Top sci-fi flick of all time

[octothorp]

Another great type of science-fiction movie: anything that has Malcolm MacDowell as a villian with bleached spikey hair! Tank Girl and Waterworld, most obviously. I had a crush on Tank Girl when I was in grade 10.

[Cowperson]

I LOVE old science fiction, both print and movies, from the 1950's and early 1960's.

They don't make movie posters like this anymore

On The Beach - I haven't seen the movie and I'm not sure if its really science fiction but its a great tale of the end of the world after a nuclear war.

Cowperson

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally posted by Cowperson@Aug 26 2004, 08:43 PM
I LOVE old science fiction, both print and movies, from the 1950's and early 1960's.

They don't make movie posters like this anymore

On The Beach - I haven't seen the movie and I'm not sure if its really science fiction but its a great tale of the end of the world after a nuclear war.

Cowperson

On the beach is one of my favorite movies because its so bleak in the end, it was one of the first serious end of the world pictures that scared the hell out of you.

I remember them getting the morse code signal and getting filled up with hope and then they arrive and find something even worse.

Great movie, I'd love to find it on DVD

[Prototype]

Another great Sci-Fi movie that is under-rated is Enemy Mine. One of my faves as a kid, and I damn near wet myself when it came out on DVD. It had a very basic story which I think is lacking in most Sci-Fi movies lately... (See Matrix rant above).

And as MMF and I have stated before, The Last Starfighter is one of those little knowns that you wished you had seen before.

Now, where we are talking Street Fighter bad, are we talking Supernova bad, or Double Dragon bad? Just to get more bad movies in there.

[troutman]

More lists:

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/STARLIST/TOP25SF.HTM

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/scifi_pr.html

http://us.imdb.com/chart/scifi

History of the genre:

http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms.html

But the most celebrated, religious, and transcendent of all space films up to that time, visualized space travel with incredible magnificence and seriousness. Kubrick's respectable, influential film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (with only 40 minutes of dialogue), based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel, restored legitimacy to the science-fiction genre.

http://www.filmsite.org/twot.html

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a landmark, science fiction classic - and probably the best science-fiction film of all time.

Box Office:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/...scifihorror.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/...scificomedy.htm

[Prototype]

I wouldn't have classified Clockwork Orange as Sci-Fi... I don't know what I would classify it as, but it wouldn't be Sci-Fi. Great movie none the less.

I'm glad to see Robocop on those lists, as I have the X Rated version on DVD, based on it's violence, yet I don't see any difference between that one, and what I remember of the original. I still can't watch the firing squad scene tho.

[Flame Of Liberty]

Originally posted by MrMastodonFarm@Aug 26 2004, 06:19 PM
The Matrix had the potential to be great, the first one was interesting, and Mr. Reeves wasn't as annoying as he should have been. But they just got silly in the last two. They went way over the top and started to beleive all the vast biblicle ties geeks on the internet tried to tie to the movie, so the creators put that in.

The whole rave/dance scene in #2.. was... ah... awful.

So the creators browsed few web sites, read all the biblical, sionist and budhist stuff geeks theought saw in the first movie and then they put it into Reloaded and Revolutions? Huh?

BTW the rave scene was supposed to be a celebration of life, new life freed from the machines... Silly? Maybe. Too long? Maybe. Pointless? No.