Link: https://www.pastemagazine...-time.html

A lot of variety there. Nice to see Jean-Luc Godard make the top 100. Likewise, La Jetée make the top 10. And I completely agree with the top two.

What are your top five sci-fi movies? Or top ten?

pretty great list to me. lots of things i really like & love, a few that i don't, & quite a few i need to see. alphaville & brother from another planet in particular i've meant to catch up with for ages. & a few that are unfamiliar to me - the face of another in particular is something i'd never heard of that looks really interesting.
i don't want to get bogged down in rambling about how i wish such & such was higher/lower (why quibble over such things - there's no mathematical formula that will give you the right answer), but i will say:

yay for okja, seconds & especially world of tomorrow parts 1+2 making showings. pleasant surprises to me.

stalker & solaris are appropriately placed, i'd say.

the man who fell to earth is an impenetrable movie for me - watching it to the end was an act of pure will-power. i found it more difficult to get through that any tarkovsky film i've seen.

the 'spoiler' in soylent green can't really be a spoiler because anyone who's watched it will see the ending coming way before charton heston figures it out.

& i agree that they got the top 2 just right. even though i'm not the biggest fan of #2, its influence can't be disputed.

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my own top 10 (subject to change, maybe:)

1 repo man

2 2001
3 invasion of the body snatchers (1956)

4 stalker

5 videodrome

6 12 monkeys (gilliam's best, imo. to me, brazil is a failed, ambitious mess - this is where he go it right) + la jetee (cheating by including both here)

7 timecrimes

8 dark city

9 the day the earth stood still

10 world of tomorrow episodes 1+2

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These are the ones I like best from that list. Not really ranked in order, other than the order I saw them while working backwards through the list. Except, of course, for Star Wars. That one popped into my mind immediately, so I guess it's the best one I've ever seen.

1. Star Wars (the first one that ever came out)
2. Planet of the Apes
3. PREDATOR!
4. E. T.
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
6. The Terminator
7. Back to the Future (the first one, I haven't seen the 2nd or 3rd movies)

Here is my Top 10 Fav Sci-Fi Movies of All-Time

1. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

2. Blade Runner (1982)

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

4. Alien (1979)

5. Westworld (1973)

6. 12 Monkeys (1995)

7. Gravity (2013)

8. ET (1982)

9. Close Encounters (1977)

10. The Matrix (1999)

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The movies I enjoy watching the most often:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

2. Blade Runner

3. La Jetée

4. Ex Machina

5. Under The Skin

6. Metropolis

7. Alphaville

8. Blade Runner 2049

Not yet seen, but really want to:

Stalker

Je t’aime, je t’aime

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SF is what i watch most. A pretty good top 100 there.

Dark City is great.
The movies I watched most times, are the two first Riddick movies. Sure, they aren't the best SF around, but still I'm attracted to them and never get bored watching it again.

12 monkeys is an obvious choice.

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Good list, but the day I put a Star Wars film above Demon Seed is a day that someone else rewrites my hisotry. Stalker is my no. 1. Maybe I'll see this Wall E one day.

I've seen 46 of the films on the list

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

EmmaMcG said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

EmmaMcG said:

The general consensus based on reviews is that it was a pretty good movie. I didn't love it myself but any list such as this is going to be impossible to please ANYONE. Because unless you're the guy who made the list, you're going to disagree with parts of it. I look at these lists as recommendations for movies I haven't seen yet. I don't take the placements of the movies on the list seriously.

I’m going to say it. Becasue it was a female director and an all-female cast is was coddled. I don’t hate when films get sympathy votes or are coddled. It’s so bad on sooooooo many levels. I feel the same way about movies such as “Sorry to Bother You” where some thought they would be earl in calling it this years “Get Out. But yeah, taste is subjective but i had sooo many eye rolling moments that I lost count. But I truly do believe that it got a sympathy vote because of the all female cast and the female director. But an awful film is an awful film, no need to grade art on a curve. [Edited 11/16/18 7:31am]

this female director must have had a hell of a hangover or something when this picture was taken:

i don't want to derail the topic, but i liked annihilation a fair bit. there were some things i thought didn't work, some effects shots that were a little rough, & some of the 'body horror' shots weren't frightening & impactful to me at all. but some things were terrific, particularly the slightly psyechelic ending. ultimately, i see it as a holllywood-ized, cliffs notes version of stalker. it has a vaguely similar plot, same morose tone, but at 1/2 the length & with an attractive cast instead of ugly russian men.

damosuzuki said:

RodeoSchro said:

These are the ones I like best from that list. Not really ranked in order, other than the order I saw them while working backwards through the list. Except, of course, for Star Wars. That one popped into my mind immediately, so I guess it's the best one I've ever seen.

1. Star Wars (the first one that ever came out)
2. Planet of the Apes
3. PREDATOR!
4. E. T.
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
6. The Terminator
7. Back to the Future (the first one, I haven't seen the 2nd or 3rd movies)

did you ever get a chance to catch the 70s version of invasion of the body snatchers? i remember discussing it with you some time ago. i'm always a little leery of making a recommendation, but i have the feeling you might actually dig it a fair bit.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

damosuzuki said:

this female director must have had a hell of a hangover or something when this picture was taken:

i don't want to derail the topic, but i liked annihilation a fair bit. there were some things i thought didn't work, some effects shots that were a little rough, & some of the 'body horror' shots weren't frightening & impactful to me at all. but some things were terrific, particularly the slightly psyechelic ending. ultimately, i see it as a holllywood-ized, cliffs notes version of stalker. it has a vaguely similar plot, same morose tone, but at 1/2 the length & with an attractive cast instead of ugly russian men.

Oops. Yikes Double yikes. Yeah i forgot the controversy was that the female director was booted off. My bad. This is certainly embarrassing ****I was confusing this film. Now i remember how much I hated this film and was surprised because i loved Ex-Machina******* [Edited 11/16/18 7:47am]

it can happen to anybody. i've never met a perfect person (try telling my mother that, though).

but are you sure there was a director booted off this film? i don't see anything like that on teh wiki page. my understanding is that this is a project garland wanted & worked on from beginning to end.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

damosuzuki said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Any list that has Portman’s Annihilation as “best” anything in the tittle, ESPECIALLY above Star Wars films you have take with a giant boulder of salt. I LOVE Natalie Portman, But Annihilation is one of the worst movies ever made.

You like to throw that out all the time I haven't seen it but I'm sure I could come up with hundreds of movies worse than that

JJ "Let's destroy Vulcan" Abrams Star Trek movie (way overrated) should be replaced by Star Trek first contact.

kpowers said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

kpowers said:

You like to throw that out all the time I haven't seen it but I'm sure I could come up with hundreds of movies worse than that

Ive seen it, its a terrible movie! Go watch it and see. Though you did like “Solo” so , I don’t about you.

And I doubt you as well

EmmaMcG said:

Interesting list. I also agree with the top two but I'd put Blade Runner number one and 2001 at number two. In fact, I'd probably make numerous changes to the order of the list. They Live ahead of The Thing? Not for me. Interesting that they'd include Star Wars considering George Lucas himself said that Star Wars is fantasy, not sci fi. Nice list overall and a good incentive to see the movies I missed. My own personal top 5 would be 1. Blade Runner 2. 2001 A Space Odyssey 3. Terminator 2 4. Back to the Future trilogy (It's really just one movie split in 3) 5. Aliens [Edited 11/13/18 15:50pm]

My top two also

kpowers said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

I LOVE Natalie Portman, But Annihilation is one of the worst movies ever made.

Hmm, i thought first 2/3 of the movie as strong, but the final third was very weak.

damosuzuki said:

RodeoSchro said:

These are the ones I like best from that list. Not really ranked in order, other than the order I saw them while working backwards through the list. Except, of course, for Star Wars. That one popped into my mind immediately, so I guess it's the best one I've ever seen.

1. Star Wars (the first one that ever came out)
2. Planet of the Apes
3. PREDATOR!
4. E. T.
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
6. The Terminator
7. Back to the Future (the first one, I haven't seen the 2nd or 3rd movies)

did you ever get a chance to catch the 70s version of invasion of the body snatchers? i remember discussing it with you some time ago. i'm always a little leery of making a recommendation, but i have the feeling you might actually dig it a fair bit.

You recommended it me as I recall, and I totally forgot to watch it. Thanks for reminding me!