ESB, has everything a Sci fi needs, great story, great characters and great special effects.

Sans the science. :-)

ESB has laser guns and spaceships.

Boom, sci-fi.


Just like horses, old dusty towns and sixshooters make a Western.




The nature of the two genres is in the settings. To say that's it's a theme decision (sci fi teaches us about human nature), then The Shawshank Redemption is a science fiction movie too. Similarly, Westerns would cease to exist if setting doesn't determine genre... instead they would fall under crime stories, romance, etc based on each's plot.

Wot ?? No Fifth Element ??

Without reservation, argument, or doubt, the Star Wars films are 100%, Grade-A SCI-FI. Anyone who argues otherwise is just fooling themselves.

They ain't Science Fiction, however... and my vote went to 2001: A Space Odyssey. :)

Blade Runner
The Terminator
and another vote for The Fifth Element

Aliens gets my vote

wow, no love for the classics. off the list...Alien.

fav's..The Day the Earth Stood Still, Them!, THX1138 and Silent Running.

My vote would be for Dark City, but out of the list, Aliens is my favorite.

tasha

The best film is 2001: A Space Odyssey

The best drama/thriller is 12 Monkeys

The best post-apocalyptic film is The Road Warrior

The best horror film is Alien

The best action film is Aliens

The best science fiction film is The Terminator

The best sci-fi flick is Star Wars


:)

There are some huuuuggggeee gaps in that list (as Gort, Robby, and Roy Batty would surely attest to). However, my all-time favorite is represented.

Daisy, Dai-i-i-i-sy...

The top 5 in my book:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Forbidden Planet
Quatermass & the Pit
Bladerunner
Alien

what? so "sci-fi" and "science fiction" are now 2 different things?

Don't forget <B>SF</B>.

das

Here's some info on science fiction, sciffy, sci-fi, and sf from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America site. I tend to just call it sf because that makes it so easy--it's a lot simpler to know whether something is speculative or not, than it is to try to pinpoint what subgenre it is.

http://www.sfwa.org/misc/skiffy.htm

http://www.sfwa.org/misc/skiffy2.htm (this is just a direct link to the link on page above.)

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Star Wars/Empire are my favorites. Therefore, they are the best sci-fi out there, imo.

Yes, now also look up the differences between:

Western, West Ern, Eastern/Western

Comedy, Com-edy

Buddy Film, buddy movie, Bud-D flick

Cartoon, car tune, animated movie

Courtroom drama, C.D., Drama de Courtroom

;)

Actually three if you count the "SCI-FI" channel.. ;)

Which has little, if anything to do science fiction.

I truly, truly miss the channel's good days of Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers reruns :(

Oh yeah...Soultaker the best SFC flick (or at least the funniest) :)

Yes, and they have been for quite a long time....

"Sci-fi" is zap guns, bug eyed monsters, starship battles like World War II aerial dogfights, and basically everything you think of when you think of a lot of "cheesy" futuristic environments.

Think "Fifth Element", "Independence Day", "The Last Starfighter", "Star Wars", etc.

"Science Fiction" represents an intelligent speculative look into the present, near or far future in which topical events, ideas, social morays, etc. are presented from a different perspective.

Think "Blade Runner", "2001: ASO", "Dark City", "Donnie Darko", "Gattaca", etc..

I'm not arguing that "sci-fi" is worse than "science-fiction" -- that's a matter of personal opinion. However, there is a difference.

No vote for Metropolis (Fritz Lang) or Akira ?
No mention also of Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes or The Day the Earth Stood Still neither

I mean when you -truly- like SF, SW is definitly not the way to go.

BTW my vote goes to Starship Trooper

Depends, i did a bit of reading on genre theory and some people would agree with you, but some wouldn't.

I personally tend to disagree, i think that what best defines a genre is the comination of the formal and thematic elements. As a result, i personally tend to break up genres into a ton of personal sub genres, i.e. for me Star Wars is sci-fantasy, Aliens is sci-action, etc...

For me, pure science fiction is stuff like 2001 or Solaris, movies that are largely about introspection and reflection.

I voted for Aliens tho, watching part of that on tv was one of my earliest memories of watching movies.

Growing up I loved Logans Run.
Also like the First two Alien Movies
The first two Star Wars movie.
Star Trek 2