What Is Your favorite Sci Fi Flick?

[Guest Chrysee]

Can't believe this hasn't been done. Of course if it has then I can't believe that i couldn't find it.

My top 3:

Blade Runner

Dark City

Metropolis

[Guest Jo-88]

New Battlestar Galactica (I know its not a movie, its a series, but it is the bomb)

Blade Runner

District 9

[Guest LizMarie]

Star Wars, Episode IV (first movie)

The Wrath of Khan

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But there are so many I like that choosing just three was hard. Blade Runner was amazing. Terminator, Alien, The Matrix (original not the sequels), Star Trek (the 2009 reboot), Back To The Future (original), The Final Countdown, Mad Max, 2001, The Andromeda Strain... just so many good ones over the years.

[Guest Chrissy6455]

Serenity - (Also the Firefly Series)

Aliens

Star Wars

[Cyndee]

Fantastic Voyage

Dune

All star wars, star trek (especially 2nd movie Wrath of Khan)

[Sally]

If I was to list only one it would have to be The Day The Earth Stood Still- the original 1951 version.

Closely after it would be:

Forbidden Planet

The Thing - Original 1951

2001: A Space Odyssey

Star Wars IV (A New Hope)

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That is the short list.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest KimberlyF]

Brazil.

[Guest Luuceee]

Star Wars for me, im a massive Star Wars geek.

[Guest Sarah1967]

1 - Star Trek 2009

2 - Star Wars

3 - Time Rider (The Adventures of Lyle Swan)

4 - Inpendence Day

[Carolyn Marie]

Oh, my. Hard to choose! Not necessarily in order:

Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Alien

Blade Runner

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

The Terminator

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Carolyn Marie

[Guest KimberlyF]

Dune

I've never seen this but I have a bunch of friends on another board who picked this as the worst movie ever. Even Sting's hot body couldn't save it. And they loved the books.

Now I'm confused because 1)I don't think Sting has a hot body and 2)the overall reviews on IMDB are like 6.5 out of 10. Don't know who to believe. But since I haven't come across it yet and it came out in '84 maybe I won't have to make that decision?

[Guest]

Mine is the movie "Splice". The two science geeks produce an alien clone that unbeknown to them is both male and female. (Why would this ever appeal to me? Giggle.) As the baby grows up through childhood to adolescence to a young apparently female, she gets more out of control. She seduces the male geek and this causes the first dangerous conflict and then with him out of the way she seduces the female geek and gets her pregnant. Cool stuff!

Hhmmm... maybe that's how I got here. LOL. Jody

[Guest Chrysee]

Wow, where do I begin to comment?

Okay, B.S.G. was only a t.v. series, but come on. Yes, it was 'the bomb'. And the fact that a 'local girl made good' was one of the stars doesn't hurt!

Dune. Okay, maybe this well help a few of you: forget the De Laurentis nightmare and rent the Sci Fi channel version. Then, rent the Sci Fi sequel (Children of Dune.)

I mean wouldn't you love to see Susan Sarandon doing a sci fi flick? I'm referring to Children of Dune, by the way.

This was of course before Sci Fi became Sy Fy (Siffy?) and started airing wrestling.

Grrrr!!!!!!

Avatar. That would have been the fourth on my list, followed by Inception.

The Alien films. The first one was amazing but then it was Ridley Scott just prior to Blade Runner. As to the three others, there have been things that I loved and disliked about each of them. And if I may, I have always though that Alien-vs.-Predator was a nitwit notion, even when it was just a comic book. The movies only made it worse.

Jody. Okay, you owed me a laugh and a moment ago I was the one on the floor convulsing. Never heard of the film, but it is now a must see for me.

Star Trek. I'm ashamed to have to ask, but which one ended with the young guy and the young woman becoming one in a column of light? (And please don't tell Lacey Lynn that I had to ask as she admires my knowledge of all things Trek.)

Chrissy. Oh my. We seem to share not only a name but similar taste in this category.

Chrysee's/Chrissy's of the World Unite

Brazil. Wow, didn't see that coming. Terry Gilliam's the man! I do love his films.

Smart choice!!

Gotta Go, I've got Anunnaki religious freaks at my door. (I so hate it when they drag their kids along!)

[Guest Amberley_Vail]

Aliens.

Can you tell =P

After that Id say

Battlestar Galactica [ <3 Boomer! & The Chief!]

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and The Matrix

[Cyndee]

Dune

I've never seen this but I have a bunch of friends on another board who picked this as the worst movie ever. Even Sting's hot body couldn't save it. And they loved the books.

Now I'm confused because 1)I don't think Sting has a hot body and 2)the overall reviews on IMDB are like 6.5 out of 10. Don't know who to believe. But since I haven't come across it yet and it came out in '84 maybe I won't have to make that decision?

I liked the movie Kim, it's so 80's and it's kinda an art form, it's the spice girl...., I'm glad this jarred a comment, the book was good

Just like Fantastic Voyage was so 60's....

[Guest Jo-88]

I liked Dune as well but I enjoyed Dune 2000 (the remake mini series) much more... it just seemed more complete and more striking. Also I second the firefly series... still cant believe that got canceled after only one season, such a shame. Someone mentioned avatar to, I liked avatar but I liked it for different reasons, I think as a CG technical expose it shook the cinema world but I found the plot too weak and too "cookie cutter" to really be one of the greats. And of course alien and aliens were both awesome, by the way here is a bit of trivia... did you know that it was hinted that firefly takes place in the same universe as alien, predator, and prometheus? Its really just an easter egg from joss whedon but in the pilot episode of firefly the weyland yutani corporation logo is visible on some of the equipment

[Carolyn Marie]

Star Trek. I'm ashamed to have to ask, but which one ended with the young guy and the young woman becoming one in a column of light? (And please don't tell Lacey Lynn that I had to ask as she admires my knowledge of all things Trek.)

That would be the first, "Star Trek, The Movie." It was awesome to see the new and improved Enterprise and all the crew after so many years. But for me the film was a disappointment. Watching grass grow is more exciting than the action in that movie. "V-ger" Ugh!

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Chrysee]

H.G. Welles 'Things to Come' anyone?

[Guest MsGsptlsnz]

Dune

I've never seen this but I have a bunch of friends on another board who picked this as the worst movie ever. Even Sting's hot body couldn't save it. And they loved the books.

Now I'm confused because 1)I don't think Sting has a hot body and 2)the overall reviews on IMDB are like 6.5 out of 10. Don't know who to believe. But since I haven't come across it yet and it came out in '84 maybe I won't have to make that decision?

I tried to watch the movie and I hated it. But I hadn't read the books. My freinds who read the books first liked the movie. I think there is something to that. The books may have been good and with them in your head you knew where things were going so the movie could be enjoyed. However without any idea of what was going on all you had was Sting, some psycho pulling plugs out of peoples chests and that wicked weird cat thing that when milked kept the brainiac guy alive. Otherwise I had no idea what was happening.

[Guest MsGsptlsnz]

Well, lets see. I think the best way to tell if I loved a movie was if I made a costume for a convention.

First place has got to be Babylon Five. Five year series, several movies and a run of comic books. I made myself a Centauri costume, male, I was Prass Cotto, fourth cousin of Vir Cotto! YOu see, his fathers, fathers, fathers, father was my fathers, fathers, fathers. fathers brother! His star is rising and with it ours as well! I actualy had two differant costumes for this one. I started off with a green revolutionary war style jacket and black pirate pants. The second one was a royal blue long coat that looked much better and a better pair of pirate pants. I loved that outfit. The hair absorbed the first five shots of Klingon Blood Wine so I could keep up with the Clan that adopted me. Of course I had to drink until I was "one with my inner self". Such a burden.

Second place goes to Battlestar Galactica. I amde myself a Flight Deck Worker suit. YOu know, the orange jump suit with yellow reflective stripes down the side. I even got the right kind of underwear, boker breifs with that wife beater shirt. It worked great. At the time I had a bad limp from the kidneys not getting all the bad stuff out so I used a cane and it worked great.

Third place goes to Star Trek, I made a Klingon costume that was pretty good concidering I was broke. I had the latex head peice, long hair down the back and lots of brown makeup to blend it. The suit was made from light fabric and foam instead of leather and steel but it was easier to walk around all day.

I've also done a classic Adam West Batman outfit, met a guy dressed as the Joker and that was a fun weekend.

Ah, the days of being young and able to drink to excess....

[Guest]

H.G. Welles 'Things to Come' anyone?

I'll bring the popcorn. Giggle. Jody

[Guest Chrysee]

H.G. Welles 'Things to Come' anyone?

I'll bring the popcorn. Giggle. Jody

With butter?

I'll bring Milk Duds. Long lastin' movie candy!

And Starbucks! Cups and cups of it!

[JJ]

Every time I see this topic I think I need to reply because I'm a lifelong sci-fi geek - I got hooked back in the "Forbidden Planet" "20,000 Leagues" days. But I just can't choose favorites because they are all so different.How to judge?

Guess I'll always be a Star Trek fan though some of the movies weren't great. I still liked most of them. Nemesis is my least favorite.

Thought Dune was off somehow-mostly Kyle MacLachlan's performance maybe? And speaking of bad-even the Queen music couldn't redeem Flash Gordon which wasn't really sci-fi anyway in my book. More pure camp

Just too many movies and each different -can't pick a favorite

Johnny

[Guest Chrysee]

Every time I see this topic I think I need to reply because I'm a lifelong sci-fi geek - I got hooked back in the "Forbidden Planet" "20,000 Leagues" days. But I just can't choose favorites because they are all so different.How to judge?

Guess I'll always be a Star Trek fan though some of the movies weren't great. I still liked most of them. Nemesis is my least favorite.

Thought Dune was off somehow-mostly Kyle MacLachlan's performance maybe? And speaking of bad-even the Queen music couldn't redeem Flash Gordon which wasn't really sci-fi anyway in my book. More pure camp

Just too many movies and each different -can't pick a favorite

Johnny

Oh my Gosh! I completely forgot 20,000 Leagues. When I was five I used to cart a hardback copy of the book around with me as I was in love with the cover illustration. Then, of course, came the Disney film. Now I grew up on an island in the biggest Naval installation on the Eastern Seaboard and saw ships coming and going and soooo longed to ride in a sub. Here in Portland at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) is tied up a sub that was used in the filming of The Hunt for Red October. Of course it's much more modern than anything that Vern ever conceived. A flat Zero on the Steampunk scale.

But still, boarding her after soo many years was marvellous.

There have been several 20,000 remakes and even with better film technology they were both dreadful. Hollywood's idea of 'steam' comes from putting a man and a woman together and bringing them to a boil. So each of the two remakes just had to add a girl for Ned Land and Nemo to go to daggers drawn over.

Well I'm sorry, but one thing that Welles and Verne shared was a thorough disinterest in writing about women. They saved their interest in women for those times when they weren't writing.

Both of them were prize pigs in that regard!

And if the movie moguls felt that love was lacking in the story. . .let's see.

There was Ned Land's love of the sea and Arronax's love of knowledge (which nearly caused him to exit the world permanently and sign on with Nemo ad infinitum. Countering Arronax's loss of sound judgement was Conseil's love of Arronax. And no there was nothing 'R' rated about it. Conseil was merely a devoted servant who so highly respected his boss and was willing to put everything on the line to haul him bank from the brink of insanity.

And then there's Nemo, who shared Land's love of the sea as well as Prof. Arronox's worship of knowledge. However, he was most in love with a sort of freedom that could only be found by creating (and ruling) a world of his own creation, far away from the madness above.

Whew! I know, I know. . .I talk too much.

Thanks Johnny, for the reminder.

With Love,

Chrysalis P. Sartorious

[Guest]

Zardoz is sexy, that's a Sean Connery oldie. Makes me think they maybe transgendered. Giggle

What's the one with Bruce Durn as the gardener on the space station with the three robots. In the end he saves the garden and blows himself up?

Every time I get turned down for a job I think of Gattica. Frown. just more Jody,