Favorite Sci-fi/fantasy movies

[Diana Levin]

List your favorite fantasy/Sci fi films and why you like them

My favs are LOTR, Nightmare before Christmas and Blade Runner.

[paranoid marvin]

Salute Of The Jugger

great post-apocalyptic sports film similar to Roller Ball

[Aerandir]

Originally Posted by Diana Levin

List your favorite fantasy/Sci fi films and why you like them

My favs are LOTR, Nightmare before Christmas and Blade Runner.

You didn't say why you liked them.

LOTR because it put one of the greatest trilogies on film. Peter Jackson, and all the crew did a great job on the films. I've watched them at least 10 time.

Star War because it was made by a risk taker, and a lot of college kids. The skill it took to do the stop animation is outstanding. It changed movie making as we know it and opened the door for many other great movies.

Dragon Slayer because it was well ahead of it's time. I still think the dragon looks better than must CG dragons in recent films.

[Diana Levin]

Originally Posted by Aerandir

You didn't say why you liked them.

Hehe your so right.
I love LOTR because it was the movie that first inspired me to draw and write fantasy.
Nightmare before christmas because I love halloween, I thought the animation was really unique and fun, and I don't get tired of watching it. Puts me in a good mood.
Blade Runner because I loved the whole film noir/postmodern scene set in a futuristic distopia. I have a thing for distopian society movies.

[Foxbat]

I have so many favourites but ones that spring to mind right now are Metropolis, Silent Running and Quatermass And The Pit.

[mightymem]

Aliens : because the movie is a piece of art, and is also fun. The effects are still amazing and its quite shocking.

[manephelien]

Lord of the Rings, especially the extended editions: they're such beautiful, believable movies. Middle-Earth really comes alive in those movies, and I really wish I could see some of those places for real.

The Abyss: just the director's cut, because the theater release has such a twee ending. It's a story of humanity, love, and the sacrifices people are willing to make for love, in an absolutely fantastic environment. The huge underwater set is absolutely astounding.

Star Wars: The OT is a lovely description of a galaxy decaying under an evil empire, with wonderfully believable characters. The PT movies are entertaining, but not quite as wonderful as the originals.

Blade Runner: a fabulous dystopian description of the world, scary in a way but a story beautifully told.

Aliens: astounding cinematography and wonderful heroism, and really quite terrifying aliens.

I'd give an honorable mention to Apollo 13. It's fictionalized history rather than sf, but it's still one of my favorite movies, and some of the effects are on a par with the best sf. I love the fact that they shot the space sequences in 20-second installments on the "vomit comet".

[Quokka]

My favourite fantasy movie is The Princess Bride still one of the funniest movies ever made and without doubt my favourite family movie.

[Soggyfox]

Originally Posted by manephelien

The Abyss: just the director's cut, because the theater release has such a twee ending. It's a story of humanity, love, and the sacrifices people are willing to make for love, in an absolutely fantastic environment. The huge underwater set is absolutely astounding.

as a diver i too love this film, even though you have to ignore some fundamental physics of diving, but on the whole it is a good film.

my list is close to many others.

Starwars - i was a kid growing up at the time these came out and they encalpsulated everything i would dream of, extraterrestrials, spaceships, hero's and villains and sexy princesses.

Bladerunner too, the whole film had and air of 'this is how its going to be' that i loved, also the dark and dismal setting i always felt was more true to our future than the standard Hollywood fresh and clean.

[daisybee]

Bladerunner-because it is brilliant and still fascinates me no matter how many times I've seen it. I love the way it looks, sounds, the story it tells, I just love that film.

[manephelien]

I completely forgot The Princess Bride. It's one of the best animated features I've ever seen in any genre, if not the best.

[iansales]

The Princess Bride is not animated.

[Nesacat]

Flight of Dragons is an all-time favourite. I was hooked when I first saw it way back in school. There's dragons and knights and wizards. What's not to love.

BladeRunner because after all these years and for being watched over and over again it still holds a deep fascination.

Princess Bride, which is one of the first fantasy movies I'd seen and I've since come to love the book.

Clash of the Titans simply because it was the first fantasy movie I remember watching. Played truant from school too. My dad came and got me and we went to watch it. I still love it. Same goes for the Sinbad movies. They hold some very warm memories. I've got them all on DVD and watch them regularly.

Nightmare Before Christmas because of Jack Skellington and my abiding love for autumn and Halloween.

[iansales]

Er, The Princess Bride doesn't have Tom Cruise in it. That would be Legend.

[ravenus]

Fantasy is rather broad as a genre...unless you mean only the elves and dragons sort of fantasy...Most of those movies were too twee to want to see them more than once...I did like John Milus' Conan the Barbarian movie a great deal, because, like Howard's books, it was so manly and un-twee in most part

In the SF arena let's see, I quite liked...

Solaris (Soderbergh) - Brilliant exploration of a man's dilemma of choice between living sad reality or a potentially happy fantasy

Them! - Darn good low-budget brit movie about non-giant ants taking over the world. Like the Alien series, it's a little more horror than SF but still.

Alien, Alien3 - Liked these more than Cameron's film, which was also nice in the popcorn vein.

Dark City - Sort of like the Matrix movie, but I like this a whole lot better, and it doesn't have an annoying guy keeping going on about "what is real?" till you want to punch him in the face

I'm sure there 're more but as I think of them...