The Best Sci-Fi Films - rate your top 6!

[Rocket Edge]

List your top 6 favourite Sci-Fi films.

Mine:

1. The Matrix
2. District 9
3. Interstellar
4. Back to the Future
5. Independence Day
6. Avatar

[Pheesh]

Assuming we're going by movies and not franchises then I lose a bunch of spots to Star Wars films. The other 2 spots are probably The Matrix and maybe Alien, or Intersteller. I also really, really liked The Martian, but I've only seen it the once and that was very recently. I'm not sure that I'd be willing to put it in a list with my favourites.

[charliepanayi]

1. Alien
2. Back to the Future
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Her
5. Blade Runner
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Again, it all depends on your definitions though. I'd classify Aliens as an action film rather than SF for instance, so I would be less likely to consider it here even though it's amazing.

[Pheesh]

If Her is Sci-Fi then that's absolutely in my top six, as its one of my top five films of all time in any genre. I just never really thought of it as a Sci-Fi I guess.

[Fynn]

If Her is Sci-Fi then that's absolutely in my top six, as its one of my top five films of all time in any genre. I just never really thought of it as a Sci-Fi I guess.

Oh, that's a good one. And yeah, I'd consider it sci-fi, personally. I mean, it's more speculative fiction, if you want to be specific, but I consider that a branch of sci-fi anyway.

[Pheesh]

I totally see where the Sci-Fi label fits it, but I just always thought of it as a straight up drama and that the Sci-Fi elements weren't really the defining characteristic of the movie for me. But I get all emotional and swept up in the film whenever I watch it so I probably have no idea what's going on with the genres really, I just know I absolutely fucking adore it.

[Fynn]

Yeah, genres are actually kind of a dumb invention in that regard.

[Bubba]

Her is an absolutely beautiful film.

I'm not good at lists but the majority of my faves are already listed. E.T. has a special place in my heart though.

"I'll beeeeeeee right heeeerreeee"

:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:

[Freya]

Contact
The Martian
Interstellar
Prometheus.
Armageddon (I just love this movie. I cry evrtiem)
Independence Day




Not counting Series cause that is unfair and i'd say a lot of star treks and star wars. ID's sequel isn't out yet. I loved Alien but damn prometheus was great imo. I count this as it's own and not a series cause while it losely tied, I think of it as a standalone.

[Wolf Kanno]

In no particular order:

Alien
The Empire Strikes Back
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Total Recall (80s version)
Solaris

[The Captain]

1. 2001, still gives my shivers
2. Ghostbusters
3. Back To The Future
4. Children of Men
5. Empire Strikes Back
6. Her/Close Encounters (couldn't decide which is better)

Also just saw Midnight Special and that might make this list very soon.

[Madame Adequate]

1. Starship Troopers
2. Galaxy Quest
3. Alien
4. Aliens
5. The Thing
6. Blade Runner

I had honorable mentions but hell I'll just round out the list to an even 10 because I had four such mentions;

7. The Fifth Element
8. The Day the Earth Stood Still
9. Children of Men
10. Pitch Black

[Colonel Angus]

Off the top of my head:

The Force Awakens
Guardians of the Galaxy
Back to the Future
Lilo & Stitch
Predator
Matrix

[Freya]

Man you guys keep posting things i'm like "OH YEAH that's great too"

[charliepanayi]

I'm just happy so many people here like Her.

[Night Fury]

Interstellar
Ex Machina
Alien
Aliens
Wall E

Looper/Edge of Tomorrow/Inception probably

Not counting Star Wars because I just love em all, and well there'd be no room for anything else on here if I listed them haha

[Pheesh]

Ugh, I forgot about Looper. Lists are too hard.

[Forsaken Lover]

The lack of Godzilla hurts me.

Speaking of classics, Them! is a fantastic film. Nobody here seen that either, I imagine.

[Wolf Kanno]

The lack of Godzilla hurts me.

Speaking of classics, Them! is a fantastic film. Nobody here seen that either, I imagine.

I've seen it, I just kind of lump it into B-Movie horror over Sci-Fi though.

[Forsaken Lover]

It's a legitimately good movie though with fine acting and effects for the time. It's also a great piece of film history, representing popular fears and ideas in the 50s about science. Science Fiction broadly falls into the "Science Will Uplift Us" type and the "Cautionary Tale" type. Them! is a good example of the latter, as is Godzilla.

So is Jurassic Park, for a more modern example. But that's more in the novel than the movie.

[escobert]

Pitch Black
Star Ship Troopers
5th Element
A New Hope
Serenity


this one was tough as in not real big into scfi.

[Laddy]

Oh man. I don't consider Star Wars sci-fi as it's more space fantasy. Here we go:

Her
Donnie Darko
Blade Runner
Snowpiercer
Galaxy Quest
Inception
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
A Clockwork Orange
The Adjustment Bureau
The Truman Show
Dark City
The Thing
Secret of NIMH
2001: A Space Odyssey
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Wrath of Khan
Looper
Wall-E
Repo!: A Genetic Opera
Planet of the Apes
A Scanner Darkly
Gravity
Children of Men
RoboCop
Interstellar
District 9
Big Hero 6

EDIT: The Iron Giant, Akira, Nausicaa, and Ghost in the Shell too. Oops

Pick any 10 of these and I'm satisfied.

[Vasher]

What "they" said, plus Pinoocchio, I mean Artificial Intelligence.

[Laddy]

What "they" said, plus Pinoocchio, I mean Artificial Intelligence.
I'm one of the sentimental saps who actually liked AI and think people are too harsh on it.

[Mr. Carnelian]

In no particular order...

The Matrix
Gattaca
Blade Runner
Bicentennial Man
The Fifth Element
Strange Days

EDIT: I just realised that all six of these films came out in the 90s, with the exception of Blade Runner. Interesting.