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Top 100 science fiction movies of all time, as discerned by the Online Fim Critics' Society. Bold the ones you've seen. In all cases the movie title refers to the original, not the shitty remake (exceptions: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Thing):

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - This movie is God.
A.I. - Artificial Intelligence
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Altered States
The Andromeda Strain
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Brazil

The Cell
City of Lost Children - this was brilliant, I liked Delicatessen too.
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
Dark City
The Day The Earth Stood Still

The Dead Zone
Donnie Darko
Dr Strangelove (Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb)
- one of my favourites!
Edward Scissorhands
The Empire Strikes Back

Escape from New York
ET: the Extra Terrestrial
eXistenZ
Fahrenheit 451
Fantastic Voyage

The Fifth Element - ???
The Fly (1986) - Great Cronenberg!
Forbidden Planet
Gattaca
Highlander
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Iron Giant
- c'mon, everybody cried when the robot died....
Jacob's Ladder
Jurassic Park
King Kong (1933)
Mad Max
The Matrix
Men In Black
Metropolis (1926)
On the Beach
Pi
- brilliant movie! A-and it has Go in it!
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Return of the Jedi
The Road Warrior/Mad Max 2
Robocop
Seconds
- saw this a few weeks ago and it was very good! Scenes had imprinted on my mind from when I saw some of it on TV over 30 years ago, once.
Silent Running
Sleeper
Slaughterhouse-Five
Solaris (1972)
- finally watched it but I still can't see what the fuss is about.
Starman
Starship Troopers - ???
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
Star Trek - First Contact
Star Wars
Strange Days
Superman - The Movie
The Terminator
The Terminator 2
They Live
The Thing (From Another World)
John Carpenter's The Thing
THX 1138

Time After Time
Time Bandits
The Time Machine (1960)
Total Recall

Tron
The Truman Show - not SF if you ask me
12 Monkeys
2001: A Space Odyssey
Until the End of the World
Videodrome
Village of the Damned
War of the Worlds


And some "zero star" flicks, from the Sci-Fi Movie Reviews page: http://www.scifimoviepage.com/movies.html

Alone in the Dark
Anaconda 3: Offspring
Batman (1966) - C'mon, it's campy fun, and certainly not SF
Communion
Cyborg
DeepStar Six
Eve of Destruction
Future Fear
Masters of the Universe
Meteor
Red Sonja - Well, I agree it was dumb, but so was Conan
Robot Carnival - ??? Aki and I liked this a lot when he was little
The Shadow Men
Within the Rock
XTRO - I have this on VHS at home somewhere; I'll have to look at it now
Young Einstein - this I'm prepared to take on faith

Date: 2009-10-24 01:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r1vethead.livejournal.com
this list is automatically invalidated and bullshit by the simple fact that DUNE did not make the cut on then list.

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