What's the best Sci Fi film ever made?

ALIENS

I would say Forbidden Planet is the best sci/fi film ever made. It is based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

John Carpenter's The Thing

Originally posted by roundisfunny
I'm reminded of another poll I saw recently.

Would you rather:

a) receive a cookie and five dollars

b) have your head chopped off

c) have your head chopped off and set on fire

i'll take the cookie and two dollars. I only need two dollars to buy some milk. Thanks, dude, that cookie was fan****intastic.

STAR WARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Star Wars

Originally posted by Cory Chaos
"Pitch Black", in my humble opinion, is indeed a fantastic Sci Fi movie and Twohy deserves alot of credit for his direction. You can check my reviews as to why I say that. I big part of it has to do with the direction and extremely innovative cinematography.

As for "Chronicles of Riddick". I love the Riddick character, as well the singular franchise. While nominal Sci Fi franchises just wither away in theatres nowadays, it sure was nice seeing epic Science Fiction back on the big screen.

It's a rather under-appreciated movie, much like "Underworld". Unfortunately, it's all because of some ignorant prejudice towards Vin Diesel's acting capabilities.

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Predator
Terminator 2
Matrix
Jurassic Park
E.T
Pitch Black
Alien
Aliens
Transformers
Star Wars: ROTS

Twohy has a new film coming out soon that sounds rather good.

Is that Chaos person you quoted even on this board anymore?

Gotta go with The Matrix. I don't remember ever being as blown away coming out of a movie theater as I was after that one. Too bad the sequels sucked...

I have to go with Stars Wars !!! 😄

I think its Spider Man as the best Ski-fi Movie

My all time favorite is "Back to the Future" 💃 Without too many battery operated toys the social impact of time travel is highlighted.

Predator
Terminator 2
Terminator
Matrix series
Jurassic Park
E.T
Pitch Black
Alien 1 2 3
Star Wars: 3,4,5,6
District 9
2001: A Space Odyssey
Akira
Total Recall
The Thing
A Clockwork Orange
The Fifth Element
The Fly
Mad Max 2
WALL-E
The Abyss
The Island
Godzilla
Minority Report
Gattaca
Ghost in the Shell
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Dark City
Moon
Starship Troopers

Too many to list....

ALIEN

Back to the Future Trilogy

All three are great but are three very different types of film.

It does show that great sci-fi can be made.

The only problems with 2001 and Blade Runner to a lesser degree is that they don't play very well to today's younger immediate gratification audiences.

Star Wars was great for reinventing sci-fi when the genre was just about dead. I do think that Empire Strikes Back was a much stronger film in every way. If Jedi had been less of a muppet show it could have been the best of them all.

I skipped a couple of pages so I didn't see if District 9 was mentioned.

And why the hell would anybody think transformers or godzilla were even good much less great?

James Cameron's Avatar

Benhacker 😎

Nah, Avatar doesn't take the best not even for current Sci Fi movies. District 9 takes that current title since Aliens.