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Best Sci-Fi Film ever?

RickRick Sector 14 Studios
[b][i]What do you think is the best sci-fi film ever?[/b][/i]

No restrictions, other than it has to be an actual film, not some obscure student project...

I'll post mine later, as not to influence :)

-R.
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  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    oh this is tough... but so far...

    it's Aliens for me, with Terminator 2 running real close...

    :D
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Hmmm, hard to say, hard to say...

    Possibly Gattaca. As scifi goes, that's pretty damn good.
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    Sphere.
    But best fanmade sci-fi is STARWRECK!!!
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    Can't pick one, there are too many I like. I guess I'd say the Matrixes.
  • Roi DantonRoi Danton Moderator
    poll

    Bladerunner with Harrison Ford.

    Fanmade: StarWreck of course.

    When you have enough ideas here, make a poll.
  • WHYWHY Elite Ranger
    So many choices...

    agh... my... head....

    *explodes*
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    shoot...thats hard...

    dunno, 5th element was good..
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    2001!

    I'm sorry all the movies you named are good, but the most [u]important[/u] and still the best has to be [b]2001[/b]. The special effects still look good today. The model and set design was pracitical (no blinking lights just to have blinking lights) and look like something that would be built today.

    It was one of the first movies that had realistic physics and it delighted in that fact. Remember without Kubrick/Clark's vision, there would be no such thing as the "serious" sci-fi movie. 2001 broke from the campy, unrealistic, alien flicks of the day, to start an entire new genre that lead to films such as Aliens and Star Wars.

    Jake
  • RickRick Sector 14 Studios
    Re: 2001!

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Freejack [/i]
    [B]I'm sorry all the movies you named are good, but the most [u]important[/u] and still the best has to be [b]2001[/b]. The special effects still look good today. The model and set design was pracitical (no blinking lights just to have blinking lights) and look like something that would be built today.

    It was one of the first movies that had realistic physics and it delighted in that fact. Remember without Kubrick/Clark's vision, there would be no such thing as the "serious" sci-fi movie. 2001 broke from the campy, unrealistic, alien flicks of the day, to start an entire new genre that lead to films such as Aliens and Star Wars.

    Jake [/B][/QUOTE]

    An interesting aside: The reason that the effects in [b]2001[/b] can hold their own, even against today's CG effects, is because Stanley Kubrick [i]insisted[/i] on hand painted rotoscoping mattes. This is far more accurate (and time consuming) than using the bluescreening method for modelmasking, but, as you can see, it eliminated those annoying "hazy black lines" that you could see around the models in [b]Star Wars IV-IV[/b] and [b]Firefox[/b]. It's also why the rotoscoping alone for this film took over 3 years to complete.
  • PJHPJH The Lovely Thing
    Definitely Aliens.

    - PJH
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    well...aliens is OK, I liked the third one. :) multiple aliens. :) muahaha.

    the second one has the most quotable lines though.
    "Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    2001 is very very good, but I think there has been some better scifi since. Like Gattaca.
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Captain,SimmondsCaptain,Simmonds Trainee trainee
    SPACE BALLS is the best Scifi movie Ever.
  • WHYWHY Elite Ranger
    THIS ISLAND EARTH!!!!

    well... maybe the MST-ed version...

    "I love you braaaaaaaaaaach!" *boom*

    though, in all seriousness, my real list is pretty much shortened to pretty much Blade Runner, 2001 and Alien.
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    2001 didn't cut it for me, the whole monolith thing was just plain stupid. The first five minutes with the monkeys, bah. stupid stupid stupid.

    although it was good, just not something that ranks up with Babylon5, etc...

    actually, I'm going for the dramatic here...
    SciFi's Dune and Children of Dune.

    MAN those movies are good, CoD was SO sad though. I really feel for Leto artredies...:(

    actually, the list of movies that actualy stay with me is VERY short...

    Shawshank Redemption
    Gladiator
    Children of Dune
    "O" (Othello)
    *Thinks* umm...
    thats it. Those are perhaps some of the best movies I've ever watched, very few movies actually stay with me for a few days after watching them, those that do are almost always tragedys. (The last three in that list definately meet all requirements for tradgedy set forth my Arostotle, Sans Dune because lato is still alive...) I'm really racking my brain here, but those are the only movies that actually had an impact on me....Gladiator, CoD, and O all left me depressed for days afterwards, Shawshank Redemption was just a great movie of hope....

    Honestly, not many movies can do that.
    other movies I like are just "fun" movies, and include such things as The Princess Bride, Babylon5, Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, X-Men, Matrix, etc etc etc

    So, going by which SciFi movie left an impact on me, My final answer is definatly ...
    SciFi's Children of Dune
  • ChickyChicky Moderator
    I think ...

    Star Trek 6 " The undiscovered country" in german language : " Das unentdeckte Land " is one of the best SciFi - Films.

    It has cool special effects and a cool story... And look to the history of our World.. there are parallels...

    with best Regards

    Chicky
  • WHYWHY Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by A2597 [/i]
    [B]2001 didn't cut it for me, the whole monolith thing was just plain stupid. The first five minutes with the monkeys, bah. stupid stupid stupid.

    [/B][/QUOTE]

    heh, thinking about it, and your rather infamous history on the boards, I wouldn't be suprised :p

    Though I get the feeling you missed out on the subler hints in the movie...
  • LogicSequenceLogicSequence Elite Ranger
    The matrix... NOT the new one, it sucked! the origional
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by WHY [/i]
    [B]THIS ISLAND EARTH!!!!

    well... maybe the MST-ed version...

    "I love you braaaaaaaaaaach!" *boom*[/B][/QUOTE]

    May your forehead grow like the mighty oak.

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by WHY [/i]
    [B]heh, thinking about it, and your rather infamous history on the boards, I wouldn't be suprised :p

    Though I get the feeling you missed out on the subler hints in the movie... [/B][/QUOTE]

    You know, that was what I thought when I read his post as well. :D
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by WHY [/i]
    [B]heh, thinking about it, and your rather infamous history on the boards, I wouldn't be suprised :p

    Though I get the feeling you missed out on the subler hints in the movie... [/B][/QUOTE]

    subtle hints? you mean the whole "Every time the black monolyth shows up we make an evolutionary leap" thing?
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    Star Wars (Original Trilogy watched back to back), Alien(s)

    Worf
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    [B]2001[/B] is ok, but it's not great. Every time I watch it I fall asleep, and if i'm awake when the whole wortex color firework display starts I get a headacke. Only thing why is it's ok, is because what it did to the film industrie.
  • WHYWHY Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by A2597 [/i]
    [B]subtle hints? you mean the whole "Every time the black monolyth shows up we make an evolutionary leap" thing? [/B][/QUOTE]

    Yup... you missed a LOT...
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    BLASTOFF PATROL! Hell Yeah!
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    That doesn't count, Sanfam. :D
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by WHY [/i]
    [B]Yup... you missed a LOT... [/B][/QUOTE]

    watched it three times, its an OK movie, but there are MUCH better ones out there.

    But then again, thats just my opinion. :) :D :p
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Because you missed so much, I demand a $500 discount :D
  • MundaneMundane Elite Ranger
    Hypercube: Cube 2, the first one wasn't so interesting, but nr.2 I really liked....The Postman too I found entertaining. Gattaca I didn't like. Star Wars, ok....nothing more, Matrix..1 is cool, 2 is ok...Babylon 5: In The Beginning,excellent....The 13th floor,good....2001,hate it,same with the follow up.

    ah, almost forgot Pitch Black, cool movie....
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Pitch Black is quite cool, but it looses a lot when you see it outside a cinema.
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