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107 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time Ranked
LOOPER.com ^ | September 25, 2024 | DYLAN ROTH and LEO NOBORU LIMA

Posted on 12/23/2024 12:46:02 PM PST by Red Badger

In the words of one great work of science fiction, "The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity, and the ways our differences combine to create meaning and beauty." Sci-fi itself is a genre that contains multitudes — space opera, time travel, dystopia, cyberpunk, apocalypse and post-apocalypse, just to name a few. Sci-fi has been the domain of Hollywood blockbusters and independent art films, presented as comedy and drama, used to paint bright futures or portents of doom. 

On this list, you'll find permutations of every sort, spread across a variety of decades, countries, and languages. While entries on our list date back as far as 1927, we must confess a preference for the new — nearly half of the entries on our list were made in this century, as digital filmmaking and effects have lowered the barrier for producing quality sci-fi and allowed more storytellers to project their bold imaginings.

Read More: https://www.looper.com/477368/best-sci-fi-movies-all-time/

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Science; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: movies; scifi; scifimovies
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To: Red Badger

Wait a minute!@##$$#@! I didn’t see The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Sheesh!


61 posted on 12/23/2024 1:43:20 PM PST by BullwinkleMoose
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To: mewzilla

I put Forbidden Planet in the top ten. Absolutely


62 posted on 12/23/2024 1:44:37 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would fhave to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Read something a while back where it was said Kubrick and Clarke sort of made it up as they went along. The book did not exist until the movie was finished.


63 posted on 12/23/2024 1:45:39 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: pgyanke

Without looking at the list I thought Alien should be number one. The Day the Earth Stood Still should be in the top 10.


64 posted on 12/23/2024 1:46:48 PM PST by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Red Badger

Saturn 3 with Kirk Douglas and Farah Fawcett. Awesome!


65 posted on 12/23/2024 1:47:45 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: PIF

Thanks for printing the list. The link was a mess and locked up my computer. I’d say only about 15 of those would be on my list. I would have included The Time Machine, both versions of The War of the Worlds, Target Earth, The Attack of the Crab Monsters, and a few others.


66 posted on 12/23/2024 1:48:00 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Red Badger

terrible list, half of which were not even sci fi


67 posted on 12/23/2024 1:50:39 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Steve_Seattle

No Jules Verne stuff, either - especially 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.


68 posted on 12/23/2024 1:52:35 PM PST by abb
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To: Sirius Lee
The first Star Trek movie was the only SciFi movie of the franchise. The rest were space operas. Star Wars is basically just fantasy.

Wall-E was basically an informercial for the envirowhacos.

69 posted on 12/23/2024 1:52:55 PM PST by pfflier
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To: doorgunner69

I have around 6 bays of floor to ceiling books of scifi. Never could get into the movies other than Star Wars and Star Trek.

Star Wars - Rest Stop - Julia Ecklar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsnQiObWmP8

Star Wars - One Step Forward - Desert Rose Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqddcPRv6AE

XMAS - Star Wars - Baby It’s Cold Outside - Dean Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkyCww1LLYs

XMAS - Star Wars - See Amid the Winter’s Snow - Annie Lennox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K7ov-jFl2Q

Star Wars - Just As I Am - Air Supply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBrnP9hjxo

Star Wars - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhwfKblnnss


70 posted on 12/23/2024 1:55:22 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: mewzilla

Ditto.


71 posted on 12/23/2024 1:56:38 PM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: Red Badger
Saw "Alien" in the theater when it first opened - never saw a thriller that had me jumping and squirming like that one. Before or since.

Agree with Alien as No. 1.

72 posted on 12/23/2024 2:00:38 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Red Badger

No “Fifth Element”. Bogus list.


73 posted on 12/23/2024 2:03:22 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger
The 1960 version of The Time Machine scared the absolute crap out of me when I was 12 years old baby sitting at the neighbors late at night.

When Rod Taylor went underground to rescue Weena I was quite literally shaking in terror.

Good times, but apparently only made it to number 108.

74 posted on 12/23/2024 2:03:46 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Harpazo imminent. Each post may be my last. It's been real =)
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To: HYPOCRACY
I'm a fan of the original The Thing from Another World.

The remake is true to the short story by Campbell, but I still prefer the original.

75 posted on 12/23/2024 2:06:40 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Red Badger
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) is better than a 58 ranking. But 2001:A space Odyssey is my #1. Very serene, poetic like...without the typical Hollywood distractions...
76 posted on 12/23/2024 2:08:43 PM PST by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: Red Badger

“To God, there is no zero. I still exist!”

Incredible Shrinking Man.


77 posted on 12/23/2024 2:08:51 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: BenLurkin

Agreed1 Along with the other 1950s Ray Harryhausen great monster films!


78 posted on 12/23/2024 2:17:35 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Red Badger

Not a fan of cartoon, comedies and comic books as SciFi


79 posted on 12/23/2024 2:22:23 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: abb

Like

80 posted on 12/23/2024 2:22:41 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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