Your Top 5 Science Fiction Films of All Time

[Powerboy]

2001
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original version, of course)
Forbidden Planet
This Island Earth
Metropolis

There are a lot of others I could mention but I don't really consider them science fiction. Obviously, Star Wars for one.

[PoorStudent]

1. Gattaca (Personal Fav, don't @ me)
2. Blade Runner
3. Empire Strikes Back
4: Alien/s(can't decide which)
5. Terminator 2 or The Matrix (can't decide)

And others:
Mad Max Fury Road
Blade Runner 2049
Donnie Darko
Minority Report
12 Monkeys
Back to the Future
ID4
Jurassic Park
The Prestige
The Fifth Element

Underrated:
Moon
Children of Men
Source Code
Edge of Tomorrow
District 9
The Abyss

[Charmed]

Alien
Aliens
Arrival
Annilihation
The Thing

I also have a soft spot in my heart for Alien vs Predator. It's not a great movie, but it is fun and I like Sanaa Lathan, so yeah.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

In alphabetical order:

20 Million Miles To Earth
Alien
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
War of the Worlds (1953)

[TheBlackTerror]

My top 5:
Blade Runner
The Matrix
The Wrath of Kahn
The Andromeda Strain
The Lathe of Heaven

[Jim Kelly]

In order of release:

THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (1962), directed by Steve Sekely, starring Howard Keel.

JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN (1969), directed by Robert Parrish, written by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, starring Roy Thinnes.

LOGAN’S RUN (1976), directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael York and Jenny Agutter.

THE QUIET EARTH (1985), directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Bruno Lawrence.

ABOUT TIME (2013), written and directed by Richard Curtis, starring Domhnail Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.

[Hellion]

My Top 5 Sci-Fi:

1. Jurassic Park
2. Alien
3. Bladerunner
4. Interstellar
5. Ex Machina

Honorable Mentions:
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Minority Report
Moon

[kingaliencracker]

I'm going to exclude franchises from my list, because I feel like at that point my list would just be Terminator, Aliens, Star Trek, and Star Wars movies:

Donnie Darko
Dark City
Total Recall
Moon
The Thing

Honorable Mentions: Predestination, Gattica

[stargazer01]

Nobody loves "Contact." I think that movie was beautiful and profound.

“You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”



And the original "The Time Machine" is so fascinating to me. It captivates me completely.

[DanMad1977]

Does anyone remember Enemy Mine?

I really love that movie.

Interstellar was great
Sphere
One movie where the astronaut loses contact to the base and dies in space at the end. I can't remember the name. Something with living rocks in it...
The force awakens

[Jim Kelly]

Is there any space travel movie that doesn't fudge the science? Even 2001 takes some shortcuts. One of the things that most movies get wrong is the artificial gravity on board spaceships. Other than science magic, they don't give a good explanation of how it works--centrifugal force would have other consequences. I was trying to think of a sci-fi movie that gets the science right and I couldn't come up with much.

[stargazer01]

Does anyone remember Enemy Mine?

I really love that movie.

Interstellar was great
Sphere
One movie where the astronaut loses contact to the base and dies in space at the end. I can't remember the name. Something with living rocks in it...
The force awakens

I do! I like it a lot too. I totally forgot about it. Haven't seen it in so long. Dennis Quaid, right?


There is another old movie that I liked quite a bit about a man who kept shrinking until he got too small and had to fight insects! Watched it long ago, so don't remember everything, but it was good.

[Scott Taylor]

Going with

Planet of the Apes (original)
THX 1138
Interstellar
Silent Running
Star Wars (aka episode IV)
Blade Runner 2049
12 Monkeys
Incredible Shrinking Man

[Sandy Hausler]

A Boy and His Dog
Planet of the Apes (original)
Ex Machina
Contact
Gattaca

I would have had Lathe of Heaven on the list (probably in place of Planet of the Apes), but since it was a television movie I decided, for the purposes of this list, that it was not eligible.

[Jim Kelly]

I saw most of the movies on TV--and now on the internet. Funny thing is I seriously considered putting BATTLESTAR GALATICA (1978) on my list, because my sister and I went to see that in the movie theatre in the summer of '78--as it was a legitimate movie release in Canada, ahead of airing on American TV in the fall.