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

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[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.

[PLMerite]

I’ve seen 44 of them.

“Them!” and “The Thing From Another World” are missing. Probably several more if I could get my thoughts together this late at night.

[staytrue]

I am not sure why they chose gattaca for the name, but the letters do form the dna base pairs, at, gc, adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine.

maybe gattaca is a specific gene.

[mylife]

Has anyone seen Sam Lowrey?

[mylife]

It is about oppressing freedom.

[mylife]

‘er I am JR...
The Ghost in the machine”

So many memorable lines in that film.

Definitely disturbing.

[ApplegateRanch]

37

[Sarajevo]

Ack ack ack ack ack

HAH! LOL! ;)

[radiohead]

I saw ‘Cube.’ Freaky & scary.

I’ve seen 40 of the films. Not bad. I remember ‘Invaders from Mars’ scared the heck out of me with the quick sand thing.

[Vanders9]

True enough. I’ve seen 34 (although there are one or two, like “Avatar” that I wish I hadnt).

[Bender2]

Of the 50, I have not nor have any interest in seeing Akira, Cloverfield or Dark City while with Children of Men, A Clockwork Orange and Inception, I started watching them, but they did not hold my interest enough to finish.

Of the Science Fiction Films of the 50s, these came out during my childhood (3 to 13 years old) and I can say I saw all of them and of these, Them, The Thing from Another World, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet and War of the Worlds stand the test of time as being among the best Sci-Fi films every made even with their special effects being no where near the CGI standard of today. They had plots, something seldom found in Sci-Fi flicks current produced.

Plus, 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon made a man of me in my seventh year as I fell completely, totally in love with Julia Adams... and am still of that affection 59 years later today.

And while Plan 9 from Outer Space is touted as the worse Sci-Fi film ever made, it caused 1994's Ed Wood to be filmed and that makes it aces with me as Johnny Depp nailed Ed Wood's character and Martin Landau's Bela Lugosi is superb.

[Organic Panic]

There are a couple real stinkers there. AI was one of the worst movies I’ve sat through. Children of Men was hardly better.

Otherwise 44

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Add hitchhikers guide to ur list. :)

[hattend]

42

Favorites: When Worlds Collide, RoboCop, Total Recall, Terminator and T2, Silent Running (Yeah, I know...but I still liked it), Planet of the Apes, Matrix, Forbidden Planet, Alien and Aliens, Alien Nation

If any of the above come on TV, I’ll stop and watch them.

[exDemMom]

That site is fascinating.

The author writes from a physics background. While I pick up on some of the more obvious physics flaws in movies, my background is in life sciences, so I tend to really notice those flaws.

Like in the X-Men movies, where people have super-human powers because they are mutants. Really? None of their “powers” are even biologically possible. Plus, a single mutation isn’t likely to cause much of an effect at all. We all have about 200 mutations in our DNA that our parents didn’t have, and, to my knowledge, those mutations have given no one any superpowers.

[RegulatorCountry]

It went from this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnx95KyQEAA

and the beautiful dream sequences, slowly, almost imperceptably into total, oppressive control, a terrifying edifice controlled by banal little men.

It’s hard to pinpoint just where the movie went from a sort of hilarious sendup of bureaucracy straight into hell, but it does and it’s startling to have been lulled along, much like like the rise of totalitarian states in reality, no doubt.

Those dream sequences owe a great deal to the aforementioned Barbarella, by the way, I’d forgotten how much they resemble, one sixties psychedelic camp, one eighties Blade-Runnerish dark dystopia.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I’ve seen 48 of the 50. But then I’ve been a Sci-Fi freak from an early age.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Only 14 for me. It wasn’t much of a list (no LEXX, for instance), and I generally refuse to see a movie, SF or not, if I have read the book. Those pictures almost never match the ones I make in my head while reading the story.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I’ve seen it. Odd one that.

[mylife]

Excellent synopsis.

I truly feel like we are living this film.
All Tyranny starts with lies and slow acceptance.

[big'ol_freeper]

I’ve only seen 41 of the 50. I’m ok with that.

I’m sure I could add to the list significantly if it weren’t 0730, but The Fifth Element should be on the list as well as Mars Attacks.