50 Greatest Science-Fiction Movies of All Time

MSN.com ^ | Glenn Kenny

[EveningStar]

The science-fiction genre has been around almost as long as movies themselves have.

[LRS]

Thank you for your post, for it correctly shows me that I had missed The Omega Man when I first read the list.

So, let me say :

Robinson Crusoe on Mars: sounds cheesy, and dated in so far as effects, but actually a nifty little film.

Planet of Vampires: one of the B movie inspirations for Alien. I reccomend watching it with It! The Terror from Beyond Space, the other inspiration for Alien...

[thackney]

Outland was released on DVD on November 18, 1997

http://www.amazon.com/Outland-Bill-Bailey/dp/B0019BI1DM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289934717&sr=8-1

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Outland/835381?strackid=55850796aa2cde0_0_srl&strkid=1788373656_0_0&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&trkid=222336

[freedumb2003]

>>I didn’t want to like Minority Report, but I do think it was actually a good movie with a good plot, and made you think. In fact, I use it a lot as an illustration when discussing current government actions.<<

You will be visited yesterday by the Precog Squad... (lol)

[CharlesWayneCT]

Your mention of “Contact”, which was in some ways a decent sci-fi movie, made me think of another sci-fi movie which, while I don’t think it belongs on this list, is a movie I found myself watching over and over again.

“The Core”.

[DJlaysitup]

While I realize that much of Starship Troopers was used by the filmmaker as a satire against our shallow youth culture and against warmongering - I still enjoy watching it, especially when the bugs get active and rip the 2nd level actors apart. Way Campy!

Plus, I think it’s high time the military institute coed showers.

“Rico, I need a Corporal. You’re it until you get killed or I find somebody better.”

[Tanniker Smith]

40: War of the Worlds (50's version) 39: War of the Worlds (00's version)

Seriously, you don't have to read past that!

[CharlesWayneCT]

“Repo Man”.

If you mean the “Repo Man” that is also known as “Repo - The Genetic Opera”, I have to give you two thumbs up for the mention, although I’m not sure I could put that in a top 50 list.

“Repo Men” was a poor excuse for a movie based on the same book. “Repo Man” was about repossesing cars, so I assume you didn’t mean that one.

[Tanniker Smith]

16: Starship Troopers

Oh, dear God! No!
I knew I shouldn't have read farther.

Look, there can be disagreements at what should be in the Top Ten, and which to leave off the list, but, Really???

[Calvin Locke]

I could see that, but it's still a fun movie.

Has anybody ever tried to read L.Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth
AND watched the movie?

I tried the movie once, and maybe lasted until the first commercial.

Hubbard is a...well, let's say he's not somebody I would want to do
business with. Sending people to buy his books in all the
Manhattan bookstores to falsely jack up his sales so he'd make
the weekly NYT list.

Any way, if so, how was the book compared to the movie?

Good-Bad, Bad-Worse, Bad-Not So Bad, or Same-Same?

[Tanniker Smith]

Where’s Plan 9 from Outer Space?

On the List of the 50 Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

[antiRepublicrat]

Most good Sci-Fi is based on a book, often from the established greats.

I’ll add a not well known one that was very good, Impostor with Gary Sinise. It’s based on a Philip K. Dick novel, as were Total Recall, Blade Runner, Screamers, Minority Report and Paycheck. Sadly, it can’t go near the top due to direction and script, although the PK Dick premise and Sinise’s acting were superb.

[EveningStar]

I couldn’t believe that either, but the list actually gets worse.

[Borges]

I can’t argue with the top two.

[Redleg Duke]

I agree on the book, but the movie sucked swamp water!

[antiRepublicrat]

Serenity was great as an extended episode of Firefly. Sadly, it can’t really stand up too well as a movie on its own, since most of the character development was done in the series.

But, yes, I have it all on Blu-ray. Awesome.

[antiRepublicrat]

Yes.

[agere_contra]

Kudos for mentioning “Screamers”. I thought it had terrific dialogue and concepts. It was just too low budget to be a completely effective movie.

[ShadowAce]

I would guess "Neither"

It's the one starring Emelio Estevez as a Repo Man who finds an Alien spaceship in the trunk of a car.

[McCloud-Strife]

Everyone who has not seen Starship Troopers should watch it, those who hate it should see it again. After all, This movie takes place after DADT gets repealed. I'd Shower with Dina Meyers any day of the week.

I liked a lot of movies on this list, others not so much, but just because one does not agree does not mean the list maker has no credibility. Feel free to make your own and see where others think you stack up.
-2003's Battlestar Galactica pilot deserves to be on the list, it just about the best sci-fi in 10 years, even if it was only made for TV.
-Fifth Element, pretty, flashy, it does more than tell it's lame and weak story, it weaves a world that is almost believable.
-2009's Star Trek. It's hard to argue with much that happened in it, and I found myself wishing more of it got time to be fleshed out, especially the Kobyashi Maru scene, that got edited down.
-Stargate Love a good Air Force movie LOL

-Possible mention for next year if anyone has not seen the trailer for Battle: Los Angeles, I highly recommend taking a look see. Trailers anymore are so deceiving, but it shows some promise

[CharlesWayneCT]

I just noticed that nobody has mentioned “Fantastic Voyage” — the movie where they shrink a medical team to operate on a very important scientist.

I loved that movie when it first came out, and I know I’ve seen it multiple times. Not sure it would be on my top 50 list, but it was pretty clever.

And speaking of movies not mentioned or on my list, Chain Reaction was actually an excellent movie — as most movies with Morgan Freeman are (but not Deep Impact).

Did anybody mention The China Syndrome? Even though that movie almost single-handedly destroyed our nuclear industry, it wasn’t a bad movie.

And speaking of Deep Impact, how about the GOOD asteroid movie, “Armegeddon”? Does that deserve to be on a top 50 list? I think moreso than Starship Troopers.

Or maybe movies like Armegeddon don’t count as science fiction, because they are supposed to represent a plausible near-term reality, kind of like “The Astronaut Farmer” and “Space Cowboys”.