Fun fact. Apollo 8 was the first mission to go to Farside. There was apparently a great temptation and discussion among the crew to report the sighting of a large, black monolith on the farside of the Moon. These men didn't just have balls of Titanium, they had a sense of humour too.
10. Snowpiercer (2013) 9. Children of Men (2006) 8. Contact (1997) 7. Her (2013) 6. Planet of the Apes (1968) 5. Prestige (2006) 4. Metropolis (1927) 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 2. Stalker (1979) 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
@@seanhayes6097Close Encounters: In the dollar bin at Walmart, where it belongs. Star Wars is fantasy, not sci-fi (which is not to diss it: it's one of the best movies-of any genre-ever made). Alien is more horror than sci-fi. Blade Runner 👍
Blade Runner was the first really "A-List" budget film, with an "A-List" star, to examine the question of what it means to be human, and to do it in a really thoughtful way. Unfortunately, because it was so ground-breaking, the studio stiffs freaked right out and insisted that Ridley Scott dumb it down with a cheesy voice-over and a happy ending. I thought it was interesting, when first released in theaters, but the Directors Cut to remove the studio interference made it my favorite science fiction film of all time, for the longest time. It's still right up there in the Top 3, and sometimes finds its way back to to the top spot, kinda depending on my mood.
Blade Runner deserves the no.1 spot above 2001 Space Odyssey frankly ... 2001 may have ground breaking effects and thematic depth BUT is so unwatchably torturous to watch that very very few people would want to rewatch it after the first or second viewing... Blade Runner on the other hand have admirers who will rewatch it endlessly to immerse themselves in its world and catch new details with every new watch ... It gave Cyberpunk its looks and styles, one of the most beloved genre ever...
It isn't, but Stalker is #2 and Solaris got an honourable mention at #1, so close enough. There's no Orson Welles in this list, so I' m a little bit worried about Clint, he might have caught a flu or something. Surely he is feeling unwell.
I finally did watch Brazil just last week. Lets just say that if an actor or an actress wants to be remembered for that movie, i try to be courteous and not remind anyone. or imdb
@@M13x13M Star Trek IV, on the other hand, comes close. I find myself dividing movies into 2 classes, "Undeniable classics" and "movies I really enjoy watching." Mostly the same titles, but there's a few I absolutely love, that are not exactly "recognized". Yet. Example: Galaxy Quest. (Although it is just - starting - to gain a true cult following).
@@jimspy1001 yes, Galaxy Quest is way up there and as low budget as it is ,The Day the Earth stood still. I saw Blade Runner for the first time on the big screen last year expecting that time and familiarity would have tarnished it . It was absolutely breath taking. Sound tracks are kinda pathetic these days and that puts recents movies to shame. Scott admits that it is his masterpiece.
Ok, just thought of another that is on my list of top ten favorites, as well as being a candidate for "classic": COCOON. And yes, it was a movie about aging, with a sci-fi background, so to speak. But SO well made.
That's because Alien isn't so much just a sci-fi film, it's a haunted house film. It's a style of horror where a person (or people) are secluded or trapped in a single area throughout the course of the film while a creature is out to kill them. That's why it doesn't belong on this list. not to be confused with films SET in a haunted house.
The great thing about sci-fi is, it's so endlessly interesting it works in all genres - you could do the top ten sci-fi comedies (eg. Galaxy Quest and Ghostbusters); sci-fi war movies (Edge of Tomorrow), sci-fi romances (Starman), sci-fi thrillers (Predestination) ... it never ends! I enjoyed your list, glad you included Contact and Spotless Mind - great pics. And agree, 2001 still hasn't been beaten.
Cynima Rapscallion You're trying to critique '''2001'' the same way you would critique a shallow summer blockbuster. It makes no sense and shows you're severely unqualified to judge audiovisual art.
Ahh, Contact, my favourite all time movie. Every time I get to the scene with John Hurt, "They still want an American to go. Wanna take a ride?". That gets me, brings a tear to my eye and makes me feel an adrenaline rush like no other.
The Prestige has been one of my favorite sci-fi films since seeing it in theaters, and every re-watch of it still makes my skin crawl. Brilliantly explores its themes, total masterpiece.
I don’t get it? There is no twist in the prestige. It is obvious what is going on. Why do people love it? Everyone forgets Hugh Jackman’s character was just a dilettante until one of Bale’s characters killed his wife. His ‘trick’ cost Jackman’s character his wife. He gets a pass for everything from me after that point.
Im seen Contact on tv, most of the movies in this list I didnt see, and seen the only parts that they show from "2001" Im understand why is number 1, the FX of the movie look so real, like it was made a few years ago.
Yeah... it turns out a majority of Science Fiction fanboys aren't actual cinephiles. A lot of dumb asses in the comments calling for Terminator 2, Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow... Yet haven't watched 2001.
Cant believe you left off Blade Runner, and Gataca. Don't get me wrong, these films are all great in the genre. But, those are 2 of the absolute best sci fi films ever, by any standard.
Blade Runner is a monumental movie that set the tone for the vast majority of sci fi movies that came later .... even later Star Wars movies tried to copy its looks and styles. Its influence on the later generations is greater than even 2001 Space Odyssey, there are countless great directors, writers, artists, philosophers, animes, games, even tech companies citing it as a great influence and inspiration .... I would surely put Blade Runner above 2001 Space Odyssey ... its mind boggling any sci fi list would exclude it in the top 10 ... anything lower than top 2 is frankly ignorant too ....
I will never understand why Interstellar is so hated. Did it have some cheesy lines? Sure. Was there a lot of heavy-handed science talk? So much. But once you latch onto the premise of that film and go with it.... it just moves me in ways no other film has done. The emotional and logical responses I have are unmatched by other films. Sure, there are films that do either response better, but no film has hit me emotionally AND made me think about both my future and the future of my fellow humans.
Jeremiah Byrne for pretentious idiots like cinefix and other people for them to look more edgy they can't like popular flim like Interstellar even tho its good.
Why people don't understand how this list works? It's not really top 10 sci fi movies and more top 10 TYPES of sci fi movies. Every movie that is even mentioned in the video is worth watching and the ones that get the place on the list aren't necessarily the best, rather they are the best in one specific aspect. I personaly prefer this type of list because instead of hearing about 10 movies that I probably already know, I get 50+ great movies with some reasoning why they are great.
I get HOW the list works. And I get that it's not my list. It just leaves off the better movies. Maybe if the title were rephrased as 'Top 10 sci-fi movies you should give a chance' I would have liked it better.
Anyone who includes Snowpiercer on a "best of all-time" list shouldn't be taken seriously, or even comically. It's needs to be a good movie to make a list like that. Saying that there's some "aspect" of the film that's great is just trying to ignore the fact that the whole premise is idiotic. I don't include idiotic films among the all-time greats.
Predestination (starring Ethan Hawke) was not even mentioned. Predestination is the best time travel movie I’ve ever seen (Looper was not even close) and I think I’ve seen most of them. It had good acting plus an original story line with an excellent and unexpected plot twist.
@@jamsty8225 That's because you don't appreciate the incredible future thinking of Kubrick. LIke Hal's holographic memory modules. Do you realize that at the time the film was made, computer memory was made from tiny iron donuts with wire wrapped around them? Flat screen monitors. Tablet video displays. And OMG....that space station docking sequence.
@@jamsty8225 , that's just your opinion. I watched 2001 about 20 times (counting only movie theater viewings) and I found it exciting and enthralling every single time. You can't measure the greatness of a movie just from the length of the scenes. If you do, that is your problem, not the movie's.
And the fact that Stanley Kubrick had actual scientists from NASA on set involved with building or designing models of the crafts used in space scenes. Every aspect of this film says stunning. From HAL, to Bowman, to Poole, and on to the great Monolith. Arthur C. Clark was a visionary man when it came to writing specific kinds of thought provoking stories like this one, which tries to put us somewhere on the map of our known universe. Stanley took it further with this beautiful gem. As you said, no CGI except for the ship or the discovery's computer screens during filming. All built sets, cinematography that helped many directors later on in the years such as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It truly is the pinnacle of movie making. Plus the fact it held the most believable Ape man scenes I have ever watched.
Yeah but interstellar is a lot like 2001: space odyssey. Some say interstellar is an original even though it is based off of 2001: a space odyssey. The director of Interstellar Christopher Nolan’s favourite film is 2001: a space odyssey. 2001: a space odyssey is the original
Interstellar was not iconic ... It had some amazing scenes, but the story is pretty hush and the ending terrible. Iconic would be something that transcended the movie with a certain level ... I dont see much of that for Interstellar. And frankly the space movie with Brad patt(forgot the title) was a better movie, if we are talking about recent movies... Further, there is something about Nolan movies that make them a bit dumb. If you compare it to other scificiton classic wher you remain thinking a lot...
Does anyone knows the name of the 80's-90's movie where, aliens landed on our earth and taking forms of humans and theres these alien hunters humans that looking for aliens. I remember a scene where a girl peeping at the school door and sees a bald teacher by the board writing somewthing and all of the sudden this teacher turns around and sees a girl that hiding and peeping at him by the door and starts to looks like a demon scary. Many people think I'm talking about " The Faculty " movie, no its not it. There huge silver guns in this movie and I think special clothing, flash lights, its not " X-files " either LOL
Wish I could have watched it with one of you to get a different viewpoint. I found it so sophomoric. Felt like 13 year olds conjecturing on the meaning of life. I never saw Bixby's Twilight Zone story of "It's a good life" but the short story is classic. Maybe I should read The man from earth.
Dog died. Pizza arrived cold. Lost job, got reinstated and lost it again. Lost house, two days after finding it. Furry dice in the car broke. Aliens probed my ass. Wife returned :( But thank fuck for this vid.
I fixed your list: Star Wars 2001 Forbidden Planet The Day the Earth Stood Still (original) The Thing (1982) Alien Close Encounters Interstellar Metropolis Blade Runner
Holy shit thank you for actually having contact on the list. Honestly I really think people who don’t love Contact don’t actually appreciate sci fi for what it is, and rather just want to see cool technology and space stuff. Movies like contact give sci fi its real meaning
BR = incoherent artsy mish-mosh. Alien = horror movie masquerading as science fiction. Perhaps you’d like to nominate G.I. Jane or Kingdom of Heaven as deathless masterworks? Have you even SEEN The Duelists, Scott’s one bona fide masterpiece?
Blade Runner as an afterthought? I can't think of a science-fiction film that endures better. Existentialism, extraordinary imagery and a world familiar and yet beyond reach. Ah well, just my opinion...
I watched it in the cinema when I was young and didn't get it, so I watched it with a friend when I was in my late 20's and NOPE still boring and an over rated piece of shit
Must have been difficult to settle on just 10 categories. There are so, so many others in the sci-fi genre that this could be a multiple part series. There's Steam Punk sci-fi (Prestige, 20000 leagues, and Frankenstein fit here), Travel sci-fi (Journey to the Center of the Earth and Fantastic Voyage), Time Travel (Looper, Primer, BttF). Near future, far future, alternate history, alien world. Seriously, it can go on.
Children of Men is horribly depressing and violent. I hated it. And frankly, "The Handmaid's Tale" has a very similar plot, and it came out first. (And it's been made into a mini-series, a movie, and the current series on Hulu.) Yes, I know "The Handmaid's Tale" doesn't count as a *film* since it's a book and a TV series (unless the movie was an actual movie and not made for TV) but it's the same plot. Also, the revival "The Outer Limits" from the 1990s did an episode called "Black Rain" (or maybe "Dark Rain") with the same plot as "Children of Men".
1. Bladerunner 2. Alien 3. 2001 A Space Odyssey 4. Planet of the Apes 5. Contact 6. The Terminator 7. The Martian 8. Minority Report 9. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind 10. V for Vendetta
I mean Star Wars, Alien, Interstellar, Inception, and Arrival among others are all genre defining films that did not make the list either. Just have to pick your battles I guess lol.
Zach, Blade Runner has inspired so much more than fanbases and knockoffs. Star Wars was the Tarantino movie of the time paying homage to other films. Blade Runner inspired Ghost in the Shell which in turn inspired The Matrix, all great works of Sci-Fi cinema and all about the future of technology and existentialism.
2001 was stunning 50 years ago. Now it is simply boring. If you like watching long sequences of people dealing with low grav stuff I'm sure NASA has years of it.
@@Yosser70 Gee...and I've watched it so many times I lost track at 100 two decades ago...and haven't been bored a single time. As my mother always said, boredom is just lack of imagination.
Actually, it's one of the most tediously boring, uninspiring and farcical films of all time. Only film worse than it was Solaris (the original Russian one, not the crap one with Clooney). A Clockwork Orange was a much better effort from the director (until Eyes Wide Shut came along).
Forbidden Planet (1956), Star Wars (1977), Bicentennial Man (1999), This CineFix list is just Reaching for Faux-Intellectual Browney Points. Metropolis and 2001 must be listed for their influence. But Snowpiertcer?, Sunshine? Some of them are not even SciFi. Star Wars is not even mentioned? It's more SciFi than Mad Max. And infinitely more influential on the genre.
How old are you? Millennial most likely. One Star Wars is not Science Fiction its Science Fanasty. Plz go on your self-aggrandizing tirade somewhere else because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. When you can actually in for me with your pseudo intellectualism wake me until then f*** off
Her over Blade Runner? Seems a bit like you're overreaching for an original viewpoint. Her is good, but in the end, it does not touch BR for originality and vision.
"Mr Angiers have you considered the cost of such a machine?" "Price is not an object." "Perhaps not... But have you considered the *cost*." Some of my favourite writing from any Nolan movie.
@@darreneriksen One of my favorite scenes in the movie was towards the end. When the leader of the cult gang threatened to eat his alien arm so he turn to an alien too. That was disturbing but hilarious at the same time.
AGREED! I hated watching it. It’s brutal, disturbing, raw, and gave me a stomach ache. But, it’s a brilliant movie that makes its point right in your gut. Everyone should see it (but probably only once.) That they picked Her over this movie is almost a crime against art. It makes me think they are choosing movies based on broader appeal, rather than the actual quality of the movie.
District 9 makes a mockery of its own story line right out of the gate. That nobody working on the film pointed out the idiotic mistake they made is the question that needs answering. They go and show us this alien scavenging through their discarded bits of tech to gather the black goop. A few drops here, a few drops there. He's been doing it for years they tell us because he knows how much he needs to get the ship going. And then.... well just forget about all that... because dumb human guy spills a bunch of it all over himself and the room. And well, the alien still has enough! Go figure, dumb the alien spent all that time gathering more when he didn't even need to because he long ago had enough. Why the fuck would they create that story and then, 5 minutes later, shit on their own story and toss it in the bin as if it never existed? Ruined what would have otherwise been a good movie.
My personal favorite is I AM HERE.... NOW It's about an alien cyborg jesus-type-guy who comes to earth to do good. Amen Neil Breen, the one, the only, the genius, the ultimate Human Breen
But my real favorites are Children of Men, Blade Runner, Her, 2001, Matrix, The Truman Show, A clockwork Orange, Inception, Wall-E, Brazil and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!
Blade Runner & Alien weren't on the list. Both are classics that redefine the genre & have influenced future films that followed. To not include either in the top 10 is shameless - also, Arrival!?
While they are science fiction, and very good, let's be honest here. Alien is more horror than science fiction and while Blade Runner is _good,_ even _very good,_ it's not the _best._
Genius, I tells Ya. It’s like withholding an Oscar nomination from Margo Robbie just to get people to yell and scream about how unfair it was. Great sci-fi films are the kind you want to watch over and over again and never get tired of them. Films like Predator, the Core, and Alien. Your grouping has half the films that nobody’s ever heard of and the other half nobody ever watched. (Not counting 2001). What meaning does life even have with no War of the Worlds, no Star Wars and no Avatar? None! It’s going to take some time for people to digest these picks and get some closure.
I've never heard you guys insult shit like transformers. So I don't think that comment on interstellar was necessary. I don't get why people don't like that film.
I'd say I should be viewed at least once, but definitely not as a child or a teenager. I would give this movie age rating of 30+ as it's time in your life when you start thinking about such things way deeper. It's a great movie, but watching it at a young age you're doing yourself disservice.
You sir, are absolutely on point. I’m now 25 years old and disappointed in what movies have become and becoming, I remember 5 to 6 years ago back in my teen days where great movies were popping out of nowhere with amazing actors, excellent plots and on par quality. Now you’ll be lucky if you get a good one in two or three years period Sorry for being whiny 🙇 but I had to get it off my chest 😤
I can't believe that 2001: A Space Odyssey, was made in 1968. It's perhaps one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. The visuals are mind-blowing and always will be. One of the greatest movies ever made period.
2001 is the definition of a mystery wrapped in a conundrum. Read the book to better understand the movie end up more confused. Absolutely love the movie and agree it is pure genius!
Perhaps 2001is still good because he is not shaped for the understanding 13 years old public Movie industry really feed us with cheap stuff that will involve immediate feelings without intelligence process from ours
Soylent Green is the greatest Science Fiction film of all time because it's the most accurate depiction of humanity's future. The environment is ruined, there's a year-long heat wave, ocean life is extinct, the rich live in absurd luxury while the poor are packed together like sardines, the police are morally bankrupt thugs, and there are riots because of water and especially food shortages, to the point that the government has resorted to turning human corpses into food. How much of that already sounds familiar?
I had some issues with it, and loved the original, but I will say it was aesthetically the best thing I've ever seen. I really hope they keep building out that universe.
Any list that doesn't include Blade Runner, The Matrix and They Live isn't worth taking serious, but honestly I wouldn't include hardly any of these picks in the top 10.
Surprised that both "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" were not mentioned. "Star Wars" gave us nine movies involving the Skywalker families over 42 years between 1977 - 2019. "Star Trek" started as a TV series in 1966 with Captain Kirk, Spock and others, then gave us 10 movies about the wildest space adventures you can think of.
Star Wars is space fantasy, not really (hard) Sci-Fi, although they included lots of other movies that I don’t consider hard Sci-Fi. Star Trek definitely is though, so I guess they just didn’t think any of the films were Top Ten material? Hard to guess at the reasoning here, with films like The Prestige and Eternal Sunshine making the list, which I don’t consider Sci-Fi at all. Sure they have unexplainable elements, but that doesn’t automatically make them _science_ fiction.
While I strongly disagree with your opinion on Interstellar (I thought it was incredible), it's nice of you guys to give credit to a few movies that don't make these kind of lists so often like Snowpiercer and Children of Men.
Um, duh. If you could pick up on the not so subtle nod to Jesus, you'd understand. Jesus would have been a little brown baby. Besides, white people aren't the end all be all of everything. I suppose you didn't mind the black guy being the villain.
go through a black hole, travel back in time to push books off a shelf and then reappear near Jupiter some 40 years later. NOT good at all but I only watched it once.
aaron this is S C I F I. besides of that, have you been through black? have any of us been there? No, all of these things they have told are just theories. "and then reappear near Jupiter some 40 years later" you obviously didnt watch the whole movie lad. He was in a planet right next to black hole, where times run slower (thats actually a another theorie)
1ωω0RT4L Dawid are you saying that it may be possible to survive falling into a black hole to talk to your daughter and use your magical power of love to save all mankind?
One of the aspects that makes Sci-fi good is that the genre offers ample opportunity to look backwards and critique the society we live in or look forwards and raise interesting questions about human nature. Interstellar does neither. Interstellar's Earth is dying. This is very interesting. There are lots of ideas to explore here. Interstellar doesn't explore any. The fact that the Earth is dying is just a vehicle to move the plot forward. The astronaut man abandons his daughter to try to save the planet. Again interesting ideas to explore, the movie doesn't. Sleeping one's life away? Wasn't explored. The ideas that are explored are played solely for spectacle.
In no particular order, here is my list: Arrival Alien Blade Runner Children of Men The Terminator Gattaca Contact The Day The Earth Stood Still (original) Jurassic Park The Andromeda Strain
I still don't get why people didn't like interstellar. It was rather accurate in terms of physics. They actually dealt with the way a massive black hole warps space time, and their depiction of a black hole is the most accurate depiction of a black hole in all of cinema. It also had some amazing sequences like the docking one. And Tars made the movie so much better. The whole black hole bookshelf thing was a bit outlandish. But overall I thought it was a phenomenal film.
the problem is that most people don't understand (theoretical) physics and thus get put off by a lot of ideas in the movie. they will simply call it bad or 'impossible' because they don't understand it really. as for the bookshelf I guess that's more opinion based, personally I thought it was a pretty good representation, keep in mind that it had to be something that cooper could understand, wrap his head around (as in why he was there and what he was supposed to do and how) and use to relay his message. since he had already experienced murphs "ghost" he knew how he could communicate with her using only gravity (as that apparently is the only force that can cross the dimensions)
the problems that interstellar has have nothing to do with physics, wich everyone that knows about it keeps repeating how informed and accurate the movie is in that regard. sadly the plot, story and characters in the movie weren´t handly that much carefully. There is where its flaws are
Interstellar was entertaining. That’s it. The accurate physics business sounds great but there were deviations to make the movie more entertaining. I thought a B grade blockbuster.
People want a happy resolution to this kind of movie. Now technically it has a "happy ending" with him returning to the woman he's fallen in love with, but that was never the point of the movie, which was about him returning to his family. Getting back just in time to see his daughter die of old age was a bummer. Even if the two of them saved humanity (they did) we still feel as though he "lost" because he didn't get the happy reunion he'd imagined and hoped for. Reminds me a bit of The Last American Virgin. One of the funniest popcorn flicks coming of age comedies ever BUT it has a very dark ending, and people commonly say they hated the movie. No, they loved the movie, but hated the way it ended.
Here's my list : 1. Interstellar 2. Inception 3. The Truman Show 4. Mad Max : Fury Road 5. X-Men : Days of future past 6. Rise of the planet of the apes 7. The Butterfly Effect 8. Looper 9. The Matrix 10. The Prestige
- Solaris (1972) - Logan’s Run (1976) - 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) - Arrival (2016) - Contact (1997) - Gravity (2013) - Minority Report (2002) - Brazil (1985) - 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) - The Prestige (2006) - Metropolis (1927) - Gojira (1952) - V for Vendetta (2006) - Looper (2012) - Stalker (1979) - Alien (1979) - Planet of the Apes (1968) - Contact (1997) - Children of Men (2006) - Her (2013) - Blade Runner (1982) - Sunshine (2007) - 12 Monkeys (1995) - Another Earth (2011) - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - The Matrix (1999) - 1984 (1984) - Logan’s Run (1976) - Soylent Green (1973) - Snowpiercer (2013) - Contagion (2011) - The Andromeda Strain (1971) - Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) - Melancholia (2011) - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - The Road (2009) - E.T. (1982) - Independence Day (1996) - The Abyss (1989) - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Attack the Block (2011) - District 9 (2009) - Under the Skin (2013) - Men in Black (1997) - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) - A.I. (2001) - I, Robot (2004) - Ex Machina (2015) - Moon (2009) - Warm Bodies (2013) - Terminator 2 (1991) - Alien (1979) - They Live (1988) - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Upstream Color (2013) - Predator (1987) - Dark City (1998) - The Terminator (1984) - Gattaca (1997) - The Running Man (1987) - The Truman Show (1998) - Primer (2004) - Source Code (2011) - Repo Men (2010) - Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Tokyo Gore Police (2008) - Robocop (1987) - A Clockwork Orange (1971) - The Prestige (2006) - Interstellar (2014) - The Hunger Games (2012) - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Alphaville (1965) - Strange Days (1995) - Altered States (1980) - eXistenZ (1999) - Pi (1998) - Vanilla Sky (2001) - Slaughterhouse Five (1972) - Limitless (2011) - Abre los Ojos (1997) - Total Recall (1990) - Videodrome (1983) - Strange Days (1995) - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Jurassic Park (1993) - Akira (1988) - Wall-E (2008) - The Iron Giant (1999) - Frankenstein (1931) - The Host (2006) - Stalker (1979)
Surprised Equilibrium wasn't mentioned. A distopian socitety where all "evil" is considered to be derived from emotion, and so they create a society without emotion by limiting the brain to not experience emotion and destroying anything that evokes emotion, like art. The action and setpieces in the movie are also fantastic and the introduction to gun kata is simply cool as heck and timeless.
YMMV, but when the book was released it was widely regarded as a pretentious piece of s**t. The movie also was not that successfull at the time, and rightly so. IMO, it's almost as derivative and bad as Equilibrium.
How humanity got to the future in the first place? If the omnipotent humans need Matthew McConaughey to communicate the secret of love to his daughter through library book code in order to save humanity, how did that future race come to exist to begin with? How are they communicating from a future that wouldn’t exist without the very actions with which they are currently intervening?
my favorite genre of cinematography 1) Blade Runner 2) Original Star Wars Trilogy (not seperable in my opinion because its a coherent story) 3) Blade Runner 2049 4) Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind 5) The Terminator (1984) 6) Alien 7) Back to the Future 8) Aliens 9) Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan 10) 12 Monkeys
Surely, you can't be serious! It's hard to watch that now after Nielson's last flicks ;-) That, or even Swamp Fox from the early sixties on TV! The special effects were unreal for the day, and still stand the test of time!
over-rated imho - but most of that is because of the fanboy hype. I enjoyed it when I saw it, then got totally bored with the 'greatest sci-fi most accurate sci-fi, everything was perfect' fanboy comments, so now keep seeing errors and unscientific stuff in it, which spoiled it.
@@Raven.flight "Errors and unscientific stuff" lol you can't just say that it's a SCIENCE *FICTION* movie, Agree with you tho it's overrated but the movie truly deserves the praise.
@@i.washere I have zero problems with Star Wars and Star Trek, or the gazillion other sci-fi, because they and their fans don’t bang on about how scientifically accurate it was. Kip Thorne was an advisor on the film, but it still has scientific inaccuracies in it, which is fine, right up until the fanboys over play “scientifically accurate” card at every turn. That then gets me looking for scientific inaccuracies. After I walked out of the theatre I was wowed. Thought it was great. Then came the IMDB discussions, and it all went south from there. Not the film’s fault. It’s the fanboys fault
2001 being made before we even landed on the moon is frankly brain boggling - a truly timeless classic with effects that stand up 50 years later
The short story 'Sentential' it was derived from dates back another decade.
Cue the conspiracy theorists. "We neVER LAnDeD On tHE MOoN!!!1!1!1!""
yea and Stanley Kubrick obviously directed the moon landing
Fun fact. Apollo 8 was the first mission to go to Farside. There was apparently a great temptation and discussion among the crew to report the sighting of a large, black monolith on the farside of the Moon. These men didn't just have balls of Titanium, they had a sense of humour too.
@@dpage446 British comedy on that. ua-cam.com/video/sE-tpiAiiHo/v-deo.html
1. Bladerunner. 2. Dune. 3. Aliens. 4. The Matrix. 5. Terminator. 6. Edge of tomorrow. 7. Minority Report. 8. Predator. 9. District 9. 10. Total Recall.
The Man Who Fell to Earth. Maybe not top 10 but worth an honorable mention.
10. Snowpiercer (2013)
9. Children of Men (2006)
8. Contact (1997)
7. Her (2013)
6. Planet of the Apes (1968)
5. Prestige (2006)
4. Metropolis (1927)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. Stalker (1979)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
OMG, how you could forget Solaris!?
Maybe a *Spoiler* warning and some line breaks in there, my dude.
For that matter wheres Alien, Star Wars, Blade Runner,
Close Encounters Of TTK, Dark City, The Matrix..et cetera,
et cetera
@@seanhayes6097Close Encounters: In the dollar bin at Walmart, where it belongs. Star Wars is fantasy, not sci-fi (which is not to diss it: it's one of the best movies-of any genre-ever made). Alien is more horror than sci-fi. Blade Runner 👍
Thank you for saving me a lot of time!
I loved "Her" but I'd still have to go with Blade Runner in that category as no film has ever perfectly exemplified the Uncanny Valley hypothesis.
While I prefer Her, your comment is the only one that defends Blade Runner is a constructive way, unlike all these fucking fanboys.
fully agree
Blade Runner was the first really "A-List" budget film, with an "A-List" star, to examine the question of what it means to be human, and to do it in a really thoughtful way.
Unfortunately, because it was so ground-breaking, the studio stiffs freaked right out and insisted that Ridley Scott dumb it down with a cheesy voice-over and a happy ending.
I thought it was interesting, when first released in theaters, but the Directors Cut to remove the studio interference made it my favorite science fiction film of all time, for the longest time.
It's still right up there in the Top 3, and sometimes finds its way back to to the top spot, kinda depending on my mood.
RIGHT ON.
Blade Runner deserves the no.1 spot above 2001 Space Odyssey frankly ...
2001 may have ground breaking effects and thematic depth BUT is so unwatchably torturous to watch that very very few people would want to rewatch it after the first or second viewing...
Blade Runner on the other hand have admirers who will rewatch it endlessly to immerse themselves in its world and catch new details with every new watch ... It gave Cyberpunk its looks and styles, one of the most beloved genre ever...
Somehow The Mirror will be #1 in this list.
I was surprised Solaris wasn't nominated.
BUT HOW DID THE SACRIFICE GET #2!!!!!
It isn't, but Stalker is #2 and Solaris got an honourable mention at #1, so close enough. There's no Orson Welles in this list, so I' m a little bit worried about Clint, he might have caught a flu or something. Surely he is feeling unwell.
Solaris wasn't one of the top 10 because it came out after 2001 and heavily borrows from it in its visual style.
Doris Philastre I disagree with that
lol those films are different as they can get
"Stalker" is really stunning. Tarkovsky is a visual poet. My all time fav is Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" though.
I finally did watch Brazil just last week. Lets just say that if an actor or an actress wants to be remembered for that movie, i try to be courteous and not remind anyone. or imdb
@@TyfoiD75 why is it baD ?xD
@@majormononoke8958 it is just one of those movies that focus on being absurd and try to be cool like clockwork orange
Be careful of the ductwork.
@@TyfoiD75 ummmm, clockwork orange is incredible, Brazil is crap, I'm gonna get hated for that but it's my opinion 😂
Star Trek 2, Predator, Alien, Blade runner, Blade, Star Wars...all time great entertaining movies
Star Trek 2 is no where in the same league as the others
@@M13x13M Star Trek IV, on the other hand, comes close.
I find myself dividing movies into 2 classes, "Undeniable classics" and "movies I really enjoy watching." Mostly the same titles, but there's a few I absolutely love, that are not exactly "recognized". Yet. Example: Galaxy Quest. (Although it is just - starting - to gain a true cult following).
@@jimspy1001 yes, Galaxy Quest is way up there and as low budget as it is ,The Day the Earth stood still. I saw Blade Runner for the first time on the big screen last year expecting that time and familiarity would have tarnished it . It was absolutely breath taking. Sound tracks are kinda pathetic these days and that puts recents movies to shame. Scott admits that it is his masterpiece.
Ok, just thought of another that is on my list of top ten favorites, as well as being a candidate for "classic": COCOON. And yes, it was a movie about aging, with a sci-fi background, so to speak. But SO well made.
Star Wars? It's just space knights.
The first ALIEN movie should have made the list in my opinion !!
Agreed, how it did'nt get on this list i don't know
Yes it re-opened up the sub-genre of sci-fi horror.
diana der maro It’s more of a monster movie
That's because Alien isn't so much just a sci-fi film, it's a haunted house film. It's a style of horror where a person (or people) are secluded or trapped in a single area throughout the course of the film while a creature is out to kill them. That's why it doesn't belong on this list.
not to be confused with films SET in a haunted house.
@@brandenlucero It's both sci-fi and horror. But the whole thing is set in space. So it has to be counted as sci-fi
The great thing about sci-fi is, it's so endlessly interesting it works in all genres - you could do the top ten sci-fi comedies (eg. Galaxy Quest and Ghostbusters); sci-fi war movies (Edge of Tomorrow), sci-fi romances (Starman), sci-fi thrillers (Predestination) ... it never ends! I enjoyed your list, glad you included Contact and Spotless Mind - great pics. And agree, 2001 still hasn't been beaten.
People just dont have the sense for quality anymore, so quality basically starts to cease-to-matter, which is sad af.
that's because sci-fi isn't really a genre so much as an approach to fiction, a family of intellectual themes
Metropolis - the most classic of classic sci if.
I recently saw Contact, what a great movie, it never gets old
The whole movie was ruined when the ending showed her leaving with that hypocrite evangelist. What was Carl Sagan thinking?
@@palmershort5089 evangelist? you watched it?
Before watching: if 2001 isn't number 1, I'm unsubbing
tommihommi1 still subscribed then?
lol It's not that good. It's a complete failure in character dev. and actual plot.
Cynima Rapscallion You're trying to critique '''2001'' the same way you would critique a shallow summer blockbuster. It makes no sense and shows you're severely unqualified to judge audiovisual art.
Lmfao
hahahahaha
Oh wait, you're serious.
I'll laugh even harder!
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I am the grandson of Michael Rennie from The Day The Earth Stood Still, the lead in the greatest and first proper sci-fi movie of all time.
Michael Rennie Here here! one of the greatest movies of all time, to say nothing of sci-fi. Your grandfather did an absolutely amazing job.
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Agree
Ahh, Contact, my favourite all time movie. Every time I get to the scene with John Hurt, "They still want an American to go. Wanna take a ride?". That gets me, brings a tear to my eye and makes me feel an adrenaline rush like no other.
most comments here mention 2001 and Contact.
i agree, i also prefer it to 2001. best scifi of all time. zemeckis at his finest. spotless.
John Hurt was awesome in that film! That line, with his face right up in the camera!
The prestige is such a good movie that when I ask people, almost no one has seen it and it’s surprising. Such a great movie with a great payoff
Even re watching it knowing the twist and it still holds up. I was stoked to see it listed here too. Brilliant movie.
Almighty Sosa300 - but it is not a true science fiction movie (same for Her).
The prestige is probably the most popular of the entire list and the honorable mentions.... Besides maybe "arrival , or Interstellar"
The Prestige has been one of my favorite sci-fi films since seeing it in theaters, and every re-watch of it still makes my skin crawl. Brilliantly explores its themes, total masterpiece.
I don’t get it? There is no twist in the prestige. It is obvious what is going on. Why do people love it? Everyone forgets Hugh Jackman’s character was just a dilettante until one of Bale’s characters killed his wife. His ‘trick’ cost Jackman’s character his wife. He gets a pass for everything from me after that point.
I've seen 8/10.
I'm surprised you decided to put Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on number 4. Bold choice as always.
I'm surprised he didn't mentioned Tarkovsky when presenting number 1
He did. "He (Kubrick) challenged Tarkovsky himself". And there is scene from Soliaris.
pincmin he did tho
10/10 baybee
this,romance and horror are the only genre I'm confident I'll get a 10/10
Im seen Contact on tv, most of the movies in this list I didnt see, and seen the only parts that they show from "2001" Im understand why is number 1, the FX of the movie look so real, like it was made a few years ago.
The original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" With Keven McCarthy...
I was12 when I saw this movie. Didn't scare me (no nightmares, but it popped in my dreams for a few years.
No one ever talks about Tilda Swinton's incredible performance in Snowpiercer. She truly embodies the phrase "the banality of evil".
Thats because Tilda Swinton's performances are always incredible.
Wow. This is legitimately the most drama that I've ever seen in the comments of a cinefix list. Fascinating.
coz this top 10 list is shit
Yeah... it turns out a majority of Science Fiction fanboys aren't actual cinephiles. A lot of dumb asses in the comments calling for Terminator 2, Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow... Yet haven't watched 2001.
Scifi fans tends to be drama princes
Sci-fi fans are passionate!
Who else is watching in 2054?
Chris Wright I'm watching in 2049.
Life is short.Click your fingers and you'll be there.
I'm watching in 1510 via the da Vinci time portal I just invented. It works, yay!
Having a device that can show moving images...during the height of the era of inquisitions!! May you burn well Sir...
Jordan Cadwell I was about to say the same thing
What the hell was wrong with Interstellar? Was one of the best sci-fi's I've seen in recent times, along with 'Oblivion'.
Good God, no.
@@labibchy1423 Godd God, yes.
I'd also put Brazil at No1 alongside with 2001 A Space Odyssey. And not only amongst sci fi movies.
Interstellar for #1 always
There's no movie like interstellar. Its a masterpiece.
Cant believe you left off Blade Runner, and Gataca. Don't get me wrong, these films are all great in the genre. But, those are 2 of the absolute best sci fi films ever, by any standard.
I just watched blade runner for the first time 1 hour ago
Blade Runner is a monumental movie that set the tone for the vast majority of sci fi movies that came later .... even later Star Wars movies tried to copy its looks and styles. Its influence on the later generations is greater than even 2001 Space Odyssey, there are countless great directors, writers, artists, philosophers, animes, games, even tech companies citing it as a great influence and inspiration ....
I would surely put Blade Runner above 2001 Space Odyssey ... its mind boggling any sci fi list would exclude it in the top 10 ... anything lower than top 2 is frankly ignorant too ....
I will never understand why Interstellar is so hated. Did it have some cheesy lines? Sure. Was there a lot of heavy-handed science talk? So much. But once you latch onto the premise of that film and go with it.... it just moves me in ways no other film has done. The emotional and logical responses I have are unmatched by other films. Sure, there are films that do either response better, but no film has hit me emotionally AND made me think about both my future and the future of my fellow humans.
Jeremiah Byrne for pretentious idiots like cinefix and other people for them to look more edgy they can't like popular flim like Interstellar even tho its good.
I'm also surprised why Cinefix doesn't like it- it's an intellectual film. "rRegular" people don't get it so it seems right up Cinefix's alley...
+Jeremiah Byrne heavy handed science talk? The science of that movie was ridiculous.
+shelbzilla Intellectual? Hardly, it is insulting our intelligence.
Arnold John I don't think you have if you're going to bring it up.
Why people don't understand how this list works? It's not really top 10 sci fi movies and more top 10 TYPES of sci fi movies. Every movie that is even mentioned in the video is worth watching and the ones that get the place on the list aren't necessarily the best, rather they are the best in one specific aspect. I personaly prefer this type of list because instead of hearing about 10 movies that I probably already know, I get 50+ great movies with some reasoning why they are great.
I get HOW the list works. And I get that it's not my list. It just leaves off the better movies. Maybe if the title were rephrased as 'Top 10 sci-fi movies you should give a chance' I would have liked it better.
yup
please forget my movie list
Maybe because of the title?
Anyone who includes Snowpiercer on a "best of all-time" list shouldn't be taken seriously, or even comically. It's needs to be a good movie to make a list like that. Saying that there's some "aspect" of the film that's great is just trying to ignore the fact that the whole premise is idiotic. I don't include idiotic films among the all-time greats.
The Arrival is my most recent sci-fi favourite.
Friendly correction: The Arrival was a 1996 SF film and a good one; not to be confused with Arrival with Amy Adams which was excellent.
I like that one a lot.
Predestination (starring Ethan Hawke) was not even mentioned. Predestination is the best time travel movie I’ve ever seen (Looper was not even close) and I think I’ve seen most of them. It had good acting plus an original story line with an excellent and unexpected plot twist.
Completely agreed
And not a single frame of CGI in 2001. All done with mirrors, incredible props, and god like camera techniques.
@@jamsty8225 That's because you don't appreciate the incredible future thinking of Kubrick. LIke Hal's holographic memory modules. Do you realize that at the time the film was made, computer memory was made from tiny iron donuts with wire wrapped around them? Flat screen monitors. Tablet video displays. And OMG....that space station docking sequence.
@@jamsty8225 How could any attempt to tackle the basic questions "Who are we?", "Where are we going?" be boring?
@@jamsty8225 , that's just your opinion. I watched 2001 about 20 times (counting only movie theater viewings) and I found it exciting and enthralling every single time. You can't measure the greatness of a movie just from the length of the scenes. If you do, that is your problem, not the movie's.
@@andream61 Most of it isn't memorable on repeated viewing. It's the film equivalent of a Wagner opera. Occasionally brilliant but often shite.
And the fact that Stanley Kubrick had actual scientists from NASA on set involved with building or designing models of the crafts used in space scenes. Every aspect of this film says stunning. From HAL, to Bowman, to Poole, and on to the great Monolith. Arthur C. Clark was a visionary man when it came to writing specific kinds of thought provoking stories like this one, which tries to put us somewhere on the map of our known universe. Stanley took it further with this beautiful gem. As you said, no CGI except for the ship or the discovery's computer screens during filming. All built sets, cinematography that helped many directors later on in the years such as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It truly is the pinnacle of movie making. Plus the fact it held the most believable Ape man scenes I have ever watched.
Interstellar, Blade Runner and Matrix should be on the list!
And Arrival.
Alien
Matrix is a documentary
interstellar is a piece of crap
@@stepanvalek3363 are you crazy interstellar is a masterpiece
Blade Runner, Terminator, Snowfiercer, Alita and Prometheus was so far my favorite
12 Monkeys is one of my favorite sci-fi movies. I think Brad Pitt absolutely kills it for the whole movie
Matrix and Interstellar were iconic science fiction pieces, eyes openers. I'm glad Contact is included, it marked my childhood.
Yeah but interstellar is a lot like 2001: space odyssey. Some say interstellar is an original even though it is based off of 2001: a space odyssey. The director of Interstellar Christopher Nolan’s favourite film is 2001: a space odyssey. 2001: a space odyssey is the original
Interstellar feels very manufactured, 2001 is raw and visceral
Interstellar was not iconic ... It had some amazing scenes, but the story is pretty hush and the ending terrible.
Iconic would be something that transcended the movie with a certain level ... I dont see much of that for Interstellar. And frankly the space movie with Brad patt(forgot the title) was a better movie, if we are talking about recent movies...
Further, there is something about Nolan movies that make them a bit dumb. If you compare it to other scificiton classic wher you remain thinking a lot...
K-pax and moon..both seriously underated both without a doubt brilliant
Does anyone knows the name of the 80's-90's movie where, aliens landed on our earth and taking forms of humans and theres these alien hunters humans that looking for aliens. I remember a scene where a girl peeping at the school door and sees a bald teacher by the board writing somewthing and all of the sudden this teacher turns around and sees a girl that hiding and peeping at him by the door and starts to looks like a demon scary. Many people think I'm talking about " The Faculty " movie, no its not it. There huge silver guns in this movie and I think special clothing, flash lights, its not " X-files " either LOL
Original "Day The Earth Stood Still" is a masterpiece and relevant to this day.
Should be among top 5 of all these movies.
Overrated.
When they picked Her before Bladerunner I had enough.
its a top 10 best, not a top 10 most iconic.
there has only been one right answer, especially in art
This is the exact point i stopped watching.
in terms of the impact on the human experience. Makes perfect sense. for me Her is in my top 10 of any movie. blade runner....not.
@@merdefilms3837 not only is it iconic but it is the best and the most influential
I'm glad he included 'boring' in the adjectives describing 2001 A Space Odyssey. A lot of it was.
Shoutout to The Man From Earth. Keeps you intrigued for 90mins on conversation alone with about a $500 budget.
P.S Star Wars?
I absolutely agree, marvellous sci-fi movie that all should watch.
Fede B It was indeed the only movie I missed in all the different clips shown in this video. Often overlooked masterpiece, I agree.
So underrated, but really it's one of the best. It achieves so much with so little
Star Wars is more fantasy than sci fi. Knights and princesses and magic an all that.
Wish I could have watched it with one of you to get a different viewpoint. I found it so sophomoric. Felt like 13 year olds conjecturing on the meaning of life. I never saw Bixby's Twilight Zone story of "It's a good life" but the short story is classic. Maybe I should read The man from earth.
you know its gonna be a good day when cinefix uploads something like this
you know its gonna be a good day when cinefix uploads.
period.
SteliosE92 today someone broke my heart but this content makes me happy
Or the end of days...
Don't be rediculous. "You can meet me?" I doubt that your heart has been broken.
Dog died. Pizza arrived cold. Lost job, got reinstated and lost it again. Lost house, two days after finding it. Furry dice in the car broke. Aliens probed my ass. Wife returned :(
But thank fuck for this vid.
I fixed your list:
Star Wars
2001
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
The Thing (1982)
Alien
Close Encounters
Interstellar
Metropolis
Blade Runner
Holy shit thank you for actually having contact on the list. Honestly I really think people who don’t love Contact don’t actually appreciate sci fi for what it is, and rather just want to see cool technology and space stuff. Movies like contact give sci fi its real meaning
Leaving out "Blade Runner" was basically criminal.
Ditto for "Alien."
BR = incoherent artsy mish-mosh. Alien = horror movie masquerading as science fiction. Perhaps you’d like to nominate G.I. Jane or Kingdom of Heaven as deathless masterworks? Have you even SEEN The Duelists, Scott’s one bona fide masterpiece?
Fully agree, blade runner is essential
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns he has a point though. which Film you would take it over in that list?
They mantioned it
@@LuisSierra42 Still didn't make it onto the list.
Blade Runner as an afterthought? I can't think of a science-fiction film that endures better. Existentialism, extraordinary imagery and a world familiar and yet beyond reach. Ah well, just my opinion...
And Darryl Hannah as a sexbot!
agreed
They're trying to hard to be different leaving that out
I watched it in the cinema when I was young and didn't get it, so I watched it with a friend when I was in my late 20's and NOPE still boring and an over rated piece of shit
I was gonna say her beat bladerunner on the list... what a joke
#2 on list, 'Stalker' (1979) is a beautiful film. Very simple to nearly no FX, and it's mesmerizing!
It’s magnificent. I don’t have a best but maybe it’s even better that his Solaris .
@@jeffreywegener8841 it is better
Finally someone recognizes '2001' as the best sci-fi film ever...!
Must have been difficult to settle on just 10 categories. There are so, so many others in the sci-fi genre that this could be a multiple part series. There's Steam Punk sci-fi (Prestige, 20000 leagues, and Frankenstein fit here), Travel sci-fi (Journey to the Center of the Earth and Fantastic Voyage), Time Travel (Looper, Primer, BttF). Near future, far future, alternate history, alien world. Seriously, it can go on.
Children of men was insanely powerful, memorable and heartbreaking film! Beautifully done !
It's a masterpiece
Molly Sapadin fantastic propaganda
Agreed
Children of Men is horribly depressing and violent. I hated it. And frankly, "The Handmaid's Tale" has a very similar plot, and it came out first. (And it's been made into a mini-series, a movie, and the current series on Hulu.) Yes, I know "The Handmaid's Tale" doesn't count as a *film* since it's a book and a TV series (unless the movie was an actual movie and not made for TV) but it's the same plot. Also, the revival "The Outer Limits" from the 1990s did an episode called "Black Rain" (or maybe "Dark Rain") with the same plot as "Children of Men".
+Jacqueline Moleski hi dear
Annihilation, Inception, & Tenet would be good additions.
1. Bladerunner
2. Alien
3. 2001 A Space Odyssey
4. Planet of the Apes
5. Contact
6. The Terminator
7. The Martian
8. Minority Report
9. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
10. V for Vendetta
No Blade Runner. Blasphemy!!!!
I mean Star Wars, Alien, Interstellar, Inception, and Arrival among others are all genre defining films that did not make the list either. Just have to pick your battles I guess lol.
one of those things is not like the others
Zach, Blade Runner has inspired so much more than fanbases and knockoffs. Star Wars was the Tarantino movie of the time paying homage to other films. Blade Runner inspired Ghost in the Shell which in turn inspired The Matrix, all great works of Sci-Fi cinema and all about the future of technology and existentialism.
IKMNification Of course. Blade Runner is a great and innovative film that should be included with all the others I mentioned.
50 years later and 2001 is still a stunning film.
2001 was stunning 50 years ago. Now it is simply boring. If you like watching long sequences of people dealing with low grav stuff I'm sure NASA has years of it.
Greebo...Don't worry, you can always go to Specsavers.
@@greebo7857 Spot on, one of the dullest movies of all time!
@@Yosser70 Gee...and I've watched it so many times I lost track at 100 two decades ago...and haven't been bored a single time. As my mother always said, boredom is just lack of imagination.
Actually, it's one of the most tediously boring, uninspiring and farcical films of all time. Only film worse than it was Solaris (the original Russian one, not the crap one with Clooney).
A Clockwork Orange was a much better effort from the director (until Eyes Wide Shut came along).
Forbidden Planet (1956),
Star Wars (1977),
Bicentennial Man (1999),
This CineFix list is just Reaching for Faux-Intellectual Browney Points. Metropolis and 2001 must be listed for their influence. But Snowpiertcer?, Sunshine? Some of them are not even SciFi. Star Wars is not even mentioned? It's more SciFi than Mad Max. And infinitely more influential on the genre.
How old are you? Millennial most likely. One Star Wars is not Science Fiction its Science Fanasty. Plz go on your self-aggrandizing tirade somewhere else because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. When you can actually in for me with your pseudo intellectualism wake me until then f*** off
This made my day to see Contact being picked for the alien movie. One of my favorite movies of all time and one I have and still quote to this day.
Her over Blade Runner? Seems a bit like you're overreaching for an original viewpoint. Her is good, but in the end, it does not touch BR for originality and vision.
I wouldn't even call Her sci-fi. It's just a long, boring conversation between a man and his earpiece. And Phoenix is a good actor!
@@samwilson2784 It's still sci-fi, just sci-fi romance.
@@lameduck1690 it has scifi elements but its not a scifi
Jesse It’s sci-fi, dude. One of the main focal points is literally AI.
Damn it hurt to see 1984 and Brazil get beaten out, but Metropolis is 100% the correct choice for that spot!
Solaris has to be in any sci-fi list. Even more then Stalker.
"Mr Angiers have you considered the cost of such a machine?"
"Price is not an object."
"Perhaps not... But have you considered the *cost*."
Some of my favourite writing from any Nolan movie.
Where is Blade Runner and Alien??
Artimis Lestrange edgy
Nay salty
I saw a clip of Alien lol
Sackper2on or Back to the Future or Star Wars...
blade runner sucks
District 9 was an exceptional Sci-fi movie one of my personal favorites.
As wacky as that movie got, it was ingenious and deeper than it presented itself. Loved it.
@@darreneriksen One of my favorite scenes in the movie was towards the end.
When the leader of the cult gang threatened to eat his alien arm so he turn to an alien too.
That was disturbing but hilarious at the same time.
Still waiting for that sequel where they come back and cure Wikus
AGREED! I hated watching it. It’s brutal, disturbing, raw, and gave me a stomach ache. But, it’s a brilliant movie that makes its point right in your gut. Everyone should see it (but probably only once.)
That they picked Her over this movie is almost a crime against art. It makes me think they are choosing movies based on broader appeal, rather than the actual quality of the movie.
District 9 makes a mockery of its own story line right out of the gate. That nobody working on the film pointed out the idiotic mistake they made is the question that needs answering. They go and show us this alien scavenging through their discarded bits of tech to gather the black goop. A few drops here, a few drops there. He's been doing it for years they tell us because he knows how much he needs to get the ship going. And then.... well just forget about all that... because dumb human guy spills a bunch of it all over himself and the room. And well, the alien still has enough! Go figure, dumb the alien spent all that time gathering more when he didn't even need to because he long ago had enough. Why the fuck would they create that story and then, 5 minutes later, shit on their own story and toss it in the bin as if it never existed? Ruined what would have otherwise been a good movie.
I think artificial intelligence by speilberg is one off the best films ever along with bladerunner and minority report.
I agree that it is very underrated. I don't know about "best ever" but I would def recommend it to people.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is #3. This channel just made it onto my "Do Not Recommend" list.
My personal favorite is I AM HERE.... NOW
It's about an alien cyborg jesus-type-guy who comes to earth to do good.
Amen Neil Breen, the one, the only, the genius, the ultimate Human Breen
But my real favorites are Children of Men, Blade Runner, Her, 2001, Matrix, The Truman Show, A clockwork Orange, Inception, Wall-E, Brazil and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!
Pedro Soares I've always preferred Double Down
James Coppolino definitely another masterpiece but I'll always like I am here... now better. My favorite is Fateful Finfings though
Pedro Soares Terminator 2: Judgement Day?
Pedro Soares lol you must be a yms fan, you both have very similar taste and he introduced me to Neil brein lol
Blade Runner & Alien weren't on the list. Both are classics that redefine the genre & have influenced future films that followed. To not include either in the top 10 is shameless - also, Arrival!?
oli will I was a bit confused myself at the exclusion of Blade Runner and Alien.
oli will they mention both, I think there honorable mentions
Chris B Still, regardless of being mentioned, they should be on the list.
While they are science fiction, and very good, let's be honest here. Alien is more horror than science fiction and while Blade Runner is _good,_ even _very good,_ it's not the _best._
Frankenstein077 both are science fiction & both are masterpieces.
Genius, I tells Ya. It’s like withholding an Oscar nomination from Margo Robbie just to get people to yell and scream about how unfair it was. Great sci-fi films are the kind you want to watch over and over again and never get tired of them. Films like Predator, the Core, and Alien. Your grouping has half the films that nobody’s ever heard of and the other half nobody ever watched. (Not counting 2001). What meaning does life even have with no War of the Worlds, no Star Wars and no Avatar? None! It’s going to take some time for people to digest these picks and get some closure.
1:59 why didn't you recommend interstellar?
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The day the earth stood still was fantastic. I agree that it should have made the list.
Yo if independence day resurgence isn't here ill unsubscribe
Knut Stenberg exactly
Good riddance. LOL
Well, they did list the first ID4 at some point as an example... Close enough?
Bye.
Knut Stenberg Even Tarvoksky approved of it.
Thank you for showing the genre respect and not filling the list with action and adventure movies that barely count as Sci-Fi.
He puts the Prestige 🤨
I'm so damn happy STALKER is on this list!! ❤️
I've never heard you guys insult shit like transformers. So I don't think that comment on interstellar was necessary. I don't get why people don't like that film.
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Because when you get past the cinematography and special effects, it's schlock.
I don't really get all the hate either... Its a fantastic and deep movie. Definitely not for everyone but it doesn't deserve all the crap it gets.
yeah, interstellar was great!
also, they knock interstellar yet snowpiercer made this list!? honestly, that movie was shit
it ain't Cinefix if their lists don't have The Mirror or Children of Men
MightyQuinn2021 Okay but they're so good lol
2001 should be seen once every ten years, its meaning changes every time.
No, not really. Since the first time I saw it, it is still boring, and my repetitive efforts were useless to watch it till the end, again.
That's just you bringing another ten years of baggage to the viewing.
I'd say I should be viewed at least once, but definitely not as a child or a teenager. I would give this movie age rating of 30+ as it's time in your life when you start thinking about such things way deeper. It's a great movie, but watching it at a young age you're doing yourself disservice.
One of the most boring movies I ever saw, and I love sci fi.
@@billc2198 you just can't appericiate art don't you? It's slow-paced, but once you get the deeper meaning of this film - you won't find it boring.
People just dont have the sense for quality anymore, so quality basically starts to cease-to-matter, which is sad af.
You sir, are absolutely on point. I’m now 25 years old and disappointed in what movies have become and becoming, I remember 5 to 6 years ago back in my teen days where great movies were popping out of nowhere with amazing actors, excellent plots and on par quality. Now you’ll be lucky if you get a good one in two or three years period
Sorry for being whiny 🙇 but I had to get it off my chest 😤
I can't believe that 2001: A Space Odyssey, was made in 1968. It's perhaps one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. The visuals are mind-blowing and always will be. One of the greatest movies ever made period.
2001 is the definition of a mystery wrapped in a conundrum. Read the book to better understand the movie end up more confused. Absolutely love the movie and agree it is pure genius!
An anomaly, Beautiful to experience. Not to mention so far ahead of its time.
Visually pleasing, yes, a waste of an hour and a half, also yes.
Underrated comment. It came out 9 years before Star Wars and the effects are just as good, if not better than SW.
Perhaps 2001is still good because he is not shaped for the understanding 13 years old public
Movie industry really feed us with cheap stuff that will involve immediate feelings without intelligence process from ours
Gattaca and Edge of Tomorrow.. Brilliant Sci Fi!
Soylent Green is the greatest Science Fiction film of all time because it's the most accurate depiction of humanity's future. The environment is ruined, there's a year-long heat wave, ocean life is extinct, the rich live in absurd luxury while the poor are packed together like sardines, the police are morally bankrupt thugs, and there are riots because of water and especially food shortages, to the point that the government has resorted to turning human corpses into food. How much of that already sounds familiar?
Great list. I might have added 'Predestination' for the time travel part that should be included in a list like this.
2049 watched after the original Blade Runner is really quite a compelling beautiful frightening philosophical narrative. It's screaming out for pt.3.
I doubt if that will ever happen although I admit 2049 was very enjoyable. It's disappointing that so few people showed up to watch it.
I had some issues with it, and loved the original, but I will say it was aesthetically the best thing I've ever seen. I really hope they keep building out that universe.
We don't need a third one as great as the sequel is
Hope they do a third.
They'd better hurry.
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I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and im all outta bubblegum.
yeah,his lines are so trashy...what a gem! Love it!
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Any list that doesn't include Blade Runner, The Matrix and They Live isn't worth taking serious, but honestly I wouldn't include hardly any of these picks in the top 10.
Matrix is not good it was just flashy action very little true story
LOL at Blade Runner non making the list. You guys have some sense of humor.
Its number 1.
It's shit, and overrated. Pretty fucking simple actually.
Star wars? Alien? Blade Runner? The Terminator? The Martian? BACK TO THE FUCKING FUTURE?? All movies I would rather watch than "2001"
@@themedip Its overrated, but its a good movie
@@chrisc1926 I guess I just hate it
Surprised that both "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" were not mentioned. "Star Wars" gave us nine movies involving the Skywalker families over 42 years between 1977 - 2019. "Star Trek" started as a TV series in 1966 with Captain Kirk, Spock and others, then gave us 10 movies about the wildest space adventures you can think of.
Star Wars is space fantasy, not really (hard) Sci-Fi, although they included lots of other movies that I don’t consider hard Sci-Fi. Star Trek definitely is though, so I guess they just didn’t think any of the films were Top Ten material? Hard to guess at the reasoning here, with films like The Prestige and Eternal Sunshine making the list, which I don’t consider Sci-Fi at all. Sure they have unexplainable elements, but that doesn’t automatically make them _science_ fiction.
While I strongly disagree with your opinion on Interstellar (I thought it was incredible), it's nice of you guys to give credit to a few movies that don't make these kind of lists so often like Snowpiercer and Children of Men.
Only sad that Children of Men is not a SciFi movie, it is a dystopia... There is no technical novum/novelty in the whole movie.
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Children of men sucked. And of course the only child in UK was black. All about racial attacks on whites
it should be on top
Um, duh. If you could pick up on the not so subtle nod to Jesus, you'd understand. Jesus would have been a little brown baby. Besides, white people aren't the end all be all of everything. I suppose you didn't mind the black guy being the villain.
Why don't you guys like Interstellar?
go through a black hole, travel back in time to push books off a shelf and then reappear near Jupiter some 40 years later. NOT good at all but I only watched it once.
aaron this is S C I F I. besides of that, have you been through black? have any of us been there? No, all of these things they have told are just theories. "and then reappear near Jupiter some 40 years later" you obviously didnt watch the whole movie lad. He was in a planet right next to black hole, where times run slower (thats actually a another theorie)
Why don't these guys like Interstellar? Because they're allowed to?
1ωω0RT4L Dawid are you saying that it may be possible to survive falling into a black hole to talk to your daughter and use your magical power of love to save all mankind?
One of the aspects that makes Sci-fi good is that the genre offers ample opportunity to look backwards and critique the society we live in or look forwards and raise interesting questions about human nature.
Interstellar does neither. Interstellar's Earth is dying. This is very interesting. There are lots of ideas to explore here. Interstellar doesn't explore any. The fact that the Earth is dying is just a vehicle to move the plot forward.
The astronaut man abandons his daughter to try to save the planet. Again interesting ideas to explore, the movie doesn't. Sleeping one's life away? Wasn't explored.
The ideas that are explored are played solely for spectacle.
10. Close Encounters of a Third Kind
9. Snowpiercer
8. Ex Machina
7. Avatar
6. Wall-E
5. Bladerunner
4. Bladerunner 2049
3. Terminator 2
2. Alien
1. 2001
If anyone likes the movie “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind” then you should check out a movie called “The Science Of Sleep”
In no particular order, here is my list:
Arrival
Alien
Blade Runner
Children of Men
The Terminator
Gattaca
Contact
The Day The Earth Stood Still (original)
Jurassic Park
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Hartung good list! I've never seen Andromeda Strain - so now i'm going to check it out. Thanks!
you select arrival and not interstellar? whats wrong with you? I dont see why people like arrival.
Glad to see Andromeda Strain here. Totally freaked me out as a young kid,
I still don't get why people didn't like interstellar. It was rather accurate in terms of physics.
They actually dealt with the way a massive black hole warps space time, and their depiction of a black hole is the most accurate depiction of a black hole in all of cinema.
It also had some amazing sequences like the docking one. And Tars made the movie so much better.
The whole black hole bookshelf thing was a bit outlandish. But overall I thought it was a phenomenal film.
the problem is that most people don't understand (theoretical) physics and thus get put off by a lot of ideas in the movie. they will simply call it bad or 'impossible' because they don't understand it really.
as for the bookshelf I guess that's more opinion based, personally I thought it was a pretty good representation, keep in mind that it had to be something that cooper could understand, wrap his head around (as in why he was there and what he was supposed to do and how) and use to relay his message. since he had already experienced murphs "ghost" he knew how he could communicate with her using only gravity (as that apparently is the only force that can cross the dimensions)
the problems that interstellar has have nothing to do with physics, wich everyone that knows about it keeps repeating how informed and accurate the movie is in that regard. sadly the plot, story and characters in the movie weren´t handly that much carefully. There is where its flaws are
Yeah, because every bitch who bitches about it have a linear logic to everything they perceive as reality...
Interstellar was entertaining. That’s it. The accurate physics business sounds great but there were deviations to make the movie more entertaining. I thought a B grade blockbuster.
People want a happy resolution to this kind of movie. Now technically it has a "happy ending" with him returning to the woman he's fallen in love with, but that was never the point of the movie, which was about him returning to his family. Getting back just in time to see his daughter die of old age was a bummer. Even if the two of them saved humanity (they did) we still feel as though he "lost" because he didn't get the happy reunion he'd imagined and hoped for. Reminds me a bit of The Last American Virgin. One of the funniest popcorn flicks coming of age comedies ever BUT it has a very dark ending, and people commonly say they hated the movie. No, they loved the movie, but hated the way it ended.
Here's my list :
1. Interstellar
2. Inception
3. The Truman Show
4. Mad Max : Fury Road
5. X-Men : Days of future past
6. Rise of the planet of the apes
7. The Butterfly Effect
8. Looper
9. The Matrix
10. The Prestige
Inception should have got at least a mention, like the Matrix did
Did anyone else find "Inception" tried too hard to be clever?
@@NybergCarl exasperantly overrated movie.
@@Balfour. You didnt understood it thats why.
His list was stupid in my opinion. Matrix was actually better than all the movies on this crap list.
@@issi529 what's so incredibly challenging to understand about it? lol
- Solaris (1972)
- Logan’s Run (1976)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
- Arrival (2016)
- Contact (1997)
- Gravity (2013)
- Minority Report (2002)
- Brazil (1985)
- 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Gojira (1952)
- V for Vendetta (2006)
- Looper (2012)
- Stalker (1979)
- Alien (1979)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Contact (1997)
- Children of Men (2006)
- Her (2013)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Sunshine (2007)
- 12 Monkeys (1995)
- Another Earth (2011)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The Matrix (1999)
- 1984 (1984)
- Logan’s Run (1976)
- Soylent Green (1973)
- Snowpiercer (2013)
- Contagion (2011)
- The Andromeda Strain (1971)
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
- Melancholia (2011)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- The Road (2009)
- E.T. (1982)
- Independence Day (1996)
- The Abyss (1989)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Attack the Block (2011)
- District 9 (2009)
- Under the Skin (2013)
- Men in Black (1997)
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
- A.I. (2001)
- I, Robot (2004)
- Ex Machina (2015)
- Moon (2009)
- Warm Bodies (2013)
- Terminator 2 (1991)
- Alien (1979)
- They Live (1988)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Upstream Color (2013)
- Predator (1987)
- Dark City (1998)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Gattaca (1997)
- The Running Man (1987)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Primer (2004)
- Source Code (2011)
- Repo Men (2010)
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
- Robocop (1987)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Interstellar (2014)
- The Hunger Games (2012)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- Alphaville (1965)
- Strange Days (1995)
- Altered States (1980)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- Pi (1998)
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
- Limitless (2011)
- Abre los Ojos (1997)
- Total Recall (1990)
- Videodrome (1983)
- Strange Days (1995)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Akira (1988)
- Wall-E (2008)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- The Host (2006)
- Stalker (1979)
It makes me sad that I've seen all these. There just aren't enough SciFi movies. I always want more.
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Surprised Equilibrium wasn't mentioned. A distopian socitety where all "evil" is considered to be derived from emotion, and so they create a society without emotion by limiting the brain to not experience emotion and destroying anything that evokes emotion, like art. The action and setpieces in the movie are also fantastic and the introduction to gun kata is simply cool as heck and timeless.
Hi can a top 10 list not include Aliens and Terminator 2? They are certainly two of the best realised sci films of all time.
Bizarre list that doesn't even mention one of the best categories, time travell and time paradoxes
It wasn't explicitly mentioned but was definitely featured in the number one science fiction film (2001) according to this particular presentation.
Maybe they're saving time travel for a list of its own.
You did see a wee clip of looper.
Prestige comes really close and offers a paradox version of multi-dimension transportation.
My two fave time travel movies are The Time Machine (orig) and Somewhere in Time.
@@HeronCoyote1234 Predestination is the best of the genre.
I think Children of Men is one of the most underrated films of all time. True masterpiece.
True. But before I watch it again I am popping a couple Paxil.
It's not underrated - everyone knows and love that movie.
7.9 on Imdb with 450 000 votes - yes most underrated film of all time.
Nothing like the book though.
YMMV, but when the book was released it was widely regarded as a pretentious piece of s**t. The movie also was not that successfull at the time, and rightly so. IMO, it's almost as derivative and bad as Equilibrium.
Definitely agree with 2001:A Space Odyssey being the Number 1 sci fi movie of all time.
In re: 2001: a Space Odyssey: "Sometimes, if it ain't broke, you really don't need to fix it." I see what they did there (the AE-35 unit).
Why the hate for Interstellar?
Because Interstellar sucked
Because love transcends the limits of time and space! >_
Paul Frederick I don't think so at all though
How humanity got to the future in the first place? If the omnipotent humans need Matthew McConaughey to communicate the secret of love to his daughter through library book code in order to save humanity, how did that future race come to exist to begin with? How are they communicating from a future that wouldn’t exist without the very actions with which they are currently intervening?
DarkVortex42 Contact was more or less the same really, and it's on the list
District 9 is one of my favorite films. Sharlto Copley is amazing
Love that film. But...it's still an also-ran.
Watch Hardcore Henry Of Sharlto Copley, that film is also amazing
chinmay kaul ye Iv seen it I enjoyed it c
@@AB-gz9yb please suggest me some good action/ thriller movie!!
chinmay kaul a great action movie is END OF WATCH best cop movie I’ve seen in a while
my favorite genre of cinematography
1) Blade Runner
2) Original Star Wars Trilogy (not seperable in my opinion because its a coherent story)
3) Blade Runner 2049
4) Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
5) The Terminator (1984)
6) Alien
7) Back to the Future
8) Aliens
9) Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
10) 12 Monkeys
Star wars is NOT sci-fi.
Is fantasy fiction, like LOTR or Harry Potter
“Forbidden Planet” is my favorite.
I agree. Monsters from the Id.
I still remember the shock and horror I felt as the idea sank in. Those final hours as night swept the planet and nightmares stalked the land.
Surely, you can't be serious!
It's hard to watch that now after Nielson's last flicks ;-) That, or even Swamp Fox from the early sixties on TV!
The special effects were unreal for the day, and still stand the test of time!
@@chrislong3938 I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
@@JohnJ469 I was waiting for it! ;-)
Happy New Year and let's hope it ain't like the last one! Regardless on One's POV!
Happy about the Children of Men pick. Not happy about the Blade Runner snub. And Stalker > 2001
Giuseppe Siciliano...
Blade Runner > Stalker > 2001 > Solaris
LOL fuckin' Blade Runner fanatics. Better than 2001? Bananas.
Giuseppe Siciliano 2001 is by far the best sci-fi movie ever because of its impact on the movie industry
Ethidian ever heard of opinions..
STALKER SURE AS HELL IS NOT BETTER THAN 2001
I believe "Interstellar" should be on this list. Great movie.
Primer
it is xD
over-rated imho - but most of that is because of the fanboy hype. I enjoyed it when I saw it, then got totally bored with the 'greatest sci-fi most accurate sci-fi, everything was perfect' fanboy comments, so now keep seeing errors and unscientific stuff in it, which spoiled it.
@@Raven.flight "Errors and unscientific stuff" lol you can't just say that it's a SCIENCE *FICTION* movie,
Agree with you tho it's overrated but the movie truly deserves the praise.
@@i.washere I have zero problems with Star Wars and Star Trek, or the gazillion other sci-fi, because they and their fans don’t bang on about how scientifically accurate it was. Kip Thorne was an advisor on the film, but it still has scientific inaccuracies in it, which is fine, right up until the fanboys over play “scientifically accurate” card at every turn. That then gets me looking for scientific inaccuracies.
After I walked out of the theatre I was wowed. Thought it was great.
Then came the IMDB discussions, and it all went south from there.
Not the film’s fault. It’s the fanboys fault