I'm noticing a lack of Star Wars in people's responses... and I kind of like that! Well, going by deluxe edition DVDs I guess I must really like: Blade Runner Alien Planet Of the Apes (1968) THX 1138 Silent Running (well it has excellent extras, so deluxe to me) Aliens (it matched the Alien set so nicely as much as anything) King Kong (1933) okay not really sf, is it? ...and way way back... Metropolis (1927)
I remember the one on The Simpsons-Homer says Mmmmmm Soylent Green! I really was going to say watching Star Wars in the theater with my family at 4 years old.
The more they make the worse the series seems to get. ‘Shoulda stopped at one’ is a terrible disease that killed many a good sci-fi movies (Terminator, Highlander, Robocop, Matrix, etc etc)
I‘be been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I met you I was but the learner. Now, *I* am the master. And it is Star Wars. Period. Actually there is no period after Star Wars, but you get my point.
I remember being confused in some scenes .I thought Vader made the guy cough up an egg yoke on the death star."I find your lack of faith disturbing' Then they had the second run in the theater with a preview of Empire.I enjoyed it more then.
I'd have to go with Terminator. It might seem like an odd choice because it isn't as polished as something like Blade Runner, but being raised on lots of old sci-fi stories it has a quality I look to sci fi for... and that's using the science as a device to make a philosophical point... something Rod Serling often did with Twilight Zone. In the simplest terms, Terminator is the story of a young woman's transformation from a naive individual entering early adulthood, to a soldier. It's a great story, and the final scene is one of the most perfect film endings...
This is not my vote, I already did that on the first page, rather it's a note of surprise. Unless I've missed something, no one has mentioned Dark City. How can that be?
I just...can't pick only one. Mostly because I love different sci-fi movies for entirely different reasons - the thoughtful philosophical insight of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the dystopian, adrenaline-fueled The Road Warrior, or the monster-as-metaphor power of Godzilla. Then there's the so-bad-their-fun cheesefests like Flight To Mars and Teenage Caveman. ...but a single favorite? Nope. I will list a few of the ones I really like and always seem to come back to... Planet Of The Apes (1968) Metropolis The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms The Day The Earth Stood Still The Thing From Another World (1951) Star Wars Close Encounters of the Third Kind Alien/Aliens 20.000 Leagues Under The Sea Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers
I forgot about the original Solaris... that was a quality sf film! Also Nic Roeg's Man Who Fell To Earth was different and interesting, and there is a great doc on it with the DVD. Just watched part of The Empire Strikes Back on a cable channel last night, everything looked so cool... Ralph McQuarrie? Alien also looked amazing and had a lot of artists involved, but unlike Empire I never saw it on it's original run. Part the result of being underage and part the poster of a glowing green egg and the horror aspect when I wasn't into most horror films then (there was such a glut of them it felt like). I remember Close Encounters being savaged by some sf authors at the time it came out, another was Outland, and general moans about Star Wars being a bad influence (I guess they were wrong as we still got Alien and Blade Runner).
Nice list, good call on the Quatermass and Last Man On Earth (great movie, Vincent Price is marvelous in it). Can't choose between these: Gojira (original non Raymond Burr Godzilla) Them The Thing From Another World Honorable mention: Mothra Rodan The Giant Behemoth
It's one of my favourites as well, but I already mentioned 4 movies. Gattaca and Solaris (1976) are other movies I would have listed in a Sci-fi personal Top 10.
2001 Blade Runner Planet of the Apes (Original) Them! The Black Scorpion Rocketship X-M It Conquered the World Incredible Shrinking Man (!!!!) Attack of the Crab Monsters The Green Slime X - The Man with X-Ray Eyes Under the Skin The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears The Congress Latitude Zero + Many more. I personally don't consider the Star Wars or Alien movies Science Fiction but to each their own.
