troopers (1997)

[judsonhamlin]

Some great movies listed, but no love for District 9? Well-made and well-acted South African movie.

[tedzan]

Off the top of my head, my favorites are.....

The original (1933) KING KONG
Actress Fay Wray recently passed away, age 96.

and, THE BLOB (Steve McQueen's first movie)
This thriller was filmed in1958, only 25 miles from where we live in Pennsylvania.


TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Butch7999]

District 9, indeed overlooked and a worthy choice.
There's a thin blurry line between actual science fiction and what we'd call "space opera" or "space fantasy,"
which certainly has its charms (e.g., Flash Gordon, Star Wars), and a slightly broader but no less blurry line
between sci-fi and monster-horror. Anyone up for that discussion?

[quinnsryche]

Originally Posted by judsonhamlin

Some great movies listed, but no love for District 9? Well-made and well-acted South African movie.

That was my #11

[clydepepper]

So many good ones already mentioned, but one I have not seen listed:

War of the Worlds



I may have overlooked it since there have been so many discussed. I prefer the newer version to the original.
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