Best Sci-Fi movie...or at least your favorites

[JiF]KellysHero · Post by **[JiF]KellysHero** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:27 pm

It can be Sci/Fi - horror, Sci-Fi - comedy, etc...

We can eliminate the easy ones, Star Wars, Star Trek (at least a couple of them) and the Aliens series...besides those.

In the Sci/Fi - Comedy category I watched Space Quest the other day, forgot how funny that was.

[JiF]Mentat · Post by **[JiF]Mentat** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:04 pm

Not really on topic but, I read somewhere recently they are planning/making a movie version of "The Foundation" by Isaac Asimov. I look forward to this.

[JiF]KellysHero · Post by **[JiF]KellysHero** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:05 pm

[JiF]Mentat wrote:Not really on topic but, I read somewhere recently they are planning/making a movie version of "The Foundation" by Isaac Asimov. I look forward to this.

Figured an architect would be into "The Foundation", think it'll be block or slab? Basement?

[JiF]LtWaterboy · Post by **[JiF]LtWaterboy** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:26 pm

Is SciFi - Fantasy included as well?

if so, I take it (just like Star Wars), that the LOTR will have to be eliminated out of the choices??

LT

[JiF]Buick · Post by **[JiF]Buick** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:42 pm

SciFi -Philosophical

The Matrix

Straight up SciFi:
2001:A Space Odyssey

[JiF][AARP]Tissueman · Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:25 pm

Serenity and Blade Runner are two of my favorites. And the Alien movie with the Marines - great small unit tactics.

Iron_Feliks · Post by **Iron_Feliks** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:46 pm

for the sci-fi comedy,it has to be space balls.
anyone remember that?
[grimped] funny movie.

im doing this on a wii!!

[JiF]Antman · Post by **[JiF]Antman** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:12 am

hmmmm saw the topic and I couldn't resist the temptation to reply

without thinking it through too much:

Starship Troopers
5th element
Total Recall
Lost in Space
Mario Brothers
The Abyss

I also liked Dune... but it's been so long I don't remember anything from it.

[JiF]Mentat · Post by **[JiF]Mentat** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:40 am

The Dune movie by David Lynch, even in the extended directors cut, was actually awful compared to the book. The Sci-Fi mini series did a much better job but still fell short of the mark.

Going back a few years, I often think back on "Andromeda Strain" as one of my favorite sci fi movies.

[JiF]Dandyman · Post by **[JiF]Dandyman** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:41 pm

In no particular order

- Gattaca
- Starship Troopers
- Galaxy Quest
- Strange Days
- Total Recall
- Men in Black
- Terminator - Terminator 2
- Jurassic Park
- The Matrix
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- The Running Man
- Aliens
- Blade Runner
- Back to the Future
- X-Men 2
- Spider-Man 2

[JiF]rIot · Post by **[JiF]rIot** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:09 pm

Quantum Leap dominates....

[JiF]Stepovich · Post by **[JiF]Stepovich** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:54 pm

The classics of course, that've already been mentioned.
But more recently, I thought Serenity was amazing.

...and of the classics, Starship Troopers was hard to
beat for pure entertainment value.

The original Star Wars will always be my favorite
though- standing on line for an hour to see it in the
theater for the first time...blew my mind.

[JiF]rIot · Post by **[JiF]rIot** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:09 pm

You saw the first Star Wars in theaters?!

[JiF][AARP]Tissueman · Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:16 pm

[JiF]rIot wrote:You saw the first Star Wars in theaters?!

Yep. Some of us did. It was great. Totally changed SciFi. I still remember watching the faces of the rebel troops as the Imperial Stormtroopers cut through the door. They showed fear and weren't all muscled hunks drug out of a gym. Then you looked at the Starfighters and it reminded me of the aircraft on the flightline. They weren't all pretty and shiny, but had been used.

[JiF][AARP]Grimp · Post by **[JiF][AARP]Grimp** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:34 pm

I have watched a lot of Sci-fi movies over the years and the original "War of the Worlds" is probably one of my favorites.
Maybe not the best I have seen, but one I never forgot and have watched many times over the years. I think for its time it was great. Another one would be the old version of "The Time Machine".