Cult Lab's Ultimate Sci-Fi List
 

Start working those brains and let's take a trip to an other dimension together and explore the cosmos of your favourite Sci-Fi films.

How long are we making the lists? It needs standardising.

Maximum of 100 again? I can then use the same scoring system - assuming you want me to compile the list again of course! :mummy:

That would be fantastic.

Thanks for the offer b_e. :clap:

Yeah 100 sounds good to me. Hope no one minds that I took it upon myself to start the thread. I was the one that took the other thread off topic.

I did suggest someone start a thread to stop sci-fi chat on the other thread.

You must not have noticed.


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I think we need some sort of criteria here otherwise the poll could be full of Frankenstein's and The Thing type films.

Not at all - this having its own thread would be a good way to gauge interest. :nod:

Plus, people are free to make all the threads they like... within reason of course :tongue1:

How about if IMDb lists the film as having sci-fi as a genre then the film is fair game?

I will be able to do 100 Sci fi films. :)

I've just listed my top 50 already, not in order i might add.

It might be a struggle to do a top 100.

I might end up adding things to make up numbers.

Wow - that was quick!

I have a feeling I may struggle to get a Top 100 I'm happy with... after all, it took me three years to complete my Top 666 horror film list. :rolleyes:

I can see all my sci-fi movies from where i sit at my PC. ;)

Where do things like Harry Potter, Krull and LOTR fit in?

Are they sci-fi? Is fantasy like that allowed?

Potter. LOTR is not classed as sci-fi. Krull however is. :)

I think we may have to take the approach as we did in the horror list and leave it to the individual to decide. If you think a film is borderline then it's up to you whether you want to include it, but if no-one else sees it as 'Sci-Fi' then it might not make the overall list.

I don't really want to dictate to people what they can/can't include, as genre is open to interpretation to an extent, which we've already seen in the horror list with the likes of Silence of the Lambs, Seven, King Kong etc.

Just checking IMDb to see what qualifies there are so many films I would never regard as Sci-Fi this may be harder than I taught.

It was just a suggestion - follow your heart Nordy! :skull:

Oh no I didn't mean anything by It I just never realised how much ground was covered by the term Sci-Fi I'm still a novice of horror let alone other genres :skull:

I think we should make it top 50.

Would Day of the Dead (1985) or Frankenstein films (Universal and Hammer) be science-fiction. I think they could be classified as such as they deal with science after all.

I second this.

B_e can always double the points as if it were a hundred.

I think we should play it by ear and see how many people submit lists and then take it from there.

Completely your choice, Bub. If you consider a film Sci-Fi, by all means list it! :frank:

In fact u could say that all Romero's zombie films are science-fiction or the return of the living dead series - created by military science.

true wasn't night of the living dead hinting that it was a space probe that brought back the virus.

1.Metropolis 1927
2.Day of the Dead 1985
3.Hardware 1990
4.Island of Lost Souls 1932
5.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931
6.Jurassic Park 1993
7.Aliens 1986
8.The Man With the X-Ray Eyes 1963
9.Shivers 1975
10.Pacific Rim 2013
11.Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
12.The Dead Zone 1983
13.The Bride of Frankenstein 1935
14.Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell 1973
15.Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
16.The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
17.The Invisible Man 1933
18.District 9 2009
19.Cube 1998
20.28 Days Later… 2002
21.The Thing 1982
22.The Host 2006
23.Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
24.Phase IV 1974
25.Them! 1954
26.Children of Men 2006
27.RoboCop 1987
28.Alien 1979
29.Lucy 2014
30.Blade Runner 1982
31.Starship Troopers 1997
32.Prometheus 2012
33.Split Second 1992
34.Pitch Black 2000
35.The Mist 2007t
36.The Iron Giant 1999
37.The Faculty 1998
38.Tremors 1990
39.Frankenhooker 1990
40.The Kindred 1987
41.Young Frankenstein 1974
42.Return of the Living Dead III 1993
43.From Beyond 1986
44.Alien: Resurrection 1997
45.Frankenstein Created Woman 1967
46.Critters 2 1988
47.Predator 2 1990
48.Frankenstein’s Army 2013
49.Flatliners 1990
50.The Terminator 1984

I wouldn't class any of these as sci-fi. Technically yes, but in the interests of the list they would be in the horror countdown. Otherwise it's just going to be the same films in each list which is pointless.

For any film to make the list it has to have at least 2 votes right? unless Biz doesn't get a lot of input? I love horror films but this list is getting me more excited than the horror list did. I love Sci-Fi movies.

28% of Bub's list are horror films though. :skull:

Some people like a bit of blood on their robots. haha! point taken.

Im gonna make a pot of coffee and try get my list sorted before i go to bed.

Shivers, for example, Parasites, isnt that science fiction

As b_e says it's each to their own. :)

Personally anything i would put in the horror list won't be on the sci-fi list.

Star Wars, Star Trek's, Matrix's, Star Crash's etc - I don't need to put Frankenstein movies in there.

But isn't Shivers basically to do with an experiment about replacing an organ with a parasite, that's pretty sci-fi inmo.
But i get what you mean.;)
Although shouldn't that mean we should take Alien out the horror list?;)

Well i got a top 50 as simple as anything but if i type another 50 out i will be listing low budget stuff i love because im weird so i will do a top 50 again.

Alien is a classic hidden threat horror film that's set on a space ship rather than a house. The other films in the series are purely sci-fi.

Sorry, i don't want this to go round in circles, as i said it's purely each to their own.

I just feel if everyone is going to vote for films they put in the horror poll it's a waste of time. Especially as there's so much other sci-fi out there.

:)

I'd still say Alien's more sci-fi than horror.;)
Dem goes off to get his shotgun.:tongue1:
I'll keep one eye open tonight.:)

I'd also class Jaws as a freak of nature rather than horror.:tongue1:

You do know i'm deliberately winding you up now Dem.;)

In all honesty great work with the poll, i'll try to get my sci-fi list sorted soon.
i will probably lean towards the 50's stuff myself. Does 1984 count as it's not specifically scientific?

Get lost!! :p

As the classic dystopian view of the future i think it may count.

I've never seen it. :peep:

I have listed 70 so far it may take me a bit longer to get it to 50 and then put them in order. Hope to have it finished tomorrow afternoon.

It's pretty downbeat, but in my mind is classic sci-fi.:)
Never seen the bbc version tho, its either Cushing or Pleasance keep meaning to check it out.:nod:
Still the film with John Hurt is pretty good i think.