Best Science Fiction Movies

Star Wars I: Revenge of the Sith is good but nowhere as great as The Empire Strikes back. Every time I look at a top ten on this site, I find that many of the selections are jokes indeed. 2001 or The Empire Strikes Back are the finest science fiction films ever made. But I will give a selection of what a great list should look like. 1. The Empire Strikes Back 2.2001 3. Star Wars 4. Frankenstein 5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 6. The Bride of Frankenstein 7. A Clockwork Orange 8. Day the Earth Stood Still 9. Invasions of the Body Snatchers 10. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

The Empire Strikes back will always have a place in my heart. Don't get me wrong I loved 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I can remember that when a watched it for the first time I wasn't sure what was going on at the end. I really like the elements the added to the Empire Strikes back. More action scenes. I also liked seeing Yoda for the first time. My favorite scene is the duel between Luke and Vader at the end.

Even though I liked 2001: A Space Odyssey I felt there was something missing. Action. 2001: A Space Odyssey has suspense. HAL 9000 still gives my sister nightmares. That voice! Sounds like Siri... But I feel that I'm more of an action guy. And the Star Wars franchise is the ultimate sci-fi action movie. Just pick the best movie from the series and you have the arguably the best sci-fi film of all time and one of the best movies of all time!

One of the best shirts ever having is of Empire Strikes Back. A lot in this 5th Star Wars installment with regards to technology going every which way. A fine rendition with believable 'on their feet' characters constant in action. How it is done is a nifty magician to here up to now. A fan of this am certain it is good as the best in film!

This is my favorite MOVIE of all time. I was about 15 when it was released and saw it in Cinerama in Tampa. It was totally amazing and cemented my desire to have a career in the space program ultimately supporting every shuttle mission for NASA at KSC. The overall them was cerebral and amazing. The story was fantastic and the SFX are still beyond even some of what we see today. I will admit it is not for everyone and I highly recommend reading the book for explanations of some of the more esoteric parts but it is truly an astounding film accomplishment, particularly when considering the date it was made.

2001: A Space Odyssey should always be 1st place because:

1: Its Physics are 90% realistic
2: It has a straight on story of what happens
3: Space environment has no sound which is very real
4: Uses classical 19th century music (Very calm happy music)
5: Its released in the 60s before star wars
6: It makes more sense
7: Very interesting and adventerous
8: The movie is supposed to to be a future prediction the whole time. In the 60s, people thought there would be spaceships and moon bases in the year 2001
9: It was so popular, the made its sequel in 1984 called 2010 pushing the story further
10: The whole filmed in one very large room that's less expensive than filming in several different locations like star wars.

It should top star wars, Gravity, Intersteller and star trek

Unlike star wars return of the jedi (I'm not calling out the others because they don't have this problem), it stand the test of time. Instead of using crappy green screen effects, they use well-made practical effects that look good enough to have come out in 2001. But this movie came out in 1968. Some might say that the narrative is confusing at times. And I don't know where they're getting that from. I wasn't confused at all in any part of this movie.

Honestly, this is way better than star wars. I'm no saying star wars is a bad trilogy but the only reason why people say it's the best movie is because they have one of the biggest fan dims in the world. Plus, 2001 leaves you with something to think about that,for once, is supposed to be interpreted I'm your own way. Star wars doesn't have much only a lot of memorable moments but let's be real here, would you rather see Darth Vader announce he's lukes father or watch Dave deactivate hal?

Greatest Star Wars movie of all time. Return of the Jedi was a disgrace.

Star wars hands down

This movie is not the greatest No other movie is better than The Emperor Strikes Back

The special effects are brilliant! It is much more relatable than Star Wars or Star Trek because it's based on Earth not some made up planet or galaxy. Jurassic Park is great to but there is really no way dinosaurs can be brought back to life. I do believe that robots or androids are realistic, they are already being made.

This movie was such a monumental step in the history of science-fiction movies, and in all of filmmaking with its still-impressive CGI effects. The story, of course, is brilliant also.

One of my favorite movies of all time. This will always earn a special place in my heart. It's sad that Arnold Schwarznegger hasn't been in any incredible movies after the disastrous Batman & Robin.

This is a great movie, and it is not one of those Michael bay movies, it's an action sci fi that has a amazing storyline!

Number 2 after empire strikes back. This is a cult franchise already due to its surrealism, incredible story and the single most terrifying creature in cinema: the xenomorph. It doesn't even need to be a discussion this movie is just iconic in the whole sense of the word.

A combination of science foction and horror. If you like Forbidden Planet you will love this movie. Plus it is the first movie of any time with a woman playing the hero as a physically and mentally imposing figure.

A huge inspiration for the Metroid series and way better than The Matrix, which is just a live action version of the FIRST Ghost In The Shell film!

Best sci-fi movie ever! A terrifyingly amazing scary movie too. The sequel was obviously not as good as the first. This needs to be in the top 10!

Should've been #1, for science fiction. I haven't seen a sci-fi flick that was actually better than this one. The story is fascinating, and the actors are talented. However, I think the best part about the movie are the action sequences and the visual effects. The first half of the movie is pure sci-fi, which is still very interesting. But the second half is action-packed. It's a must-watch for nerds.

Difficult decision. Love Science Fiction movies.
- 2001 A Space Odyssey was amazing and is a CLASSIC.
- Loved Close Encounters Of The Third Kind back in the day

But The Matrix was awesome.

Original storyline, thrilling end, great acting, nice actors, epic fighting sequences and memorable Action & Sci-Fi/Action sequences. Best movie ever made.

Has almost everything you may want from a movie.
Amazing storytelling, great characters and amazing fight scenes

Back to the future is epic movie. the cool part is that, unlike star wars, is set in a place ON EARTH. it's a grate movie, but I can understand how star wars is in 1st place. you can't compete with the second best selling movie of all time.

Marty goes back in 1955 and meets his father and mother back when they were 17 years old. This is some good!

This is a pretty good movie, but how is Serenity not on here?

Spaceballs and Brazil are above this? Unacceptable.

This film is indeed science fiction as proved by the constant reference to the way they created the dinosaurs through gene splicing and editing. The dinosaurs didn't juts pop up because of some wizards spell, but were engineered by scientists.

Deserves an everlasting place in the top ten ever made. I don't even need to look at the other sci-fi/fantasy films to know, it's a one of a kind wonder in cinema's history. Just to state the rather obvious..

A new theme park has just opened, that features Dinosaurs, falls to pieces after a the security falls and all the dinosaurs run loose!

Jurassic Park is one of the best science fiction movies ever! Its different, hence stands out from sci-fi movies about aliens and space. This is an original.

Alien was always one of my favorite moves. Having never seen Aliens, I didn't think it could top the outstanding original. Oh boy was I wrong. This movie is just an outstanding piece of art and will be forever hailed as one of the best sci-fi and action movies of all time.

I like how James Cameron took the horror premise of the first movie and took it into a more action heavy direction with lots of guns, explosions, and even more aliens.

Aliens is the best horror/action movie ever! Absolutely awesome!

No way can this be this low! Easily one of my favorite movies let alone scifi!

The best movie I've ever seen and that's not an exaggeration. Everything is perfect from the acting, to the score by Han Zimmer, and to the DROP DEAD AMAZING cinematography.

What's not there in this film! There is a heavenly feeling while seeing this film but it took the 18th place?

37? Come on people, this movie deserves more... Nolan, Thorne, McConaughey they did an incredible work

Well this is real Sci-Fi movie everything out there in interstellar space is shown. I would rate it on number 2 after 2001:odyssey

Definitely not a good "movie" compared to the classics. This film instead focuses on an idea that no sci fi film has dared: the fall of hope, the tragedy of good people losing their morality and the rise of facism in the decaying aftermath of a brutal war. The original trilogy follows a basic good vs evil story with heroes in a backdrop of a war where no one really important dies and like all star wars films suffers from stilted dialogue. That isn't a problem because George lucas takes his inspiration from 1940s serials which never had great dialogue to begin with. From the amazingly action packed finale of the clone wars, to the raid of the jedi temple, to order 66 and the mustafar duel between anakin, technically vader, and obi wan to the final sunrise leading to a new hope, this film captures the biggest questions the franchise speculated and delivers a space opera of tragedy, loss, angst anf hope. This film gave star wars a much darker tone that raised the stakes and showed the ...more

I never liked the original Star Wars trilogy - too many cliches and such - but it's the prequel movies that allow me to say I do love Star Wars! I admit, they could've improved the story a LOT with this one, but when you boil it down, this one is the best of the bunch. Great special effects, INCREDIBLE acting (especially on Natalie Portman's part) and climatic battle scenes. My only disappointment was seeing General Grievous come and go so fast - he should've hung around for at LEAST the whole trilogy!

Wow THIS LOW this is a great movie and it's the most modern star wars up to date! Don't get me wrong I like the originals, but they were just a few people tapping swords in ightsaber fights. Also episode lll revenge of the sith had genral grievous and showed the best villain and why he became who he is... Darth vader. this episode/ movie is way to underrated

Best Star Wars Film of them all. Ties in the whole franchise, best battle scenes, saddest parts. Nothing compares. Not even the classics.

Wrath of Khan is awesome as finding later in Lower Decks animation that Khan is the greatest villain to canon so far in Star Trek of all time. Certainly unique character feature shown in this movie. Amazing show as well with many great moments. Much good to say about Wrath of Khan.

Top sci-fi movies of all time
1. Return of the Jedi
2. Terminator 2
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Jurassic Park
5. Aliens
6. E.T.
7. Back to the Future
8. Star Wars
9. Close Encounters
10.Star Trek (2009)

Metropolis is so well done for a movie from the 20's! Also, it inspirated a lot of famous movies like star wars, the matrix,...

This is the greatest silent film of all time.

Sci-Fi or reality? The book was the author's nightmare vision in response to his wife being brutally assaulted. Provocative with it's violence and we can't keep our eyes off of it. Kubrick's best.

Really? 78? Come one, people. This one is a masterpiece, a true classic of proper cinema that should be in at least the top 10 or 15.

I can't believe how low this is. This list is better than the other one, but still awful.

I accidentally voted for this.

The Thing is AWESOME! Way better than the first Alien film. Why is it down here?!

Practical effects are outstanding!

A gripping franchise like that of Alien, which saw it way rise to the top with Action Figures, Sequels, Comics etc

What get this higher

Best movie ever

Just Watched it now and here's my star wars list:
6. Phantom menace
5. Attack of the clones
4. Revenge of the sith
3. Empire strikes back
2. Return of the Jedi
1. A new hope
My order still swaps between this and empire strikes back but currently this is my order.

You have this mess on here twice. George Lucas was mind tricked or something

So much action, and destruction, many people died, and don't ever forget what happened to you know who.

This should be one in the top!

No offense to those who loved the Star Wars movies, but I feel that the 5th Element is quite simply, the perfect Sci-Fi movie. There was great humor, amazing story, fantastic visual effects, wonderful acting, fantastic action, etc. Luc Besson is an unparalleled director - even going so far as to create Leeloo's language. Yes, the 5th Element is, in a word... Perfect.

I can't vote all two of the Transformers movies except the Dark of the Moon I don't like! Megan Fox did great in two of these movies even though she can't continue the third movie because of Michael Bay's anoyying experience on making it way more action. Its like he's trying to beat Avatar and Terminator by making famous directors jealous!

Watch this instead of the sequels.

I can't stand this movie

Best ending I've seen, so deep and fascinating movie that talks about prejudices and more.