My Sci-Fi Movie List

Not in any particular order. Try to make the list as short as possible. Would appreciate your review/feedabck. Thanks.

The Abyss (1989)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Brazil (1985)
K-PAX (2001)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Contact (1997)
Cube (1997)
Gattaca (1997)
Dune (1984)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Fly (1986)
Starman (1984)
Primer (2004)
Dark City (1998)
Robot Stories (2003)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Children of Men (2006)
Solaris (1972) [Remake: Solaris (2002)]
Planet of the Apes (1968) [Remake: Planet of the Apes (2001)]
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) [Remake: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)]
The Man from Earth (2007)
Stalker (1979)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Sunshine (2007)
Inception (2010
Avatar (2009)

Nice list, all of those choices deserve to be there.

But at the risk of sounding controversial, I never liked Blade Runner. There's nothing extraordinary about it, except for Rutger Hauer's performance as Roy Batty and the art direction, which I think was nominated for an Oscar.

Donnie Darko is brilliant. I only first watched it last week!

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The Abyss (1989)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Brazil (1985)
K-PAX (2001)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Contact (1997)
Cube (1997)
Gattaca (1997)
Dune (1984)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Fly (1986)
Starman (1984)
Primer (2004)
Dark City (1998)
Robot Stories (2003)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Children of Men (2006)
Solaris (1972) [Remake: Solaris (2002)]
Planet of the Apes (1968) [Remake: Planet of the Apes (2001)]
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) [Remake: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)]
The Man from Earth (2007)
Stalker (1979)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Sunshine (2007)
Inception (2010
Avatar (2009)
have all but the ones I have made pale

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The Abyss (1989)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Brazil (1985)
K-PAX (2001)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Contact (1997)
Cube (1997)
Gattaca (1997)
Dune (1984)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Fly (1986)
Starman (1984)
Primer (2004)
Dark City (1998)
Robot Stories (2003)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Children of Men (2006)
Solaris (1972) [Remake: Solaris (2002)]
Planet of the Apes (1968) [Remake: Planet of the Apes (2001)]
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) [Remake: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)]
The Man from Earth (2007)
Stalker (1979)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Sunshine (2007)
Inception (2010
Avatar (2009)[/quote]

wow you got the nice list of movies,my favorite movie in this list is,The Planet of Apes this is very entertaining movie.

Read whole article here:
http://www.dailyblam.com/news/2011/0...e-ever-by-nasa

I didn't even know NASA had a cinematic voice haha

I never even heard of Worst #7.

It's a nice mix of stuff, in regards to both eras and styles, and any list that includes the two Tarkovsky and Blade Runner is OK by me. There are a few on there I don't think much of at all, and given your taste I'd say the absence of A Boy and His Dog (1975), Carpenter's The Thing, Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) and the first two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 & 1978) is a might conspicuous. But maybe you just haven't seen them yet, or they aren't your thing somehow?

There are quite a few existing threads on the topic, if you want to add your list there and compare and contrast with other members. You can find Sci-Fi movie threads HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, for starters.

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What the [Bleep] Do We Know!? is a quasi-documentary bit of psychobabble and pseudoscience supposedly tying together quantum mechanics and consciousness that has, almost quite literally, a cult behind it, espousing the woo-woo theories of Masaru Emoto, among others. It has been described as Passion of the Christ for the New Age crystal-wearing Hippie set.

If you watch it ironically as a recruitment video played at a seminar looking to indoctrinate the unsuspecting into an Ashram, it can be mildly amusing, sort of. If you take it seriously for even half a second - YOWZA!

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Indoctrination? I think I need to see this...

Added to queue!

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Reminded me of that SubGenius video.

my favourite sci-fi:

1. Brazil
2. 2001
3. Stalker
4. Blade Runner
5. Metropolis

I think quantum mechanics has been in the popular sphere of discussion for long enough that seeing its metaphors used is pretty common. A Serious Man is a recent example. Apparently... some people don't get the difference between figurative and literal language and "scale-up" quantum mechanics to the macro, which just doesn't work, since it only "exists" on the, well, quantum level.

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Jeez ... am I sad or what? I actually own "What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole", the 3 disc quantum edition.

Please don't throw food at me.

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Don't worry, I was tempted by the 5 disc edition. It was only £12 and curiosity almost got the better of me. 5 discs?!?! WTH could be on them?

Great list and I agree with every one on it except I haven't finished watching Sunshine yet to pass judgement.

I hear they are making a new Total recall - is that true?