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Ask HN: Good sci-fi movies?
- davidw 10y agoStar Wars - but not the prequels.
- 120bits 10y agoEx Machina.
- elliott34 10y ago2001: A Space Odyssey Sunshine Blade Runner, gattaca, the matrix, alien etc.etc. basically just google "best sci fi movies of all time"
- DrScump 10y agoThe Abyss
- dlhavema 10y agoEuropa report, I liked interstellar, most didnt... I love me some good sci-fi. 13th floor is pretty good too, it got overshadowed by the matrix though.. I'm pretty happy sure they came out around the same time...
- gtvwill 10y agoPrimer.
- khein11 10y agoDark City, 13th Floor, Pi, Gattaca, Time Crimes, The Jacket, Moon.
- joshschreuder 10y agoTimecrimes was great. I should rewatch it.
- mattnumbe 10y agoTime Crimes and The Jacket are the only two movies in this thread I haven't seen. Thanks!
- Koshkin 10y agoWatch The Matrix. Again. It is very well made. And it's pretty deep.
- mattnumbe 10y agoI watched a video essay on youtube the other day that presents the argument that Mr. Smith is the One and not Neo. It was quite convincing.
- romanhn 10y agoStargate. District 9. Inception. Equilibrium. Mad Max: Fury Road. Moon. Edge of Tomorrow. Edit: The Man From Earth if you can dig independent cinema.
- schwarze_pest 10y agoPlanet of the Apes (1968), Forbidden Planet (1956), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Brazil (1985), Contact (1997)
- arcanus 10y agoCame here to suggest 'Forbidden Planet'. Happy to see someone beat me to it. Monsters...Monsters from the ID!
- schwarze_pest 10y agoForgot about that one... Not a movie, but besides the very well known TV shows (ST:TNG, BSG, Firefly, etc.) I can really recommend The Expanse.
- thebigkick 10y agoMoon, Ex Machina, The Matrix
- jrnichols 10y agoIt depends on how low your bar is. Last few that I've seen that I enjoyed: Source Code Pacific Rim The Martian Pandorum
- mattnumbe 10y agoI thought I was the only person that liked Pandorum. Everyone I suggested it to hated it.
- planteen 10y agoEx Machina Primer Her Upstream Color
- combatentropy 10y agoAlien, Blade Runner, Minority Report, 12 Monkeys, Primer, Tron
- dllthomas 10y agoMinority Report was okay, but I really recommend reading the short story it was "based on". Very different experience.
- teacup 10y agoGoing to repeat a lot of what has been said so far: - Minority Report (The TV show isn't bad either) - Ex Machina - District 9 - Elysium - Oblivion - Edge of Tomorrow - Looper - I am Legend - Her - The Martian - The Matrix (Only 2 & 3 if you're super bored) - Basically any of the Mad Max series - Firefly (TV show, movies are OK) - Dark Matter (TV show) - Snow Piercer - American Ultra - Last Witch Hunter (more fantasy than SciFi) - Riddick - Dredd - X Files (I mean, it's not NOT scifi...) - Treasure Planet (Yes, the animated one) - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Gets a bad rap for being animated, but it has it's own language and everything) - Serial Lain Experiments (anime) - Watchmen - The Dark Knight - Inception - The Prestige (technically SciFi) I can go on for hours
- pjwal 10y agoI am officially too old apparently when this is the top comment and it lacks Blade Runner at the top of the list (let alone even on it). Wow. Great choices though...for like the last 10 years maybe, I'll give you Matrix and X Files beyond that and that is it. Would anyone like a real list from a 40 year old?
- pjwal 10y ago1. Blade Runner 2. Star Wars 3. 2001 4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4. E.T. 5. Star Trek 6. The Last Starfighter 7. Alien 8. Superman 9. The Empire Strikes Back 10. Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi
- teacup 10y agoIt's an unpopular opinion, but I didn't love Blade Runner. Don't get me wrong I like Phillip K. Dick as much as the next guy, the movie just wasn't there for me.
- junkblocker 10y agoSame here. I loved the book (Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?) but didn't care for the movie version at all as I felt it missed the magic of the book completely. Maybe as in most such cases what got read/seen first mattered.
- crypticlizard 10y agoDune
- dllthomas 10y agoI remember liking the Sci-Fi miniseries much better than the David Lynch movie. And the book much better than either.
- partisan 10y agoEvent Horizon. I am fascinated with the concept of evil existing outside of the context of humanity and this movie is what planted that seed.
- dllthomas 10y agoOh god, I thought that movie was so bad. I don't even remember it well enough to say why, I just remember remembering it being bad...
- mattnumbe 10y agoThe Thing (1982), Slither, Dark Skies, Intacto (spanish), Another Earth, Coherence Primer is on here a bunch, but really worth watching if you like time travel conundrums.
- pythonbull 10y agoThe Matrix Terminator Terminator Genisys Inception (2010) Iron Man 3 (2013) Mad Max Fury Road (2015) Captain America Civil War (2016) The Dark Knight Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice 2016
- d0ml3nc 10y ago* Star Wars, * Ex Machina, * The Matrix, * Inception, * Alien, * Tron, * The Fifth Element
- mozumder 10y ago1. Total Recall 2. Blade Runner 3. Starship Troopers 4. Superman 2 5. Aliens 6. Predator 7. Mad Max: Fury Road 8. Return of the Jedi 9. Star Wars 10. Empire Strikes Back 11. Dark City 12. Matrix Revolutions 13. Matrix 14. Matrix Reloaded 15. The Fifth Element 16. Robocop 17. Gravity 18. Godzilla (2014) 19. Terminator 2: Judgement Day 20. Jurassic Park 21. The Thing 22. Europa Report 23. THX-1138 24. Repo! The Genetic Opera 25. Santa Sangre (.. ok this list could go on forever) Yes, the big 80's/90's action-sci-fi, especially the ones with Arnold, were so god-damned entertaining. There are obivously lots of smaller sci-fi that's cool & entertaining as well, but with the big 80's/90's action-sci-fi, you get your money's worth.
- mattnumbe 10y agoI think this may be the first list ever to contain Santa Sangre and Jurassic Park. Well done.
- mozumder 10y agoThat kind of juxtaposition is also in Repo! The Genetic Opera. It stars the singer of one of my favorite industrial bands - Ogre of Skinny Puppy - alongside Paris Hilton. =^D
- skc 10y agoSurprised nobody has mentioned "Moon" yet.
- JoClimb1ng 10y agoEx Machina, The Matrix, Star Wars, Doctor Who
- tboyd47 10y agoNot a movie, but Stranger Things. Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet.
- big_paps 10y agoStalker
- junkblocker 10y agoThe book, [Roadside Picnic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic) it is based on is equally amazing and both the movie adaptation and the book stand great on their own even though the movie was an artistic interpretation.
- 1234567890abcde 10y agoShort Circuit
- jimmahoney 10y agoA few others that I don't think have been mentioned, in no particular order. - Guardians of the Galaxy - Back to the Future series - Men in Black - Groundhog Day - Elysium - Planet of the Apes (old & new) - Ender's Game - Independence Day - The Island - John Carter - I Robot - The Day the Earth Stood Still (old & new)
- dllthomas 10y agoI really enjoyed Galaxy Quest, as parody with a lot of heart. Not exactly hard sci-fi, of course.
- type0 10y agoRobot and Frank