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Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie?

Posted by msmash on from the this-should-be-interesting dept.

Many say it's the golden age of science fiction cinema. And rightly so, every month, we have a couple of movies that bend the rules of science to explore possibilities that sometimes make us seriously consider if things we see on the big screen could actually be true. The advances in graphics, and thanks to ever-so-increasing video resolution, we're increasingly leaving the theaters with visually appealing memories. That said, there are plenty of movies made back in the day that are far from ever getting displaced by the reboots spree that the Hollywood is currently embarking. With readers suggesting us this question every week, we think it's time we finally asked, what's your favorite science-fiction movie? Also, what are some other sci-fi movies that you have really enjoyed but think they have not received enough praises or even much acknowledgement?

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  1. Starship Troopers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Starship Troopers. We can end all discussion now. It's about the greatest movie ever made. Anyone who disagree is a bug lover.

    1. Re:Starship Troopers by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would like to know more.

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  2. Better yet... by Type44Q · · Score: 3, Funny
    Better yet, why don't you tell us yours,/I> msmash... but can you make it as entertaining as this line from your summary??

    ...that are far from ever getting displaced by the reboots spree that the Hollywood is currently embarking.

    Did you have to run that through a translator a couple times to get the desired effect? ;)

  3. Spaceballs by Vegan+Cyclist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not a 'great' movie, but for sure one of my favourites. =)

  4. Re:Golden age of remakes maybe by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Right, right, right... but apart from Avatar, Edge of Tomorrow, Interstellar, Looper, Gravity, Inception, and District 9, what have the Romans ever done for us?!

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  5. Howard The Duck by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm surprised Howard The Duck hasn't been mentioned yet, I would have thought that was everyone's favourite sci-fi. Or are people not mentioning it because they see it more as a drama?

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  6. Re:The red pill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Loved the fist Matrix movie.

    What do you mean, the "first" Matrix movie?

  7. You missed the point of the movie. by denzacar · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's an "in-universe" propaganda movie to get people jacked up for war and boost recruitment numbers.
    Think "Triumph of the Will" meeting "Top Gun".

    Except it's Verhoeven behind the camera. And when he satirizes something he dials it up to 11.
    And then he breaks off the dial and replaces it with a "MORE!!!" button, which he then beats with a hammer until there's nothing left to indicate that it's a satire.

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  8. Re:Code 46 by vivian · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Matrix.
    Watching that movie for the first time with no idea what it was about was fantastic - was it a hacker movie? alien invasion? spy thriller or detective movie? some kind of martial arts superhero movie? Going down the rabbit hole was great.

    A shame they never made a sequel...

  9. Mine is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...The Bible. It has everything: a megalomaniac creator in outer space, life after death, a talking snake, world catastrophe, a true world war...it has everything fantastic!

    1. Re:Mine is... by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sorry, but no. I have NEVER EVER read a worse book.

      What do you have? A completely unlikable protagonist, a Mary-Sue character if there ever was one, worse than in any Star Trek fanfic. Knows everything, can do everything, and every other important figure wants to be his friend and suck up to him. And being immortal he doesn't even have the decency to die at the end and sacrifice himself for everyone else, which is about the only redeeming feature those Mary-Sues have.

      Plus, there is zero character development. None. At the start, when he acts all childish, kicks out the nudists for not conforming to his whims and flushing everything when he notices he made mistakes, you'd think that in the end he realizes that this is morally wrong and that one shouldn't do that, you'd expect some sort of catharsis, some insight, some atonement and eventual redemption so he would in the end emerge as a better god... but no. Nope. In the sequel he sends his son down (who is a far more likable character) and has him tortured and killed because ... reasons.

      Sorry, but that book just sucks.

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  10. Re: Golden age of remakes maybe by reanjr · · Score: 3, Funny

    No true Scotsman would agree with your assessment.