50 Must-See Science Fiction Movies (how many have you seen?)

List Challenges ^

[EveningStar]

There are so many amazing science fiction movies that it's hard to include all the greats in a list of 50. It may not be the same 50 you'd pick, but I hope you enjoy this list of must-sees.

How many have you seen? Click items to mark as completed.

[BenLurkin]

Saw Brazil at the theater. Asked for my money back when it was over — and the sobs refused.

Just how early into a lousy movie do you have to leave to keep from getting ripped off?

[EEGator]

The books were far better.

[yarddog]

Jules Verne’s books are very readable. I guess they were written in French so I maybe the credit should go to the translator.

Whatever they are really good.

[skinkinthegrass]

So that’s a ‘no’ on joining the
Sharknado ping list, then?...Not just no..HELL NO! :-)...

[DManA]

No accounting for taste.

[MarkL]

It’s one of the few Sci-Fi movies that isn’t Cowboys in Space.

HEY!!! Firefly was a "Sci-Fi Western!" And it was the best TV series in the history of EVERYTHING!!!!

Mark

[Rodamala]

Totally agree on Event Horizon... still... it has cues (as many sci-fi horror films do) from the original Alien. I believe Alien is easily a top 3 science fiction movie... right behind An Inconvenient Truth.

[DManA]

Bang bang - I mean zap zap.

[MarkL]

can’t wait for the sequel! The scene of the shark with the guy who had a chainsaw ROCKED!

Hopefully the casting director will never work again... The “parents” and the “children” were all about the same age!

Mark

[Vince Ferrer]

Concur. A bit slow, but still a good statement about where the world might end up.

It is slow paced, but there is a lot going on in that film. It is a film about ideas, where most sci fi today is about special effects. I think this is one of the most emotional scenes I have ever seen. The film takes a long time getting here, but when it does, all the emotion is earned.

Gattaca - Final Scene

[catfish1957]

Seen 38 of them. Crosschecking to see how many of the 12 I missed are on Netflix.

[Stonewall Jackson]

I’m at 44.

[BenLurkin]

I thought Cloverfield was pretty good.

But then after watching many a Japanese giant monster movie as a kids I always wondered what it was like for the people in the cities that got smashed.

the original Godzilla is about the only one that ever bothered to address the subject on a human level.

And then along came Cloverfield.

This fan video captures the atmosphere very well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okyVSvYeu8

But Top 50? Probably not.

[Kartographer]

You couldn't tell what was going on half the time and I never could connect nor care about any of the characters. In fact they were so bad I wonder if by killing them the monster wasn't doing us all a favor.

Lastly the complete and utter stupidity of the fact that no modern weapons could stop the monster. What did the law of physics suddenly change? What creature could shake off multiple hits with weapons that can do this to steel and concrete?

[null and void]

[Rodamala]

Should be on list:

[Ransomed]

Yup, Wall-E was one of the best sci-fi stories as far as movies go in many a year, at least in my opinion.

This looks like a mix of classics and drek. Probably a shorter but more interesting thread would be a list of 50 sci-fi books.

Freegards

[MarkL]

Saw Brazil at the theater. Asked for my money back when it was over

It's amazing how people see things like this differently. I was am so thrilled that I saw "Brazil" in a big theater, with a big screen and great sound. It was the most visually stunning movie I had ever seen. I still enjoy it, but it loses so much on the small screen. And I thought it was brilliant.

Mark

[Kartographer]

Brown Coats do it SHINEY!!

[Rodamala]

I too did not care for the characters... superficial millenial types as I recall.