List your Top 10 Science Fiction (not Speculative Fiction) Movies

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Bladerunner (Director's Cut)

Does this version make more sense?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Lorizael


Does this version make more sense?

In which respect ?

The soundtrack is still divine of course, but we're spared Harrison Ford's obtrusive 'film noir' lite voiceover, which I approve of.



I thought the retro fashions, hairstyles and lighting were enough of an hommage to the gumshoe/femme fatale genre.



Is it real ? Or is it Mimecom ?

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Sir Og


The science fiction element is not the main one in those movies. Terminator is more action than sci-fi. The same goes for Aliens wich is action, horror sci-fi but the sci-fi is not the most important one.

Now that I hink about it Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind might not be considered sci-fi by the above criteria

That's what happens when you have very narrow genre criterias

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Zoid

... very narrow genre criterias

There are proprietary creams available, I believe, for that.


Somewhere that specializes in dvds from narrowly defined genres:

[Tuberski]

Eternal Sunshine isn't science fiction, or very slightly Sci-Fi.

Clockwork Orange? It's about a group of a-holes. If you are talking about the crap they do with flashing the pictures, (i haven't seen it in over 15 years), then Conspiracy Theory is Sci-Fi.

Truman Show is in no way, shape, or form Sci-Fi.

Hell, The Manchurian Candidate is more Sci-Fi than The Truman Show.

ACK!

[Zoid]

If it's in space or in the future or an alternate reality it's sci-fi in my book, otherwise not!

[Zkribbler]

Brave New World

Star Trek IV

Anyone remember: Charlie Cliff Robertson got a Best Actor Oscar for it.


(Side note: Frankenstein was the first science fiction novel. It's been made into movies three times. None of them deserve to be on this list. )

[MOBIUS]

In no order...

Starwars: A New Hope
Matrix
Alien
The Terminator
Blade Runner
THX 1138
Silent Running
Soylent Green
Forbidden Planet
2001: A Space Odyssey

[Ming]

The Top 50 from IMDb

1. 8.8 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. 8.7 Star Wars (1977)
3. 8.5 The Matrix (1999)
4. 8.4 Metropolis (1927)
5. 8.4 Alien (1979)
6. 8.3 Aliens (1986) 86,790
7. 8.3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8. 8.2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
9. 8.2 The Incredibles (2004)
10. 8.2 Blade Runner (1982)
11. 8.2 Donnie Darko (2001)
12. 8.2 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
13. 8.1 V for Vendetta (2005)
14. 8.1 Back to the Future (1985)
15. 8.1 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
16. 8.1 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
17. 8.0 Children of Men (2006)
18. 8.0 Stalker (1979)
19. 8.0 Frankenstein (1931)
20. 8.0 King Kong (1933)
21. 8.0 Solyaris (1972)
22. 8.0 Kin-Dza-Dza (1986)
23. 7.9 Fail-Safe (1964)
24. 7.9 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
25. 7.9 Twelve Monkeys (1995)
26. 7.9 Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)
27. 7.9 The Thing (1982)
28. 7.9 The Terminator (1984)
29. 7.9 Young Frankenstein (1974)
30. 7.9 The Invisible Man (1933)
31. 7.9 Planet of the Apes (1968)
32. 7.9 Brazil (1985)
33. 7.8 Delicatessen (1991)
34. 7.8 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
35. 7.8 Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)
36. 7.8 Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)
37. 7.8 Night of the Living Dead (1968)
38. 7.8 X2 (2003)
39. 7.8 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
40. 7.8 Serenity (2005)
41. 7.8 Siworae (2000)
42. 7.7 Spider-Man 2 (2004)
43. 7.7 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
44. 7.7 Abre los ojos (1997)
45. 7.7 The Iron Giant (1999)
46. 7.7 The Truman Show (1998)
47. 7.7 Forbidden Planet (1956)
48. 7.7 The Holy Mountain (1973)
49. 7.7 Minority Report (2002)
50. 7.7 Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995)

[monolith94]

29. 7.9 Young Frankenstein (1974)
33. 7.8 Delicatessen (1991)
37. 7.8 Night of the Living Dead (1968)
48. 7.7 The Holy Mountain (1973)
50. 7.7 Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995)

I wouldn't describe any of these as sci-fi, really.

[Zkribbler]

It's very simple. Stories which are based upon scientific discoveries which have not been made are, by definition, "science fiction." Hence, the name.