What is your favorite Sci-Fi movie(s)?

[daflyboys]

Re: What is your favorite Sci-Fi movie(s)?

Mine in no particulary order:

• The Thing
• Star Wars
• Alien
• ET
• Blade Runner
• Starship Troopers
• Independence Day

Yours?

Loved The Thing....even the original screenplay and the way the interactions of the camp happened while they were trying to figure out how to beat it. Star Wars 6 and the whole Ewok cuddly creatures thing ruined it for me, as SW5 was a strong movie. Alien when it first came out was just plain ill. Blade Runner is just a very smart film that was done so well. Starship Troopers is just a campy joke and shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as some of these other movies. I caught the end of ID yesterday and continue to shake my head at what could have been. It went to the edges of campy and sometimes crossed it ("Up yourrrrrrrrrrrs!") then came back down to probably what it set out to do. One of its' problems it seems is not enough celluloid to go around for all the stars it had. Jeff Goldblum is an embarrassment.

I know this is a love it/hate it film, but I'll add Signs to the list.

[RockinDaMike]

Re: What is your favorite Sci-Fi movie(s)?

I'm surprised no one said Terminator 2 yet.

Serenity - If your a firefly fan, you couldn't help to be emotionally attached to this movie. So i would say its my 2nd fav next to T2

Starship Troopers
The Truman Show
Matrix series
Minority Report
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Island
Transformers
Donnie Darko
The Butterfly Effect
Back 2 the Future series


I would have to put super hero movies here, but to me they are in their own category.

[jfsolo]

Re: What is your favorite Sci-Fi movie(s)?

1. Blade Runner
2. T2
3. Aliens
4. Contact
5. The Empire Strike Back
6. Gattaca
7. Minority Report
8. Alien
9. Predator
10. The Matrix

I definitely consider superhero movies as their own separate genre as well.

Some movies are really hard to put into a traditional category. Films like Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine, The Prestige, and lots of others are in my mind something akin to Fantasy Noir.