Favorite Science Fiction Movies

[peregrinus]

What are some of your favorite Science Fiction movies? Picking one is tough so I’ll pick two.

An early favorite is “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. That’s the 1951, Robert Wise version with Michael Rennie as Klaatu. Ground breaking, a thoughtful departure from usual schlock monster films of the 50’s.

Thirty years forward to 1982 and “Blade Runner”, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” The movie moves the story from San Francisco to a gritty, dirty and rainy LA and a lived-in, believable future.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Donnie Darko

Stargate

Cloud Atlas

 

[addamsruspipe]

The Blob and Planet of the Apes. ?

 

[ophiuchus]

My folks took me to 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was very little. The experience was profound, transformative. I knew I was seeing something special even before I knew what something special was. I think it’s the film against which I compare all others, science fiction or otherwise.

Yeah, I was also that kid; I saw Star Wars (no subtitle, no episode number) thirteen times at the theater when it first came out. It’s the only time I felt compelled to revisit a movie experience over and over like that.

An early favorite is “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. That’s the 1951, Robert Wise version with Michael Rennie as Klaatu. Ground breaking, a thoughtful departure from usual schlock monster films of the 50’s.

Terrific film. Sincere in message, moves at a clip ... and Bernard Herrmann taught all of Hollywood how to score a science fiction film brilliantly and nearly everyone followed suit for a decade. (I really like Blade Runner, too.)

 

[peregrinus]

Donnie Darko

Stargate

Cloud Atlas

Great choices.
Stargate is my wife’s favorite.
I enjoyed the first 5-6years of the first TV series and both seasons of the overlooked third series, “Stargate Universe“

The Blob and Planet of the Apes. ?

The Blob, ha, I remember that movie scared me a bit at the time, although I’m not sure why anymore.. ?
.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Solent Green is my favorite.

 

[peregrinus]

My folks took me to 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was very little.

Me too! I remember seeing it at the Seattle Cinerama theatre on the big wrap around screen. It blew my young mind away.

 

[peregrinus]

Solent Green is my favorite.

Soylent Green is People!!!! ?
Yikes.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Great choices.
Stargate is my wife’s favorite.
I enjoyed the first 5-6years of the first TV series and both seasons of the overlooked third series, “Stargate Universe“

The Blob, ha, I remember that movie scared me a bit at the time, although I’m not sure why anymore.. ?
.

Stargate Universe was great. I wish they would have continued with it. Great concept.

 

[unadoptedlamp]

Somewhat recent: Serenity, from the Firefly television series which was pretty good.

2001 is the best Sci-fi I've seen so far, but it's getting a little dated now and redundant.

I would look forward to Wool, from the writer Hugh Howey if the film option ever turns into a reality and lands in the lap of a good director. Pretty good book series by a breakout author.

 

[peregrinus]

Stargate Universe was great. I wish they would have continued with it. Great concept.

Agreed. We really wanted to find out what happened after that last hyper-jump.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Agreed. We really wanted to find out what happened after that last hyper-jump.

Definitely a cliff hanger. I thought SG-1 was pretty good too. Atlantis was alright.

As far as tv SciFis though, Star Trek takes the cake for me.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

2001: A Space Odyssey is an odd thing. Brilliant in terms of the juxtaposition of classical scores with visuals (that are amazing considering when the film was made), but I always felt that it was a film with a theme rather than a story, if that makes sense. It’s still one of my favorites.

The original Planet of the Apes is pretty good, too.

 

[autumnfog]

The first Alien movie.

 

[jguss]

Soylent Green is People!!!! ?
Yikes.

Great, now you tell me. There goes my vegan diet, all shot to hell.

 

[peregrinus]

Star Trek takes the cake for me.

Kirk or Picard?

 

[peregrinus]

Great, now you tell me. There goes my vegan diet, all shot to hell.

Yes sir, YOU and @BROBS ?

 

[coming to_falling too]

Kirk or Picard?

Picard. I could never get into TOS. I'm quite fond of Sisko and Janeway as well. Also I thought Enterprise was pretty good while they still made it.

 

[hawky454]

Ex Machina

The Fountain

Could David Lynch movies be classified as science fiction? If so his films would make it to the top of the list.

 

[peregrinus]

The first Alien movie.

Maybe the best “haunted house” movie of all time.
When was that, early 80’s?
At that time my wife had a friend in San Francisco who called us at 2:00 a.m. after seeing this movie while under the influence of a banned hallucinogenic drug.
THEY HAD NO IDEA!
She spent several hours on the phone talking them off the ceiling. Wow, hadn’t thought of this in years