Total SciFi Online has compiled their list of the 100 greatest sci-fi movies ever made.
Their top ten films are:
1. Blade Runner
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Star Wars
4. Alien
5. Metropolis (1927)
6. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
7. The Terminator
8. Planet of the Apes (1968)
9. E.T.
10. Solaris (1982)
Also making the top 25 are “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “The Matrix.”
If you want to see the full list as well as an assessment and reasoning for each film, check out the full article.
Every sci-fi poll of note, including ours from a few years ago, has Blade Runner at #1 and 2001 @ #2. I think after this, yet another reliable poll, the jury can rest – Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey are, without any reasonable doubt, the best 2 sci-fi films ever made.
Yes! I’ve seen them all!
The Empire Strikes Back is widely considered one of the greatest movies of all time, never mind just Sci-Fi. How on earth it isn’t in the top 10 I have no idea.
I absolutely love Blade Runner, but it should never be #1. Maybe it’s cos I’ve read the book.
Whoever put the 1978 version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” before the original should be flogged to DEATH. Most of the list I can agree with. Thou after some movies listed there, I was surprised “Time Bandits wasn’t listed
how the frak is blade runner the greatest scifi movie of all time… i mean i watched that movie more than 10 years ago…and im still mad that i lost 2.5 hours of my life… HORRIBLE HORRIBLE movie… im sorry i know ill get flamed.. but man…… horrible movie.
horrible…..
lol
seth
Seth,
I agree, after all this time I still don’t get the appeal of “Blade Runner” its not a bad movie and visually its stunning but story wise, its really boreing. So yeah I’m not sure why its usually ranked so high.
Seth,
I completely agree with you. I just watched this movie. I had no idea wtf was going on. Starting off with a loose plot and missing connectivity between scenes. And about 2.5 hours of horrible background score that kept driving me to sleep. Topped off with gay guy kissing old guy and then killing him. Worst movie of my life. Jesus christ.
Please…. Say it isn’t so guys.
Just because you are unable to follow complicated and deep storylines does not make a movie crap.
Perhaps you should give it another try for the sake of us who do enjoy more than simplistic ‘dumbed-down’ Scifi.
Amen Michael. Blade Runner is, without doubt, the most important, intelligent and thought-provoking sci-fi film ever put on celluloid. Right behind it would be 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange.
Yeah…
No love for Clockwork Orange on this list. That’s sad. One of the best things Stanley Kubric (sp?) has ever done.
Bryan,
It helps if you are NOT medicated when watching some movies. If you can’t get a plot as simple as “Bladerunner”, you need to find somebody to explain things to you.
Hopefully you were able to figure out the plot on movies like ‘Transformers”, “Tremors”, or “Holloween”.
Depends whether one ranks movies in context with the time they were released or true personal preference (i.e. on any given evening, which of these movies would I be likely to pop into the DVD player?).
Serenity is much too low, as are Galaxy Quest and Wall-E, and many I would not have ranked at all (any of the Mad Max, any of the Star Wars (last time I tried watching them I did not get past a few minutes on any of them), and many more). Mind you, some at the time were OK. Heck, I’m much more likely to want to watch The Fifth Element than the majority of what are considered milestone classics in SciFi.
I never really liked 2001 (the idiotic ending is a big contributor), The Day the Earth Stood Still (original) struck me as too preachy (much like the recent flop remake), Planet of the Apes was just plain bad, and so on and so on.
But that’s the beauty of these discussions; particular movies relate to who we were at the time we watched them. They strike a chord leaving a mark in our memories, and acquire a value often exceeding the base merit of the movie . . . except Clockwork Orange . . . Keep an wary eye on anyone who likes that movie.
Well, OK . . . I’m kidding with that last remark. I mean, no one would seriously consider watching that movie more than once.