Best and Worst Sci Fi Films of All Time

**baldrick** · 30-08-2009, 12:28 PM

Tr0n

Bladerunner was good , but very disjointed which removed too much of the meaning from the book

SciFi works best in books at the moment - but as CGI gathers pace , better movies will come

**hooter** · 05-09-2009, 12:10 AM

No1. The Thing.

Loved the first Matrix film but it then descended into tosh.

Worst: Dune, pile of shite and i watched the whole fucking film waiting for it to become entertaining. It never happened.

**ItsRobsLife** · 05-09-2009, 01:28 AM

Watched Event Horizon again the other night after reading this thread.
Here's a couple of bits of the more memorable dialogue from it.

D.J.: I wasn't going to tell you this. I've been listening to the distress signal, and I, um, think I made a mistake in the translation.
[Plays the distress signal]

Miller: Go on.

D.J.: I thought it said "liberate me" - "save me." But it's not "me." It's "liberate tutame" - "save yourself." And it gets worse.
[Plays the distress signal again]

D.J.: There - I think that says "ex inferis." "Save yourself... from hell." Look, if what Doctor Weir tells us is true, this ship has been beyond the boundaries of our universe, of known scientific reality. Who knows where it's been, what it's seen. Or what it's brought back with it.

Miller: From hell.

Miller: Oh. My. God. What happened to your eyes?

Dr. Weir: Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

Miller: What are you talking about?

Dr. Weir: I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?

Miller: Your "beautiful" ship killed its crew, Doctor.

Dr. Weir: Well... now she has another crew. Now she has us.

Brilliant stuff!

**PBateman** · 05-09-2009, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by Fuzzy Bob

Best: THX1138
Worst: Star Wars (Any)

Hard for me to believe someone, other than me, realized that. George Lucas has never made a better film than THX 1138.

**PBateman** · 05-09-2009, 02:00 AM

Best : Attack of the mushroom people
Worst : Attack of the mushroom people

Matango (1963)

**hooter** · 09-09-2009, 12:26 AM

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

Watched Event Horizon again the other night after reading this thread. Brilliant stuff!

Agreed, deep dark and moody.

Sci-fi horror at its best.

**Muadib** · 09-09-2009, 12:32 AM

All of the above for the best, plus Forbidden Planet, the original The Day the Earth Stood Still and War of the Worlds... Classic...

For worst, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Tron. anything with John Travolta, Tom Cruise...

Blade Runner has to be top 5... Sound track by Vangelis made the film...

**Udonite** · 09-09-2009, 01:39 AM

Best
This Island Earth
Forbidden Planet
Blade Runner
Total Recall
The Time Machine, the first version
The First 3 Star Wars films
Dune
The Day the Earth Stood Still with Micheal Rennie as Klattu
Dark Star
Silent Running
2001
War of the Worlds, George Pal's version

Worst
Plan Nine from Outer Space
Toxic Avenger
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Robot Monster
Battlefield Earth
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Remake) with Keanu Reeves
The Last 3 Star Wars films
ET

**nedwalk** · 09-09-2009, 09:30 AM

best..anything with tits in it

worst...anything with no tits in it

**Muadib** · 09-09-2009, 09:33 AM

^ I like the way you think...

**Perota** · 09-09-2009, 10:09 AM

Does the Rocky Horror Picture Show qualifies as a Sci Fi movie ?

**Perota** · 09-09-2009, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by baldrick

Bladerunner was good , but very disjointed which removed too much of the meaning from the book

SciFi works best in books at the moment - but as CGI gathers pace , better movies will come

And what do you think of "A scanner darkly" ?

**kmart** · 09-09-2009, 01:20 PM

Best: Killer Klowns From Outer Space; From Beyond.

Worst: Starship Troopers, (later) Star Wars.

Dan · 09-09-2009, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by kmart

Worst: Starship Troopers

No way. Far too camp to be bad.

**chitown** · 09-09-2009, 01:56 PM

Best - The first 3 Star Wars and Aliens.

Worse - The rest of the Start Wars movies.

**shaggersback** · 09-09-2009, 02:16 PM

My Brother , (in Aus) is a mad keen sci fi fanatic..
District Nine was released there a while ago and he gave it the two thumbs up , Best SCi fi movie ...or any movie it would seem he has seen for many years.
Will be seeing it tomorrow night and give a report ..

**Butterfly** · 09-09-2009, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

Blade Runner by Ridley Scott

Definitely, I have all 3 versions, never gets old

Originally Posted by Humbert

Dune by David Lynch is the worst of all time.

I disagree, it wasn't bad per se, it's a cult classic. Very original at the time, and still today. I recently watched the original version on DVD not remastered and it looked like crap. I have recently got from a friend the new HD re-mastered version and I have been told it was night and day and will just add a new dimension to the movie. Lynch himself hated that movie, but I think it was probably his best !!!

Originally Posted by Plan B

Aliens vs Predator

AVP is Gold !!! best of the series

**nidhogg** · 09-09-2009, 02:26 PM

Not the best, but Mars Attack was pretty funny.....

**Butterfly** · 09-09-2009, 02:28 PM

^ that was very good actually,

**Fuzzy Bob** · 09-09-2009, 02:30 PM

Good: Welcome to Blood City
Bad: Zardoz

**nedwalk** · 09-09-2009, 05:06 PM

i enjoyed zardoz, i wonder though did shaun connery, another favourite was the fifth element,mmmm mila jivovavitch

**slackula** · 09-09-2009, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by nedwalk

mmmm mila jivovavitch

She just went full frontal for Purple magazine, and she looks great for her age. I can't post picks but teh googles should help you find it. Stunning.

One of my favourite sci-fi sleeper films is Sunshine by Danny Boyle.

**Muadib** · 09-09-2009, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by Humbert

Dune by David Lynch is the worst of all time.

I disagree, it wasn't bad per se, it's a cult classic. Very original at the time, and still today. I recently watched the original version on DVD not remastered and it looked like crap. I have recently got from a friend the new HD re-mastered version and I have been told it was night and day and will just add a new dimension to the movie. Lynch himself hated that movie, but I think it was probably his best !!!

Being a HUGE David Lynch fan and obviously Dune, I was sorely disappointed in this first attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's classic novel to celluloid... No way you can compress the original Dune novel to 2 - 3 hours of film... The SciFi Channel finally did it justice in 2000 as a mini-series and is highly recommended...

David Lynch's series Twin Peaks is still relevant today... I occassionally still watch it for the weird factor...

**Butterfly** · 09-09-2009, 10:28 PM

^ didn't read the novel, and not surprised it was impossible to fit it in such a movie. That said, I still think it was original work, great costume, great dialogues and a lot of interesting dark scenes

**nidhogg** · 10-09-2009, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Muadib

Being a HUGE David Lynch fan and obviously Dune, I was sorely disappointed in this first attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's classic novel to celluloid......

If I recall correctly I saw that years ago, and it was the biggest load of unmitigated crap ever.

Funny think about Herbert though, he seems to be one of those authors that publish as much after they are dead as they did before...I stopped following the books a good while ago. The first one was awesome, second good, third ok and then it started descending into sludge...

Maybe we should start a second thread about best and worst sci fi/fan books.

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