[COBOL2Java]

I am surprised that no one has tried to screw up one of my all time favorites with a remake: Forbidden Planet.

One of my favorites as well! My list:

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• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. I love the dialogue where Spock tries to learn cuss words.
• Blade Runner. The scene where the replicant realizes that her memories of her mother are implants still makes me shudder.
• The Fifth Element. I just happen to enjoy Luc Besson's movies. I think this one is a visual masterpiece.
• Back to the Future. All three episodes are wonderful, but III is my favorite of the trilogy.
• Planet of the Apes. The first one, not any of the sequels! The ending, where he discovers the half-buried Statue of Liberty (wonderfully spoofed, BTW, by Mel Brooks in "Spaceballs") is truly great.
• Forbidden Planet. The creature was from his subconscious mind!
• Mars Attacks. OK, not a "true" Science Fiction movie, but one that my daughter and I can watch together and thoroughly enjoy. "Ack Ack Ack!"
• The Lathe of Heaven. A movie made in the 70's from a novel of the same name by Ursula LeGuin. I had read the novel before I saw the movie. Both excellent.
• Invaders from Mars. I first saw this 1953 movie when I was a child, and it scared the Bejeezus out of me. Implants in the back of the head? And that creature in the globe!
• X Men: The Movie. I enjoyed all of them.

[Army Air Corps]

Blade Runner is on my list of best films, period. The combination of the cinematography and the score by Vangelis is hypnotic.

[Soliton]

Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still
War of the Worlds
Robinson Caruso on Mars
Fantastic Voyage
ET
Starman

[LRS]

“Invaders from Mars. I first saw this 1953 movie when I was a child, and it scared the Bejeezus out of me. Implants in the back of the head? And that creature in the globe!”

That one gave me nightmares when I was young. Another one that scared me to death as a child was Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. I first saw the previews at the drive in, and it scared me so bad my parents refused to take me to see the movie!

[Prokopton]

The Lathe of Heaven

The original BBC film was superb, a true classic. Not so the A&E remake.

[Riverman94610]

YES,the original Invaders from Mars!
I don’t think I have ever seen as scary a scene in a movie as when the father comes back from the sand pit and sits down in the living room.His son walks behind him and sees the X carved on his neck.
I get chills just writing about it.