1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Blade Runner

For nostalgic reasons, despite not really being what people normally think of as sci-fi, I have to mention how much I love Transformers: The Movie.

AlexdeParis said:

animated from the 80s?
if only they had made a movie from Battle of the Planets in the 80s

SW:TESB and ST:TWOK.

I was already into Star Wars at the time, but Wrath of Khan made me a Trekkie.

Hmmmm...could never ever get into Blade Runner and to this day I still havent seen all of it.

My vote would go to The Thing. A great story that gets the viewer involved with the fear and paranoia plus those special effect are amazing for the time.Try asking a CGI artist to come up with anything as good as that these days.

oh, hell yeah The Thing with Kurt Russell is a great movie. It was on not that long ago... loooove that movie.

TMPletz said:

ArielB said:

I hated this movie. I went with my family to see it when I was around 14 and at the time I was into Star Wars and laser guns and stuff like that, not sentimental crap like this film.

I vote for Blade Runner. I have to find time one day to watch it on blu ray.

Tron

...for all the wrapped sausage shots.

abierman said:

Absolutely. It still stands up today.

oh come on.

Everybody knows it was The Fly.

ZombieKitten said:

The Baron Harkonen! U sick Unit!

MajesticOne89 said:

Lucky.
I couldn't go out with someone who didn't dig starwars at least a li'l bit.

ZombieKitten said:

There will be one in the '00s! Ten seconds were leaked:

oh my lord!!!! awesome!

E.T. was the biggest scifi movie... worldwide stampede to see it over and over... but it's more like a fairy tale....

Blade Runner was incredibly influential... but it's a not so great movie with brilliant style and sound...

Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn was so good and touching that people that hated star trek liked it. It was such a well done idea, and a stroke of genius to kill of the main icon of Star Trek in such a great built up story moment with meaning.

The Thing was awesome scifi, but people didn't go to see it much!

Tron was ambitious, artsy, techno visual porn, but not a good movie! People did't care about it much back then.

Aliens was HUGE and fun, but if you loved the original more than your family, you were pissed off at how A L I E N was dumbed down into an action flick with cheap props, cheap dialogue/characters, and cheaper thrills.

Empire Strikes Back was great stuff... even if the wampa looked like and was shot like some kids show on video... and it had a stupid ass giant space slug... and "The Force" was taken down from a mystical historical psychic/religion thing to Kung Fu flips...

DanceWme said:

that´s another of my favorite movies ever, sci fi or not!

If you count Alien out, then it was Blade Runner.



Blade Runner, aside from the 40/50's noir elements, painted a vision of the future probably closer to reality than any other movie of before it's time.

In Ridley Scott's future, the advancements and achievements of the world, aren't even distributed to its citizens , but rather, only to the rich folks, in the gleaming corporate towers. Capitalism , along with all of it's benefits and pitfalls are apparent througout the movie. Sure, there will be talking robots, inventions of wild wonder--but only the Rich will benefit. Hovercraft and spaceships may circle high above, but down in the streets where the common man lives, folks sill peddle around on bicyles.

brilliant

Two total opposites for me...E.T. and Empire

but I liked them both

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sextonseven said:

That looks like the shnizzle

It's a tie with me between Alien and Blade Runner.

markpeg said:

Alien is from 79

obsessed said:

mcmeekle said:

that was my shit when i was little

DanceWme said:

One of the first 18 certificate films I got in to see.

Star Wars (and to a lesser extent Star Trek) occupies a different level, but this is right up there with Blade Runner, etc. IMO.

Shame the sequels were so appallingly bad.

mcmeekle said:

Paul Verhoven did some good work back then!

Flowers2 said:

Great SFX. Great alien costume. Pretty believable storyline. One of those rare films that's better than its original.

MuthaFunka said:

I'm way more into ALIEN then Aliens (the sequel basically aped scenes from the first one, had way cheaper special effects/sets/costumes, silly dialogue, and an action movie type Rambo mood, yuck!). It also simplified down the alien life forms as very earthly termite like animals. Not scary anymore in my opinion!

(Aliens was so cheap that instead of making a computer generated landscape for the computer diagram on the spaceship viewscreens like in the first one, they just put strips of light on a model landscape and moved a camera over it)

But I know a lot of mass audiences loved it for being a popcorn action film.

ufoclub said:

I had the book of the making of Alien, I could see so much work went into the design and sets of that one, I was awestruck by it, years before I even got to see it. When I saw Aliens, all I could think of was the suits with the collars cut off, which was so cheap