Ranking the best Science Fiction movies of all time

Like most of these lists, some sensible, some bollocks (Flash Gordon?)

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

I saw "Mad Max Fury Road" ranked as the number one science fiction movie of all time.

After I stopped laughing, I closed the page and resolved never to visit the site again.


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Lots of great movies on the list. Will have to check out some of the ones I haven't seen. Thanks for posting.

I was glad to see "Metropolis" from the 1920s, a silent film. There are a scattering from the '60s, a handful from the '70s, but the bulk is made up of films from the '80s up to very recent years, including one that is a new release in theaters right now ("Doctor Strange).

You have Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) on there - which I greatly approve of - but the picture that illustrates it is of Donald Sutherland in the 1977 remake, so I don't know which film you intended.

Someone has already commented on the ringers that have been put in there to fill up the list. "Flash Gordon" has already come up; I would mention the unwatchable "Avatar."

I have to assume that you have never seen the much loved classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) because your list includes only the insipid, failed 2008 remake.

I hope you will consider widening your viewing experience. Here are a dozen suggestions of excellent and thought provoking sci-fi from, mainly, the 1950s and '60s. I hope you are not averse to a little exploring.

Things to Come (1936) / William Cameron Menzies
The Thing from Another World (1951) / Christian Nyby
The War of the Worlds (1953) / Byron Haskin
Gojira (1954) / Ishirô Honda
Tarantula (1955) / Jack Arnold
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) / Jack Arnold
On the Beach (1959) / Stanley Kramer
The Time Machine (1960) / George Pal
Fail-Safe (1964) / Sidney Lumet
Seconds (1966) / John Frankenheimer
Tanin no kao (1966) (The Face Of Another) / Hiroshi Teshigahara

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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" Winston Churchill (1874-1965)