The 10 Best Sci-Fi Flicks Of All Time

Absolute awesome list and all these movies are very famous as well as top sci fic movies ever. I am a huge fan of The Terminator series and I have been watched all the part of this series. But there are many other movies I haven't seen, your list will help me to find out the best movie to watch.

2001: A Space Odyssey and its Soviet cousin Solaris by Tarkovsky (Soderbergh's version is truncated from the film than the book while showing off Clooney's bum) for existential drug trips and glacial pacing with mind blowing endings. 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind- It completely got to me as a kid who was suddenly afraid of getting kidnapped by aliens.  Spielberg's best film. 

Brazil- Because everybody needs a tripped out fusion of Terry Gilliam and George Orwell. 

Akira- This anime classic appears to be closer to the teen anti-hero rebels and Mad Max films on the surface but takes a fascinating turn to 2001 and Solaris.  If I am seething at the thought of remaking this into a live action film (and the Wachowskis already did a really similar, shorter story with The Second Renaissance in The Animatrix). 

Blade Runner Director's Cut- Ridley Scott did have it right in cutting out the narration but I do get where the theatrical cut was going in embracing its neo-noir.  Still one of the most beautiful looking films I have ever seen. 

RoboCop- Incredibly violent (its initial cut got an X-rating for goodness sakes), funny in both a satirical and gallows sense, and my 'drop everything you are doing and watch it' film. 

The Iron Giant- Brad Bird's first theatrical animated film restored the sense of wonder missing since in his prime Spielberg.  Too bad few saw it in theaters.  

Children of Men- Another film that was little seen but is a great twist on the waning apocalypse part of sci-fi that Hollywood loves. 

Alien- A cabin in the woods film in outer space that not since 2001 has a sci-fi film taken a darker, more cynical view of space and modernism that does not sledgehammer its audience. 

I am a huge Star Wars fan and aficionado and all I can say is, thank you, Mr. Musto, for leaving the original trilogy off your list.   Star Wars is not sci-fi- it's a fantasy, a space opera that owes more to the American Western and Japanese Samurai movie genres, in addition to Joseph Campbell, than science fiction. 

wow people really have some opinions about this.  I love ever movie on your list, and I just added The Thing to my Netflix, I love that movie I haven;t seen it in years

No 4 made me laugh it was weird, sick and just plain awful. Hey I'd say Wrath of Khan and even Star Trek the Movie beat that sick, nasty, and just awful flick.

It could easily replace Terminator 2!

The Original Day the Earth Stood Still belongs on this list but I cannot figure out which film's place it would take.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Road Warrior - love that movie.

The original '50s 'The Thing' is far superior to the Carpenter re-make. I agree with the other comments about 'Forbidden Planet' and 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'.

How the hell does 'Aliens' rank higher than 'Alien'? That's just ridiculous.

Where did 'Battlefield Earth" come in?

"The Day the Earth Stood Still."  Still relevant 60 years later.  Not outdated one bit (unlike, say, "Blade Runner").

Did you know that every product or company mentioned in "2001" was out of business by the year 2001?  That includes the beautiful Pan-Am sequence to "Blue Danube".  

And The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Hello?  Forbidden Planet? 

How can any list of great Sci-Fi epics not include Heartbeeps?

This this is moot without Star Wars at #1.

Which version?

Nobody thinks "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" deserves a mention??

The Sound of Music.

One of my favorites is The Brother from Another Planet. I re-watched Alien the other day - I really like that movie. It probably wouldn't be made today because the hero is female and the only one left alive at the end besides the cat. I like how the Alien movies are anti-corporate (I'm not counting the horrible and stupid Alien Resurrection). And another message is that love and compassion can kill us, but life isn't worth living without them.The Man who Fell to Earth is another good one.

"Burlesque"!!

"Metropolis" ranks under "Terminator 2"???? What are these people on??

HAHA. Number 5 made me laugh.