Top Ten SF Films

[williamjm]

Most of the films mentioned so far have been good. My personal top 10 would be something like (in not particular order):

2001 : A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
Dark City
Donnie Darko
The Matrix
The Terminator
City of Lost Children
Serenity
Vanilla Sky
Galaxy Quest (my favourite sci-fi comedy)

On a similar note, what are your top 10 Fantasy films? I'll go for:

Lord of the Rings 1/2/3
Being John Malkovich
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Pan's Labyrinth
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Intacto

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by iansales

True. There are a lot of films mentioned only once. But the old favourites are leading the pack... Blade Runner, Star Wars: A New Hope, 2001: A Space Odyssey... I'm surprised that Alien is leading Aliens, as it's usually the other way around.

Sorry for missing the different and good SF and having too populistic taste in hollywood SF

[tangaloomababe]

Steve Jordan, I forgot Soylent Green, I love this movie. Charlton Heston was great but I particuarky liked Edward G Robinson.

Originally posted by williamjm

Brotherhood of the Wolf

William much as I love this movie, I dont think I would call it s/f, but then I supose sci fi is a fairly loose term, I'd be more inclined to call it Fantasy/Horror. Its a great film though whatever you want to call it.

[Steve Jordan]

And I was just thinking, I forgot Vanilla Sky. Yeah, making lists like this can be tough!

[Tea is my copilot]

I see different dystopias on your lists....I'm curious to know which one you think is the best?

[iansales]

Why not the original Abre los Ojos, rather than the remake Vanilla Sky? It's better, too. Well, let's face it, Hollywood has a long and undistinguished record of remaking foreign films and doing a bad job of it.

[Wolfeborn]

No order just the order I thought of them, hmm

Bladerunner
Aliens
Ghost in the shell
Dark city
Starship troopers
Fifth Element
Solaris
Star wars IV
Logans run
Metropolis

Few old favourites

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by iansales

Why not the original Abre los Ojos, rather than the remake Vanilla Sky? It's better, too. Well, let's face it, Hollywood has a long and undistinguished record of remaking foreign films and doing a bad job of it.

Yeah the spanish version was alot better. One of the best euro films i have seen in a long time.

It was really like dark and creepy sometimes.


Vanilla Sky made me laugh how tame it was in comparison.

Can i repost my top ten? Cause i forgot about this in my list.

[Steve Jordan]

I never considered Ghost in the Shell to be a Dystopia. I might suggest Soylent Green instead, or Silent Running.

We could start any number of "top 10" corollaries: Top 10 Dystopias; Utopias; Action-based; Intellectual/thoughtful; Tech Run Amok; Animated. The list goes on and on!

[iansales]

"intellectual/thoughtful"... well, that's pretty much all of Hollywood's output excluded then :-)

[Steve Jordan]

Originally Posted by iansales

"intellectual/thoughtful"... well, that's pretty much all of Hollywood's output excluded then :-)

...
2001
Solaris
Gattacka
Soylent Green
Andromeda Strain

...okay, I'm out.

But seriously, folks (thank you, I'm here all week... try the veal!)... you're right, Ian, the "thoughtful/intelligent SF" list would be shortest of all...

[iansales]

And four of those films are adaptations of novels...

[iansales]

Oh, except 2001 isn't really.

[Connavar]

Well it is in some ways cause i read he didnt finish the story before after the movie came out. That they didnt wait for him to finish the story which is prolly why people think the movie doesnt end as well as the novel.


Gattaca i liked. Is it also a novel? I wish cause something tells me it would be alot better than the movie

[iansales]

Solaris - based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem.
Soylent Green - based on Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.
2001 - inspired on the short story 'The Sentinel'; the novel was written alongside the film.
The Andromeda Strain - based on the novel by Michael Crichton.