Best Sci-Fi flick of ALL time

[SuperSneak]

Precisely! It was a guilty pleasure and totally over the top. But somehow it worked...a rarity and great when it is pulled off.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Seeker
The Quiet Earth, obscure New Zealanders.

I can't believe anyone else knows this film! I saw this when it came out (early 80s?) and it has stayed with me ever since; even though it descended into a cliched love-triangle-at-the-end-of-the-world, it's fabulous.

Nobody's mentioned Brazil yet, so I will.

And I think Blade Runner is one of many plausible choices here. But the director's cut of Blade Runner is head-and-shoulder's above everything else.

[Nostromo]

And the winner is... 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick wanted to make "the proverbial good sci-fi movie" and he succeeded IMO.(Btw I saw it not so long in a movie theater. It makes a huge difference, trust me! Puny TV screens ruin movies.)

And the other contenders were...

- Blade Runner. The movie is actually better than Philip K. ****'s novel.

- Fahrenheit 451. A great film, by a great director, François Truffault.

- Planet of the Apes. The original, not the remake (it sucked big time).

Can't think of any other one right now...

[Sarxis]

Empire Strikes Back gets my vote.

[Promethus]

Robie The Robot Rulls!

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by nostromo
And the winner is... 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick wanted to make "the proverbial good sci-fi movie" and he succeeded IMO.(Btw I saw it not so long in a movie theater. It makes a huge difference, trust me! Puny TV screens ruin movies.)

Puny movie screen if you saw it lately. I saw at the Cinedome in Los Angeles. It still had way too much slit scan nonsense, a serious need for editing and a increase in clarity. Or maybe not from what I think it was supposed to mean. Clarke and his benificent super inteligent aliens that can't comunicate any better than an autistic three year old.

Trumbles space travel effects were great. The front projection worked even if the proto hominid costumes didn't. The music was pretty good also even though Strauss was a Nazi.

2001 has always struck me as being more important than it was good.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Promethus
Robie The Robot Rulls!

Forest J. Ackerman owns Robbie last I saw. Robbie was in the background in Gremlins at the gadget convention.

[Clear Skies]

Contact. Definitely. Very class film.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

A few others that need inclusion. I'm a big fan of the early 70's ones, so I'm pleased to see "Logan's run" on GP's list. Any film with Jenny Agutter's arse in it is a good thing.

"Silent Running"
"Soylent Green"
"The Omega Man"

[spartak]

You bugger Laz, I was going to go for "silent running" myself because of the story and the Joan baez soundtrack that really matched the story and the emotional tone of it all.

Now I'll look like a complete copycat even though I genuinely like this film which I imagine most of the kids here have never heard of...

This is a good link to the film.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Spartak
You bugger Laz, I was going to go for "silent running" myself because of the story and the Joan baez soundtrack that really matched the story and the emotional tone of it all.

Now I'll look like a complete copycat even though I genuinely like this film which I imagine most of the kids here have never heard of...

Baez did some songs. The score was Professor Peter Schickele AKA PDQ Bach.

The director, Douglas Trumbull, did the space travel minitures for 2001 and the effects for Close Encounters and the rescue job on the effects for Star Trek the Motion Picture. Now he makes 3D motion rides for amusement parks.

Good flick but not great. More than just a bit preachy and Dern was as creepy ever.

[Ned]

I like Ethelred's list. I'd like to add "A boy and his dog." Don Johnson starred.

I also liked Starship Troopers

But my best list is

2001
Contact
Alien
Star Wars
Aliens
Empire Strikes Back
Blade Runner
Forbidden Planet
Road Warrior
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A boy and his dog
Farenheit 451
Starship Toopers
Return of the Jedi
Attack of the Clones

[Buck Birdseed]

Solaris. The only film I've ever seen that actually captures the spirit of real, high-level science fiction novels. Slow-paced (3 hours) but beautifully filmed, very nice sense of foreboding, good on a philsosphical level. What 2001 could have been if it had been done competently and not in a "bash-cod-religious-nonsense-over-the-head" way. See it now before it gets remade this year starring George Clooney and directed by Stephen Soderberg.

[Ethelred]

I though A Boy and His Dog had some very clever things in it. Shooting in a park at night to simulate an underground city was good.

Its not exactly a great date flick. In fact it may very well be the worst date flick of all time. Harlan Ellison truly earned his reputation as a misogynist. This however isn't accurate. He has anger problems with everyone, not just women.

My brother heard him tell a story about his home town once. He hates his hometown Painesville, Ohio. His was the only Jewish family in the town and I guess it was during the rise of the Bund before WWII.

He said someone came up to him and asked "Are you the Jew?" Harlan said yes and the guy hit him. Its no wonder Harlan has anger problems.

[moomin]

Originally posted by Snapcase
Solaris.

I agree with Snapcase.

The End is Nigh. Repent.