Guys, Lord of the rings is not SCI-FI, it is FANTASY. That is difference.
Sci-fi is based on some scientific visionary, no fucking wizzards and magic, dragon and dwarfs bullshit.
Topic: Best Sci-fi (Read 2457 times)
in Sci-fi category my vote goes for the classical starTrek. Matrix in the relatively new category. Maybe Independence day as well.
I`d say Star Ship Troopers lol.
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I am off star trek. The last one was just a remake of Wrath of Khan.
After Earth
Wut? It is a joke right? I can be placed in THE WORST sci-fi on earth list, not the best. 
After Earth
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Movie - last Star Trek movie was good
I am off star trek. The last one was just a remake of Wrath of Khan.
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From the recent ones Oblivion comes to mind. Good story, real sci-fi. Unfortunately many so called sci fi movies just a "super hero" rubbish.
Blade Runner with Han Solo and Dune with Sting.
These are some great recommendations, I'd throw in a couple of classic animes too : Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
thanks for mentioning, these are probably two of the biggest milestones of japanese animation.
i haven't watched many animes during the last years,
but i'll add "Paprika" (2006), "Metropolis" (2001)
and especially "Wings of Honneamise" (1987) to that row which is a 2hour-long animated space opera with one of the best endings i've ever seen in that genre.
edit: has somebody already mentioned "Cloud Atlas"?
Lord of the rings and Matrix sagas
Grab a book, the best Science Fiction is written in books. I recommend anything by Peter F. Hamilton as a start (but there are so many more so feel free to completely ignore my specific advice).
Night's Dawn trilogy - a wild look at possession of people in the far future...every space fairing species knows about it but no-one talks about it.
Overall, a great sci-fi opera writer, one of the best.
Possession .... from beyond the grave
(and told in believable fashion).The commonwealth saga/void triology (same universe) is/are also great though. As is a stand alone novel like Fallen Dragon. Damn, such a shame I read all of that already and I have to wait for him to start writing a new book (in the Commonwealth saga/void trilogy universe).
I never read his detective novels though (before he started writing SF)
It's not easy to choose but ...
Star Wars
Star Trek
Independence Day
Fifth Element
Aliens
The Thing
Star Wars
Star Trek
Independence Day
Fifth Element
Aliens
The Thing
Brazil by Terry Gilliam (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846)
and
Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944)
both movies blew my mind when I first watched them, though Stalker can be a bit difficult to grasp without reading the book by Strugatzki Brothers.
besides these two there were many good sci-fi movies during the last decades:
Snowpiercer
Children of Men
District 9
Pi
12 Monkeys
Code 46
Moon
Sunshine
Equilibrium
Solaris (by Kubrick, not that shitty remake with clooney)
Matrix (first one)
Dark City
13th Floor
Dante 01
Cube (original from 1997)
Idiocracy (not the best comedy, but i loved the idea)
The Road (more a post-apocalyptic tale)
classics:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Brazil (masterpiece by terry gilliam)
Blade Runner
Alien
The day the earth stood still (original from 1951)
A Boy and his dog
THX 1138 (first movie by George Lucas)
Dark Star (with the famous philosophising bomb scene)
Soylent Green
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Silent Running
A Clockwork Orange
Altered States
Metropolis
and
Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944)
both movies blew my mind when I first watched them, though Stalker can be a bit difficult to grasp without reading the book by Strugatzki Brothers.
besides these two there were many good sci-fi movies during the last decades:
Snowpiercer
Children of Men
District 9
Pi
12 Monkeys
Code 46
Moon
Sunshine
Equilibrium
Solaris (by Kubrick, not that shitty remake with clooney)
Matrix (first one)
Dark City
13th Floor
Dante 01
Cube (original from 1997)
Idiocracy (not the best comedy, but i loved the idea)
The Road (more a post-apocalyptic tale)
classics:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Brazil (masterpiece by terry gilliam)
Blade Runner
Alien
The day the earth stood still (original from 1951)
A Boy and his dog
THX 1138 (first movie by George Lucas)
Dark Star (with the famous philosophising bomb scene)
Soylent Green
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Silent Running
A Clockwork Orange
Altered States
Metropolis
These are some great recommendations, I'd throw in a couple of classic animes too : Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
Star Trek, man! Everyone may do what they want and don't have to work if they don't like to. That's awesome, man. Also you can travel everywhere you like and probably eat all day long for free. You'd have to be careful and watch out for those Borg people, I guess!
Yep. It's communism (perhaps more socialism) made possible by the invention of the replicator. 
Star Trek, man! Everyone may do what they want and don't have to work if they don't like to. That's awesome, man. Also you can travel everywhere you like and probably eat all day long for free. You'd have to be careful and watch out for those Borg people, I guess!
Brazil by Terry Gilliam (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846)
and
Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944)
both movies blew my mind when I first watched them, though Stalker can be a bit difficult to grasp without reading the book by Strugatzki Brothers.
besides these two there were many good sci-fi movies during the last decades:
Snowpiercer
Children of Men
District 9
Pi
12 Monkeys
Code 46
Moon
Sunshine
Equilibrium
Solaris (by Kubrick, not that shitty remake with clooney)
Matrix (first one)
Dark City
13th Floor
Dante 01
Cube (original from 1997)
Idiocracy (not the best comedy, but i loved the idea)
The Road (more a post-apocalyptic tale)
classics:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Brazil (masterpiece by terry gilliam)
Blade Runner
Alien
The day the earth stood still (original from 1951)
A Boy and his dog
THX 1138 (first movie by George Lucas)
Dark Star (with the famous philosophising bomb scene)
Soylent Green
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Silent Running
A Clockwork Orange
Altered States
Metropolis
and
Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944)
both movies blew my mind when I first watched them, though Stalker can be a bit difficult to grasp without reading the book by Strugatzki Brothers.
besides these two there were many good sci-fi movies during the last decades:
Snowpiercer
Children of Men
District 9
Pi
12 Monkeys
Code 46
Moon
Sunshine
Equilibrium
Solaris (by Kubrick, not that shitty remake with clooney)
Matrix (first one)
Dark City
13th Floor
Dante 01
Cube (original from 1997)
Idiocracy (not the best comedy, but i loved the idea)
The Road (more a post-apocalyptic tale)
classics:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Brazil (masterpiece by terry gilliam)
Blade Runner
Alien
The day the earth stood still (original from 1951)
A Boy and his dog
THX 1138 (first movie by George Lucas)
Dark Star (with the famous philosophising bomb scene)
Soylent Green
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Silent Running
A Clockwork Orange
Altered States
Metropolis
New movies - Oblivion, Transcendence
Old Movies - Matrix Triology, Riddick
Old Movies - Matrix Triology, Riddick
SCi-fi?
Try Star trek
Star wars
Aliens
from new try all
Try Star trek
Star wars
Aliens
from new try all
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