Best Sci-Fi flick of ALL time

[Ned]

Never saw Solaris. I'm going to see if I can get the DVD right now.

[faded glory]

Flowers for algonquin, I read the book. Which was sad enough. But never saw the movie.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by SMAC Fanatic
Contact. Definitely. Very class film.

I agree. It had a really good atmosphere, Jodie Foster, a clever plot and a good ending ploy.

Others would probably be TESB, 2001 and Bladerunner... Just saw Matrix for the first time and it was rather kickassish as well... but there are many.

[Clear Skies]

Contact would've benefitted from ending the way the book does, though...

[Dr Strangelove]

Among Sci-Fi films of the 50's I'd have to declare a tossup between "War of the Worlds" for its special effects and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" for its story.

In the 1960s I think that 2001 wins hands down.

In the 1970s Star Wars wins because of its special effects.

In the 1980s "Enemy Mine" wins.

In the 1990s its a toss up between "Blade Runner" and "Phantom Menace".

"Final Fantasy" deserves special mention for introducing near photo-quality computer generated graphic simulation of its characters.

Yes, I remember "The Quiet Earth" too.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Ethelred


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.

I saw a remastered version when I was in France. IIRC they were honoring Stanley Kubrick's memory in Cannes, so a remastered version of 2001 was circulating in France. Really, really nice! Much better than on a TV screen, I tells ya! And remember, it's a 1969 movie. I think it aged very, very well. I don't know about more clarity. It seems to me that it would have killed one of the movie's best feature, the aura of mystery. Have you read Clarke's book, the one he wrote after writing the scenario? He tried to clarify some points, but it doesn't work very well. Reading it, you realize that it's not the scenario that makes 2001 a great movie. IMO it's all about the experience, the classic scenes, the amazing photography, the perfect choice of music. And its still the most realistic space travel movie out there.

[boann]

The Matrix
Road Warrior
Star Wars (i love all of them)
Aliens
Blade Runner
Star Trek the motion picture
Bicentennial Man
Mad Max
Waterworld
The Postman
2001
Independence Day
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
King Kong ....remake with jessica lange
Dune
Starman
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ...remake


a few older ones that ive always enjoyed

20000 leagues under the sea
journey to the center of the earth
the seventh voyage of sinbad
Invasion of the body snatchers
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Flash Gordon

[Wraith]

Can't choose just one. Got some candidates, though.

Bladerunner.
Gattica.
Star Trek II.
Brazil.
Akira.
End of Evangelion.
Ghost in the Shell.

Does no one else here watch anime? You're missing out. There's some good sci-fi stuff there.

--"Independence day sucked."

No kidding.
Invader Zim even took a potshot at it. Dib, trapped by Zim, is trying to use his laptop to break into Zim's computers.
"I hope Irkans just happen to use the same operating system I do... Yes!"
-- Dib ("Invader Zim")

--"And how can we possibly exclude "Enemy Mine""

That was an interesting one, although the science-fiction portions weren't the central focus. They could have made basically the same movie without it.

--"I also liked Starship Troopers"

Now there was a craptastic mastabatory self-indulgence. The director for that one needs to be keelhauled.

Wraith
"What did you use on that thing?"
"Oh, your standard issue Big Gun."
-- Ghost in the Shell

[Juggler]

Aliens
Alien
Mad Max 2
Flash Gordon
Star Wars
Italian Sinbad movies
Star Trek

[Ming]

Originally posted by Juggler
Flash Gordon

While I will admit I'm biased, and I have a certain fondness for the movie...

Great Science Fiction...

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....

[SpencerH]

Cant believe I forgot terminator and the mad max series, DUH!

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by JohnT
Actually, Zkribbler, Daniel Keyes has written a number of published books, his most famous (because I've read it) being "The Minds of Billy Milligan", a non-fiction account of a man with multi-personality disorder. I think the actual case is controversial as to whether it was all a put-up job, but the book was a best seller in it's day, so...

Here's his homepage: http://shell.flite.net/~dkeyes/

Really?? That's great news!

Now all I have to do is remember from where I picked up my little piece of misinformation.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by kassiopeia
I agree. It had a really good atmosphere, Jodie Foster, a clever plot and a good ending ploy.

You liked the ending of Contact?? I thought it wrecked the movie.

But Jodie Foster's acting was awesome.

[Lonestar]

[Mr. Garrison] I waited two hours and the aliens were her f--ling father?[/Mr. Garrison]

[Ramo]

Dr. Strangelove!