Rating the top Sci Fi Films - do you agree?

[CatWoman]

http://www.internationalvoting.com/int3/poll.cgi?pid=27-26&novote=1&print=1


I don't.

"I Married A Monster From Outer Space" deserved a better rating.

ditto for "Children of the Damned".

[RedCloud]

1. No votes for Sky captain and the World of Tomorrow?

:shrug:

No mention for the Keep?

[Deja Q]

10. Not from me. An uber-trite 40s-throwback complete with stereotyped chick

with good special effects (photoshop diffuse glow with a blue and brown color scheme to make it look surreal yet real, big deal) only deserves an award for good special effects.

Amazing I didn't walk out of it, particularly once she drops her camera and then whines and complains about it for the rest of the movie... (my memory is a tad hazy, but it's easy to understand why it's overlooked.)

[CBGLuthier]

2. No, I absolutely don't agree

Star Wars is not the best and adding up 3 films together is a cheat especially when the 3rd one sucked so bad.

And the second trilogy doesn't even belong on the list. Without the foreshadowing of events in the other trilogy those movies would be a complete waste of time.

Predator is mindless action crap glossied up to be skiffy.

Dr. Strangelove is a great movie but isn't really SF.

Donnie Darko, Akira, Metropolis and Solaris should be higher on the list

Galaxy Quest is 100 times better than ST 5. Not one position better.

THX-1138 should be higher as it is one of the few pure SF films.

I would also put The Man Who fell to Earth, Fantastic Planet, Zardoz and Time after Time higher

[China_cat]

3. Silent Running is almost on the bottom of the list?

Boo--Hiss.

[rbnyc]

4. No.

I started to reorder them all, but I have to go:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
Dr Strangelove
Scanners
Videodrome
A Clockwork Orange
Aliens
Brazil
Donnie Darko
Night Of the Living Dead (1968)
The City Of Lost Children
The Fly (1986)
The Thing (1982)
Serenity
Blade Runner
1984
2010 - The Year We Make Contact
The Birds
Sleeper
Mad Max
RoboCop
Escape From New York (1981)
A Boy & His Dog
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Altered States
Logan's Run
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Young Frankenstein
The Blob
Enemy Mine
The Andromeda Strain
Forbidden Planet
Fahrenheit 451
The Matrix
Starship Troopers
The Brood
The Terminator
THX-1138
Minority Report
The Fifth Element
Twelve Monkeys
War of the Worlds (2005)
Dark City
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Time Machine (1960)
Terminator 2 - Judgement Day
Akira
The Road Warrior
Fantastic Planet
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Omega Man
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Jacob's Ladder
Silent Running
Men in Black
Star Trek - Insurrection
Pitch Black
The Boys From Brazil
Repo Man
Soylent Green
eXistenZ
Re-Animator
Strange Days
The Thing (1951)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
King Kong (1933)
Metropolis
When Worlds Collide
Solaris
A.I. - Artificial Intelligence
Jurassic Park
Independence Day
Star Trek - First Contact (1996)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Contact
The Fly (1958)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Outland
Frankenstein (1931)
Spiderman
The Bride of Frankenstein
Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome
Mars Attacks!
The Bicentennial Man
The Truman Show
X2 - X-Men United
X-Men (2000)
Total Recall
The X-Files
Stargate
Superman
Galaxy Quest
The Abyss
Gattaca
Armageddon
Spaceballs
Frequency
Star Trek VI - Undiscovered Country
Star Trek Generations
Quatermass & the Pit
WarGames
Flash Gordon
Tron
Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai
Dune
Star Wars Trilogy
Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979)
Batman
Earth vs the Flying Saucers
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
Back to the Future
Star Wars I-III
Predator
Pi
Gremlins
Waterworld
Planet Of the Apes (2001)

I didn't get around to ordering these. I deleted ones I haven't seen.

Godzilla - King of the Monsters (1954)
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Alien Nation (1988)
Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
They Live (1988)
Rollerball (1975)
The Day Of the Triffids (1962)
The Running Man (1987)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956)
Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Voyage To the Bottom Of the Sea (1961)
Max Headroom (1985)
Species (1995)
The Day After (1983)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Outbreak (1995)
Eraserhead (1977)
Demon Seed (1977)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Flatliners (1990)
Puppet Masters (1994)
20 Million Miles To Earth (1957)
Children Of the Damned (1963)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
The Quatermass Experiment (1955)
The Cell
The Twilight Zone Movie (1983)
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow (2004)

I want to come back and put them all in order but I have to go relieve the babysitter!

[CatWoman]

5. HI, RENE!!!

:hi:

[rbnyc]

14. Hi!

I'll come back and fix my list after I put my son to bed.

[leeroysphitz]

7. I'm with you (mostly)

I do think that "Aliens" should actually outrank "Alien". It may seem perverse, I know, but I really believe it was a superior film.

[rbnyc]

15. On a sci-fi list, maybe you're right.

But I thought Alien was scarier, and I love a scary movie.

[leeroysphitz]

6. Fantastic Planet...

It deserves to be higher. The special effects were GROUNDBREAKING.

As for 2001 not being at the very top of the list, it's simply PUZZLING. I thought it was just taken as read that this was THE sci-fi movie, not simply A sci-fi movie.

[begin_within]

8. "Alien" and "Aliens" are horror films, not sci-fi films. Same for "Night

of the Living Dead."

[CatWoman]

17. I should think they are "technically" sci fi

I did a google, and noticed that movies involving aliens and terrestrials normally make up that genre.

http://www.google.com/search?q=alien%2Bsci+fi+movie&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

[begin_within]

22. But where's the science in them?

[CatWoman]

23. what do YOU consider science fiction?

Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which advances in science, or contact with more scientifically advanced civilizations, create situations different from those of both the present day and the known past. Although science fiction is often written primarily to entertain, many authors use the genre to provide insight into science, society, or the human condition.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction

[begin_within]

24. That's a good definition. I don't consider the aliens in "Alien" and

"Aliens" to be part of more 'scientificlly advanced civilizations' than Sigourney Weaver et. al., nor the zombies in "Night of the Living Dead" to be more advanced. I'm not saying these are bad films, I enjoyed them all, but they don't seem like "science fiction" to me at all. Just because "Alien" is set in a spacecraft doesn't qualify it as "science fiction" to me, but oh well...

[CatWoman]

25. Zombies are not part of an advanced civilization

they are fucking dead goons.

Aliens, or at least the ones portrayed in the movie, were advanced. Somewhat.

Look at their space ship.

Look at the rapid growth into adults.

Look at their defense mechanisms.

[begin_within]

26. OK you win

[CatWoman]

29. and look at how they kicked the Predator's ass

[begin_within]

9. They got the year wrong for "Contact." It's 1997. Whoever did the list...

..doesn't know jack s**t about sci-fi.

[Charlie Brown]

11. What? No one voted for "Captain EO?"

heavy sarcasm, btw.

[ContraBass Black]

12. Independence Day over Star Trek 8?

I think not.

[Cush]

13. what, no "Space Mutiny" ?

[sarge43]

16. Damn straight

The Zamboni pursuit had to be one of the most thrilling scenes in motion picture history ... and those railing deaths ....

[CatWoman]

19. Wasn't that MST3K?

:hi:

[Cush]

21. yup

:-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

18. Whoever did that list is not a scifi fan.

Whoever did that sucks! Waterworld got a better score than Evolution? What a dumb ass.
Duckie

[YankeyMCC]

20. No I don't

This looks like a ranking based on how much money the movies made (or something close to that)

"The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Forbidden Planet" should be in the top 5 at Least if not numbers 1 and 2.

I would put the original "Star Wars" trilogy high, at least top 10 but not number one.

[baldguy]

27. The Handmaid's Tale?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/

The Quiet Earth?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/

Time Bandits?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/


COME ON!

[xmas74]

28. Quiet Earth is a good one.

I need to purchase that sometime.