Your Favorite top 3 Sci-Fi movies

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
I can't believe nobady has mentioned Colosus: The Forbin Project, I really good documentary for its time.

Yeah, that's a good movie, but not a classic in my books. It's almost like a forerunner of what Skynet was. Maybe James Cameron watched that movie a time or two and came up with Terminator?

[Erax]

I read the book as a kid, but never saw the movie. The book is terribly slow-paced (or so it seemed to me at the time), but it is definitely the blueprint for Terminator.

[Geckomlis]

1. The Thing From Another World (1951)
Based on, but bearing little resemblance to, “Who Goes There” by John W. Campbell.
Now available on DVD.

2. Babylon 5: In the Beginning
We need more starship furballs in sci-fi...

3. Godzilla 1985
Lots of shooting and... Super-X!

[Kamog]

Out of the Terminator series, I liked Terminator 2 the best.
From the Star Wars Series, my favorite is Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
From Star Trek, definitely Wrath of Khan.
My favorite Godzilla movie is Godzilla vs Gigara
And yes, In the Beginning was a great Babylon 5 movie...

Other Sci-Fi movies I like:
Independence Day
The Matrix
War of the Worlds

[Lord Chane]

1. Forbidden Planet. Cutting edge effects for its time, good story, and you can see the impact it had in so many other productions. The Jupiter 2 in Lost in Space was patterned after the C57D, the Robot was a knock-off of Robby, even Babylon 5 had an homage to FP in the shots of the "great machine". And it was the first really great sci-fi movie I ever saw.

2. Blade Runner, the original Version with Harrison Ford's narration. The vision of the future is so spectacular. Harrison Ford is great. Good story, good acting, incredible atmosphere.

3. Aliens. Great plot, good acting, engaging characters, a little humor "Somebody wake Hicks up!", a great foe, lots of action, some sharp looking military technology, etc. Absolutely top notch.

Here are some other good sci-fi movies (IMHO) that I don't think I saw mentioned in this thread.

1. The Omega Man. I was about 14 when this first came out and after seeing it I thought it'd be so cool to be the Last man on Earth.

2. Cyborg 2087. Another sci-fi movie with Michael Rennie, who was the star of The Day the Earth Stood Still. It's about a Cyborg sent to the past to stop a scientist from inventing some device (don't remember what) that'll affect the future. Something of a precursor to The Terminator.

3. The Time Machine. The original Version from the early 60's.

4. Fantastic Voyage. Something of a unique plot. Suffered from some severe plot flaws but a very good movie over all.

5. It Came From Outer Space. Another movie from the 50's. The first movie I can think of where the alien's hadn't come to take over Earth. The aliens here were just trying to get home.

6. Outland. Sean Connery. Something of a "High Noon" set in space.

[David E. Gervais]

Anybody remember an old movie called 'Gennisis' or 'Project Gennisis'" I think it stared John Saxon, and I also seem to remember some sort of TV show based on the movie.

The movie was about a man cryogenicly frozen and is revived in the future. (or something to that effect.)

Just a random thought I felt like sharing.

Cheers!

[ October 17, 2003, 22:45: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[Rollo]

oooh, I forgot one:
Mars Attacks!