Favorite Sci-Fi movies

[concentric]

Just curious, what are some of your favorite Sci-Fi movies? Pelicanites have interesting tastes.

Mine top five are:

1. Bladerunner
2. Akira
3. The Road Warrior
4. THX-1138
5. The Element of Crime (more fi than sci, but what the hey)

Have at it.

JCM

[Z-man]

Ok, I'll bite:
Some of my favorite:
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. Brazil (Terri Gillian flick)
3. Bladerunner
4. Star Wars Trilogy (The original)
5. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
6. The Matrix.
7. Jurassic Park.
8. The End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt - 1991 - William Hurt)


Now, for the B-flick Sci-fi movies:
1. Army of Darkness
2. Plan 9 from Outer Space
3. Deathrace 2000
4. Swamp Thing

-Z-man.

[RickM]

Forbidden Planet
Terminator 1
Predator 1

[Overpaid Slacker]

Fifth Element
Starship Troopers
The Matrix
Star Wars Episode IV
Dude, Where's My Car?
Independence Day
The Quiet Earth
They Live
The Thing
Back to the Future
Event Horizon (I know, it's not that good...)

I'm sure there's more that y'all will come up with -- I tried to avoid "Fantasy" and keep the "Science" in it.

JP

[jm951]

Lot of stuff-

Star Wars (cheesy but fun)
Blade Runner
On the Beach
Farenheit 451
Martian Chronicles

and not so sci fi but a great movie-
Sole Survivor

Klatu Barada Nikto

[Eric 951]

Akira
Blade Runner
Grey Death
Mad Max/Road Warrior
Alien/Aliens
The Thing
The Black Hole
Mystery Science Theatre
Total Recall
Outland
Empire Strikes Back

[RickM]

Originally posted by Mark Wilson
Klatu Barada Nikto

Another great one....

[dd74]

Blade Runner
Mad Max/Road Warrior - but not the 3rd one with Tina Turner - Hollywood promptly ruined the franchise.
T1 and T2
Alien/Alien 2
Omega Man
2001
The Thing (original and remake - yuck!)
Death Race 2000
Westworld - who could forget that?

Comedy/Sci Fi
Mars Attacks - stoopid fun...

[RickM]

Don't forget "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes".

[}{arlequin]

Ghost in the Shell (1st one, still debating ab. the 2nd)
Millenium
12 Monkeys

[Simon S]

[dd74]

Logan's Run. Forgot about that one.

[john70t]

Brainstorm and Heavy Metal added

[esther]

Dune

[Overpaid Slacker]

Esther -
I almost typed "Dune" but the movie was such a disappointment vis-a-vis the book. The movie had a lot to live up to.

I'll add the 6th Day. I really like that movie.

JP

[Westy]

WOW, I must be a lot older than most of you. No one mentioned the Final Countdown, circa 1976. If you haven't seen it, go rent it. Pearl Harbor,,,,what if??????????????

[RickM]

Funny, no one ever lists "War of the Worlds" on any of these favorite sci-fi movie threads.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

The Time Machine (the original 1960 one)
THX 1138
2001
Blade Runner
Mad Max
Westworld
Omega Man
Death Race 2000 ("it's a hand grenade")
Brazil
The Fly (original and remake)
Threads (Really freaky)

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker

The Quiet Earth
JP

Is that the one where the guy wakes up in Australia/NZ? and everybody is gone?