I agree with a lot of Cthulku and Masema both! Also glad Barbie reminded me of Logan's run. Never seen that one drunk, but I watched that one night while under the influence of substances I was abusing the same night with Flash Gordon. Enjoyed it, and I hear they're making a re-make of Logan's Run (Though this writer's strike definitely will probably slow that down for a while). 

Beaches will be retracted from the fantasy genre. Nice try, Uda, but while you have always insisted upon placing that movie on a pedastal, you efforts will not succeed!!

Equilibreum had some really great choreography, and I always thought of it as one of the better more-recent science fiction movies. It reminded me a lot of Farenheit 451, but they just managed to make it a lot more action orientated (They included freaking swords and guns, which the book was sorely lacking!). Farenheit 451 is a really popular science fiction novel that will be reaching the film stage soon as well (I think Tom Hanks was rumored to play Guy Montag).

The Alien Trilogy will always stand out to me too, Rologan. If I ever see one of those on cable, I pause and watch the rest of it. Hell, I even do the same for Aliens vs Predator. That new one coming out on Christmas  may even be pretty good for the violent content. It's supposed to be much, much more gruesome.

That old original &quot;Dune&quot; movie was pretty good, both for Nostalgia and for when I was not sober and watching it. Lots of real good quotes in that one.

Pitch Black is good because they did manage to create a character out of that one who we want to see again. Not many movies have seemed to give us a Riddick. He does the right thing in the end, but he's also just as capable of doing the not-so-morale  thing. So he's not so predictable of a protagonist. 

I havn't seen Howard the Duck in freaking years, since I was 9 or 10, but I've been meaning to find that sucker.

After some more considerable debating, it was decided that Fried Green Tomatoes also be taken from the fantasy genre lists. That one nearly slipped by, Uda. Well played.

Time Bandits will always sit in my mind as pretty damned awesome, and I watched that all the time as a kid. Pretty sure that movie helped me tolerate midgets, Europeans, and played a large role in turning me into a damned weirdo.

The Running Man reminds me of playing GI Joes with my friends, we'd have that movie running in the background a lot. Same with Predator. We were 23 years old. 

Never thought of 5th Element as a spoof, but I guess it does sort of serve that purpose in a sense. I know I loved that movie when I first saw it at the theater. A buddy of mine does an impression of the opera singing blue woman. It's pretty bad, but also totally dead on. That movie also made my mind wrong about my chances with flight attendants. Hard to explain that one. 

I own Dark City, all my friends sort of hate it, but I like it a lot. I even watched that one in the movie theater. I swear it had good effects for its time, and I was interested in the plot!

No one will ever forgive me for enjoying the Val Kilmer Island of Dr. Mereau (sp) but I saw that at the theater too..and liked it.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome deserves some mention. Transformers, while not written or scripted to my satisfaction (In order to be more successful they needed a lot of that cheesy crap and the dumb one liners) will probably be a memorable one for the special effects. 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, much like ET, will always be awesome to me. 

More 80's sci fi type movies might include Explorers, The Last Starfighter, Enemy Mine, and Skrull.

Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, as well as Beastmaster are pretty fun to watch! And while it's not by any means to be considered a great one, Masters of the Universe was awesome to me as a kid.

The Dark Crystal, Legend, and Willow are another 3 sitting in my DVD collection. I like them all. That big demon on Legend reminded me of Sam Malone from Cheers when I was little, and he scared the crap out of me. 

Blade Runner was one my mom would rent me as a kid, and I'd never really watch it. I just knew it was in the sci fi section and had Han Solo in it. Other than that, I was one confused kid trying to follow it. I own the director's cut now, and still don't think I've watched the &quot;entire&quot; thing. Seems to have had great cinematography for its time.

So yes, I suppose the greatest of all time could probably be Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and even the Matrix movies for their budgets and overall success. I mostly posted this to reminisce on some other ones that're pretty fun to watch too.

I'd love to watch Ice Pirates again. That's another one I've had a hard time finding. No one mentioned Tron! I freaking loved Tron! And Dragonslayer, havn't seen it in years, but I used to love the part where the wizard and the dragon fought on the mountain. Oh! And The Abyss was pretty good. 

Event Horizon's a pretty good science fiction horror movie.

What about some Sci Fi cartoons? Akira, Transformers the movie, Ninja Scroll.....there was that one newer cartoon that was crazy creative, Spirited Away. Princess Monoke was pretty good as well.