100 Sci-Fi Films

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A friend of mine is doing a web site of 100 science fiction films that are worth watching. He's up to 15 right now. Anyway, I thought it was something people here might find interesting.

100scifimovies.com

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The only sci fi film everyone should watch is A Scanner Darkly, if only for the visuals, beyond that just watch star trek.

moon and source code.
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johny mnemonic too.

old ideas but nicely done.

Alien

Blade Runner

The Thing (remake)

Star Wars trilogy

Dark City

To just name a few that are worth watching.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Just fill all 100 spots with a scanner darkly mix in some star trek here and there and we have the ultimate sci fi movie list.

When Worlds Collide
The Andromeda Strain-1970's version
This Island Earth
Attack of the Crab Monsters
The Fly both the 50's and 80's version
The Blob
The Time Machine
War of the Worlds
The Time Travellers
Journey to the Center of Time
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Planet of the Apes series
The Terminator series
Lost in Space
Jurassic Park
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Journey to the Center of the Earth
2001 a Space Odyssey
Forbidden Planet
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Children of Men

District 9

gattica needs to be there but you seem to have the important ones.

Agree about Gattaca, and I suggest Solaris for the list, though it may not be hard-core sci-fi enough for some people.

And "The Time Machine," if it hasn't been mentioned already.

Less fan-boyism about A Scaner Darkly and Star Trek, please!
I do think they're both good. But as far as Star Trek is concerned, the "film" part of it is pretty weak. A lot of it is political utopianism that has nothing to do with sci-fi. Just doesn't hold a match against the Alien series when you judge both of them as works of art.
Star Trek does however fit perfectly into the romantic image that most diletants make sci-fi to be. It has a spaceship with the absurd constant mission of "exploring the stars" and mumbo-jumbo made to sound like science.

I'd recomand the first two Alien films; Minority Report; 2001; Sunshine (love the feel to it and the idea of a single insane individual jeoperdising the entire human race is prety neat!); The Thing (despite being mostly horror the basic idea of a colony organism that changes shape is sound); Moon; Pitch Black (although I think it's more of a metaphor about what makes us human then sci-fi...)

Flash Gordon
Westworld
The Terminator
Spaceballs
Jurassic Park
Galaxy Quest
Watchmen

Not this: Waterworld

Silent Running
The Fountain(psychological soft sci-fi like the kind PKD and Ursula LeGuin wrote. My favorite movie of all time.)
Strange Days
and Metropolis if it isn't on here.
Children of Men if it isn't here
I'm going to say Moon again but only because it was the first movie that I truly liked more than a Star Wars film(Star Wars being my oldest special interest)

These are some of my faviourites, in no particular order:
Gattaca
Dark City
Matrix (only first one)
Terminator (only one and two)
Blade Runner
Twelve Monkeys
The Fifth Element
Solaris
Total Recall
Alien series
Back to the Future series
Star Trek Movies (even numbers only)

I might come up with a few more.

These are required viewing IMO:
-Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back
-Blade Runner
-Alien, Aliens
-The Thing (both 1951 and 1982 versions)
-Planet Of The Apes (the original)
-The Day The Earth Stood Still (again, the original)
-Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (both the 50s and the 1978 version)
-Star Trek II, IV, VI, First Contact, and the reboot
-War Of The Worlds (1953 version)
-Forbidden Planet
-Back To The Future (first one)
-The Matrix (again, first one)
-Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

And saving the biggest two for last:
-Metropolis (1927)
-2001: A Space Odyssey

This.
It is fascinating to see a visual perception of how things might be like in the future, especially from that time period.

Twelve Monkeys