Top Ten Favorite Sci-Fi or Fantasy Movies?

[Shadowdancer]

2001
Lord of the Rings (three in one)
Blade Runner
Pi
Primer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ascension
Predator
Conan the Barbarian
Aliens
The Quiet Earth

 

[Klaus]

I'll just pop in my VHS/DVD collection:

LotR trilogy (regular & extended)
Star Wars Trilogy (IV-V-VI)
Ladyhawke
Legend
Conan The Barbarian
Peter Pan (the newer one with Jason Isaacs as Hook)
Hellboy: Director's Cut
A Knight's Tale
Excalibur
The Time Machine (I got it for free, so...)
The Sword In The Stone
The Black Cauldron
The Incredibles
Beauty & The Beast
The Lion King
Alladin
Pocahontas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mulan
Hercules
Tarzan

Yes, I have a lot of Disney movies.

 

[DonTadow]

2001
Lord of the Rings (three in one)
Blade Runner
Pi
Primer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ascension
Predator
Conan the Barbarian
Aliens
The Quiet Earth

Everytime I read someone elses list it makes me want to go back and change mine. I can't believe I missed eternal sunshine. Definatly in my top 3 three then nwould come Matrix.

 

[devilbat]

My list:

Alien
Excalibur
Star Wars IV V VI
Matrix Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings series
Conan the Barbarian
Akira
Rollerball (the original)

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

These lists always amuse me. I'll be reading along saying 'yes, yes, ok, yes' and then someone will list something I think was appallingly bad, and I wonder how we can agree on 8 out of 10 and be light-years apart on the other 2.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

There have been lots of Sci-Fi and Fantasy TV Movies through the ages, from Star Wars to E.T., Logan's Run to 2001, ... Well, you get the picture

What are your Top Ten Favorite Sci-Fi or Fantasy Movies ever?

Where's the love for Horror? You've got some Horror titles in your list (e.g., Creepshow, which I love--"It's Father's Day and I want my cake!"--see Ed Harris in a small part!; Nosferatu, etc.), but you neglect to mention the higher art form in your text.

Spider Baby - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058606/
Dawn of the Dead (1978) - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/
Alien - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
Plan 9 From Outer Space - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/
It's a Wonderful Life - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/
The Wizard of Oz - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/
Sin City - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/
Psycho - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/
Re-Animator - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0089885/

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

These lists always amuse me. I'll be reading along saying 'yes, yes, ok, yes' and then someone will list something I think was appallingly bad, and I wonder how we can agree on 8 out of 10 and be light-years apart on the other 2.

That's the fun of these kind of lists!

 

[DonTadow]

Where's the love for Horror? You've got some Horror titles in your list (e.g., Creepshow, which I love--"It's Father's Day and I want my cake!"--see Ed Harris in a small part!; Nosferatu, etc.), but you neglect to mention the higher art form in your text.

I was hoping others would shy away from other genre movies in this. I"m surprised to see so much anime, cartoons and horror. They may have elements of scifi/fantasy but IMO are there own unqiue genre.

 

[diaglo]

Mazes & Monsters

 

[Wombat]

I was hoping others would shy away from other genre movies in this. I"m surprised to see so much anime, cartoons and horror. They may have elements of scifi/fantasy but IMO are there own unqiue genre.

**shrug**

The dividing lines are reasonably thin - is Godillza a sci-fi film or a monster film? Alien is as much a monster/haunted house film as it is sci fi. And I must admit that by the time I had put up my answers I already saw the two Addams Family films on the master list -- certainly they are closer to horror, albeit campy, than to fantasy.

So I think people have come up with the best "interntal definitions" that they could and then went to town.