What's yer favorite sci fi movie?

[Bossy Monkey]

I don't really have a horse in this race. While I enjoy sci fi in theory, in practice it never comes out as good as it should. As I asked for "favorite" rather than "best," I'm free to go with "They Live."

And you?

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Forbidden Planet

Much more than just a scary monster.

[YankeyMCC]

12. Seconded

In fact I often list this as my favorite move period.

[DIKB]

2. For now ?

It's Gattaca, but I can almost guarantee that on Sept 30th it will change to the movie Serenity. I just LOVED Firefly the tv series.

[RebelOne]

3. "The Thing"

The original one from the 1950s.

[livetohike]

4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

I never get tired of watching it :-).

[terrya]

5. "Blade Runner"

[no name no slogan]

23. seconded

"Blade Runner" is a masterpiece. Ridley Scott is a genius. :toast:

[peekaloo]

6. Dreamscape

[Richardo]

7. 2001: A Space Odyssey

By a long shot.

Second might be "CE3K", and "Fifth Element" would be up there somewhere.

[MrBenchley]

9. One of the greatest films of any genre ever...

Good call...

I've seen it at least twenty-five times...including about a dozen times when it first came out, in Cinerama....

[Richardo]

14. You and me both, MrB...

I've seen it at least 20 times in theatrical release (way before availability on VHS) :thumbsup:

[MrBenchley]

15. There's an urban legend

that at one of the first public showings, when the starchild appeared at the end, someone ran up and threw himself through the screen of the theatre....

I can still remember people gasping in the theatre at the scene where Keir Dullea climbs "down" the ladder and walks around the insideof the spaceship to join Gary Lockwood, 180 degrees away...

[On the Road]

8. Probably "Minority Report" §

[Mnemosyne]

10. I'm not so sure that one is still "fiction".

It seems *co arrests anyone they believe thinks about taking them out!

[cleofus1]

11. the things partner

it came from beneath the sea

[NewJeffCT]

13. Star Wars

just the sheer excitement of it gave me thrills as a 10 1/2 year old and I love it to this day.

[El Fuego]

16. 12 Monkeys

[jonnyblitz]

19. i love that movie.

brad pitt was great in that movie.

[GalleryGod]

17. " THEM !"

Giant ants in the Cali Desert! Grand finale in the sewers of L.A.

[tjwmason]

18. Flash Gordon

though only for the extreme high-camp.

If I'm being more serious - then I'd go with The Forbidden Planet, or possibly The Day the Earth Stood Still.

[ironflange]

20. Silent Running

I've always had a soft spot for that one, but I haven't seen it in ages.

[Jade Fox]

21. The Day the Earth Stood Still....

1950's classic with great message.

[m_welby]

22. the man who fell to earth

I haven't seen it in ages, but I really liked it at the time.

Of course, "They live" is great (in a b movie style)

but I think, I'd have to go with 2001as my favorite, just for kubrick's ability to make it all so real(istic).