Fun fact. Apollo 8 was the first mission to go to Farside. There was apparently a great temptation and discussion among the crew to report the sighting of a large, black monolith on the farside of the Moon. These men didn't just have balls of Titanium, they had a sense of humour too.
Blade Runner was the first really "A-List" budget film, with an "A-List" star, to examine the question of what it means to be human, and to do it in a really thoughtful way. Unfortunately, because it was so ground-breaking, the studio stiffs freaked right out and insisted that Ridley Scott dumb it down with a cheesy voice-over and a happy ending. I thought it was interesting, when first released in theaters, but the Directors Cut to remove the studio interference made it my favorite science fiction film of all time, for the longest time. It's still right up there in the Top 3, and sometimes finds its way back to to the top spot, kinda depending on my mood.
Blade Runner deserves the no.1 spot above 2001 Space Odyssey frankly ... 2001 may have ground breaking effects and thematic depth BUT is so unwatchably torturous to watch that very very few people would want to rewatch it after the first or second viewing... Blade Runner on the other hand have admirers who will rewatch it endlessly to immerse themselves in its world and catch new details with every new watch ... It gave Cyberpunk its looks and styles, one of the most beloved genre ever...
Yeah... it turns out a majority of Science Fiction fanboys aren't actual cinephiles. A lot of dumb asses in the comments calling for Terminator 2, Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow... Yet haven't watched 2001.
I finally did watch Brazil just last week. Lets just say that if an actor or an actress wants to be remembered for that movie, i try to be courteous and not remind anyone. or imdb
Yeah but interstellar is a lot like 2001: space odyssey. Some say interstellar is an original even though it is based off of 2001: a space odyssey. The director of Interstellar Christopher Nolan’s favourite film is 2001: a space odyssey. 2001: a space odyssey is the original
Interstellar was not iconic ... It had some amazing scenes, but the story is pretty hush and the ending terrible. Iconic would be something that transcended the movie with a certain level ... I dont see much of that for Interstellar. And frankly the space movie with Brad patt(forgot the title) was a better movie, if we are talking about recent movies... Further, there is something about Nolan movies that make them a bit dumb. If you compare it to other scificiton classic wher you remain thinking a lot...
Does anyone knows the name of the 80's-90's movie where, aliens landed on our earth and taking forms of humans and theres these alien hunters humans that looking for aliens. I remember a scene where a girl peeping at the school door and sees a bald teacher by the board writing somewthing and all of the sudden this teacher turns around and sees a girl that hiding and peeping at him by the door and starts to looks like a demon scary. Many people think I'm talking about " The Faculty " movie, no its not it. There huge silver guns in this movie and I think special clothing, flash lights, its not " X-files " either LOL
The great thing about sci-fi is, it's so endlessly interesting it works in all genres - you could do the top ten sci-fi comedies (eg. Galaxy Quest and Ghostbusters); sci-fi war movies (Edge of Tomorrow), sci-fi romances (Starman), sci-fi thrillers (Predestination) ... it never ends! I enjoyed your list, glad you included Contact and Spotless Mind - great pics. And agree, 2001 still hasn't been beaten.
10. Snowpiercer (2013) 9. Children of Men (2006) 8. Contact (1997) 7. Her (2013) 6. Planet of the Apes (1968) 5. Prestige (2006) 4. Metropolis (1927) 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 2. Stalker (1979) 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
@@seanh6097Close Encounters: In the dollar bin at Walmart, where it belongs. Star Wars is fantasy, not sci-fi (which is not to diss it: it's one of the best movies-of any genre-ever made). Alien is more horror than sci-fi. Blade Runner 👍
@@jamsty8225 That's because you don't appreciate the incredible future thinking of Kubrick. LIke Hal's holographic memory modules. Do you realize that at the time the film was made, computer memory was made from tiny iron donuts with wire wrapped around them? Flat screen monitors. Tablet video displays. And OMG....that space station docking sequence.
@@jamsty8225 , that's just your opinion. I watched 2001 about 20 times (counting only movie theater viewings) and I found it exciting and enthralling every single time. You can't measure the greatness of a movie just from the length of the scenes. If you do, that is your problem, not the movie's.
And the fact that Stanley Kubrick had actual scientists from NASA on set involved with building or designing models of the crafts used in space scenes. Every aspect of this film says stunning. From HAL, to Bowman, to Poole, and on to the great Monolith. Arthur C. Clark was a visionary man when it came to writing specific kinds of thought provoking stories like this one, which tries to put us somewhere on the map of our known universe. Stanley took it further with this beautiful gem. As you said, no CGI except for the ship or the discovery's computer screens during filming. All built sets, cinematography that helped many directors later on in the years such as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It truly is the pinnacle of movie making. Plus the fact it held the most believable Ape man scenes I have ever watched.
The Prestige has been one of my favorite sci-fi films since seeing it in theaters, and every re-watch of it still makes my skin crawl. Brilliantly explores its themes, total masterpiece.
I don’t get it? There is no twist in the prestige. It is obvious what is going on. Why do people love it? Everyone forgets Hugh Jackman’s character was just a dilettante until one of Bale’s characters killed his wife. His ‘trick’ cost Jackman’s character his wife. He gets a pass for everything from me after that point.
Her over Blade Runner? Seems a bit like you're overreaching for an original viewpoint. Her is good, but in the end, it does not touch BR for originality and vision.
@@M13x13M Star Trek IV, on the other hand, comes close. I find myself dividing movies into 2 classes, "Undeniable classics" and "movies I really enjoy watching." Mostly the same titles, but there's a few I absolutely love, that are not exactly "recognized". Yet. Example: Galaxy Quest. (Although it is just - starting - to gain a true cult following).
@@jimspy1001 yes, Galaxy Quest is way up there and as low budget as it is ,The Day the Earth stood still. I saw Blade Runner for the first time on the big screen last year expecting that time and familiarity would have tarnished it . It was absolutely breath taking. Sound tracks are kinda pathetic these days and that puts recents movies to shame. Scott admits that it is his masterpiece.
Ok, just thought of another that is on my list of top ten favorites, as well as being a candidate for "classic": COCOON. And yes, it was a movie about aging, with a sci-fi background, so to speak. But SO well made.
Why people don't understand how this list works? It's not really top 10 sci fi movies and more top 10 TYPES of sci fi movies. Every movie that is even mentioned in the video is worth watching and the ones that get the place on the list aren't necessarily the best, rather they are the best in one specific aspect. I personaly prefer this type of list because instead of hearing about 10 movies that I probably already know, I get 50+ great movies with some reasoning why they are great.
I get HOW the list works. And I get that it's not my list. It just leaves off the better movies. Maybe if the title were rephrased as 'Top 10 sci-fi movies you should give a chance' I would have liked it better.
Anyone who includes Snowpiercer on a "best of all-time" list shouldn't be taken seriously, or even comically. It's needs to be a good movie to make a list like that. Saying that there's some "aspect" of the film that's great is just trying to ignore the fact that the whole premise is idiotic. I don't include idiotic films among the all-time greats.
That's because Alien isn't so much just a sci-fi film, it's a haunted house film. It's a style of horror where a person (or people) are secluded or trapped in a single area throughout the course of the film while a creature is out to kill them. That's why it doesn't belong on this list. not to be confused with films SET in a haunted house.
Children of Men is horribly depressing and violent. I hated it. And frankly, "The Handmaid's Tale" has a very similar plot, and it came out first. (And it's been made into a mini-series, a movie, and the current series on Hulu.) Yes, I know "The Handmaid's Tale" doesn't count as a *film* since it's a book and a TV series (unless the movie was an actual movie and not made for TV) but it's the same plot. Also, the revival "The Outer Limits" from the 1990s did an episode called "Black Rain" (or maybe "Dark Rain") with the same plot as "Children of Men".
I had some issues with it, and loved the original, but I will say it was aesthetically the best thing I've ever seen. I really hope they keep building out that universe.
@@darreneriksen One of my favorite scenes in the movie was towards the end. When the leader of the cult gang threatened to eat his alien arm so he turn to an alien too. That was disturbing but hilarious at the same time.
AGREED! I hated watching it. It’s brutal, disturbing, raw, and gave me a stomach ache. But, it’s a brilliant movie that makes its point right in your gut. Everyone should see it (but probably only once.) That they picked Her over this movie is almost a crime against art. It makes me think they are choosing movies based on broader appeal, rather than the actual quality of the movie.
District 9 makes a mockery of its own story line right out of the gate. That nobody working on the film pointed out the idiotic mistake they made is the question that needs answering. They go and show us this alien scavenging through their discarded bits of tech to gather the black goop. A few drops here, a few drops there. He's been doing it for years they tell us because he knows how much he needs to get the ship going. And then.... well just forget about all that... because dumb human guy spills a bunch of it all over himself and the room. And well, the alien still has enough! Go figure, dumb the alien spent all that time gathering more when he didn't even need to because he long ago had enough. Why the fuck would they create that story and then, 5 minutes later, shit on their own story and toss it in the bin as if it never existed? Ruined what would have otherwise been a good movie.
I will never understand why Interstellar is so hated. Did it have some cheesy lines? Sure. Was there a lot of heavy-handed science talk? So much. But once you latch onto the premise of that film and go with it.... it just moves me in ways no other film has done. The emotional and logical responses I have are unmatched by other films. Sure, there are films that do either response better, but no film has hit me emotionally AND made me think about both my future and the future of my fellow humans.
Jeremiah Byrne for pretentious idiots like cinefix and other people for them to look more edgy they can't like popular flim like Interstellar even tho its good.
Blade Runner as an afterthought? I can't think of a science-fiction film that endures better. Existentialism, extraordinary imagery and a world familiar and yet beyond reach. Ah well, just my opinion...
I watched it in the cinema when I was young and didn't get it, so I watched it with a friend when I was in my late 20's and NOPE still boring and an over rated piece of shit
Dog died. Pizza arrived cold. Lost job, got reinstated and lost it again. Lost house, two days after finding it. Furry dice in the car broke. Aliens probed my ass. Wife returned :( But thank fuck for this vid.
BR = incoherent artsy mish-mosh. Alien = horror movie masquerading as science fiction. Perhaps you’d like to nominate G.I. Jane or Kingdom of Heaven as deathless masterworks? Have you even SEEN The Duelists, Scott’s one bona fide masterpiece?
2001 was stunning 50 years ago. Now it is simply boring. If you like watching long sequences of people dealing with low grav stuff I'm sure NASA has years of it.
@@Yosser70 Gee...and I've watched it so many times I lost track at 100 two decades ago...and haven't been bored a single time. As my mother always said, boredom is just lack of imagination.
Actually, it's one of the most tediously boring, uninspiring and farcical films of all time. Only film worse than it was Solaris (the original Russian one, not the crap one with Clooney). A Clockwork Orange was a much better effort from the director (until Eyes Wide Shut came along).
Must have been difficult to settle on just 10 categories. There are so, so many others in the sci-fi genre that this could be a multiple part series. There's Steam Punk sci-fi (Prestige, 20000 leagues, and Frankenstein fit here), Travel sci-fi (Journey to the Center of the Earth and Fantastic Voyage), Time Travel (Looper, Primer, BttF). Near future, far future, alternate history, alien world. Seriously, it can go on.
Im seen Contact on tv, most of the movies in this list I didnt see, and seen the only parts that they show from "2001" Im understand why is number 1, the FX of the movie look so real, like it was made a few years ago.
Ahh, Contact, my favourite all time movie. Every time I get to the scene with John Hurt, "They still want an American to go. Wanna take a ride?". That gets me, brings a tear to my eye and makes me feel an adrenaline rush like no other.
It isn't, but Stalker is #2 and Solaris got an honourable mention at #1, so close enough. There's no Orson Welles in this list, so I' m a little bit worried about Clint, he might have caught a flu or something. Surely he is feeling unwell.
YMMV, but when the book was released it was widely regarded as a pretentious piece of s**t. The movie also was not that successfull at the time, and rightly so. IMO, it's almost as derivative and bad as Equilibrium.
I still don't get why people didn't like interstellar. It was rather accurate in terms of physics. They actually dealt with the way a massive black hole warps space time, and their depiction of a black hole is the most accurate depiction of a black hole in all of cinema. It also had some amazing sequences like the docking one. And Tars made the movie so much better. The whole black hole bookshelf thing was a bit outlandish. But overall I thought it was a phenomenal film.
the problem is that most people don't understand (theoretical) physics and thus get put off by a lot of ideas in the movie. they will simply call it bad or 'impossible' because they don't understand it really. as for the bookshelf I guess that's more opinion based, personally I thought it was a pretty good representation, keep in mind that it had to be something that cooper could understand, wrap his head around (as in why he was there and what he was supposed to do and how) and use to relay his message. since he had already experienced murphs "ghost" he knew how he could communicate with her using only gravity (as that apparently is the only force that can cross the dimensions)
the problems that interstellar has have nothing to do with physics, wich everyone that knows about it keeps repeating how informed and accurate the movie is in that regard. sadly the plot, story and characters in the movie weren´t handly that much carefully. There is where its flaws are
Interstellar was entertaining. That’s it. The accurate physics business sounds great but there were deviations to make the movie more entertaining. I thought a B grade blockbuster.
People want a happy resolution to this kind of movie. Now technically it has a "happy ending" with him returning to the woman he's fallen in love with, but that was never the point of the movie, which was about him returning to his family. Getting back just in time to see his daughter die of old age was a bummer. Even if the two of them saved humanity (they did) we still feel as though he "lost" because he didn't get the happy reunion he'd imagined and hoped for. Reminds me a bit of The Last American Virgin. One of the funniest popcorn flicks coming of age comedies ever BUT it has a very dark ending, and people commonly say they hated the movie. No, they loved the movie, but hated the way it ended.
In no particular order my top 10: Blade Runner: 2049 Interstellar Cloud Atlas Ex Machina Contact The Matrix The Butterfly Effect Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind AI Arrival
well at least you got 3 good ones, but even one of those very much MUST be the directors cut and NOT the Theatrical Release with it's "semi-happy" ending or either of the other 2 more progressively happy endings
Yeah, I didn't really get that either. Poor Isaac probably spun in his grave for what they did with I, ROBOT. I never saw CONTAGION so I have no opinion there...
What do any of those films have to do with each other aside from the fact that they're all science fiction? If you were comparing A.I. and I, Robot, I would get that, but these films you mentioned can be compared to each other as well as apples can be to oranges.
I can't believe that 2001: A Space Odyssey, was made in 1968. It's perhaps one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. The visuals are mind-blowing and always will be. One of the greatest movies ever made period.
2001 is the definition of a mystery wrapped in a conundrum. Read the book to better understand the movie end up more confused. Absolutely love the movie and agree it is pure genius!
Perhaps 2001is still good because he is not shaped for the understanding 13 years old public Movie industry really feed us with cheap stuff that will involve immediate feelings without intelligence process from ours
Wish I could have watched it with one of you to get a different viewpoint. I found it so sophomoric. Felt like 13 year olds conjecturing on the meaning of life. I never saw Bixby's Twilight Zone story of "It's a good life" but the short story is classic. Maybe I should read The man from earth.
In no particular order, here is my list: Arrival Alien Blade Runner Children of Men The Terminator Gattaca Contact The Day The Earth Stood Still (original) Jurassic Park The Andromeda Strain
"2001: A Space Odyssey" is the expansion of an Arthur C. Clarke short story titled "The Sentinel". Clarke himself has given full credit for the inspiration to a British philosopher, William Olaf Stapledon, who, because his thinking in the 1920s was so advanced that his colleagues had no idea what he was talking about, had to resort to writing scifi in pulp magazines to explain what he saw. What he was talking about has influenced many scifi writers who have publicly acknowledged their debt to him. Two books, "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker", in that order, will introduce you to a Universe which, at the time of his writing was 'officially' considered to be about 1.8 Billion years old, but which he considered to be much older. Albeit his writing style seems a bit archaic, you will find the seeds for much of what has become our view of the Universe relative to collective Human perception. Even today, his vision still underlies much if not most of what we call both scifi and of our perception of the Universe. A sadness here is that at a time (1920-30s) while propagandistic and questionable 'genius' was being front-paged for reasons having nothing to do with science and knowledge, true genius worked in obscurity and remains there.
In complete agreement, believe it or not, there are many who feel the same way! The original and 2049 are pretty epic in how they follow cannon but are completely different movies. I think what draws me in, is how realistic human nature is portrayed and no matter the advancement in our technology or creativeness, we are still who we will always be! Beautiful and freighting all at the same time, same idea with the 5th Element! I totally agree with the choice of 2001, and to think it was completed well before we even touched the moon, and he nailed it!
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@@turnipbug DADOES is one of my favourite sci-fi novels but I don't think reading PKD is relevant to this list. Blade runner is one of the best and influential sci-fi movies of all time. This channel ain't too bad but they are a bit try hard in their cinephile opinions. I also think it's a mistake to take each position from a sub-genre of sci-fi to reflect a top ten list.
I don't know. I mean, what did the aliens actually accomplish by putting humanity through all that? I guess it's not their fault people handled it so bad.
The movie left out the most impactful (imho) segment. Ellie was told by the alien to look into pi. After all the hearings, she had a programmer run the calculation of pi. Quite a while later, the programmer called and said “There’s a message in pi”
@@calebmauer1751 the aliens? i don't think they care, it was never about them, they just sent some blueprints. it's really about us. they said, there will be more messages. but will we survive the technological revolution? probably not. or, in the future, it will be the privileged against the very poor and miserable low class.
Any list that doesn't include Blade Runner, The Matrix and They Live isn't worth taking serious, but honestly I wouldn't include hardly any of these picks in the top 10.
dusq123 I hate you. Go throw some paint at a wall, eat some wine and cheese with your pointy beard friends and talk about how the paint brings out the social dynamic of pop culture relevance in our moral evolution.
I'm biased, but I'd put Star Trek VI on my list. Exploring the idea of an end to hostility as a somehow frightening idea. That suddenly our enemy is no longer our enemy. For my money, it's the best Trek film of all time.
Honestly, science fiction is such a huge genre with different ideas and ways to explore those. Top 10 is cutting it too short. Top 50 would still leave too many movies out side. And thus undiscovered by newbies.
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Cant believe you left off Blade Runner, and Gataca. Don't get me wrong, these films are all great in the genre. But, those are 2 of the absolute best sci fi films ever, by any standard.
Blade Runner is a monumental movie that set the tone for the vast majority of sci fi movies that came later .... even later Star Wars movies tried to copy its looks and styles. Its influence on the later generations is greater than even 2001 Space Odyssey, there are countless great directors, writers, artists, philosophers, animes, games, even tech companies citing it as a great influence and inspiration .... I would surely put Blade Runner above 2001 Space Odyssey ... its mind boggling any sci fi list would exclude it in the top 10 ... anything lower than top 2 is frankly ignorant too ....
I know this is a crazy CRAZY big task, but I need this channel to make a “just 10 (maybe 20-30) movies you should watch if you just love movies” I adore this channel. I’ve found so many great movies from this channel. I’ve won trivia points because of this channel. And in terms of production I appreciate its depth yet tangibility. But every single list gives me, in the gods honest truth, anywhere between 1-10 movies I want to watch, and of all the channels I follow THIS is the one I need a starters list. And it’s not like you won’t have PLENTY of options left, many who’d be left in the comments.
Gabriel Gallardo Nothing in particular. It's a solid 7/10 film but to even put it on the list let alone top 5 without having Blade Runner is just disrespectful.
+nickmov2000. Do you think it's pretentious to admire Forbidden Planet? Why? A lot of us can remember when Forbidden Planet was a recent movie. We grew up watching it, and, for it's time, it was unparalleled. There's nothing pretentious about loving a film we've watched for 60 years.
- Solaris (1972) - Logan’s Run (1976) - 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) - Arrival (2016) - Contact (1997) - Gravity (2013) - Minority Report (2002) - Brazil (1985) - 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) - The Prestige (2006) - Metropolis (1927) - Gojira (1952) - V for Vendetta (2006) - Looper (2012) - Stalker (1979) - Alien (1979) - Planet of the Apes (1968) - Contact (1997) - Children of Men (2006) - Her (2013) - Blade Runner (1982) - Sunshine (2007) - 12 Monkeys (1995) - Another Earth (2011) - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - The Matrix (1999) - 1984 (1984) - Logan’s Run (1976) - Soylent Green (1973) - Snowpiercer (2013) - Contagion (2011) - The Andromeda Strain (1971) - Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) - Melancholia (2011) - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - The Road (2009) - E.T. (1982) - Independence Day (1996) - The Abyss (1989) - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Attack the Block (2011) - District 9 (2009) - Under the Skin (2013) - Men in Black (1997) - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) - A.I. (2001) - I, Robot (2004) - Ex Machina (2015) - Moon (2009) - Warm Bodies (2013) - Terminator 2 (1991) - Alien (1979) - They Live (1988) - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Upstream Color (2013) - Predator (1987) - Dark City (1998) - The Terminator (1984) - Gattaca (1997) - The Running Man (1987) - The Truman Show (1998) - Primer (2004) - Source Code (2011) - Repo Men (2010) - Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Tokyo Gore Police (2008) - Robocop (1987) - A Clockwork Orange (1971) - The Prestige (2006) - Interstellar (2014) - The Hunger Games (2012) - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Alphaville (1965) - Strange Days (1995) - Altered States (1980) - eXistenZ (1999) - Pi (1998) - Vanilla Sky (2001) - Slaughterhouse Five (1972) - Limitless (2011) - Abre los Ojos (1997) - Total Recall (1990) - Videodrome (1983) - Strange Days (1995) - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Jurassic Park (1993) - Akira (1988) - Wall-E (2008) - The Iron Giant (1999) - Frankenstein (1931) - The Host (2006) - Stalker (1979)
Two movies really grabbed me in my youth; The Thing and Forbidden Planet, one of the many sci-fi books I had read prior to the movie. These two would be on my list. I think I read Soylent Green but it was called "Make Room, Make Room"
Forbidden planet came on at 1AM one night in the mid 70's. I had never seen or even heard of it. I was totally blown away and have never forgotten how it felt to be truly in Awe of a movie...or maybe it was the drugs man.
10. Snowpiercer 9.Children of men. 8.Contact 7. Her 6.Planet of the apes. 5. Prestige. 4. Metropolis 3. Eternal sunshine of ........... 2. Stalker 1. 2001 a space Odyssey You are welcome..
you guys are the amazing!!!!!!!!!! keep the amazing work up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please some do some top ten videos for: 1) music scores 2) comedy characters 3) sequels 4) franchises 5) cameos 6) musicals 7) fourth wall breaks
'Alien' was wei better than 'Alian' . Seriously though, I saw Alien and Jaws when I was 10 or 12 years old with my very brave older brother and his friends right when they hit the theaters. Truly, two of the scariest experiences in my life. Groundbreaking films at the time. The impact of sight, story, and sound was so powerful that I had to watch a few scenes from the door to the lobby
While I strongly disagree with your opinion on Interstellar (I thought it was incredible), it's nice of you guys to give credit to a few movies that don't make these kind of lists so often like Snowpiercer and Children of Men.
Um, duh. If you could pick up on the not so subtle nod to Jesus, you'd understand. Jesus would have been a little brown baby. Besides, white people aren't the end all be all of everything. I suppose you didn't mind the black guy being the villain.
Surprised Equilibrium wasn't mentioned. A distopian socitety where all "evil" is considered to be derived from emotion, and so they create a society without emotion by limiting the brain to not experience emotion and destroying anything that evokes emotion, like art. The action and setpieces in the movie are also fantastic and the introduction to gun kata is simply cool as heck and timeless.
Arrival is based on Story of Your Life by sci-fi wunderkind Ted Chiang, who writes incredible stuff exploring some very deep concepts, that would be very difficult to translate into a film, even under the best of conditions. And while OK, not surprisingly the movie version, Arrival really didn't do it justice and seems to have been 'adapted' for a larger, more mainstream audience.
The Filth Element is messy, weird, clunky and forced. It had a silly story and somehow it just feels like a flashy action movie and not a thinking man's sci-fi. The cast is also terrible (except Gary Oldman ofc).
i did liked the Story of the Fifth Element but to much slapstik and comedy. If it wouled have been made more seriusly and realistik it couled have been the best movie of all time, but in that state its not.
@@mancamiatipoola disagree on every level, Bruce Willis was perfect, as was Mila and what a supporting role Chris Rock did as Ruby; sets, design and story, magical. Probably upset those who like their saccharine formulaic trash but that's a good thing.
@@matonmongo REally ? How that ? You have no clue it seems .. I am Anime fan and just watched the hole Cleopatra movie 1963 ... 5h 20m... By the way some of the most impressive studies of sciene fiction come from the anime world... Paprika, Ghost in the shell all movies ->series... Akira Animatrix Cowboy Bebop Neo genisis evangelion Psycho kill Metropolis docents others i dont even rember the titles of ... etc.
I didn’t expect to see Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind in this list and even at the top 3. I really love that movie and its ending made me cry so bad.
2001 being made before we even landed on the moon is frankly brain boggling - a truly timeless classic with effects that stand up 50 years later
The short story 'Sentential' it was derived from dates back another decade.
Cue the conspiracy theorists. "We neVER LAnDeD On tHE MOoN!!!1!1!1!""
yea and Stanley Kubrick obviously directed the moon landing
Fun fact. Apollo 8 was the first mission to go to Farside. There was apparently a great temptation and discussion among the crew to report the sighting of a large, black monolith on the farside of the Moon. These men didn't just have balls of Titanium, they had a sense of humour too.
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I loved "Her" but I'd still have to go with Blade Runner in that category as no film has ever perfectly exemplified the Uncanny Valley hypothesis.
While I prefer Her, your comment is the only one that defends Blade Runner is a constructive way, unlike all these fucking fanboys.
fully agree
Blade Runner was the first really "A-List" budget film, with an "A-List" star, to examine the question of what it means to be human, and to do it in a really thoughtful way.
Unfortunately, because it was so ground-breaking, the studio stiffs freaked right out and insisted that Ridley Scott dumb it down with a cheesy voice-over and a happy ending.
I thought it was interesting, when first released in theaters, but the Directors Cut to remove the studio interference made it my favorite science fiction film of all time, for the longest time.
It's still right up there in the Top 3, and sometimes finds its way back to to the top spot, kinda depending on my mood.
RIGHT ON.
Blade Runner deserves the no.1 spot above 2001 Space Odyssey frankly ...
2001 may have ground breaking effects and thematic depth BUT is so unwatchably torturous to watch that very very few people would want to rewatch it after the first or second viewing...
Blade Runner on the other hand have admirers who will rewatch it endlessly to immerse themselves in its world and catch new details with every new watch ... It gave Cyberpunk its looks and styles, one of the most beloved genre ever...
Wow. This is legitimately the most drama that I've ever seen in the comments of a cinefix list. Fascinating.
coz this top 10 list is shit
Yeah... it turns out a majority of Science Fiction fanboys aren't actual cinephiles. A lot of dumb asses in the comments calling for Terminator 2, Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow... Yet haven't watched 2001.
Scifi fans tends to be drama princes
Sci-fi fans are passionate!
"Stalker" is really stunning. Tarkovsky is a visual poet. My all time fav is Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" though.
I finally did watch Brazil just last week. Lets just say that if an actor or an actress wants to be remembered for that movie, i try to be courteous and not remind anyone. or imdb
@@TyfoiD75 why is it baD ?xD
@@majormononoke8958 it is just one of those movies that focus on being absurd and try to be cool like clockwork orange
Be careful of the ductwork.
@@TyfoiD75 ummmm, clockwork orange is incredible, Brazil is crap, I'm gonna get hated for that but it's my opinion 😂
Who else is watching in 2054?
Chris Wright I'm watching in 2049.
Life is short.Click your fingers and you'll be there.
I'm watching in 1510 via the da Vinci time portal I just invented. It works, yay!
Having a device that can show moving images...during the height of the era of inquisitions!! May you burn well Sir...
Jordan Cadwell I was about to say the same thing
Matrix and Interstellar were iconic science fiction pieces, eyes openers. I'm glad Contact is included, it marked my childhood.
Yeah but interstellar is a lot like 2001: space odyssey. Some say interstellar is an original even though it is based off of 2001: a space odyssey. The director of Interstellar Christopher Nolan’s favourite film is 2001: a space odyssey. 2001: a space odyssey is the original
Interstellar feels very manufactured, 2001 is raw and visceral
Interstellar was not iconic ... It had some amazing scenes, but the story is pretty hush and the ending terrible.
Iconic would be something that transcended the movie with a certain level ... I dont see much of that for Interstellar. And frankly the space movie with Brad patt(forgot the title) was a better movie, if we are talking about recent movies...
Further, there is something about Nolan movies that make them a bit dumb. If you compare it to other scificiton classic wher you remain thinking a lot...
K-pax and moon..both seriously underated both without a doubt brilliant
Does anyone knows the name of the 80's-90's movie where, aliens landed on our earth and taking forms of humans and theres these alien hunters humans that looking for aliens. I remember a scene where a girl peeping at the school door and sees a bald teacher by the board writing somewthing and all of the sudden this teacher turns around and sees a girl that hiding and peeping at him by the door and starts to looks like a demon scary. Many people think I'm talking about " The Faculty " movie, no its not it. There huge silver guns in this movie and I think special clothing, flash lights, its not " X-files " either LOL
The great thing about sci-fi is, it's so endlessly interesting it works in all genres - you could do the top ten sci-fi comedies (eg. Galaxy Quest and Ghostbusters); sci-fi war movies (Edge of Tomorrow), sci-fi romances (Starman), sci-fi thrillers (Predestination) ... it never ends! I enjoyed your list, glad you included Contact and Spotless Mind - great pics. And agree, 2001 still hasn't been beaten.
People just dont have the sense for quality anymore, so quality basically starts to cease-to-matter, which is sad af.
that's because sci-fi isn't really a genre so much as an approach to fiction, a family of intellectual themes
10. Snowpiercer (2013)
9. Children of Men (2006)
8. Contact (1997)
7. Her (2013)
6. Planet of the Apes (1968)
5. Prestige (2006)
4. Metropolis (1927)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. Stalker (1979)
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
OMG, how you could forget Solaris!?
Maybe a *Spoiler* warning and some line breaks in there, my dude.
For that matter wheres Alien, Star Wars, Blade Runner,
Close Encounters Of TTK, Dark City, The Matrix..et cetera,
et cetera
@@seanh6097Close Encounters: In the dollar bin at Walmart, where it belongs. Star Wars is fantasy, not sci-fi (which is not to diss it: it's one of the best movies-of any genre-ever made). Alien is more horror than sci-fi. Blade Runner 👍
Thank you for saving me a lot of time!
And not a single frame of CGI in 2001. All done with mirrors, incredible props, and god like camera techniques.
@@jamsty8225 That's because you don't appreciate the incredible future thinking of Kubrick. LIke Hal's holographic memory modules. Do you realize that at the time the film was made, computer memory was made from tiny iron donuts with wire wrapped around them? Flat screen monitors. Tablet video displays. And OMG....that space station docking sequence.
@@jamsty8225 How could any attempt to tackle the basic questions "Who are we?", "Where are we going?" be boring?
@@jamsty8225 , that's just your opinion. I watched 2001 about 20 times (counting only movie theater viewings) and I found it exciting and enthralling every single time. You can't measure the greatness of a movie just from the length of the scenes. If you do, that is your problem, not the movie's.
@@andream61 Most of it isn't memorable on repeated viewing. It's the film equivalent of a Wagner opera. Occasionally brilliant but often shite.
And the fact that Stanley Kubrick had actual scientists from NASA on set involved with building or designing models of the crafts used in space scenes. Every aspect of this film says stunning. From HAL, to Bowman, to Poole, and on to the great Monolith. Arthur C. Clark was a visionary man when it came to writing specific kinds of thought provoking stories like this one, which tries to put us somewhere on the map of our known universe. Stanley took it further with this beautiful gem. As you said, no CGI except for the ship or the discovery's computer screens during filming. All built sets, cinematography that helped many directors later on in the years such as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It truly is the pinnacle of movie making. Plus the fact it held the most believable Ape man scenes I have ever watched.
The prestige is such a good movie that when I ask people, almost no one has seen it and it’s surprising. Such a great movie with a great payoff
Even re watching it knowing the twist and it still holds up. I was stoked to see it listed here too. Brilliant movie.
Almighty Sosa300 - but it is not a true science fiction movie (same for Her).
The prestige is probably the most popular of the entire list and the honorable mentions.... Besides maybe "arrival , or Interstellar"
The Prestige has been one of my favorite sci-fi films since seeing it in theaters, and every re-watch of it still makes my skin crawl. Brilliantly explores its themes, total masterpiece.
I don’t get it? There is no twist in the prestige. It is obvious what is going on. Why do people love it? Everyone forgets Hugh Jackman’s character was just a dilettante until one of Bale’s characters killed his wife. His ‘trick’ cost Jackman’s character his wife. He gets a pass for everything from me after that point.
Her over Blade Runner? Seems a bit like you're overreaching for an original viewpoint. Her is good, but in the end, it does not touch BR for originality and vision.
I wouldn't even call Her sci-fi. It's just a long, boring conversation between a man and his earpiece. And Phoenix is a good actor!
@@samwilson2784 It's still sci-fi, just sci-fi romance.
@@lameduck1690 it has scifi elements but its not a scifi
Jesse It’s sci-fi, dude. One of the main focal points is literally AI.
Star Trek 2, Predator, Alien, Blade runner, Blade, Star Wars...all time great entertaining movies
Star Trek 2 is no where in the same league as the others
@@M13x13M Star Trek IV, on the other hand, comes close.
I find myself dividing movies into 2 classes, "Undeniable classics" and "movies I really enjoy watching." Mostly the same titles, but there's a few I absolutely love, that are not exactly "recognized". Yet. Example: Galaxy Quest. (Although it is just - starting - to gain a true cult following).
@@jimspy1001 yes, Galaxy Quest is way up there and as low budget as it is ,The Day the Earth stood still. I saw Blade Runner for the first time on the big screen last year expecting that time and familiarity would have tarnished it . It was absolutely breath taking. Sound tracks are kinda pathetic these days and that puts recents movies to shame. Scott admits that it is his masterpiece.
Ok, just thought of another that is on my list of top ten favorites, as well as being a candidate for "classic": COCOON. And yes, it was a movie about aging, with a sci-fi background, so to speak. But SO well made.
Star Wars? It's just space knights.
Why people don't understand how this list works? It's not really top 10 sci fi movies and more top 10 TYPES of sci fi movies. Every movie that is even mentioned in the video is worth watching and the ones that get the place on the list aren't necessarily the best, rather they are the best in one specific aspect. I personaly prefer this type of list because instead of hearing about 10 movies that I probably already know, I get 50+ great movies with some reasoning why they are great.
I get HOW the list works. And I get that it's not my list. It just leaves off the better movies. Maybe if the title were rephrased as 'Top 10 sci-fi movies you should give a chance' I would have liked it better.
yup
please forget my movie list
Maybe because of the title?
Anyone who includes Snowpiercer on a "best of all-time" list shouldn't be taken seriously, or even comically. It's needs to be a good movie to make a list like that. Saying that there's some "aspect" of the film that's great is just trying to ignore the fact that the whole premise is idiotic. I don't include idiotic films among the all-time greats.
The first ALIEN movie should have made the list in my opinion !!
Agreed, how it did'nt get on this list i don't know
Yes it re-opened up the sub-genre of sci-fi horror.
diana der maro It’s more of a monster movie
That's because Alien isn't so much just a sci-fi film, it's a haunted house film. It's a style of horror where a person (or people) are secluded or trapped in a single area throughout the course of the film while a creature is out to kill them. That's why it doesn't belong on this list.
not to be confused with films SET in a haunted house.
@@brandenlucero It's both sci-fi and horror. But the whole thing is set in space. So it has to be counted as sci-fi
Children of men was insanely powerful, memorable and heartbreaking film! Beautifully done !
It's a masterpiece
Molly Sapadin fantastic propaganda
Agreed
Children of Men is horribly depressing and violent. I hated it. And frankly, "The Handmaid's Tale" has a very similar plot, and it came out first. (And it's been made into a mini-series, a movie, and the current series on Hulu.) Yes, I know "The Handmaid's Tale" doesn't count as a *film* since it's a book and a TV series (unless the movie was an actual movie and not made for TV) but it's the same plot. Also, the revival "The Outer Limits" from the 1990s did an episode called "Black Rain" (or maybe "Dark Rain") with the same plot as "Children of Men".
+Jacqueline Moleski hi dear
The Man Who Fell to Earth. Maybe not top 10 but worth an honorable mention.
Interstellar, Blade Runner and Matrix should be on the list!
And Arrival.
Alien
Matrix is a documentary
interstellar is a piece of crap
@@stepanvalek3363 are you crazy interstellar is a masterpiece
Original "Day The Earth Stood Still" is a masterpiece and relevant to this day.
Should be among top 5 of all these movies.
Overrated.
2049 watched after the original Blade Runner is really quite a compelling beautiful frightening philosophical narrative. It's screaming out for pt.3.
I doubt if that will ever happen although I admit 2049 was very enjoyable. It's disappointing that so few people showed up to watch it.
I had some issues with it, and loved the original, but I will say it was aesthetically the best thing I've ever seen. I really hope they keep building out that universe.
We don't need a third one as great as the sequel is
Hope they do a third.
They'd better hurry.
Metropolis - the most classic of classic sci if.
District 9 was an exceptional Sci-fi movie one of my personal favorites.
As wacky as that movie got, it was ingenious and deeper than it presented itself. Loved it.
@@darreneriksen One of my favorite scenes in the movie was towards the end.
When the leader of the cult gang threatened to eat his alien arm so he turn to an alien too.
That was disturbing but hilarious at the same time.
Still waiting for that sequel where they come back and cure Wikus
AGREED! I hated watching it. It’s brutal, disturbing, raw, and gave me a stomach ache. But, it’s a brilliant movie that makes its point right in your gut. Everyone should see it (but probably only once.)
That they picked Her over this movie is almost a crime against art. It makes me think they are choosing movies based on broader appeal, rather than the actual quality of the movie.
District 9 makes a mockery of its own story line right out of the gate. That nobody working on the film pointed out the idiotic mistake they made is the question that needs answering. They go and show us this alien scavenging through their discarded bits of tech to gather the black goop. A few drops here, a few drops there. He's been doing it for years they tell us because he knows how much he needs to get the ship going. And then.... well just forget about all that... because dumb human guy spills a bunch of it all over himself and the room. And well, the alien still has enough! Go figure, dumb the alien spent all that time gathering more when he didn't even need to because he long ago had enough. Why the fuck would they create that story and then, 5 minutes later, shit on their own story and toss it in the bin as if it never existed? Ruined what would have otherwise been a good movie.
I am the grandson of Michael Rennie from The Day The Earth Stood Still, the lead in the greatest and first proper sci-fi movie of all time.
Michael Rennie Here here! one of the greatest movies of all time, to say nothing of sci-fi. Your grandfather did an absolutely amazing job.
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Agree
I will never understand why Interstellar is so hated. Did it have some cheesy lines? Sure. Was there a lot of heavy-handed science talk? So much. But once you latch onto the premise of that film and go with it.... it just moves me in ways no other film has done. The emotional and logical responses I have are unmatched by other films. Sure, there are films that do either response better, but no film has hit me emotionally AND made me think about both my future and the future of my fellow humans.
Jeremiah Byrne for pretentious idiots like cinefix and other people for them to look more edgy they can't like popular flim like Interstellar even tho its good.
I'm also surprised why Cinefix doesn't like it- it's an intellectual film. "rRegular" people don't get it so it seems right up Cinefix's alley...
+Jeremiah Byrne heavy handed science talk? The science of that movie was ridiculous.
+shelbzilla Intellectual? Hardly, it is insulting our intelligence.
Arnold John I don't think you have if you're going to bring it up.
I recently saw Contact, what a great movie, it never gets old
The whole movie was ruined when the ending showed her leaving with that hypocrite evangelist. What was Carl Sagan thinking?
@@palmershort5089 evangelist? you watched it?
Blade Runner as an afterthought? I can't think of a science-fiction film that endures better. Existentialism, extraordinary imagery and a world familiar and yet beyond reach. Ah well, just my opinion...
And Darryl Hannah as a sexbot!
agreed
They're trying to hard to be different leaving that out
I watched it in the cinema when I was young and didn't get it, so I watched it with a friend when I was in my late 20's and NOPE still boring and an over rated piece of shit
I was gonna say her beat bladerunner on the list... what a joke
you know its gonna be a good day when cinefix uploads something like this
you know its gonna be a good day when cinefix uploads.
period.
SteliosE92 today someone broke my heart but this content makes me happy
Or the end of days...
Don't be rediculous. "You can meet me?" I doubt that your heart has been broken.
Dog died. Pizza arrived cold. Lost job, got reinstated and lost it again. Lost house, two days after finding it. Furry dice in the car broke. Aliens probed my ass. Wife returned :(
But thank fuck for this vid.
Leaving out "Blade Runner" was basically criminal.
Ditto for "Alien."
BR = incoherent artsy mish-mosh. Alien = horror movie masquerading as science fiction. Perhaps you’d like to nominate G.I. Jane or Kingdom of Heaven as deathless masterworks? Have you even SEEN The Duelists, Scott’s one bona fide masterpiece?
Fully agree, blade runner is essential
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns he has a point though. which Film you would take it over in that list?
They mantioned it
@@LuisSierra42 Still didn't make it onto the list.
1. Bladerunner. 2. Dune. 3. Aliens. 4. The Matrix. 5. Terminator. 6. Edge of tomorrow. 7. Minority Report. 8. Predator. 9. District 9. 10. Total Recall.
Agreed 100%
50 years later and 2001 is still a stunning film.
2001 was stunning 50 years ago. Now it is simply boring. If you like watching long sequences of people dealing with low grav stuff I'm sure NASA has years of it.
Greebo...Don't worry, you can always go to Specsavers.
@@greebo7857 Spot on, one of the dullest movies of all time!
@@Yosser70 Gee...and I've watched it so many times I lost track at 100 two decades ago...and haven't been bored a single time. As my mother always said, boredom is just lack of imagination.
Actually, it's one of the most tediously boring, uninspiring and farcical films of all time. Only film worse than it was Solaris (the original Russian one, not the crap one with Clooney).
A Clockwork Orange was a much better effort from the director (until Eyes Wide Shut came along).
Must have been difficult to settle on just 10 categories. There are so, so many others in the sci-fi genre that this could be a multiple part series. There's Steam Punk sci-fi (Prestige, 20000 leagues, and Frankenstein fit here), Travel sci-fi (Journey to the Center of the Earth and Fantastic Voyage), Time Travel (Looper, Primer, BttF). Near future, far future, alternate history, alien world. Seriously, it can go on.
I've seen 8/10.
I'm surprised you decided to put Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on number 4. Bold choice as always.
I'm surprised he didn't mentioned Tarkovsky when presenting number 1
He did. "He (Kubrick) challenged Tarkovsky himself". And there is scene from Soliaris.
pincmin he did tho
10/10 baybee
this,romance and horror are the only genre I'm confident I'll get a 10/10
Im seen Contact on tv, most of the movies in this list I didnt see, and seen the only parts that they show from "2001" Im understand why is number 1, the FX of the movie look so real, like it was made a few years ago.
Ahh, Contact, my favourite all time movie. Every time I get to the scene with John Hurt, "They still want an American to go. Wanna take a ride?". That gets me, brings a tear to my eye and makes me feel an adrenaline rush like no other.
most comments here mention 2001 and Contact.
i agree, i also prefer it to 2001. best scifi of all time. zemeckis at his finest. spotless.
John Hurt was awesome in that film! That line, with his face right up in the camera!
Somehow The Mirror will be #1 in this list.
I was surprised Solaris wasn't nominated.
BUT HOW DID THE SACRIFICE GET #2!!!!!
It isn't, but Stalker is #2 and Solaris got an honourable mention at #1, so close enough. There's no Orson Welles in this list, so I' m a little bit worried about Clint, he might have caught a flu or something. Surely he is feeling unwell.
Solaris wasn't one of the top 10 because it came out after 2001 and heavily borrows from it in its visual style.
Doris Philastre I disagree with that
lol those films are different as they can get
I think Children of Men is one of the most underrated films of all time. True masterpiece.
True. But before I watch it again I am popping a couple Paxil.
It's not underrated - everyone knows and love that movie.
7.9 on Imdb with 450 000 votes - yes most underrated film of all time.
Nothing like the book though.
YMMV, but when the book was released it was widely regarded as a pretentious piece of s**t. The movie also was not that successfull at the time, and rightly so. IMO, it's almost as derivative and bad as Equilibrium.
I still don't get why people didn't like interstellar. It was rather accurate in terms of physics.
They actually dealt with the way a massive black hole warps space time, and their depiction of a black hole is the most accurate depiction of a black hole in all of cinema.
It also had some amazing sequences like the docking one. And Tars made the movie so much better.
The whole black hole bookshelf thing was a bit outlandish. But overall I thought it was a phenomenal film.
the problem is that most people don't understand (theoretical) physics and thus get put off by a lot of ideas in the movie. they will simply call it bad or 'impossible' because they don't understand it really.
as for the bookshelf I guess that's more opinion based, personally I thought it was a pretty good representation, keep in mind that it had to be something that cooper could understand, wrap his head around (as in why he was there and what he was supposed to do and how) and use to relay his message. since he had already experienced murphs "ghost" he knew how he could communicate with her using only gravity (as that apparently is the only force that can cross the dimensions)
the problems that interstellar has have nothing to do with physics, wich everyone that knows about it keeps repeating how informed and accurate the movie is in that regard. sadly the plot, story and characters in the movie weren´t handly that much carefully. There is where its flaws are
Yeah, because every bitch who bitches about it have a linear logic to everything they perceive as reality...
Interstellar was entertaining. That’s it. The accurate physics business sounds great but there were deviations to make the movie more entertaining. I thought a B grade blockbuster.
People want a happy resolution to this kind of movie. Now technically it has a "happy ending" with him returning to the woman he's fallen in love with, but that was never the point of the movie, which was about him returning to his family. Getting back just in time to see his daughter die of old age was a bummer. Even if the two of them saved humanity (they did) we still feel as though he "lost" because he didn't get the happy reunion he'd imagined and hoped for. Reminds me a bit of The Last American Virgin. One of the funniest popcorn flicks coming of age comedies ever BUT it has a very dark ending, and people commonly say they hated the movie. No, they loved the movie, but hated the way it ended.
Well written. Surprising choices. This was probably the most insightful list video I've ever watched
In no particular order my top 10:
Blade Runner: 2049
Interstellar
Cloud Atlas
Ex Machina
Contact
The Matrix
The Butterfly Effect
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
AI
Arrival
You might catch crap for AI, but I for one agree.
well at least you got 3 good ones, but even one of those very much MUST be the directors cut and NOT the Theatrical Release with it's "semi-happy" ending or either of the other 2 more progressively happy endings
Contact is in my top 3 :)
Well you got one good one
The only acceptable one on your list is Contact. It's clear you're under age 50.
District 9 is one of my favorite films. Sharlto Copley is amazing
Love that film. But...it's still an also-ran.
Watch Hardcore Henry Of Sharlto Copley, that film is also amazing
chinmay kaul ye Iv seen it I enjoyed it c
@@AB-gz9yb please suggest me some good action/ thriller movie!!
chinmay kaul a great action movie is END OF WATCH best cop movie I’ve seen in a while
I'm confused you like I Robot and Contagion but don't like Interstellar?
Yeah, I didn't really get that either. Poor Isaac probably spun in his grave for what they did with I, ROBOT. I never saw CONTAGION so I have no opinion there...
What do any of those films have to do with each other aside from the fact that they're all science fiction? If you were comparing A.I. and I, Robot, I would get that, but these films you mentioned can be compared to each other as well as apples can be to oranges.
Interstellar was an OK movie, nothing spectacular
Interstellar is overrated
People need brain to understand interstellar... One of the best movie of All time...
#2 on list, 'Stalker' (1979) is a beautiful film. Very simple to nearly no FX, and it's mesmerizing!
It’s magnificent. I don’t have a best but maybe it’s even better that his Solaris .
@@jeffreywegener8841 it is better
I can't believe that 2001: A Space Odyssey, was made in 1968. It's perhaps one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. The visuals are mind-blowing and always will be. One of the greatest movies ever made period.
2001 is the definition of a mystery wrapped in a conundrum. Read the book to better understand the movie end up more confused. Absolutely love the movie and agree it is pure genius!
An anomaly, Beautiful to experience. Not to mention so far ahead of its time.
Visually pleasing, yes, a waste of an hour and a half, also yes.
Underrated comment. It came out 9 years before Star Wars and the effects are just as good, if not better than SW.
Perhaps 2001is still good because he is not shaped for the understanding 13 years old public
Movie industry really feed us with cheap stuff that will involve immediate feelings without intelligence process from ours
Shoutout to The Man From Earth. Keeps you intrigued for 90mins on conversation alone with about a $500 budget.
P.S Star Wars?
I absolutely agree, marvellous sci-fi movie that all should watch.
Fede B It was indeed the only movie I missed in all the different clips shown in this video. Often overlooked masterpiece, I agree.
So underrated, but really it's one of the best. It achieves so much with so little
Star Wars is more fantasy than sci fi. Knights and princesses and magic an all that.
Wish I could have watched it with one of you to get a different viewpoint. I found it so sophomoric. Felt like 13 year olds conjecturing on the meaning of life. I never saw Bixby's Twilight Zone story of "It's a good life" but the short story is classic. Maybe I should read The man from earth.
Where is Blade Runner and Alien??
Artimis Lestrange edgy
Nay salty
I saw a clip of Alien lol
Sackper2on or Back to the Future or Star Wars...
blade runner sucks
The Arrival is my most recent sci-fi favourite.
Friendly correction: The Arrival was a 1996 SF film and a good one; not to be confused with Arrival with Amy Adams which was excellent.
I like that one a lot.
Bizarre list that doesn't even mention one of the best categories, time travell and time paradoxes
It wasn't explicitly mentioned but was definitely featured in the number one science fiction film (2001) according to this particular presentation.
Maybe they're saving time travel for a list of its own.
You did see a wee clip of looper.
Prestige comes really close and offers a paradox version of multi-dimension transportation.
My two fave time travel movies are The Time Machine (orig) and Somewhere in Time.
@@HeronCoyote1234 Predestination is the best of the genre.
In no particular order, here is my list:
Arrival
Alien
Blade Runner
Children of Men
The Terminator
Gattaca
Contact
The Day The Earth Stood Still (original)
Jurassic Park
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Hartung good list! I've never seen Andromeda Strain - so now i'm going to check it out. Thanks!
you select arrival and not interstellar? whats wrong with you? I dont see why people like arrival.
Glad to see Andromeda Strain here. Totally freaked me out as a young kid,
"2001: A Space Odyssey" is the expansion of an Arthur C. Clarke short story titled "The Sentinel". Clarke himself has given full credit for the inspiration to a British philosopher, William Olaf Stapledon, who, because his thinking in the 1920s was so advanced that his colleagues had no idea what he was talking about, had to resort to writing scifi in pulp magazines to explain what he saw. What he was talking about has influenced many scifi writers who have publicly acknowledged their debt to him. Two books, "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker", in that order, will introduce you to a Universe which, at the time of his writing was 'officially' considered to be about 1.8 Billion years old, but which he considered to be much older. Albeit his writing style seems a bit archaic, you will find the seeds for much of what has become our view of the Universe relative to collective Human perception. Even today, his vision still underlies much if not most of what we call both scifi and of our perception of the Universe. A sadness here is that at a time (1920-30s) while propagandistic and questionable 'genius' was being front-paged for reasons having nothing to do with science and knowledge, true genius worked in obscurity and remains there.
Olafs Star Maker is genius. Everybody should read it.
I've always felt Stapledon was the writer whose ideas are the basis of 2001, yes. Incredible writer.
love your analysis better than the picks!
Blade Runner, THE greatest movie of all time. I want more life, father.
I still prefer the original 'I want moe life, f****r.'
@@ivorbiggun710 Meeeeee too.
In complete agreement, believe it or not, there are many who feel the same way!
The original and 2049 are pretty epic in how they follow cannon but are completely different movies. I think what draws me in, is how realistic human nature is portrayed and no matter the advancement in our technology or creativeness, we are still who we will always be! Beautiful and freighting all at the same time, same idea with the 5th Element!
I totally agree with the choice of 2001, and to think it was completed well before we even touched the moon, and he nailed it!
People just dont have the sense for quality anymore, so quality basically starts to cease-to-matter, which is sad af.
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Contagion being on a Sci-Fi list 3 years ago is kinda scary
National Geographic Magazine July 1994 Viruses SARS 2003 Discovery 2007 virus transmission Contagion 2011 (Already knew the ending before watching) Lived through both SARS outbreaks
Prophetic.
No Blade Runner??? wtf???
I agree, even if we all have different tastes, it should be at least in the top five.
have you guys read the PKD novel? if you haven't you really should
@@turnipbug DADOES is one of my favourite sci-fi novels but I don't think reading PKD is relevant to this list. Blade runner is one of the best and influential sci-fi movies of all time. This channel ain't too bad but they are a bit try hard in their cinephile opinions. I also think it's a mistake to take each position from a sub-genre of sci-fi to reflect a top ten list.
Cineflix folks like to be contrarian it appears. Blade Runner should be at or near the top
I'd have included Alien, Aliens, Terminator, and Fantastic Planet, too. Blade Runner 2049, as well.
What the hell was wrong with Interstellar? Was one of the best sci-fi's I've seen in recent times, along with 'Oblivion'.
Good God, no.
@@labibchy1423 Godd God, yes.
I'd also put Brazil at No1 alongside with 2001 A Space Odyssey. And not only amongst sci fi movies.
Interstellar for #1 always
There's no movie like interstellar. Its a masterpiece.
Contact was one of the most enlightening movies I've ever experienced.... The end was.... well... incredible.
I don't know. I mean, what did the aliens actually accomplish by putting humanity through all that? I guess it's not their fault people handled it so bad.
You are goddamn right
Contact was crap.
The movie left out the most impactful (imho) segment. Ellie was told by the alien to look into pi. After all the hearings, she had a programmer run the calculation of pi. Quite a while later, the programmer called and said “There’s a message in pi”
@@calebmauer1751 the aliens? i don't think they care, it was never about them, they just sent some blueprints. it's really about us. they said, there will be more messages. but will we survive the technological revolution? probably not. or, in the future, it will be the privileged against the very poor and miserable low class.
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Any list that doesn't include Blade Runner, The Matrix and They Live isn't worth taking serious, but honestly I wouldn't include hardly any of these picks in the top 10.
Matrix is not good it was just flashy action very little true story
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The day the earth stood still was fantastic. I agree that it should have made the list.
Hi can a top 10 list not include Aliens and Terminator 2? They are certainly two of the best realised sci films of all time.
Good to see Children of Men, Eternal Sunshine, and Stalker get some love. Those three personify classic cinema!💯
One of the best and most intelligent lists I've seen in RUclips. Thanks for the list. Subscribing with hope there are similar quality videos.
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dusq123 I hate you. Go throw some paint at a wall, eat some wine and cheese with your pointy beard friends and talk about how the paint brings out the social dynamic of pop culture relevance in our moral evolution.
I'm biased, but I'd put Star Trek VI on my list. Exploring the idea of an end to hostility as a somehow frightening idea. That suddenly our enemy is no longer our enemy. For my money, it's the best Trek film of all time.
Every sci-fi film is a gangsta untill black mirror enters the game.
I feel like Dark is a black mirror episode
Children of Men? You're the best!
Gattaca and Edge of Tomorrow.. Brilliant Sci Fi!
Honestly, science fiction is such a huge genre with different ideas and ways to explore those. Top 10 is cutting it too short. Top 50 would still leave too many movies out side. And thus undiscovered by newbies.
But, it would let in some of the Star Wars and Star Trek movies! 8-O
That what all the runners-up are for. At least 50 total.
Please no Star wars, i dont see much sciene fiction exploration in it, it seems more like a background character...@@artramos2880
This made my day to see Contact being picked for the alien movie. One of my favorite movies of all time and one I have and still quote to this day.
"Alien" and "Blade Runner" and "The Thing" have to be in any top 10 imo
the original 'the thing' i hope? :o
@@AwoudeX Yes the original. I don't acknowledge the 2012 whatever it was.
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Cant believe you left off Blade Runner, and Gataca. Don't get me wrong, these films are all great in the genre. But, those are 2 of the absolute best sci fi films ever, by any standard.
I just watched blade runner for the first time 1 hour ago
Blade Runner is a monumental movie that set the tone for the vast majority of sci fi movies that came later .... even later Star Wars movies tried to copy its looks and styles. Its influence on the later generations is greater than even 2001 Space Odyssey, there are countless great directors, writers, artists, philosophers, animes, games, even tech companies citing it as a great influence and inspiration ....
I would surely put Blade Runner above 2001 Space Odyssey ... its mind boggling any sci fi list would exclude it in the top 10 ... anything lower than top 2 is frankly ignorant too ....
Sci-Fi list! With no Blade Runner? I'm upset.
Well, scenes from the Blade Runner were shown at least 3 times, and the lector talked a little about it.
Better question *WHERE'S INTERSTELLAR*
@@Felipevideos9008 You clearly haven't seen it
@@Felipevideos9008 Why did you watch it twice if you hate it?
@@veikkarahkonen7618 interstellar was literallly shit on in this video XD
Children of Men was great and I saw it in the theater and it blew my mind!
it ain't Cinefix if their lists don't have The Mirror or Children of Men
MightyQuinn2021 Okay but they're so good lol
I know this is a crazy CRAZY big task, but I need this channel to make a “just 10 (maybe 20-30) movies you should watch if you just love movies”
I adore this channel. I’ve found so many great movies from this channel. I’ve won trivia points because of this channel. And in terms of production I appreciate its depth yet tangibility. But every single list gives me, in the gods honest truth, anywhere between 1-10 movies I want to watch, and of all the channels I follow THIS is the one I need a starters list.
And it’s not like you won’t have PLENTY of options left, many who’d be left in the comments.
BLADE RUNNER?!?!?!?!?!?!
You put The fucking Prestige at 5 yet no Blade Runner
I'm agree with you, Blade Runner should be on the list, but what's wrong with The Prestige?
Gabriel Gallardo Nothing in particular. It's a solid 7/10
film but to even put it on the list let alone top 5 without having Blade Runner is just disrespectful.
THIS ISN'T WATCHMOJO!!!!!!
Laura Keeble wat u mean?
Not having Blade Runner in your top 10 list is a sin!
Not putting The Matrix and The Terminator are also consider a sin
Not even a mention of the film that introduced the modern SF movie; Forbidden Planet
oh would you look at this guy.. so smart so knowledgable.. stfu
forbidden planet was decades ahead of its time!
+nickmov2000. Do you think it's pretentious to admire Forbidden Planet? Why? A lot of us can remember when Forbidden Planet was a recent movie. We grew up watching it, and, for it's time, it was unparalleled. There's nothing pretentious about loving a film we've watched for 60 years.
Destination Moon.
@@philipsidney7941 He's just willingly ignorant, like too many other modern film "fans" who won't watch anything made before they were born.
Wait, you chose Her over Blade Runner?
- Solaris (1972)
- Logan’s Run (1976)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
- Arrival (2016)
- Contact (1997)
- Gravity (2013)
- Minority Report (2002)
- Brazil (1985)
- 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Gojira (1952)
- V for Vendetta (2006)
- Looper (2012)
- Stalker (1979)
- Alien (1979)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Contact (1997)
- Children of Men (2006)
- Her (2013)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Sunshine (2007)
- 12 Monkeys (1995)
- Another Earth (2011)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The Matrix (1999)
- 1984 (1984)
- Logan’s Run (1976)
- Soylent Green (1973)
- Snowpiercer (2013)
- Contagion (2011)
- The Andromeda Strain (1971)
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
- Melancholia (2011)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- The Road (2009)
- E.T. (1982)
- Independence Day (1996)
- The Abyss (1989)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Attack the Block (2011)
- District 9 (2009)
- Under the Skin (2013)
- Men in Black (1997)
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
- A.I. (2001)
- I, Robot (2004)
- Ex Machina (2015)
- Moon (2009)
- Warm Bodies (2013)
- Terminator 2 (1991)
- Alien (1979)
- They Live (1988)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Upstream Color (2013)
- Predator (1987)
- Dark City (1998)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Gattaca (1997)
- The Running Man (1987)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Primer (2004)
- Source Code (2011)
- Repo Men (2010)
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
- Robocop (1987)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Interstellar (2014)
- The Hunger Games (2012)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- Alphaville (1965)
- Strange Days (1995)
- Altered States (1980)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- Pi (1998)
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
- Limitless (2011)
- Abre los Ojos (1997)
- Total Recall (1990)
- Videodrome (1983)
- Strange Days (1995)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Akira (1988)
- Wall-E (2008)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- The Host (2006)
- Stalker (1979)
It makes me sad that I've seen all these. There just aren't enough SciFi movies. I always want more.
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Two movies really grabbed me in my youth; The Thing and Forbidden Planet, one of the many sci-fi books I had read prior to the movie. These two would be on my list. I think I read Soylent Green but it was called "Make Room, Make Room"
Yes, those two are among the best.
I think Forbidden Planet is the best Scifi movie ever.
Forbidden planet came on at 1AM one night in the mid 70's. I had never seen or even heard of it. I was totally blown away and have never forgotten how it felt to be truly in Awe of a movie...or maybe it was the drugs man.
John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic. The sequel was actually pretty decent as well.
10. Snowpiercer
9.Children of men.
8.Contact
7. Her
6.Planet of the apes.
5. Prestige.
4. Metropolis
3. Eternal sunshine of ...........
2. Stalker
1. 2001 a space Odyssey
You are welcome..
Children of men makes one want to off oneself!
its in the video description you fool
I would thank u if u plz enlist all the movies mentioned in this video
No one ever talks about Tilda Swinton's incredible performance in Snowpiercer. She truly embodies the phrase "the banality of evil".
Thats because Tilda Swinton's performances are always incredible.
Damn it hurt to see 1984 and Brazil get beaten out, but Metropolis is 100% the correct choice for that spot!
One of my favourite science fiction films has no special effects and is set in the present. "The Man From Earth" 2007.
The Man from Earth, cost about $200k yet it's worth so much more, with 8 people sat listening to john for most of the film yet it's one of greats.
A masterpiece.
yes I didn't continue it but I am looking forward too
Totally agree fantastic movie.
you guys are the amazing!!!!!!!!!! keep the amazing work up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please some do some top ten videos for:
1) music scores
2) comedy characters
3) sequels
4) franchises
5) cameos
6) musicals
7) fourth wall breaks
Nice one. Put well together. Thank you. Subscribed.
Ridley Scott Alian was one of the best ever!
'Alien' was wei better than 'Alian' . Seriously though, I saw Alien and Jaws when I was 10 or 12 years old with my very brave older brother and his friends right when they hit the theaters. Truly, two of the scariest experiences in my life. Groundbreaking films at the time. The impact of sight, story, and sound was so powerful that I had to watch a few scenes from the door to the lobby
LOL, good thing you didn't accidentally walk into The Exorcist... You'd have soiled yourself!
Yes - and Ridley's 'Blade Runner' !
Finally giving The Prestige the recognition it deserves
The_Venomous_Viper 123 brilliant movie
Overrated.
I shouldn't have to tell you that 'The Prestige' is more in the 'Fantasy' genre than 'Science Fiction'!!!
I did not even recognize it as a sci-fi movie....
Putting it in Sci-Fi, makes Tesla a "fictional" character or puts his work in the fictional category.
i`m not sure i`m willing to do that.
I really liked Gattaca
I'm really glad you take Stalker as one of them all
While I strongly disagree with your opinion on Interstellar (I thought it was incredible), it's nice of you guys to give credit to a few movies that don't make these kind of lists so often like Snowpiercer and Children of Men.
Only sad that Children of Men is not a SciFi movie, it is a dystopia... There is no technical novum/novelty in the whole movie.
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Children of men sucked. And of course the only child in UK was black. All about racial attacks on whites
it should be on top
Um, duh. If you could pick up on the not so subtle nod to Jesus, you'd understand. Jesus would have been a little brown baby. Besides, white people aren't the end all be all of everything. I suppose you didn't mind the black guy being the villain.
Surprised Equilibrium wasn't mentioned. A distopian socitety where all "evil" is considered to be derived from emotion, and so they create a society without emotion by limiting the brain to not experience emotion and destroying anything that evokes emotion, like art. The action and setpieces in the movie are also fantastic and the introduction to gun kata is simply cool as heck and timeless.
Love the list, but I feel like Arrival is the greatest alien encounter film ever made
Me too, I hope there will be arrival 2 so we can know why will we "need" to support aliens in 3000 years
10000% agree
@RUFUS T. FIREFLY obvious troll is obvious
The short story ”Omnilingual” is much better imo and doesn’t bore you to death in the process.
Arrival is based on Story of Your Life by sci-fi wunderkind Ted Chiang, who writes incredible stuff exploring some very deep concepts, that would be very difficult to translate into a film, even under the best of conditions. And while OK, not surprisingly the movie version, Arrival really didn't do it justice and seems to have been 'adapted' for a larger, more mainstream audience.
I'm glad he included 'boring' in the adjectives describing 2001 A Space Odyssey. A lot of it was.
"They've got no bullets!" chills. Every. Time.
Contact - my favorite movie of all time. And I'm a little surprised The Fifth Element wasn't worthy of even a comment.
+ Michael Hendrick Same Here
The Filth Element is messy, weird, clunky and forced. It had a silly story and somehow it just feels like a flashy action movie and not a thinking man's sci-fi. The cast is also terrible (except Gary Oldman ofc).
i did liked the Story of the Fifth Element but to much slapstik and comedy. If it wouled have been made more seriusly and realistik it couled have been the best movie of all time, but in that state its not.
@@mancamiatipoola disagree on every level, Bruce Willis was perfect, as was Mila and what a supporting role Chris Rock did as Ruby; sets, design and story, magical. Probably upset those who like their saccharine formulaic trash but that's a good thing.
leaving akira off this list is a crime of the highest degree.
It's there sir, they mentioned it
@@LuisSierra42 'Anime' fans have notoriously short attention spans.
....
p.s. - and apparently easily 'triggered' too! ;-p
Mateo haha haha
In all fairness, they did show a clip from that...
@@matonmongo REally ? How that ? You have no clue it seems ..
I am Anime fan and just watched the hole Cleopatra movie 1963 ... 5h 20m...
By the way some of the most impressive studies of sciene fiction come from the anime world...
Paprika, Ghost in the shell all movies ->series...
Akira
Animatrix
Cowboy Bebop
Neo genisis evangelion
Psycho kill
Metropolis
docents others i dont even rember the titles of ...
etc.
1:59 why didn't you recommend interstellar?
Logan's run is one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
I didn’t expect to see Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind in this list and even at the top 3. I really love that movie and its ending made me cry so bad.
The Thing.
For sheer terror and Bob Bottin's landmark practical special effects, it definitely should have been here.
Loved how bleak and paranoiac it was.
Oh yeah. How could that not be on there? I can't watch that alone.
Ross Mahon best movie ever
The Thing and Alien....
Favorite movie ever bud
When they picked Her before Bladerunner I had enough.
its a top 10 best, not a top 10 most iconic.
there has only been one right answer, especially in art
This is the exact point i stopped watching.
in terms of the impact on the human experience. Makes perfect sense. for me Her is in my top 10 of any movie. blade runner....not.
@@merdefilms3837 not only is it iconic but it is the best and the most influential