Favorite Sci Fi movie

[classical]

What is your favorite Sci Fi movie it can have John Wayne in it if you know of one.

Them
The three original Star Wars movies.
The Omega Man
Aliens

[markettech]

Close Encounters of The Third Kind

[RoBoTeq]

Bladerunner
Alien
Pitch Black
Critters (all 4)
Stargate
The Grand Tour

I just like Sci-Fi movies:p

[bootlen]

Alien
Close Encounters
Planet of the Apes (should'a stopped with the first one)
The Abyss
Men in Black
I, Robot

[markettech]

Oh yeah MIB.........I forgot about that one.

Great movie

[classical]

The Abyss especially the Directors cut outstanding!

I like I Robot a lot.

[RoBoTeq]

The Abyss especially the Directors cut outstanding!

I like I Robot a lot.

I can't believe they did not show the extended alien scene in the original movie. The alien's perception of and intent for humans explained a lot of questions about the theatrical version.

I liked I Robot but don't really see it being one of the greats in Sci-Fi.

[ryan_the_furnace_guy]

Close Encounters of the Hooker Kind

[contactor]

An old one I seen 35+ yrs ago when I was a kid and Im still looking for. A meteor crashed and started growing tall, it would crash down and all the pieces would grow and crash down..... etc. The rocks over came these farms and small towns and such and at the end as they were getting in the city and the people were trying to figure out how to stop them to no avail, the rain stopped and they quit growing. Anyone ever see that one?

[Tool-Slinger]

POSSOMS!!!!!!

No- wait, I think it was ''CRITTERS''.

No matter, same damm thing, just show-up with as much fire-power as you can and blast the evil suckers until you get them all!

BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!! BANG!!

I love my little swampy forrest, I should probably get out miore often.....

[The Doctor]

Terminator and Terminator II:Judgment Day

If I had to pick one of those two, it'd be the second one.

[hvacmd2002]

I also liked the Abyss

and an oldie but goodie....

War of the Worlds...the 1st one.

I know it's outdated, but I still enjoy it

[whec720]

War of the Worlds...the 1st one.

I know it's outdated, but I still enjoy it

Another oldie but goody......Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[1972torino]

This is what you are talking about
http://imdb.com/title/tt0050720/
You can get it off ebay
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=The+Monolith+Monsters+&category0=

[scrogdog]

The Day the Earth Stood Still

2001: A Space Oddessy

The Matrix

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Forbidden Planet

The Time Machine

[coolwhip]

Silent Running
Outland
Blade Runner
The Thing
The Time Machine
Preditor
The Matrix
Brazil
The Day The Earth Stood Still
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
Forbidden Planet
Fantastic Voyage
Loguns Run
Dune

Just some of my favorites.:)

[classical]

Oh Yeah Forbidden Planet (Honey West) Anne Francis ushered in the Micro Mini.

The original Time Machine is great I have seen it dozens of times.

Blade Runner excellent film.

The Terminator series very good the Aliens scenes in the Abyss were the prelude to the technology to do the second Terminator film.

Most Sci Fi remakes are not very good but the Time Machine remake was decent.

[contactor]

This is what you are talking about
http://imdb.com/title/tt0050720/
You can get it off ebay
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=The+Monolith+Monsters+&category0=


THANX Torino ! Yep, thats the one "Monolith Monsters". Thanx for the web link too. I love those old cheesy 50's & 60's Sci-Fi's.

[classical]

THANX Torino ! Yep, thats the one "Monolith Monsters". Thanx for the web link too. I love those old cheesy 50's & 60's Sci-Fi's.

Then you must really like day of the Triffids.

[the mojo]

The Predator with Arnold
Although Predator II with Danny is almost as good.

[lawrencep]

20,000 leagues under the sea
Fifth Element
Forbidden planet
Men in black
Jeepers creepers 2
Armageddon

[whec720]

Outland......great pick, coolwhip! Sean Connery was great in that movie. Not many people know about this one. Well worth taking the time to find and watch. It is science fiction with some western mixed in. Cool flick.:)

[RoBoTeq]

Another oldie but goody......Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

The fifties version and the second one with Donald Sutherland were both good.

[RoBoTeq]

The Day the Earth Stood Still

2001: A Space Oddessy

The Matrix

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Forbidden Planet

The Time Machine

I can't believe I forgot The Matrix. I saw this seven times in theaters by dragging whoever I could to the movies with me.

A few others I forgot with critters in them are Deep Rising and Tremors (again, all of them)

[RoBoTeq]

Outland......great pick, coolwhip! Sean Connery was great in that movie. Not many people know about this one. Well worth taking the time to find and watch. It is science fiction with some western mixed in. Cool flick.:)

Absolutely a good one. Basically High Noon in outer space.

I keep seeing more good ones I have enjoyed posted by others. Sci-Fi is definitely my favorite movie genre with the action ones leading the thinking ones.

Some of the ones that make us think are;

Andromeda Strain
Gattaca

[DeltaT]

The Thing. James Arness played the thing. I've never looked at heating blankets the same since that movie.

The day the earth stood still. My buddies father was the cop that slid his Harley sideways on 15th Street in DC during the filming.

[RoBoTeq]

The Thing. James Arness played the thing. I've never looked at heating blankets the same since that movie.

The day the earth stood still. My buddies father was the cop that slid his Harley sideways on 15th Street in DC during the filming.

Ahhh, the original Thing with an unrecognizable James Arness as well as the very well done remake with Kurt Russel. Both great movies showing what mankind just might be doing to louse up our future.

Another one with a remake along this line is The Blob. Again, both versions are good in their own way.

[DeltaT]

"Another one with a remake along this line is The Blob. Again, both versions are good in their own way."

That was the green blob. I remember sitting on a saturday afternoon double feature - for 15 cents or so -- and watching as the guy returned from space, turned into a green blob and squeazed under doors. LAME, I thought.

A few years later that squeezie stuff came out for kids called slime or something. I still think it was a Martian plot to take over the earth that failed. But they have regrouped, come back and now call themselves nate. ;)

[whec720]

Absolutely a good one. Basically High Noon in outer space.

I keep seeing more good ones I have enjoyed posted by others. Sci-Fi is definitely my favorite movie genre with the action ones leading the thinking ones.

Some of the ones that make us think are;

Andromeda Strain
Gattaca

Add Soylent Green to that list.

[RoBoTeq]

"Another one with a remake along this line is The Blob. Again, both versions are good in their own way."

That was the green blob. I remember sitting on a saturday afternoon double feature - for 15 cents or so -- and watching as the guy returned from space, turned into a green blob and squeazed under doors. LAME, I thought.

A few years later that squeezie stuff came out for kids called slime or something. I still think it was a Martian plot to take over the earth that failed. But they have regrouped, come back and now call themselves nate. ;)

You may be mixing up some movies here. The Blob (original) was red. It did come from outer space and was only diffused of it's power to ooze when it was frozen.

The remake may have had green Blob but it was not a man.

[RoBoTeq]

Add Soylent Green to that list.

You betcha. Soylent Green is people!!!!

[bootlen]

Yep. Two greats...
Andromeda Strain and Soylent Green

[DeltaT]

You may be mixing up some movies here. The Blob (original) was red. It did come from outer space and was only diffused of it's power to ooze when it was frozen.

The remake may have had green Blob but it was not a man.

I donot. I saw all the orginals cause that is what all us kids did on Saturday. Maybe the same movie but red was not a popular color in DC during the 40 & 50's so them may have changed the color to green just for us.

Get it -- red-- that's a joke. Think MaCarthy.

[scrogdog]

I can't believe I forgot The Matrix.

Yep, I can't say enough about it, actually. The most original idea to come down the pike in some time.

As for Outland, it was enjoyable from a "High Noon" standpoint, but as science fiction I thought it failed miserably. Let's see, explosive decompression could kill us at anytime. Now here's an idea; let's carry shotguns! :rolleyes:

:)

[jayhawker]

Mad Max
West World
Deep Impact
Robocop
Total Recall

[Airmechanical]

seen the matrix bout 100 times

seen pitch black bout 50 times

it aint science fiction but crimson tide is one of my favorite!



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[secorp]

I have never seen a bad SCI FI movie, I love them all.

That one with Arnold on Mars, I forget the name it was a good one, oh ya Total Recall.:D
July 4th
Sky Captain "and the world of tomorrow"




more recent....
Chronicles of Riddick
War of the worlds remake
Serenity

so freaking many more.....

[bja105]

Total recall
Star Trek 2, 3, and 6
The BBC version of HitchHiker's Guide to the Gallaxy

[classical]

I am with you Secorp hard to not like a Sci Fi flic.

All that have been mentioned are great movies.

Here are some that I remember from childhood but only parts maybe someone will remember them.

First one was about a Japanese sub that flew and I can't remember much else maybe went through rock.

The next one all I can remember that people were forced through pipes like at a refinery and blood seeping out of the pipes.

Then there was the great one with Abbott and Costello on Mars with the Amazon women.

There are any number of 50's space movies that were very campy but a lot of fun to watch.

[chaard]

Runaway. 1984

Written and directed by Michael Crichton.
Starrred Tom Seleck and Gene Simmons. A mad man(guess who) turns ordinary household robots against their owners. There are bullets that turn corners. Robot spiders with poisoned needles. Great movie. Saw it twice in a row at the theatres when I was 11.

[dcx516]

soylent green (is people)
equilibrium
A boy and his dog
planet of the apes

[RoBoTeq]

soylent green (is people)
equilibrium
A boy and his dog
planet of the apes

Oh jeez, A Boy and His Dog; was that ever a quirky movie. That movie set the pace for the after the apocolypse movies such as Mad Max.

[secorp]

Pre hair on my nad's days, I remember Ultra Man, every week after school around 4 PM.

Green Hornet, Spider Man, and Batman were also after school treats.

[allan38]

If you're looking for a space western try the TV series "Firefly"
The whole series is available on DVD as a set.
Good stuff.

I like long SF stories. The longest I found was the TV series Babylon 5.
Most SF series are a bunch of small disconnected tales.
The Babylon 5 series is an epic tale told over 5 years.

[RoBoTeq]

If you're looking for a space western try the TV series "Firefly"
The whole series is available on DVD as a set.
Good stuff.

I like long SF stories. The longest I found was the TV series Babylon 5.
Most SF series are a bunch of small disconnected tales.
The Babylon 5 series is an epic tale told over 5 years.

Babylon 5 never caught my interest, but the Firefly series is great.

I actually had never heard of the Firefly series until I posted how much I enjoyed the movie Serenity on this forum. That is when other members directed me to the Firefly series, which I now own and use as a Sunday-don't-feel-like-doing-anything sofa entertainment.

[secorp]

Bab 5 has two lost episodes on In Demand right now, Cable.

I liked all the star trek's, Voyager, DSN-9.

It always freaks me out when I am watching a movie and a guy sounds like somebody I would know, usually a character like a Faringi or Clingon.

[chaard]

edit:)

[secorp]

Arrival...with Charlie Sheen

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy....

[freddy-b]

The first two Alien films the rest were awful.

Bladerunner for sure.

And for the low budget surprise nominee. They Live

[classical]

And for the low budget surprise nominee. They Live [/QUOTE]

Was that the one with Roddy Pipper if so really good flic.

[Andy Schoen]

Terminator and Terminator II:Judgment Day

I'm curious to see how well the Sarah Connor chronicles turn out, which start tonite on Fox.

Arnold certainly has his fair share of quotable one-liners in the Terminator series. No doubt they'll be oft repeated... Come with me if you want to live. :p

The Day the Earth Stood Still

2001: A Space Oddessy

The Matrix

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Forbidden Planet

The Time Machine
Oh crap! This list is just about identical to mine, and almost in the same order! Do I really think like scrogdog? Say it ain't so. :o

[Carnak]

I liked Enemy Mine, did not care much for the movie version of Dune

Used to like all the old Dr. Who and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

Always viewed Star Wars as fantasy

Tour guides here tell the tourists they filmed the Abyss going down the walls here

[Carnak]

This thread is like the lyrics from the opening song of Rocky Horror

Science Fiction Double Feature

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Flash Gordon (1936)
The Invisible Man (1933)
King Kong (1933)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Doctor X (1932)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Tarantula (1955)
The Day of the Triffids (1962)
Night of the Demon (1957), released in the U.S. as Curse of the Demon
When Worlds Collide (1951)

[selfemployed]

Fantazium (sp)

[freddy-b]

And for the low budget surprise nominee. They Live

Was that the one with Roddy Pipper if so really good flic.[/QUOTE]

ya, thats the one.

[stevehvac]

I like Serenity and the whole Firefly series.

[Andy Schoen]

I see from the mentions for "The Day the Earth Stood Still" that we have a quite a few baby boomers here. I still remember the first time I saw this movie as a kid, and being astounded when the robot disintegrated military equipment.

[thoglow]

The Wicker Man.The 2006 movie that stars Nicolas Cage.

[secorp]

I see from the mentions for "The Day the Earth Stood Still" that we have a quite a few baby boomers here. I still remember the first time I saw this movie as a kid, and being astounded when the robot disintegrated military equipment.


I just watched that movie this weekend, the child in it was a little snoop sneaking out after dark to spy on "Clatu", I was born 62.

[secorp]

Was that the one with Roddy Pipper if so really good flic.

ya, thats the one.[/QUOTE]

That fight seen with Roddy and Louis Gosset is still a classic, he finally got him to put on the sun glasses.

[secorp]

I liked Enemy Mine, did not care much for the movie version of Dune

Used to like all the old Dr. Who and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

Always viewed Star Wars as fantasy

Tour guides here tell the tourists they filmed the Abyss going down the walls here

Carnak, Emeny Mine....the first one or the second one with Randy Quaid and Louis Gosset as the lizard alien?

[freddy-b]

ya, thats the one.

That fight seen with Roddy and Louis Gosset is still a classic, he finally got him to put on the sun glasses.[/QUOTE]

They put some WWF action in that scene for sure.:eek:

Was it Louis Gosset? I thought it was David Kieth?

[whec720]

Enemy Mine....I remember that one....good flick.

[chaard]

The Last Starfighter

[classical]

That was Keith David not David Keith. David Keith is a white dude good actor but he was not in They Live.

[Carnak]

Carnak, Emeny Mine....the first one or the second one with Randy Quaid and Louis Gosset as the lizard alien?

I only saw the one with Quaid and Gossett

[thelongone13]

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Plan 9 from Outer Space. "Everyone has an Interociter"

[freddy-b]

That was Keith David not David Keith. David Keith is a white dude good actor but he was not in They Live.

oh...........My bad on that one.:)

[Stamas]

"An Inconvenient Truth" count?

[whec720]

"An Inconvenient Truth" count?

I thought that one was a comedy.:D



















Whoops.....there goes all my carbon credits.:eek:

[chaard]

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Plan 9 from Outer Space. "Everyone has an Interociter"

That show is funny.

[bootlen]

"An Inconvenient Truth" count?

Counts as half. It is definitely fiction.:cool:

[mattm]

Twilight Zone

[stonefly]

dune.
"moadeeb, we have worm sign the likes of which god has never seen!"

[secorp]

I read three Dune books back in the 80's. took me three freaking years.:D

[davefr]

The Incredible Shrinking Man

[Andy Schoen]

dune.
"moadeeb, we have worm sign the likes of which god has never seen!"

The movie fell quite short of the novel, IMHO. And Herbert's subsequent Dune novel's didn't rate anywhere near his original, but they were still decent sci-fi nontheless. Muad'Dib shall remain enshrined. ;)

[DeltaT]

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Always hated that movie. Never want to be on a small boat and go through a mist since. And remember when he shrunk, ran into the doll house and the family cat went after him?????????????? Totally frieked me out back then. Another reason why I don't like cats.

[scrogdog]

Oh crap! This list is just about identical to mine, and almost in the same order! Do I really think like scrogdog? Say it ain't so. :o

Lol - so you have great taste in movies, what's wrong with that? ;)

[classical]

The Shrinking Man & Attack of the 50ft Woman amazing what effects radioactive fallout had on people in the fifties.

[secorp]

The Fly as a kid creeped me out the most, the original. the ones with Gena Davis were cool too.

[DeltaT]

The Shrinking Man & Attack of the 50ft Woman amazing what effects radioactive fallout had on people in the fifties.

I's one of those people and plus all the alien visits in the DC area, where I'm from, I have only found one benefit to all that radioactivity...I don't have to turn on the lights after dark! That green glow at night sure helps keep down the electric bill. ;)

[coolperfect]

Vincent Price The Tingler My Farther took me to see it I must have been 7 Had bad dreams for days

[classical]

The only movie ever gave me nightmares was Pinochio!!:eek:

[midhvac]

Not sure if supernatural stuff falls under science fiction but I liked:

Resurrection; Ellen Burstyn
Brainstorm; Christopher Walken
Phenomenon; John Travolta & Forest Whitaker
Highlander movies with Chris Lambert
6th Sense; Bruce Willis

[classical]

I don't think those qualify as Sci Fi but I liked the Highlander movies especially the first two.

[Carnak]

Vincent Price The Tingler My Farther took me to see it I must have been 7 Had bad dreams for days
That movie scared the hell out of me as a kid.

Don't Scream!

[rscamaro]

Fortress and Fortress2

Abbot and Costello Go To Mars... One of my all time favorite movies.

Alien

MIB

Titan A.E.... Cartoon

Final Fantasy, The Spirits within... Cartoon

The Wraith.. Charlie Sheen and the Dodge Prototype

The Fifth Element... The Red is Very Hot

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzia, Across the Eighth Dimention... Can you say KORNY!!!

Bladerunner

TRON...One of the best of the 80's classics.

SpaceBalls... I know it's a comedy.

The Black Hole... I remember going to see it but thought it was dumb.

Bicentennial Man... Very Asimov like story, human interest type thing.

Stargate... I watched the original series and now the Atlantis series since they started.

Dune the movie was OK as long as you realized that there was alot of thinking going on. The Sci-Fi mini series was much better as well as the next chapter mini series The Children of Dune.

Like others have said, I find it difficult to call any Sci-Fi movie bad, well maybe I'll make an exception for the Friday the 13th and the Hellraiser outerspace movies.

...Ron

[Biblepoet]

I have never seen a bad SCI FI movie, I love them all.



Oh, yeah....What about Ice Pirates?

B-:D

[classical]

Hey now how can you diss Lyle Alzado's acting skills and what was with the head.

[Biblepoet]

Favorite about a guy in our profession - Star Wars. remember Luke worked on a "moisture farm" and worked on condensers and 'vaporators.:D

Favorite Sci-Fi - Hmm. kinda hard to pick just one. Kinda like the rest of ya. Most of you have already named some of my favorites.

There is one that can count as Sci-Fi and Fantasy - Ralph Bashki's "Wizards".

I still crack up over "They shot Fritz!! Those lousy stinkin' fairies! <shots fired> Hey I'm OK! Ooh really? Damn! <shoots friend accidently> Fritz?!? Fritz?!? They shot Fritz......."

<chuckle> Now I'm going to have to dig it out and watch it again!;)

B-

[Biblepoet]

Hey now how can you diss Lyle Alzado's acting skills and what was with the head.

Well...........I still think I could eat celluloid and poop better than that. :rolleyes:

B-


Just thought of one that could go wither way...Krull!

[The Doctor]

Minority Report

[secorp]

Oh, yeah....What about Ice Pirates?

B-:D


I liked it, but when I saw the title I was a little leary it might have Broke Back moments in it!

Do you Remember Galaxina, that was one fine robot, but man what a campy comedy, Captain Butt, man what a name. it was from the early 80's.

[Biblepoet]

I thought of another good title "Independance Day" or "ID4"

B-

[secorp]

I thought of another good title "Independance Day" or "ID4"

B-

My bad, I thought the name was July 4th, ya that was a good one.

Sara Conner was good last week.

[RoBoTeq]

Oh, yeah....What about Ice Pirates?

B-:D

Another great one. About the only really good thing Robert Ulrich did.

[RoBoTeq]

Vincent Price The Tingler My Farther took me to see it I must have been 7 Had bad dreams for days

More of the campy horror genre, but I agree that anything with Vincent Price is great entertainment. Hell, I even enjoyed the commercials he did with the bug zappers.

[RoBoTeq]

There is one that can count as Sci-Fi and Fantasy - Ralph Bashki's "Wizards".

I still crack up over "They shot Fritz!! Those lousy stinkin' fairies! <shots fired> Hey I'm OK! Ooh really? Damn! <shoots friend accidently> Fritz?!? Fritz?!? They shot Fritz......."

<chuckle> Now I'm going to have to dig it out and watch it again!;)

B-

Wizards is absolutely one of the all time greats. Ralph Bakshi changed the way animation was thought of with movies like Wizards, The Lord of the Rings, Fritz the Cat and Cool World.

[secorp]

Lost in Space, the remake with the Joey character from friends was another one I likes!

[Biblepoet]

Also Liked Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Kitchzy, yes; Hokey, probably but hey death by cotton candy - gotta love it!!

B-

[Biblepoet]

Suppose I should also mention Tron.

[Executioner]

Babylon 5
Star Trek (all of em)
Stargate (movie and TV series)
Day of the Triffid's (almost forgot that one :D)
Ice Pirate's
Airwolf (it's sci-fi!)
Knight Rider
Independance day
The Thing
many more I can't think of right now :D

[scrogdog]

Hmmm... 8 pages and still no mention of this classic (kind of disappointing);

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

[absolute air]

Dune
I am Legend
War Of The Worlds
Alien

[Biblepoet]

Does anyone else remember a movie from around mid '60s entitled

"Green Slime"

I remember seeing on TV when I was a kid. To refresh it was about a little bit of green slime that grew to thousands of one eyed tentacled monsters that took over a space station.

Is is available cheaply on DVD?

Just happened to remember the title when another tech was telling me about an algae cleanup he had to do:D

[secorp]

I have been a watching Torch Wood on BBC. Great series but for one really terrible thing...there is man on man kissing...totally freaks me out. apparently Captain Jack is a real flamer. I may have to stop watching, the first three shows this year had man on man.

It is a spin off - of Dr Who.

[coolperfect]

Another good one from Vincent Price The house on haunted hill

[WANDERSON41]

Aliens
Lost In Space
Terminator
Predator