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All-time best sci-fi movie?

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What are the best all time sci-fi movies in your opinion? Here are some of what I consider to be the classics:

Logans Run
West World
Terminator 2
Blade Runner
Star Trek: First Contact
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I have a fondness for robot/android/cyborg movies. I also like post-apocalyptic movies. Thus the Terminator movies are a double-treat for me :)

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Star trek ..............except the last one killing data how could they
Starwars................ok the 3rd one not soo good the first 2 good stand alone movies the original 3 of course great
Alien..................... this is the 2nd one its great the first not bad the 3rd awwfullll the 4th thought it was good
The terminator........ first 2 good Not seen the others
Flash gordon .........(the one with Queen soundtrack)
Bladerunner

Many more i like but theres 6 top ones for me

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Roughly the order in which I like them. The first seven I will watch any time I see they are on.

Blade Runner
Soylent Green
War of the worlds-----The orginal with Gene Barry and Ann Robinson
THX 1138
Logan's Run
Planet of the Apes----The original one also
The Omega Man
2001
Predator----the first one was best
Alien----this one scared the crap out me at the theater
Enemy Mine
Fantastic Voyage
Andromeda Strain
Tron
Farenhite 451

I guess I can keep going on for a while longer. I guess it would be easier to list the ones I don't like. :wink:
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{DOU}Charger wrote:Farenhite 451
Fiction, yes. Science Fiction, I don't thnk so. Or am I wrong? Been a long time since I've seen the movie / read the book.

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{DOU}Charger wrote:Farenhite 451
Fiction, yes. Science Fiction, I don't thnk so. Or am I wrong? Been a long time since I've seen the movie / read the book.

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Well it was based in a future with social impact. I read the book therefore I have a different feel for the movie. If you check out a movie guide I'm sure you will find it under scifi though
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Bbbbbzzzzzzzzzzzz...disqualified. It would be Fiction/Fantasy. For it to be Sci-Fi there has to be science involved (thus the Sci part in Sci-fi).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008 ... ance&n=130

But, in fairness, Amazon has it listed as Sci-fi / drama. I think it is their bad though...

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I checked a bunch (2) places and they both have it as scifi. ding ding I win nananana :P :P
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Several aspects of the fictional future depicted in 451 have become reality in the late 20th and early 21st century:

There are now live television broadcasts of police pursuits of fugitives, aided by helicopter-mounted cameras and supplemented by voice-over commentary by announcers.

"Seashell radios" closely resemble portable radios and earbuds, such as those found in portable audio players.

Some television content has become more empty (reality television).

Books considered to be objectionable, such as those from the Harry
Potter series and other books related to witchcraft, have been burned in the United States.

Anti-depressant pills have become much more common and commercialized.

Abortion and caesarian section are widely used for non-medical or non-lifesaving reasons.

There is a greater reliance on anonymous tips by law enforcement agencies (portrayed in the movie version).

Political candidacy is determined in part by media corporations through manipulating presentations and report schemes (spin (public relations)).

Some enforced conformity to dress codes in public (usually enforced in benign ways, but occasionally intrusive or humiliating incidents occur).

America being hated and verbally attacked by other nations—perhaps, as Montag suggests, because it is viewed as possessing a disproportionate share of the world's wealth.

But the following phenomena have not yet occurred:

Routine use of robots for pursuing suspects (currently in development for military application; civilian law enforcement would be expected to follow suit).

Government endorsement of high-speed land vehicles on public highways.

Flat-screen televisions built into the walls of a house (these exist, but are currently a luxury; most are either placed on a special stand or are mounted onto the surface of existing walls).

Use of nuclear weaponry as a primary weapon in wartime.
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