Top 5 SciFi

[donkeypunch411]

Alien
Wrath of Khan
Fifth Element
Planet of the Apes
Empire Strikes Back

Honorable Mention: Dune, District 9, Blade Runner

[Rakhir]

I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned Slaughterhouse 5, The Illustrated Man, When Worlds Collide or A Clockwork Orange yet.

[Fancyinheels]

Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 with Michael Rennie
War of the Worlds 1953 with Gene Barry
Forbidden Planet 1956 with Leslie Nielsen (pre-Naked Gun studly) & Walter Pidgeon
Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 with Richard Carlson
Tie ('cause I like them all too much to narrow it down): When Worlds Collide 1951 with Richerd Derr; The Blob 1958 with a newly-discovered Steve McQueen; It Came from Outer Space 1953 with Richard Carlson; Them 1954 with James Arness & James Whitmore; and The Thing (from Another World) 1951 with James Arness as the creature, a little-known sci fi trivia tidbit; and Tarantula 1955 with John Agar.


Classic science fiction era, inspiring many of the greats to come.

[eagle eye]

Solient Green. We're feeding our animals other animal parts already. Who knows?

[guy fawkes]

The Matrix

Dark City

V for Vendetta

The Omega Man

Quantum Leap (TV)

[GentlemanCaller007]

Some people can't count to 5.... LOL

So, there are LOTS of great, groundbreaking, classic Sci-Fi films out there. Many of them won't get mentioned simply because you have to pic the 5 best.
Here are the 5 BEST (life altering dreams):

Star Wars (original 3, technically if you spliced them, they'd be 1 big long movie!)
Star Trek (all of em)
Terminator (all of em)
The Matrix (all of em)
The Road Warrior (all of em)

Honorable Mentions:
The THING (cutting edge in its day AND John Carpenter ("the original Steven King"))
Avatar
A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
E.T. (VERY important film when you are 9 yrs old)
Jurassic Park
Back to The Future

Hey, I didn't say I could count to 5 either... LOL

IGN has a pretty cool listing:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/09/...es-of-all-time

[dent]

Originally Posted by guy fawkes

V for Vendetta

That's not a suprising pick coming from someone named "guy fawkes", LOL.

[-dent-]

[pallmallblue747]

I'm surprised and a tiny bit disappoint that no one has mentioned Zardoz

[uparoundnoon]

Terminator
Star Trek The Wrath of Khan
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Aliens (or whatever the 2nd one was called)
Star Trek Future Contact (where you see the guy who invented warp drive)

Honorable Mention: Total Recall (becuz in my fantasy Sharon Stone would be my wife too)
The Thing and Minority Report

[Mokoa]

Sorry but five is simply not enough...

• The Star Wars films
• The Star Trek films
• The Fifth Element
• Blade Runner
• Fantastic Voyage
• 2001 A Space Odyssey
• 2010 The Year We Make Contact
• Close Encounters Of the Third Kind
• Aliens
• The Terminator films
• Robocop
• Judge Dredd
• The Matrix films
• I, Robot
• Minority Report
• Event Horizon
• The Black Hole
• When Worlds Collide
• Forbidden Planet

[rooster120]

Nice thread.

01. Bladerunner
02. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
03. Inception
04. Akira
05. The Matrix

Side note @ dent: Primer? Really? It made my #5, then went back in time only to drop to #7, then 9, then 10.

[Rakhir]

Originally Posted by pallmallblue747

I'm surprised and a tiny bit disappoint that no one has mentioned Zardoz

WOW! Didnt think that Sean Connery classic would come up. Nice!

[Rakhir]

Originally Posted by Mokoa

Sorry but five is simply not enough...

• The Star Wars films
• The Star Trek films
• The Fifth Element
• Blade Runner
• Fantastic Voyage
• 2001 A Space Odyssey
• 2010 The Year We Make Contact
• Close Encounters Of the Third Kind
• Aliens
• The Terminator films
• Robocop
• Judge Dredd
• The Matrix films
• I, Robot
• Minority Report
• Event Horizon
• The Black Hole
• When Worlds Collide
• Forbidden Planet

Thumbs up for Fantastic Voyage! Sorry but epic fail for judge Dredd. That film truly sucked!

[dent]

Originally Posted by rooster120

Side note @ dent: Primer? Really? It made my #5, then went back in time only to drop to #7, then 9, then 10.

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[Rakhir]

And then there is:

1984
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
War of the Worlds ( and here I can say Tom Cruise didn't completely suck in the remake)
The Final Program
Westworld? (maybe)
Dark Star
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
The Time Machine
Brave New World