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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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You may not like the order given.................
1 posted on 12/23/2024 12:46:02 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Looked through the list... clearly copied and pasted in random order.


2 posted on 12/23/2024 12:48:28 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Red Badger

1st Star Wars before the prequels

All but the first Star Trek movies, plus Star Trek 2009 reboot movies


3 posted on 12/23/2024 12:52:29 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: Red Badger

Earth Versus the Flying Saucers better be on there.


4 posted on 12/23/2024 12:57:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve never been a big far of Sci-Fi. Counting the first three Star Wars films as Sci-Fi the only four I’ve ever liked were those three plus War of the Worlds. Actually....I just remembered Terminator II.


5 posted on 12/23/2024 12:57:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Red Badger

Seriously though, I doubt if there are 100 science fiction movies of any significant merit, let alone “the best”.


6 posted on 12/23/2024 12:58:13 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger
Forbidden Planet at 91?!

Snort.

7 posted on 12/23/2024 1:00:23 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mairdie
The first Star Trek movie was the only SciFi movie of the franchise. The rest were space operas. Star Wars is basically just fantasy.

2001, The Arrival, Contact, The Time Machine...those were real SciFi movies.

8 posted on 12/23/2024 1:02:24 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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To: BenLurkin
No Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, either.
9 posted on 12/23/2024 1:03:04 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Red Badger

Where is Robot Monster and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?


10 posted on 12/23/2024 1:03:59 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: BenLurkin

BTW, Kilauea is erupting. :-)


11 posted on 12/23/2024 1:04:28 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

This list can’t be real with that one.


12 posted on 12/23/2024 1:04:45 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Red Badger

No Plan Nine From Outer Space? Come on, I thought these guys were serious.


13 posted on 12/23/2024 1:05:05 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

No Buckaroo Banzai?


14 posted on 12/23/2024 1:05:27 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: mewzilla

Blade Runner should be #1 and Forbidden Planet is top ten. The Thing (Carpenter) and Dark City are also top 10.


15 posted on 12/23/2024 1:05:55 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

How seriously can you take such a list when it doesn’t include The Stepford Wives?


16 posted on 12/23/2024 1:07:23 PM PST by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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To: BenLurkin
Earth Versus the Flying Saucers better be on there.

I don't click links either, but I hope "This Island Earth" is on there, too. Same era, but in color.

"Now that you've successfully constructed the Interocitor, are you not charmed by my well tanned visage?"


17 posted on 12/23/2024 1:07:45 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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To: Red Badger

Science Fiction was always one of my favorites and I gre up on really bad science fiction. Back when I was young, there was no all night TV.

One channel was all you got after 1 AM on Sat and it was always some bad science fiction movie and you had to like it or else.

Just remembered another old favorite The Mole People.

Anyway, I grew to rally love these movies even though today I can see them for what they were, they still have a special place in my heart.


18 posted on 12/23/2024 1:07:55 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Sirius Lee

We called it Star Trek, the Motionless Picture.

Star Trek - Between a Laugh and a Tear - John Cougar Mellancamp
https://youtu.be/RBb9RI9NSN0


19 posted on 12/23/2024 1:08:10 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: scouter

Or “E.T” and “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind”?!


20 posted on 12/23/2024 1:08:35 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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