Sci-fi film faves and flops

[kalexia]

What would you recommend as a great/awful sci-fi movie?

[freeztar]

Good:

Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn
2001: A Space Odyssey (RIP ACC)
Solaris
etc. etc.

[Pyrotex]

Great SF Movies:
This Island Earth (first SF movie in Technicolor)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Robinsoe Crusoe on Mars (starring a very young Adam West!)
Serenity

[kalexia]

I've been missing out! I haven't seen any of the suggested so far! For me, terrible film: Slipstream - it's supposed to be sci-fi but it's not if you ask me.

[SkaSci]

aren't all sci-fi films flops?

[kalexia]

Originally Posted by SkaSci

aren't all sci-fi films flops?

What craziness do you speak? Surely you can't dislike Star Wars? ( the original 3 I mean-not so keen on the newer trilogy).

[Tormod]

Oh where to begin...I love sci-fi movies but I can't stand the trashy stuff (I still watch it though...).

Bad (just a few examples):
Outland with Sean Connery. Wow that was BAD
Event Horizon
Absolutely every single episode of Battlestar Galactica
2010 The year we make contact
Chronicles of Riddick (hopelessly, shamefully bad)
Stargate (the series)

Good:
Alien
Solaris (both the original and remake, IMHO)
AI
2001
Contact
ET
RoboCop (gotta love 'em)
Blade Runner
Pitch Black
Stargate (the movie)
Primer (indie low budget, bloody brilliant)
Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy

Good-ish:
Sunshine
Firefly (the series - fun if you have nothing else to do and is bored in San Francisco)
Some of the Star Trek movies

Dislike:
All Star Wars (loved them each and all when they came out, can't see them twice)
Most of the Star Trek movies

Oh, where to continue...I see to much stuff...

[kalexia]

I liked the stargate tv series when it first came out. I don't like E.T. as aliens creep me out. (I can't believe people think he's cute. When he gets ill and looks like he's covered in flour - really creepy! No?)

[Tormod]

ET is a cute alien!

Another really bad move was Species. There you have an ugly alien...

Which brings up fresh memories...

Good: Invasion of the body snatchers (original, haven't seen the remake), The Blob, Independence day, Mars Attacks, Ghosts of Mars, Red Planet

Bad: Alien Nation (movie and series), Mission to Mars

[kalexia]

Alien Nation - yeh really bad. Mars Attacks is the worst I've ever seen. Independence Day good vis effects.

I don't know if that new 'Jumper' film is any good. (Not such a cool title in the UK, what with it being an item of clothing)