Favorite top 5 Classic Sci-Fi movies

**mrc1214** · 04-26-2012, 04:41 PM

TAG started a thread about TV Shows a little while ago so just to switch it up from the comic talk what are your top 5 Sci-Fi movies. I know we have a TV/Film board but I don't go over there.
1. Blade Runner
2. The Road Warrior
3. Escape from New York
4. The Thing (1982)
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

**CaptCleghorn** · 04-26-2012, 04:55 PM

2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien
Blade RUNNER
Silent Running
Soylent Green

**dan bailey** · 04-26-2012, 05:27 PM

Has to be '50s sf, of course. I mean, I think extremely highly of most of the movies already mentioned -- about half of them are some of my favorite films ever, period (I've never gotten around to seeing Escape from NY or Soylent Green, for some reason ... Blade is solid, but if it's sf, I'm an astronaut) -- but a thread that asks about classic sf flicks & doesn't start wtih the '50s is the equivalent of a classic comics discussion that passes over the Silver Age. Personally, I just can't do it.

Off the top of my head --

Them!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
It Came from Outer Space
The Monolith Monsters

Again, that's completely off the cuff. The likes of The Thing (original), I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Invaders from Mars, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Incredible Shrinking Man & probably at least a good dozen or so more from that era are also strong contenders.

**Jezebel Bond** · 04-26-2012, 05:37 PM

Not sure about my top 5, but I'm sure #1 is the first Terminator film. Also, would The Crow be considered sci-fi? If so, it's at #2...

I was also expecting to see Star Wars all over the place...it's nowhere in sight yet in the above posts

**thwhtGuardian** · 04-26-2012, 05:45 PM

I numbered them for the sake of the thread but honestly they're all so good that I don't think the order I presented them in has any relation to their relative worths.

1) The Day the earth Stood Still
2)A Trip to the Moon
3)Forbidden Planet
4)2001
5)Metropolis

**shaxper** · 04-26-2012, 06:21 PM

1. Frankenstein
2. Metropolis
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. AI: Artificial Intelligence
5. Battle for the Planet of the Apes

**Artycool8or** · 04-26-2012, 06:21 PM

I'm not sure if they qualify to be Classics, but these are the must see on my list:
1. DARK CITY (1998)
the rest are not in chronological order
- Impostor (2001)
- Equilibrium (2002)
- Deep Rising (1998) (Man, would I love to see a sequel to this movie)
- The Fifth Element (1997)
and the guilty pleasure:
- Monolith (1993)
most anticipated:
- Thelomeris: City Of Time (Coming soon)

**mrc1214** · 04-26-2012, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by dan bailey

... Blade is solid, but if it's sf, I'm an astronaut) -- but a thread that asks about classic sf flicks & doesn't start wtih the '50s is the equivalent of a classic comics discussion that passes over the Silver Age. Personally, I just can't do it..

What genre do you consider Blade Runner to be in? Clockwork Orange usually gets mentioned as sci-fi as well.

I agrre about not starting in the 50s I just haven't seen many movies from that era. And I mean any movies not just sci-fi. Anything classic to me is from the 80s back but I'm 25 and still have alot of movies to watch.

**shaxper** · 04-26-2012, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by mrc1214

What genre do you consider Blade Runner to be in? Clockwork Orange usually gets mentioned as sci-fi as well.

Are you two talking about the same film? Blade Runner = very sci-fi, Blade = not.

I agrre about not starting in the 50s I just haven't seen many movies from that era. And I mean any movies not just sci-fi. Anything classic to me is from the 80s back but I'm 25 and still have alot of movies to watch.

This statement (and Dan's) completely ignores the critical sci-fi work done in the 20s, 30s, and 40s. You can't lump all of that into one Golden Age. In contrast, I think a lot of 50s sci-fi was incredibly campy and just as fun but artistically void as most Atom Age superhero stories of the time.

**thwhtGuardian** · 04-26-2012, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by shaxper

1. Frankenstein
2. Metropolis
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. AI: Artificial Intelligence
5. Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Ooo, good choices with Frankenstein and especially AI, I always seem to forget it when it comes to lists but that's seriously one of my favorite movies of all time.

**shaxper** · 04-26-2012, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by thwhtGuardian

Ooo, good choices with Frankenstein and especially AI, I always seem to forget it when it comes to lists but that's seriously one of my favorite movies of all time.

As always, you and I have very similar tastes. Wish I could have fit Forbidden Planet into my list as well, and while I don't love Trip to the Moon as much as you do, I'm utterly thrilled that it made someone's list.

**thwhtGuardian** · 04-26-2012, 06:50 PM

I've loved Trip to the Moon ever since I saw a hand colored version with a live orchestra at local theater a few years ago, before that I could only really enjoy it for its historical value but the full experience with the interpretive music really helped me to enjoy it in its own right.

**Slam_Bradley** · 04-26-2012, 06:53 PM

Blade Runner
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (56)
Solent Green
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Wall-e

**An Ear In The Fireplace** · 04-26-2012, 06:57 PM

1. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
--I remember seeing this on TV in the 60s, when I was a kid, and being blown away by it. What a thrilling movie.

2. Time Bandits
--Using my special wedding day London tube pass, I went to see this in the afternoon after Charles and Di got married.

3. La Jetee
--My pretentious art pick (Solaris and Alphaville didn't make the cut).

4. Logan's Run
--Jenny Agutter......

5. Farenheit 451
--A really important movie about the value of reading.