What is the best sci-fi/action movie?

I've never seen Terminator, but I own T2 and T3 and Terminator 2: Judgement Day is by far the best action sci fi movie out there. Yeah, you got blade runner and aliens, but T2 was the first movie to combine CG with live action. You can't beat that

Try some really ANCIENT ones like "Plan 9 From Outer Space"... They're so bad they're GOOD!!!

Try any of the Star Trek movies...except the first one, and the fifth and sixth ones. The second and fourth ones (The Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home, respectively) are brilliant. May not be enough action for you, but we Trekkies love it.

Check out Forbidden Planet. That's classic sci-fi.

It may be a generic choice, but I still think Star Wars is the best. 2001 would be a close second. I'll slot Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind in at third.

i really like Brazil...but then again i like weird movies!

I second Star Wars. I really like the original trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi).

It isn't a movie per say, but the miniseries Children of Dune is one of the nicest adaptions of a book that I have seen in a LOOOONNNNGGG time.

I actually enjoy sci-fis that are less space-oriented. I like the kind that explores paradoxical phenomenons or present difficult questions. For example human memory, time travel (so hard to make a good movie about time travel), artificial intelligence, precognition, alternative interpretation of famous historical events, virtual reality (The Matrix)...etc. So I enjoyed stuffs like A.I., Minority Reports, 12 Monkeys, Trueman Show, Dark City...you get the idea. Of course, the original Star Wars trilogy will always be among the best. As for best...the story of my life!--for just about anything that could be categorized, I have a bunch of favorites, but no best.

The Star Wars films are a granted. Same with the Matrix. I also enjoyed the Terminator, Alien, and Predator films(I'm looking forward to Alien vs. Predator this summer). Other ones I like are 12 Monkeys, Equilibrium, and the Dune miniseries.

Akira was good... Anime Sci-fi. Donnie Darko could be considered a science fiction movie. I third 12 Monkeys. Matrix, Wrath of Khan(even though I first saw it in kindergarden just before nap time... I hate things near my ears...), Star Wars(and Space Balls :D), and some other ones that wont surface to the top of my brain. I need a good shovel.

I'm not into sci-fi at all, usually it bored me, but I really like the original Star Wars. there's just something about growing up watching them that makes me love them. but the new ones are really mediocre.

Originally posted by WhammyBar
I'm not into sci-fi at all, usually it bored me, but I really like the original Star Wars. there's just something about growing up watching them that makes me love them. but the new ones are really mediocre.
We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. You will learn to like sci-fi in the Collective. Resistance is futile.

Originally posted by BorgHunter
We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. You will learn to like sci-fi in the Collective. Resistance is futile.

I'm going to go out on a sci-fi fan's limb and say the Star Trek movies are either not-so-good, bad, or horrible. Granted, the theoretical physics involved is intriguing, but the movies themselves need a lot of work.

I'm a big fan of Aliens and the original Star Wars trilogy (yes, even Return of the Jedi!) myself.

In all respects, T2 is the best

Originally posted by Leper
I'm going to go out on a sci-fi fan's limb and say the Star Trek movies are either not-so-good, bad, or horrible. Granted, the theoretical physics involved is intriguing, but the movies themselves need a lot of work.
II, IV, and First Contact were excellent movies. The rest, though, I would agree with you on.

Theoretical physics is intriguing in Star Treks? Do you have some such examples?

Originally posted by Dio Seijuro
Theoretical physics is intriguing in Star Treks? Do you have some such examples?
Warp drive, transporter, replicator, holodeck.

Originally posted by BorgHunter
Warp drive, transporter, replicator, holodeck.

. . . making harmonicas into eyewear . . .

But were the physics aspects of these things explained with intriguing details which somewhat make sense (like the writer actually knows a fair amount of physics) ?

Dio, I would recommend reading the book "Physics in Star Trek", available at your local Barnes & Noble! Amazon.com listing (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060977108/qid=1083111269/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1012017-5080849?v=glance&s=books).

Greatest Sci-Fi---- Star Whores with Seka, Vanessa Del Rio:eek:

Now THERE'S a movie to get ahold of your light saber with.

Set your phasers on Orgasm!!!:alien:

Hmm. Most of these films are not even sci-fi. Fantasy-fi, perhaps. Somebody mentioned The Matrix. Tht is indeed a great sci-fi movie, with extraordinary consepts of what the future might hold (despite so much wasted fighting!)

Gattica is another that is very intriguing.

I love Star Trek, and even Star Wars, but can Yoda really be called science?

What do you mean that they aren't Sci-fi?

Yoda and the force can be considered part of science and not fantasy because it isn't magic. It's biology, it's little organisms living within the larger ones that enhance the senses and muscles. People's minds are just chemical processes and if the molecules are moved, than things can be affected, same with moving things with your mind, you move the molecules. Now how you move the molecules, I don't know.

Let's go back to the distant past, in terms of this list. The ones which truely inspired people to think and fear the unknown. I present: The War of the Worlds. Truely fantastic, and at the time believed by the public.

Also, does anyone remember "The Blob"?

I know these don't have the CG effects or lots of gore, but they made people use their minds, and that can truely be where the best science fiction lies.

my favriote films are Terminator2 Judgement day and Preditor. Arnold schwartznaager are in both films.