Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
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Completely flawed – no Blade Runner. How can you seriously state that these are to top 10 with not a blade runner in sight? These 'top' whatevers are always contentious…however, any sci fi movie critic worth their salt puts Blade Runner near the top somewhere. Bah.
are this your best movies.. ?? fck..
This list really should include Blade Runner and Star Trek.
Inception an honorable mention?? WTF!?
Terminator 1 is the greatest Sci film of all time,it captures the true essence of what sci is,it has a dark texture to it and the sound track is mind blowing,Alien is up there with it but not quite as good,coming in 3rd place would…. actually screw that,id be here all night doing a top 5,2 will do for now.
i mean i love star wars….. but ….you cant put it on #1 thats just not possible.
Star Wars and The Lord of the Ring seems to be taken all first places on all of ur vids if they are on them, they are just legendary
Where is guardians of the Galaxy 🙁
The Matrix – so mind-blowing, it made it's co-creators cut off their penises.
Also consider Avatar, Village Of The Damned (brilliant script with only one special effect), the original Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Seconds, The Fly (1986), RoboCop (1987), The Time Machine, The Thing (1982), Road Warrior, THX 1138, Dark City, Independence Day, The Fifth Element, Gravity (sorry, haters ;-), District 9, Galaxy Quest, The Terminator, Alien and Blade Runner.
Going back in time – Metropolis, Island Of Lost Souls, and The Bride Of Frankenstein.
Lotsa great second-tier stuff out there, too – including Tremors, The Hidden, The Cell, Them!, The Andromeda Strain, Five Million Years To Earth (aka, Quatermass And The Pit), and Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (early Ray Harryhausen).
So no Bladerunner? Gattaca? Dark City? Predator? Total Recall? Stargate? Contact? Interstellar?
Blade Runner ????????
No, we don't agree with your list at all…
HOW DO YOU PUT ALIENS ON HERE BUT NOT ALIEN, THE FIRST WAS AMAZING BUT ALIENS WAS LAME
A little disappointed not to see The Fifth Element on the list.
Fucking Avatar better not be on this list.
It wasn't, but no Blade Runner?
Where in the fuck is blade runner.
with these picks you might as well have Back To THe Future on here too
INTERSTELLAR
I love sci-fi's and I made a mix which could be the soundtrack of any sci-fi movie. 94 minutes of space traveling. The intro at the beginning comes from K-Pax. My favourite non sci-fi movie 🙂 https://www.mixcloud.com/kornel_s/kornel-s-intergalaktikus-resti/
¿Really? ¿2001: A space odyssey as number two? That film is the best Sci-Fi ever. Without him Star Wars, Star Trek and…and all the space movies
Blade Runner? The Thing? Forbidden planet? Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan? Twelve monkeys? btw imho Alien is better than aliens and the first Terminator film is the best.
Inception should be the number One. This movie beats in every detail the rest Sci-Fi films
where is interstellar?
How is alien not on there
Independence Day
Blade runners overrated. Interstellar had its flaws so stop bitching. Alien absolutely deserves a spot here and planet of the apes should be higher
How is Blade Runner not even an honorable mention in this list? SMH.
WHERE'S TOMMOROWLAND??!?
If you don't like 40 year old crappy movies, you won't like these.
soylent green ?
From my cold dead hands you damned dirty liberal!
Independence Day should be on this list.
Also I'll fight the next person who says Jurassic Park isn't scifi haha :p
Way to spoiling the ending of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". After you went out of your way to avoid doing that to "Planet of the Apes".
hello?? predator HELLO?!?!?!
I normally get annoyed with commenters who say "you forgot this movie etc."
but forgetting blade runner is a crime
ALL those movies suck i dont really like old movies old music rock/metal sure it is great but old movies suckkkkkk but maybe terminator jurassic park and alien are decent and
yes i dont like star wars it is boring as fuck
what about star trek?
also what about the fifth element
I cannot believe "Forbidden Planet" wasn't even an honorable mention.
interstellar?
Sorry but Children of Men should be replaced by Blade Runner. CoM just wasn't in the same league as BR and it's iconic villain Roy Baddie. I would even put John Carpenter's The Thing ahead of CoM.
Alien is by far one of the greatest films ever made and is far superior to Aliens. PS: I love Aliens.
Definitely an honorable mention should go to STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN and I would say STAR TREK: GENERATIONS
Another honorable mention should go to Logan's Run
I'd replace 2001, with T2, and then put Aliens at number 3 😛
Alien is one of the greatest made movies in the world, and its sci fi, and its not on this list. Aliens is not better than alien.
Star Wars isn't the single greatest film ever it should be on this list, though Empire is amazing it's not as great as the one that started the Star Wars Sagar.