Your Top 10 Best Sci Fi movies

[Deleted member 35598]

Pretty self explanatory. Here is my top 10. Very challenging, so I've added some honourable mentions.

1. Star Wars
2. The Planet of the Apes ( 1968 )
3. Inception
4. Aliens
5. The Terminator
6. Blade Runner
7. Matrix
8. Dune
9. Interstellar
10. the Thing


Honorable mentions
- Starship Troopers
- the Last Jedi
- 2001 Space Odyssey
- Close Encouters
- Blade Runner 2049
- Terminator 2
- Twelve Monkeys
- District 9
- Star Trek ( 2009 )
- Soylent Green
- Brazil
- The Hunger Games - Catching Fire
- Capricorn One
- Robocop

EDIT : I've added the Thing in the top 10 ( sorry Catching Fire ), no way I could let it out. But I'm sure some if the posts will make me change my mind... So tough. Afterall, Sci Fi is my favorite genre.

EDIT 2 : Terminator had to be in my top 10 ( sorry Starship Troopers

 

[Tetrinski]

2001 is N1 for sure. I'll edit from work, I'll have plenty of time to think about it lol

 

[OldSocksAndShoes]

In no order:

Primer
Blade Runner 2049
2001: A Space Odyssey
Interstellar
The Matrix
The Thing
12 Monkeys
The Abyss
Children Of Men
Brazil

 

[Boy Wander]

Not sure about a top ten but Aliens would be up there. As would Total Recall and 2001.

Does Westworld count as Sci fi ? If so, it would be top 10 for me definitely.

 

[Deleted member 35598]

In no order:

Primer
Blade Runner 2049
2001: A Space Odyssey
Interstellar
The Matrix
The Thing
12 Monkeys
The Abyss
Children Of Men
Brazil

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Jesus I forgot the Thing :(

I'll remove Catching Fire, no way the Thing is not in my top 10. I knew I forgot a movie :(

 

[MagnusGman]

I like your list, OP. Maybe not the order I'd go with, but it would definitely be similar. I think the only change I'd make is switch Hunger Games with Star Trek: First Contact.

 

[More_Badass]

1) Blade Runner 2049
2) Sunshine
3) 2001: A Space Odyssey
4) The Fly
5) Jurassic Park
6) The Matrix
7) Children of Men
8) Dark City
9) Annihilation
10) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Honorable Mentions
- Alien
- Upgrade
- Under The Skin
- Gravity
- Arrival

The Thing's in my Horror Top 10

 

[HStallion]

Can I just list Michael Bay's Transformers movie saga twice?

 

[Mucha]

1. Terminator 2
2. Akira
3. Alien
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Blade Runner
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
8. Interstellar
9. Sunshine
10. The Abyss

These were the first that came to mind. I haven't watched some in years. Mad Max Fury Road, Aliens, The Thing, Terminator, Avatar, The Matrix , Children of Men, Contact and Blade Runner 2049 are also amazing movies and deserve to be mentioned.

 

[Deleted member 35598]

1. Terminator 2
2. Akira
3. Alien
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Blade Runner
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
8. Interstellar
9. Sunshine
10. The Abyss

These were the first that came to mind. I haven't watched some in years. Mad Max Fury Road, Aliens, The Thing, Terminator, Avatar, The Matrix , Children of Men, Contact and Blade Runner 2049 are also amazing movies and deserve to be mentioned.

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How on Earth I forgot the Terminator... That's beyond me :( . I go to EDIT again it seems.

 

[ClamBuster]

no Stalker??? call yourself sci-fi fans...

 

[More_Badass]

This decade has been really fantastic for sci-fi. And don't forget we're actually getting a Denis Villeneuve Dune movie to close out the 2010s

 

[Acquiescence]

John Carpenter's The Thing
Aliens
Dark Star
Dark City
Blade Runner
Brazil
Metropolis (anime version)
Terminator 2
Gattaca
Akira

 

[tycoonheart]

Do you guys count Gattaca as sci-fi? Its such a great movie.

 

[Deleted member 35598]

This decade has been really fantastic for sci-fi. And don't forget we're actually getting a Denis Villeneuve Dune movie to close out the 2010s

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He's such a genius, the Arrival amd Blade Runner 2049 were great. Can't wait to see what he can do.

 

[striderno9]

1. Contact

The Matrix
Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Gravity
Intersteller
Primer
The Abyss
Sunshine
District 9
Her

In no order except Contact at number one.

 

[Deleted member 8257]

Is Fury Road considered sci-fi? If so, that is my #1. I must have watched it a dozen times.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Inception
4. T2
5. The Matrix
6. Predator
7. The Thing
8. Aliens
9. Children of Men
10. Blade Runner 1

 

[More_Badass]

Is Fury Road considered sci-fi? If so, that is my #1. I must have watched it a dozen times.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Inception
4. T2
5. The Matrix
6. Predator
7. The Thing
8. Aliens
9. Children of Men
10. Blade Runner 1

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Post-apocalyptic stories tend to be sci-fi by default. Although I'd argue Fury Road slots better into action and The Thing into horror

 

[Deleted member 35598]

Do you guys count Gattaca as sci-fi? Its such a great movie.

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Yes it is. It's a dystopian story as Children of Men, Brazil, 12 Monkeys or 1984.

Great movie by the way.

 

[Famassu]

In no particular order

Sunshine
Mad Max: Fury Road
Matrix
Metropolis (anime)
Looper
Inception
District 9
Children of Men
Ex Machina
The Iron Giant

 

[BrutalInsane]

In no order:

The Thing
Alien
The Road Warrior
Fury Road
Starship Troopers
2001
The Matrix
Robocop
Snowpiercer
Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan

 

[Elandyll]

In no particular order either

Aliens
Sunshine
Blade Runner
Children of Men
2010
Terminator 2
Interstellar
The Abyss
The Ghost in the Shell
The Empire Strikes Back

3 honorable mentions
The Matrix
Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek First Contact

 

[Ferrasvansen]

My top 10 in no order...

Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner
Children of Men
Terminator 2
Aliens
Soylent Green
Star Trek: First Contact
The Quiet Earth
The Day the Earth Stood Still... original ofc
The Day the Earth Caught Fire.

 

[Anton Sugar]

In no particular order, off the top of my head:

Solaris (Tarkovsky)
Stalker
Matrix
Annihilation
Mad Max: Fury Road
Blade Runner/Blade Runner 2049 (honestly I think BR2049 is better)
Arrival
Planet of the Apes
Alien
Gattaca

 

[ohkay]

In no particular order:
Blade Runner
Akira
Alien
Children of Men
Wall-E
Her
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Thing
Moon
Back to the Future

 

[Deleted member 35598]

In no particular order, off the top of my head:

Solaris (Tarkovsky)
Stalker
Matrix
Annihilation
Mad Max: Fury Road
Blade Runner/Blade Runner 2049 (honestly I think BR2049 is better)
Arrival
Planet of the Apes
Alien
Gattaca

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I did not see that one. Is is good ? Just saw the 2002 movie with Clooney, it was ok.

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

Aliens.
Alien.
Terminator 2.
The Empire Strikes Back.
RoboCop.
Dredd.
Akira.
Ghost in the Shell.
Mad Max Fury Road.
The Matrix.

 

[YawZah]

The Quiet Earth
Melancholia
The Man From Earth
Annihilation
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Fountain
The Matrix
Terminator 2
Blade Runner 2049
Alien

Random order. It's honestly so hard to just pick 10, ask me another day and I'd probably make a different list to be honest.

 

[gforguava]

Molly

My favorite film of this year. A wonderful low-budget actioner that goes for broke and is infinitely more impressive than most movies with 100 times(or more) budget.

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Outland

Out of all the great 80s sci-fi films this is arguably the greatest and sadly relatively not that well known. The sets, the costumes, Connery, it is all great.

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Not Of This Earth

It is Jim Wynorski directing Traci Lords in a remake(with the exact same budget) of a Roger Corman film from the 50s. It is everything good in this world in one film.

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Rollerball

Still the best future-sport film of all time(why isn't this a bigger genre?).

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Starship Troopers

A legitimate masterpiece, to the point where this is nothing I would change about. Yes, that includes Denise Richards vacant stare and dull performance.

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Dredd

Where's my sequel(with Thirlby returning as Anderson, of course)?!

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Dead End Drive-In

Brian Trenchard-Smith's best and considering he also gave us BMX Bandits(and Turkey Shoot and Night of the Demons 2) that is saying something. Seriously, this is a super underrated film.

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Beneath The Planet Of The Apes

The insanely bleak pinnacle of the Apes saga. Makes me chuckle when people act like the new-Apes films, which are great, are somehow darker than what came before. Nothing in these new films can hold a candle to Beneath.

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Cherry 2000

Melanie Griffith at the peak of her hotness, Tim Thomerson as one of the great unsung cinematic villains, and a Larry Fishburne cameo with bonus sex-contract negotiations.

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Push

Still the best X-Men movie around.

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[TheSkullPrince]

Back to the Future
Children of Men
Robocop
2001 A Space Odyssey
Wall E

That's all I really need

 

[TheXbox]

Ordered for a change:

Mad Max Fury Road
Aliens
2001
Blade Runner 2049
Close Encounters
Children of Men
Star Trek II
Ghost in the Shell
Minority Report
Terminator 2

I feel a little unusual calling Fury Road the best science-fiction movie ever made, but let's face facts: Mad Max is science-fiction and it is better than all other science-fiction movies.

Also, Star Wars is not science-fiction. If it was, this list would look very different.

 

[Deleted member 35598]

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A sci fi movie with Traci Lords ? Is this good for real ?

 

[Mahonay]

In no particular order

Blade Runner
Blade Runner 2049
Dredd
Children of Men
Looper
Moon
The Fifth Element
Mad Max Fury Road
Minority Report
Arrival

Barely edged out
- Edge of Tomorrow

Honorable mention but not included since anime
- Ghost in the Shell
- Akira

 

[More_Badass]

Ordered for a change:

Mad Max Fury Road
Aliens
2001
Blade Runner 2049
Close Encounters
Children of Men
Star Trek II
Ghost in the Shell
Minority Report
Terminator 2

I feel a little unusual calling Fury Road the best science-fiction movie ever made, but let's face facts: Mad Max is science-fiction and it is better than all other science-fiction movies.

Also, Star Wars is not science-fiction. If it was, this list would look very different.

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It's science fantasy which is a subgenre of science fiction. Well, a quarter of Star Wars is science fantasy, the other 75% is completely unadulterated pulp sci-fi: space opera politics with galactic empires and federations and all that, weird alien planets and cultures and species, sci-fi western/noir with everything from crime syndicates and planet-scale megalopolis to back-water border planets and bounty hunters and smugglers, military sci-fi including giant space battles and high-tech armies

I'm always baffled by people who try to say that Star Wars isn't sci-fi because there are quasi-mystical psychic powers and laser swords. Might as well say that Dune isn't sci-fi either

 

[gforguava]

A sci fi movie with Traci Lords ? Is this good for real ?

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Well it is a low-budget Jim Wynorski flick, so it kind of is what it is.

If an insane cameo from Deathstalker 2's Monique Gabrielle means nothing to you then there probably isn't any reason to seek it out.

But it is a cheesy good time for those so inclined.

 

[rrc1594]

Edge of Tomorrow

 

[Sei]

1. Blade Runner
2. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
3. Back to the Future
4. The Matrix
5. Stargate
6. Blade Runner 2049
7. Brazil
8. Starship Troopers
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. The Thing

Spoiler

11. Aliens
12. Children of Men
13. The Arrival
14. Edge of Tomorrow
15. Terminator 2
16. Minority Report
17. Total Recall
18. The Fifth Element
19. Ghost in the Shell
20. Predator
21. Her
22. The Prestige
23. Contact
24. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
25. A Boy and His Dog
26. The Andromeda Strain
27. Moon
28. Pitch Black
29. Solaris
30. Stalker

 

[TheXbox]

It's science fantasy which is a subgenre of science fiction. Well, a quarter of Star Wars is science fantasy, the other 75% is completely unadulterated pulp sci-fi: space opera politics with galactic empires and federations and all that, weird alien planets and cultures and species, sci-fi western/noir with everything from crime syndicates and planet-scale megalopolis to back-water border planets and bounty hunters and smugglers, military sci-fi including giant space battles and high-tech armies

I'm always baffled by people who try to say that Star Wars isn't sci-fi because there are quasi-mystical psychic powers and laser swords. Might as well say that Dune isn't sci-fi either

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I'm only half-serious -- it just makes it easier to draw up a list when you don't have to straddle genre boundaries. I guess I draw the line at what you call "quasi-mystical psychic powers," which I would simply call magic. Because it is. There's nothing "quasi" about it. Dune at the very least occupies the "quasi" space with the melange.

 

[THEVOID]

No order:

2001
Star Wars
Road Warrior
Aliens
Contact
Primer
The Fly
Matrix
Close Encounter of the third kind
Avatar (don't worry eventually it'll get it's do)

 

[Bishop89]

No particular order :

Predator
Aliens
Dredd
The fifth element
The matrix
The phantom menace
Terminator 2
Event horizon
Chronicles of riddick
Men in black

 

[sir_crocodile]

1) Terminator 2
2) Empire Strikes Back
3) Back to the Future
4) Star Wars
5) Back to the Future 2
6) The Iron Giant
7) District 9
8) Star Trek VI
9) Star Trek II
10) Dredd
11) The Fifth Element
12) Total Recall
13) Godzilla (original)
14) The Martian
15) Westworld

Also I love Masters of the Universe whenever it's on Eternia or Skeletor is on Earth. Non-skelly Earth is the drizzling shits though

 

[Mona]

Terminator
Terminator 2
Jurassic Park
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Alien
Aliens
The Thing
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Fly

 

[More_Badass]

I'm only half-serious -- it just makes it easier to draw up a list when you don't have to straddle genre boundaries. I guess I draw the line at what you call "quasi-mystical psychic powers," which I would simply call magic. Because it is. There's nothing "quasi" about it. Dune at the very least occupies the "quasi" space with the melange.

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A lot of non-hard sci-fi is basically fantasy. Edge of Tomorrow's time-rewinding alien blood ecosystem is completely fantasy with a nonsense sci-fi jargon explanation. If stuff like that or cosmic horror in Event Horizon are in movies that are still considered sci-fi, then Star Wars certainly qualifies too

 

[namlook]

1. 2001
2. Blade Runner
3. Alien
4. Dune (F the haters)
5. Interstellar
6. Star Wars
7. Terminator 2
8. The Thing
9. Blade Runner 2049
10. The Matrix

 

[passepied joe]

Somewhat in order, don't pay attention to that

Terminator 2
Mothra vs Godzilla (1964)
Blade Runner 2049
Godzilla (1954)
The Human Vapor
2001 A Space Odyssey
Shin Godzilla
Jurassic Park
The Matrix
Empire Strikes Back

Honorable Mentions
Matango
End Of Evangelion (I don't distinguish between live action and animated)
Gamera Guardian Of The Universe
Aliens

 

[Crazy_about_media]

In no order
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Blade Runner
Star War The Empire Strikes Back
Aliens
Back to the Future
Robocop
Terminator 2
Dredd
Minority Report
The Martix

 

[Vilix]

Blade Runner
Star Wars ep 4 & 5
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Aliens
Starship Troopers
The Matrix 1
Alien
Predator
2001
Terminator 1&2

 

[TheXbox]

A lot of non-hard sci-fi is basically fantasy. Edge of Tomorrow's time-rewinding alien blood ecosystem is completely fantasy with a nonsense sci-fi jargon explanation. If stuff like that or cosmic horror in Event Horizon are in movies that are still considered sci-fi, then Star Wars is certainly qualifies too

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Or nearly all science-fiction, because aliens and magic are equally imaginary. The only difference is that one feels more plausible than the other. I think magic is disqualifying as a genre convention, but even thinking about it in terms of "qualifying" is misguided. Star Wars is fundamentally a fairy tale. The machinery is set-dressing. If it was set on the high seas instead of the cosmos the story would not change one iota.

 

[ezekial45]

INPO

Alien
The Thing
Akira
Sunshine
Blade Runner / 2049
Terminator 2
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Back To The Future
Mad Max Fury Road
Robocop

 

[Vonnegut]

Akira

The Matrix

Blade Runner

Total Recall

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

The Terminator

The Thing

Inception

2001: A Space Odyssey

12 Monkeys

Spacewalks

Star Wars

Alien & Aliens

Jurassic Park

Predator

Transcendence (just kidding; this film is garbage)