The Best Sci-Fi Films

[BAZ]

[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;23249287]H2G2 is an okay movie, but the BBC miniseries was much better. And I'm pretty sure everyone knows that 42 is [sp]the answer to life, the universe and everything.[/sp][/QUOTE]

I have the BBC miniseries on VHS, it's amazing.

[Emtu]

This is really borderline sci-fi but [I]Repo Man[/I] is very cool, music by Iggy Pop, a weirdo scientist, strange secret service agents, a freaky car and a punk kid who ends up getting the most intense job on earth. That pretty much sums it up. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_%28film%29"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_%28film%29[/URL]
(Not to be confused with the 2010 film [I]Repo Men[/I] [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men[/URL])

Another sci-fi everyone gets a kick out of is [I]Heavy Metal[/I]. Seriously, if you haven't seen it go get it. Very sci-fi, very 80's and very rockin'. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_%28film%29[/url]

[Bullet100]

stargate

[Metroid]

Star Trek (The most recent one)
Hollowman (I'm Joking)
Terminators (All including Salvation)
Monsters versus Aliens. (I liked it)

[Eski]

Primer is a pretty damn good movie, its not to do with space though. However, it will make you think too, so check it out!

[OrionChronicles]

I liked terminator Salvation and Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem

there, I said it, hit me with your best shot

[C.C]

Anyone remember Titan AE? I remember that being good.

[zugu]

[QUOTE=PulpedFiction;23215858]I'd disagree with you there, films don't need to have robots and flying cars to be sci-fi it's more about what's looked at and presented through the story, for example the Butterfly Effect features time travel and alternate realities and A Scanner Darkly is set in the near future in which America is a police state with fufuristic espionage and surveillence technology and most of the population are on hooked drugs. Neither film, however, has an particularly sciency theme.
Science fiction has many different layers to it, there doesn't have to be an overtly futuristic theme for a movie to be classed as that genre. Many sci-fi films encompass more than one. Even Frankenstein is sci-fi when you look at the themes being examined.[/QUOTE]Let's call it speculative fiction and be done with it.

[cephalopoid]

[QUOTE=zugu;23372984]Let's call it speculative fiction and be done with it.[/QUOTE]

OR, you both could read my post about what Science Fiction [I]actually is[/I].

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=967070[/url]

[zugu]

[QUOTE=cephalopoid;23373054]OR, you both could read my post about what Science Fiction [I]actually is[/I].

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=967070[/url][/QUOTE]That post is about [I]your[/I] definition of the thing. Are you an authority in the matter? Because if you're not, your definition is as good as mine.

[cephalopoid]

[QUOTE=zugu;23373208]That post is about [I]your[/I] definition of the thing. Are you an authority in the matter? Because if you're not, your definition is as good as mine.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I have a graduate degree in literature with a focus on science fiction. And I currently teach a unit of science fiction in my courses.

[I]OR

[/I]You could read the post, especially that part at the beginning [B]where I tell you that the definition I explain is one generally agreed upon by scholars, which could be found in most texts dealing with science fiction. [/B]