[Film] Greatest sci fi films

[Cheeky Monkey]

Total Recall (original)
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[Sid and the Sharknados]

In terms of modern sci fi the recent Dune films have to be right up there, possibly the best cinematography in film history.

Clearly you haven't seen my OnlyFans.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Starman

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

(Aston) Vanilla Sky, both the Spanish original and the Thomas Cruise remake.

 

[jakarta]

2001 , sci-fi as only Kubrick could do it.

 

[studio150]

The Brother From Another Planet

 

[MattBackHome]

Gattaca

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Of course ET - The Extra-Terrestrial is and always will be the greatest sci-fi film of all time. Just timeless

 

[Nitram]

The Time Machine (1960)
Metropolis
Mad Max

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Honourable mentions for

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Ad Astra
Silent Running

 

[Easy 10]

Probably Alien, isn't it ?

 

[American Seagle]

The two Blade runners are hard to beat.

Why are so many saying various Star wars? That is fantasy.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

The two Blade runners are hard to beat.

Why are so many saying various Star wars? That is fantasy.

If it's got lasers and robots and space ships it's sci-fi as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Professor Plum]

I’m never sure how sci-fi is defined. I’m not a fan of hardcore fantasy sci-fi but I’m partial to realistic space dramas like Gravity including those set in the future like The Martian, Interstellar, etc. Perhaps my favourite sci-fi experience came in 1965, aged 8, when I saw something called The First Men in the Moon. Glorious film for an 8 year old that I’ve wanted to see again ever since. Based on an HG Wells story, starring Lionel Jeffries. Lovely stuff.

 

[Light_Bulb]

Not so sure about 3 but 1 and 2 are superb.

This thread is like the opposite of the Christmas film one, where almost every film named I already know is shite or sounds shite. I would have said that I don't really like sci-fi and then I see film after film being named that I loved. Arrival the best for me. Also Bladerunner, The Martian and Galaxy quest. Oh and Life of Brian.

Sigourney Weaver refused to play Ripley in A3 unless there were no guns!

 

[SkirlieWirlie]

Another writer I've enjoyed is Philip K. Dick and the film version of Minority Report is a decent effort.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Can we class The Dark Crystal as sci-fi...?

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Of course ET - The Extra-Terrestrial is and always will be the greatest sci-fi film of all time. Just timeless

I have no idea why that one didnt pop straight into my head....its even my phone lock screen ffs!!
Still one of my favourite ever films, even at the age of 50....and probably the sole reason I still have a BMX

 

[Superphil]

Alien and Aliens always do it for me, as do pretty much all 9 Star Wars movies. The Man Who Fell to Earth, Moon, 2001, there are so many, I love the genre.

And I’ll always remember an old 60s movie I watched when in my late teens, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, still watch it now and then as I downloaded it some years ago.

 

[American Seagle]

If it's got lasers and robots and space ships it's sci-fi as far as I'm concerned.

Erm why does it have to have those things? 1984, Brave new world, Jurassic Park.... None of that in those. Science fiction is about how humanity or society is affected by or changes/reacts to science and technology - it can include lasers and space ships and robots but star wars is just a fun fantasy setting where normal rules of the universe do not apply.