What's the Best Sci-Fi Movie of All Time?

“Aliens” really should have been titled "Marines In Space."

The great thing about the original ("Alien"), was that you never knew what was going to happen next . In "Aliens" it was obvious what was going to happen next. It was little more than the original without the suspense and it merely had more creatures, more guns and more explosions. Plus, "Alien" was one of the first science fiction movies to feature a woman as the ultimate hero

"Blade Runner" was brilliant. The original "Terminator" was very good (best role "Ah-nold" ever had). "Star Wars" was certainly an innovator in special effects for its time but its story line was juvenile and the acting was atrocious.

The best movie Lucas ever made was "THX 1138." It was also one of the great science fiction movies of all time.

"The Fifth Element" was a great ride, filled with lots of cool stuff and funny.

"Serenity" (and it's TV counterpart, "Firefly") was unique in making the viewer actually love the characters. "Mal" was the best damned spaceship captain ever.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" was cerebral, detailed, intricate and brilliant but it really needed to be seen on the big screen to be appreciated.

"Jurassic Park" had the best dinosaurs of any movie I've ever seen but it had no storyline, no suspense and got boring in a very short time. The book was no better.

"The Matrix" was good for the first 1/2 hour, the rest was just another "shoot 'em up."

"Avatar" pretty much sucked

"Plan 9 From Outer Space" was too stupid to even be considered a movie, much less a "good" movie.

Nobody mentioned "Pandorum." "Pandorum" was a very strange and weird movie that made you wonder what the hell was going on the whole time - that's what made it good. Too much "zombie-like" characteristics detracted from its basic premise. It was interesting.

Really? Did you read the book? The makers of Heinlein's Starship Troopers into the movie did as horrible a job with bringing that book to movie form as did those who turned Andre Norton's Beast Master into that wreck of a movie -- the only things they took from the book were the animals and their connection witht he hero. They took a great science fiction book set in the future, after Planet Earth (Terra) had been destroyed by aliens during a galactic war, into a fantasy set in a mythological past that was NOTHING like the book. It's no wonder Andre never wanted any more of her books made into movies, even tho most of them would have made great movies even before CGI. Some other authors whose books would make great movies or TV series are Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider series, MZB's Bloody Sun series, Azimov's Foundation Trilogy, Heinlein's Time Enough fro Love and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and so many more. I've been a fan of Science fiction since I was 10 years old and the first story in that genre I read was Cities in Flight, second was Beast Master. I have a library with over 1500 science fiction books in it, many of them paperbacks from back in the 50s and 60s, one of them, an early MZB book, is even signed by the author, I got the signature when I got to meet her at a con. I don't think they've made the best science fiction movie yet, but I have enjoyed most of the ones made so far. I've been getting into urban fantasy lately (The Hollows -- which may be coming soon to the CW as a series -- The Sookie Stackhouse books -- the basis for HBO's True Blood series -- The Mercy Thompson series and it's spin-offs, etc.)