Ask HN: Good sci-fi movies?

Going to repeat a lot of what has been said so far:

- Minority Report (The TV show isn't bad either)

- Ex Machina

- District 9

- Elysium

- Oblivion

- Edge of Tomorrow

- Looper

- I am Legend

- Her

- The Martian

- The Matrix (Only 2 & 3 if you're super bored)

- Basically any of the Mad Max series

- Firefly (TV show, movies are OK)

- Dark Matter (TV show)

- Snow Piercer

- American Ultra

- Last Witch Hunter (more fantasy than SciFi)

- Riddick

- Dredd

- X Files (I mean, it's not NOT scifi...)

- Treasure Planet (Yes, the animated one)

- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Gets a bad rap for being animated, but it has it's own language and everything)

- Serial Lain Experiments (anime)

- Watchmen

- The Dark Knight

- Inception

- The Prestige (technically SciFi)

I can go on for hours

Planet of the Apes (1968), Forbidden Planet (1956), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Brazil (1985), Contact (1997)

Alien, Blade Runner, Minority Report, 12 Monkeys, Primer, Tron

Event Horizon.

I am fascinated with the concept of evil existing outside of the context of humanity and this movie is what planted that seed.

Europa report, I liked interstellar, most didnt... I love me some good sci-fi. 13th floor is pretty good too, it got overshadowed by the matrix though.. I'm pretty happy sure they came out around the same time...

Dark City, 13th Floor, Pi, Gattaca, Time Crimes, The Jacket, Moon.

The Thing (1982), Slither, Dark Skies, Intacto (spanish), Another Earth, Coherence

Primer is on here a bunch, but really worth watching if you like time travel conundrums.

Surprised nobody has mentioned "Moon" yet.

1. Total Recall

2. Blade Runner

3. Starship Troopers

4. Superman 2

5. Aliens

6. Predator

7. Mad Max: Fury Road

8. Return of the Jedi

9. Star Wars

10. Empire Strikes Back

11. Dark City

12. Matrix Revolutions

13. Matrix

14. Matrix Reloaded

15. The Fifth Element

16. Robocop

17. Gravity

18. Godzilla (2014)

19. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

20. Jurassic Park

21. The Thing

22. Europa Report

23. THX-1138

24. Repo! The Genetic Opera

25. Santa Sangre

(.. ok this list could go on forever)

Yes, the big 80's/90's action-sci-fi, especially the ones with Arnold, were so god-damned entertaining. There are obivously lots of smaller sci-fi that's cool & entertaining as well, but with the big 80's/90's action-sci-fi, you get your money's worth.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Sunshine

Blade Runner, gattaca, the matrix, alien etc.etc. basically just google "best sci fi movies of all time"

Moon, Ex Machina, The Matrix

The Matrix Terminator Terminator Genisys Inception (2010) Iron Man 3 (2013) Mad Max Fury Road (2015) Captain America Civil War (2016) The Dark Knight Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice 2016

A few others that I don't think have been mentioned, in no particular order.

- Guardians of the Galaxy

- Back to the Future series

- Men in Black

- Groundhog Day

- Elysium

- Planet of the Apes (old & new)

- Ender's Game

- Independence Day

- The Island

- John Carter

- I Robot

- The Day the Earth Stood Still (old & new)

Stargate. District 9. Inception. Equilibrium. Mad Max: Fury Road. Moon. Edge of Tomorrow.

Edit: The Man From Earth if you can dig independent cinema.

I really enjoyed Galaxy Quest, as parody with a lot of heart. Not exactly hard sci-fi, of course.

It depends on how low your bar is. Last few that I've seen that I enjoyed:

Source Code Pacific Rim The Martian Pandorum

* Star Wars, * Ex Machina, * The Matrix, * Inception, * Alien, * Tron, * The Fifth Element

Not a movie, but Stranger Things. Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet.

Star Wars - but not the prequels.

Watch The Matrix. Again. It is very well made. And it's pretty deep.

Ex Machina.

Primer.

Ex Machina, The Matrix, Star Wars, Doctor Who

Short Circuit

Dune

Ex Machina

Primer

Her

Upstream Color

Robot and Frank

Stalker

The Abyss