Chas's Seven Favorite Science Fiction Films
My favorite science fiction films. It's OK if your favorites don't match mine.
Runner-ups: Moon, District 9, The Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Donnie Darko, Children of Men, Gattaca, Snowpiercer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Runner-ups: Moon, District 9, The Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Donnie Darko, Children of Men, Gattaca, Snowpiercer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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- DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.My favorite film for 20 years, from the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. I think that the film is much better than the book. This film, along with "Alien," established director Ridley Scott as a master of the genre. The original cinematic release, with voice-over, is the superior version, IMHO.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsRobert DuvallDonald PleasenceDon Pedro ColleyIn the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.In my opinion, this is George Lucas's best film. A darkly humorous dystopian masterpiece starring the excellent Robert Duval.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsPeter WellerNancy AllenDan O'HerlihyIn a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.This is the film that made Dutch director Paul Verhoeven a household name in the US. As far as I am concerned, nothing he did afterward, including "Total Recall" and "Starship Troopers," really matched it. Extremely violent (for its time), but also brilliant satire.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael BiehnA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.The film that turned James Cameron's into a titan. It also introduced Arnold Schwarzenegger to the genre, after his earlier success in the sword-and-sorcery epic "Conan the Barbarian." Funny, gritty, action-packed, it immediately preceded Cameron's next major contribution to the genre, "Aliens."
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie HennDecades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.James Cameron's second major contribution to the science fiction genre, and the only other film of his to have made it to this list. A worthy sequel to Ridley Scott's entirely different film, "Alien." Which film you prefer tends to depend on the order in which you originally saw them. I prefer the first.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.The second of Ridley Scott's films to have made this list. This film established the entire franchise, and changed the way that science fiction monsters looked to the present day, thanks to the designs of the late H. R. Giger.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.The film that established the Wachowski siblings in the science fiction genre. It also turned Keanu Reeves into a superstar. The "bullet time" visual effect originated in this film.