What are some of your favorite Science Fiction movies?

[yidnar]

 

[Quasar44]

Really? Everyone is always down on the 1st sequel (Phantom Menace) when Anikin is a little kid in that race, but I like that one. Forgetting the Disney sequels, of the original six, I actually like The Jedi Returns the least. The little foam munchkin characters running around at the end (The Ewoks) were too much children's Jim Hanson Muppet for me.


T3 was just barely passable for the hot naked girl terminator, but Arnold was showing his age and too much of the story was a three-peat of T2 so you always knew what was going to happen.

Revenge of the Sith and Rogue one were both good

Return of Jedi just irritated me to much with it’s child friendly tone

 

[Quasar44]

• Metropolis
• Things To Come
• Forbidden Planet
• Frankenstein
• Blade Runner
• Alien/Aliens
• T2
• 2001

You forgot matrix and ESB

 

[egp320i]

I


Gremlins 3 is now green lite

oh yeah, gremlins when you were a kid, cute little guys and they turned into monsters!

nightmare on elm street, yeah that was spooky as a kid

poltergeist as well, saw that as a kid too

hellraiser in the theater, that was freaking weird, that cube

oh yeah, phantasm with that metal flying ball with the blade was freaking weird too

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Back to the Future
Phenomenon

I second these two films.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[bluzman61]

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I'm a fan of this film as well!

 

[GLASNOST]

War of the Worlds (1953) Gene Barry


Day of the Triffids (1962) Howard Keel


Alien (1979) Sigorney Weaver


The Thing (1982) Kurt Russel

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

The War of the Worlds
Forbidden Planet
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman (1978)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars: Episode V -- The Empire Strikes Back
Superman II
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars: Episode VI -- Return of the Jedi
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Spaceballs
Robocop (1987)
They Live
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Generations
Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones (IMAX cut)
War of the Worlds
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Chappie
Star Wars: Episode VII -- The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode VIII -- The Last Jedi
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Star Wars: Episode IX -- The Rise of Skywalker
Superman (2025)

 

[hjmick]

Really? Everyone is always down on the 1st sequel (Phantom Menace) when Anikin is a little kid in that race, but I like that one.

Four words:

Jar Jar ******* Binks.

 

[hjmick]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

With Pia Zadora...

 

[Mac-7]

The Thing From Another World

The Thing from Another World - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[hjmick]

The Thing From Another World

The Thing from Another World - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Another good one, the original.

James Arness. Brother of Peter Graves. They died almost a year apart.

 

[alang1216]

My favorites include The Planet of The Apes, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Alien, Blade Runner, Aliens and Independence Day.

Jurassic Park (1993)
The Terminator (1984)
Alien (1979)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Predator (1987)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Total Recall
From the Earth to the Moon
Forbidden Planet
2001

Hobbit movies were good but I'd list them as fantasy, not sci fi.

 

[toobfreak]

You forgot matrix and ESB

ESB? And no, I did not forget Matrix. Matrix was good, it belongs in the tier 2 movie class along with T2, Andromeda Strain, and a whole lot of other great movies, but I did not mention them because then I'd have to list 10-20 other great films as well, such as 1982's The Thing with Kurt Russel, and I was trying to focus just on the best of the best.

IMO, no film surpasses Metropolis for its imagination and vision, and no film surpasses 2001 for its epic, poetic, haunting mystery and majesty.

 

[toobfreak]

Four words:
Jar Jar ******* Binks.

Poor Jar Jar. I never got that a lot of folks didn't like him until Big Bang Theory came out and said so. I was actually pretty OK with Jar Jar, he was kind of cute and funny and offered some comedy relief, but at least he didn't look like a cheap foam suit stretched over wire like the Ewoks did.

There was nothing cute or funny about the Ewoks, especially with those big, blank, expressionless eyes. The producers of Return of Jedi were simply trying to do something that was slightly ahead of their time. By the time Phantom Menace came out, they could do such characters much more convincingly using CGI.

I thought how Jar Jar's ears kept getting in his way was funny.

 

[GLASNOST]

Poor Jar Jar. I never got that a lot of folks didn't like him until Big Bang Theory came out and said so. I was actually pretty OK with Jar Jar, he was kind of cute and funny and offered some comedy relief, but at least he didn't look like a cheap foam suit stretched over wire like the Ewoks did.

There was nothing cute or funny about the Ewoks, especially with those big, blank, expressionless eyes. The producers of Return of Jedi were simply trying to do something that was slightly ahead of their time. By the time Phantom Menace came out, they could do such characters much more convincingly using CGI.

I thought how Jar Jar's ears kept getting in his way was funny.

 

[hjmick]

Poor Jar Jar. I never got that a lot of folks didn't like him until Big Bang Theory came out and said so. I was actually pretty OK with Jar Jar, he was kind of cute and funny and offered some comedy relief, but at least he didn't look like a cheap foam suit stretched over wire like the Ewoks did.

There was nothing cute or funny about the Ewoks, especially with those big, blank, expressionless eyes. The producers of Return of Jedi were simply trying to do something that was slightly ahead of their time. By the time Phantom Menace came out, they could do such characters much more convincingly using CGI.

I thought how Jar Jar's ears kept getting in his way was funny.

 

[Quasar44]

ESB? And no, I did not forget Matrix. Matrix was good, it belongs in the tier 2 movie class along with T2, Andromeda Strain, and a whole lot of other great movies, but I did not mention them because then I'd have to list 10-20 other great films as well, such as 1982's The Thing with Kurt Russel, and I was trying to focus just on the best of the best.

IMO, no film surpasses Metropolis for its imagination and vision, and no film surpasses 2001 for its epic, poetic, haunting mystery and majesty.

Empire Strikes Back

 

[Quasar44]

Poor Jar Jar. I never got that a lot of folks didn't like him until Big Bang Theory came out and said so. I was actually pretty OK with Jar Jar, he was kind of cute and funny and offered some comedy relief, but at least he didn't look like a cheap foam suit stretched over wire like the Ewoks did.

There was nothing cute or funny about the Ewoks, especially with those big, blank, expressionless eyes. The producers of Return of Jedi were simply trying to do something that was slightly ahead of their time. By the time Phantom Menace came out, they could do such characters much more convincingly using CGI.

I thought how Jar Jar's ears kept getting in his way was funny.

He had too much screen time

 

[toobfreak]

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My point exactly. The Ewoks were the least convincing aliens of the original trilogy, they weren't funny like Jar Jar, and they certainly weren't threatening, scary, intriguing, or menacing like the countless others.

They just looked like big, stupid looking, cuddly things reducing Star Wars to the level of Gremlins, Labyrinth, or a dozen other children's movies. The Ewoks were a huge blunting of what could have otherwise been an iconic, pivotal film.