Its part of the breeding, one would expect no less from Bowie stock.

Personal favourtite will always be Bladerunner, but a lot of what has already been mentioned is up there too. I'm a bit worried this new sequel will disappoint as Prometheus did. I'm not sure Ridley Scott is making films with the same impact he had early on (just goes to show success can be a bad thing).

I hope Ridley Scott will not spoil Forever War for me, I love the graphic novel.

Worst:

Star Wars prequels.

I had no freakin idea what the fk was going on or why.

- Zardoz (!)

If we are at it i will throw some more bad movies, so bad you probably did not heard about them:
The Beast of Yucca Flats

I only read the first novel and really liked it.
I didn't dare watch the movie, although opinions on it seem to differ strongly.

Got another terrible movie.

Robot Jox (also known as robo jockeys)

Hey, I just remembered "Barbarella" .. :D

Best sharknado.

Worst 2001.

This is a tough one as there have been a handful of good science fiction films, few very good and plenty of simply dreadful films.

On the whole my list would look like:

BEST FILM: Stalker

WORST FILM: Liquid Sky


I saw Liquid Sky in a cinema in Antwerp in about '84 and I couldn't believe how bad it was. I think that it's fair to say that nothing that I have seen comes as close to that. I haven't seen Battlefield Earth but I expect that would be a masterpiece in comparison.

Stalker is simply excellent. No, there are no spaceships in there (they've long gone as it happens) but it's a wonderfully made film and a little hard going. And, oh, it's in Russian but that doesn't detract at all.

To the mainstream list. Of the Alien series, which I adore, my favourite is the so-called Director's Cut of Alien 3, followed by the orginal then not sure about the ranking of the last two. Slightly less mainstream is Jodie Foster's Contact because the concept of the film is fantastic.

Back to the bottom end of my list. I remember disliking the Trek films, though the last outing of the series is far, far better and puts them into the so-so category. One I remember failing to avoid all the time was the dreadful Enemy Mine which for reason my mate seemed to like. Mind you he was permanently drunk and had one eye so that may have been the reason for that.

2001 headed off this list and, sorry, no. It didn't work as a film for me at all. I have never been a fan of Kubrick and apart from a few iconic moments the film wasn't as good as its reputation. But this is, of course, a subjective opinion. A lot of people won't like my Alien 3 choice because it didn't have Hollywood actors and lots of guns but differeng opinions is the point of all this.

I know a lot of people think that Aliens is the best of the lot. But it's another Cameron film with high budget and lots of guns. It was fun when I saw it in my mid twenties but now there's nothing there that's of substance. And if one creature can cause that much damage in the first and third films then a planet full of the beasts should have been an impossibility to overcome.

Id watch the hell out of that movie if they would have gotten Bill Murray instead of Tom Cruise.

God damn that would be surreal. I'd keep imagining Murray fighting as his character from Stripes.

Also, both of those movies had a very distinctly black alien who was completely passive and helpful being misunderstood by a clearly white human who had grown up learning to hate black aliens for no reason. I acknowledge the realism but I don't like to watch it.

Worst = Black Hole
complete travisty from 1st minute to last

I didn't say African-American. I said black. The aliens had a very dark complexion, and (debatably) other features stereotypical of African people.


rolls off the tongue nicely =)

It really makes me sad when so-called Trekkers watch JJ Abrams' monstrosity and actually say that they are relieved he didn't break any of the elements that make it Star Trek. I'd ask them to point out any that he didn't break, but I know they wouldn't be able to come up with one.

Scandalous! No one even mentions Dune as the worst?

Dude, no concern necessary. Anyone with a brain knows how that is going to turn out. Was a whole prequel trilogy of non-sense not enough to alert you to the danger of imminent death upon the Star Wars franchise?

I'm just wise enough to face the truth.

You're right. One could speculate that through some miracle perhaps Walt Disney and JJ Abrams could make a great Star Wars movie.

Too bad that just ain't gonna happen.

No purpose, just um, I don't know. Unashamedly me. Un-apologetically me. Preaching the word.

Marooned has not aged well.

I watched Dune again last week. Hadn't seen it years. It was certainly an 80's movie. They tried. I think they really did, but it was really cheesy there in many places. However, it wasn't as bad as "The Black Hole". Now that was awful.

Minus the massive rocky islands floating in the sky, you mean?

McGuffin my ass. There are only 4 forces in the universe and none of them could keep those islands floating in the sky without causing severe side effects and/or being easily disruptable.

If it's a form of electromagnetism, heat it, block it, flip it around or bring a larger EM field and then let gravity follow its course. KA-BOOM, good bye blue punks. Not to mention that whatever makes the islands fly, can make human machines fly too.

As for gravity effects... well no, you REALLY do not want to go along that path.

Has anyone mentioned Cloud Atlas yet?

I really expected to hate it, heard nothing but negative feedback, but I reckoned it couldn't be worse than generic superhero stuff. It's probably the film I've enjoyed the most in recent years. Really hope it becomes a cult classic.

It's not mindblowing or actually all that clever if you're familiar with the genres it references. But it's intricate, well directed and has a strong cast. When I watched it the first time I immediately realised I'd like to watch it again, and read the book, which is rare - but I didn't because it is better to mentally return to it in some ways. It's referencing and slyly reworking a hell of a lot of other genres and motifs - not just sci fi, storytelling but also cinematic themes (5th Element vs Django vs MadMax vs Shaft).

Anyway, I just watched it again and noticed that the film is a symphony movement, stylistically. Which I didn't notice the first time around because I was paying attention to the plot/characters, but is a subtext. It is quite long, and there are a lot of characters, but I think that allows you to interpret it differently each time, which is pleasing.