Top Ten SF Films

[The Upright Man]

see still no stargate there

[roddglenn]

Well, I'll put it on mine then

[williamjm]

Originally Posted by The Upright Man

so im guessing no one liked Stargate and the somewhat film mission 1 - the children of the gods?

The Stargate film is a good Science Fiction film, but it isn't really top-10 material. I would however have been interested to see how the originally planned sequels would have turned out, I remember from the Stargate director's commentary that Emmerich and Devlin didn't seem too keen about how the TV series plot developed.

[Bant Warick]

Stargate is good and i'm very much a fan(atical?) of the series. But not top ten material.... Hmm A conversation for the stargate thread methinks. So on to my top ten in no particular order.

The Thing
Akira
The Matrix (I like to pretend the sequels don't exist)
Blade Runner Directors cut
Serenity (Why? Tell me why did they cancel it?)
Empire strikes back
Castle in the sky (More fantasy then sci-fi but meh, it was the film that got 7 year old me into the genre)
Star Trek: wrath of Khan
The planet of the Apes (NOT the remake)
Dark City

[Viktor Kuprin]

For the nine-month-long voyage to Mars, I would take:

1. Island of Lost Souls
2. The Day The Earth Stood Still
3. The War of the Worlds (1953)
4. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
5. The Forbidden Planet
6. The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
7. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
8. The First Men in the Moon
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Colossus: The Forbin Project

Anyone want to join me?

[Tillane]

Originally Posted by Viktor Kuprin

For the nine-month-long voyage to Mars, I would take:

1. Island of Lost Souls
2. The Day The Earth Stood Still
3. The War of the Worlds (1953)
4. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
5. The Forbidden Planet
6. The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
7. Robinson Crusoe on Mars
8. The First Men in the Moon
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Colossus: The Forbin Project

Anyone want to join me?

Good choices...but I couldn't join anyone who didn't include Blade Runner. Damn, I'm elitist. How'd that happen?

[Viktor Kuprin]

Originally Posted by Tillane

Good choices...but I couldn't join anyone who didn't include Blade Runner. Damn, I'm elitist. How'd that happen?

Make Blade Runner number 11, Tillane. Roy Batty's final scene always chokes me up, so maybe I didn't want to embarass myself in front of the other cosmonauts.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain ... Time to die."

- Roy Batty, Bladerunner

[Tillane]

Then count me in!

BTW, I wrote a whole dissertation on that scene as part of my "Utopia & Dystopia in modern writing" module at university.

Well, okay. I included a few other things. But it was my mainstay...

[tangaloomababe]

Tillane I would have to agree, without Blade Runner there is no Top Ten!

[Tillane]

There is, but it's a poor Top Ten.

Same with 2001. IMHO...

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by The Upright Man

so im guessing no one liked Stargate and the somewhat film mission 1 - the children of the gods?

The movie was crap compared to the awesome SG1 tv series.


Kurt Russell isnt nothing compared to Richard Dean Anderson as Jack.

[Steve Jordan]

Originally Posted by Viktor Kuprin

For the nine-month-long voyage to Mars, I would take:

10. Colossus: The Forbin Project

Ah, yes, Colossus. Forgot all about that one... and I've got it on tape! (See? That's why these short lists are so hard!)

But for a 9-month voyage, I'm taking a Hell of a lot more than 10 movies!

[steve12553]

I just watched Howard Hawk's The Thing from Another World last night for the first time in a very long time. I hadn't remembered how intelligent the film was. Definitely something to consider. They pulled in much more of the original story concepts than I remembered.

[The Upright Man]

ok here i go...
1, Star Wars (A New Hope or The Star Wars if you wanna get technical)
2, Star Trek: First Contact
3 = Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
= Terminator 2
5, Stargate SG-1
6, Matrix
7, Star Wars Ep III
8 = erm..The 6th Day
= RoboCop

[Connavar]

You know Stargate SG1 isnt a movie.

The movie is called simply Stargate.

If you have the Tv show in your list, then maybe you should post that in top ten best SF shows ever thread that must be around somewhere in these forums.