Top 10 sci fi films of the decade

[RPGmasterBoo]

http://www.moviefilmreview.com/top-10-sci-...-the-decade.php

 

written by me , feedback/comments would be appreciated

 

Part 2 coming soon.

 

For the impatient, the latter 5 are

 

6. The Fountain

7. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

8. K-Pax

9. Moon

10. Artificial Intelligence

??. Children of Men

 

Not sure if I'll be including the last one.

[Pidesco]

K-Pax? Hah.

[HoonDing]

All these movies are crap compared to the golden era of sci-fi in the 50s & 60s.

 

The day the Earth stood still, Forbidden Planet... Queen of Outer Space. Lulz.

[RPGmasterBoo]

K-Pax? Hah.

 

Elaborate? Whazza wrong with K-Pax appart from being a bit soppy?

 

All these movies are crap compared to the golden era of sci-fi in the 50s & 60s.

 

The day the Earth stood still, Forbidden Planet... Queen of Outer Space. Lulz.

 

Would you believe that there are actually people that believe that?

[Hurlshort]

I haven't seen quite a few of those. Is Artificial Intelligence the same as A.I?

 

No Minority Report?

 

I assume you left Avatar off because it is more fantasy than sci-fi.

 

edit: Doh! Just checked the actual link you put in

Edited May 7, 2010 by Hurlshot

[Amentep]

Forbidden Planet is awesome.

 

I'd take Children of Men over AI, Wall-E, K-Pax or 28 Days Later.

[Hurlshort]

I'm not entirely sure I'd refer to 28 Days Later as sci-fi. I can see the argument for Eternal Sunshine though.

[RPGmasterBoo]

I haven't seen quite a few of those. Is Artificial Intelligence the same as A.I?

 

No Minority Report?

 

I assume you left Avatar off because it is more fantasy than sci-fi.

 

Yes.

 

No, never liked it. A nice thriller, but no lasting impact.

 

You misunderstood, the actual article with the no. 1- no. 5 titles has been linked at the top.

 

Avatar is no.4.

 

 

Btw in any top 10 list the actual placing is a bit forced. In my eyes only no.1 and perhaps no.2 are mindblowing, the rest are genre flicks.

[Amentep]

Its as much sci-fi as the novel Day of the Triffids which 28 Days Later... resembles greatly...

[Hurlshort]

Ah, well then what about I Am Legend?

[RPGmasterBoo]

I'm not entirely sure I'd refer to 28 Days Later as sci-fi. I can see the argument for Eternal Sunshine though.

 

Dunno, the zombie apocalypse genre always shifts between horror and sci fi purely as a categorization mostly based on what the zombies originate from. The movie itself is really pure horror but then, so is Alien.

[Amentep]

Ah, well then what about I Am Legend?

 

Yeah I think its sci-fi even if its dealing in a generic theme of Vampirism (albeit the film adaption called The Omega Man drops the vampirism angle in its infected).

[HoonDing]

I'm surprised there's no Serenity in that list.

[Morgoth]

I'll probably be in the minority here but I kinda thought the remake of The Time Machine wasn't too bad.

[Flouride]

No Pandorum neither?

[Amentep]

I'll probably be in the minority here but I kinda thought the remake of The Time Machine wasn't too bad.

 

I liked it as well but most people seemed to hate it.

 

I liked Pandorum and Serenity as well.

 

Didn't really like the Will Smith I Am Legend though

[RPGmasterBoo]

I'm surprised there's no Serenity in that list.

 

I'm somewhat surprised that its so highly rated. I didn't see anything but a fun, albeit visually cheap (and thus a bit ugly) space opera.

 

I'll probably be in the minority here but I kinda thought the remake of The Time Machine wasn't too bad.

 

It was passable. I'm a bit soft on Victorian visuals.

 

No Pandorum neither?

 

You really think it should be included? (just asking, since it didn't really captivate me)

 

Ah, well then what about I Am Legend?

 

It kinda completely ignored the point of the book and turned it into another save the world story. Couldn't really get past that.

[Volourn]

"I'll probably be in the minority here but I kinda thought the remake of The Time Machine wasn't too bad."

 

Better than the original to be sure which was a chore to sit through afterwards.

 

If Artificial Intelligence is actually A.I., great choice. Highly underrated epic. Beautifully atmospheric film.

 

Another sci fi epic that gets slammed or ignored that I really like is Robin William's Bicentiennal Man which has the same basic themes as AI.

 

I Am Legend is a great movien high(low?) light by a sadly sickening scene that creeps me out just thinking about it.

Edited May 7, 2010 by Volourn

[kirottu]

I'd take Children of Men over AI, Wall-E, K-Pax or 28 Days Later.

 

Me too. I would also put Equilibrium there.

 

Is V for Vendetta scifi movie? If so I would put it up there too.

Edited May 7, 2010 by kirottu

[RPGmasterBoo]

I'd take Children of Men over AI, Wall-E, K-Pax or 28 Days Later.

 

Me too. I would also put Equilibrium there.

 

I found it a bit of a cheap 1984 knock off, with the worst fight scenes ever

 

As in, everything taken from 1984 and Farenheit 451 was good, everything the filmmakers added on their own sucked.

[RPGmasterBoo]

Is V for Vendetta scifi movie? If so I would put it up there too.

 

It is, since the dystopian genre has been firmly incorporated into sci-fi (eg: A Clockwork Orange).

 

I didn't put it, because it perverted the point of the comic which was Anarchism vs Fascism to the Bush administration, vs Liberalism. Alan Moore, was very outspoken against it for the same reason.

I'm very sensitive to politics in film, believing that you can't be art and propaganda at the same time, since their goals are completely different.

 

V for Vendetta had a bit too much modern day politics/propaganda for my tastes.

 

Otherwise its a well made film.

[Morgoth]

Another movie I definately liked was Danny Boyles Sunshine.

[Gorgon]

There is almost no good sci fi for the last decade so it's tough going. But yeah. k-pax ?.

[Monte Carlo]

For the purpose of clarity, I deem sci-fi to include sub-genres (horror / war / post apoc).

 

These are ten of my favourites in no particular order:

 

* Mad Max 2 (much better than any of the others in the series)

 

* Aliens 2 (ditto)

 

* Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (the 1976 remake with Donald Sutherland)

 

* Rollerball

 

* Starship Troopers (on a number of levels, but the original only)

 

* Robocop (ditto - i'd buy that for a dollar)

 

* Blade Trilogy (am happy to argue the toss, it's sci-fi / horror imo)

 

* Independence Day (brilliant popcorn movie take on the invasion genre)

 

* Mars Attacks!

 

* Bladerunner (duh)

[HoonDing]

* Rollerball

Since you mentioned this, I can finally bring up Ghosts of Mars.