Sci-Fi Movie Poll!

And Soylent Green is supposed to take place in 2022. So maybe one for New Years!

Neal Romanek

Contact is beautiful, but it can feel like you're being spoon fed science. Depends on where you are, Carl Sagan is my childhood idol, one of the single people I would have loved to pay a lunch and discuss some topics. The book Contact is present in the movie "The Fly", and in your youtube reaction video! :D

Hugo Ferreira

Contact stinks, Soylent Green is underrated

Ken Veader

Contact is one of my 2 favorites movies of all time. Shawshank being the other. I love the internal science vs faith theme in it.

Angel Pagan

I just want to give a shout out to "Dark City." It is a masterpiece of dark noir alien Scifi. Its one of those sleeper gems that you should not ignore. Roger Ebert Loved it so much he contributed to the special features of one of the video releases.

MCL-1984

While I definitely want to see POTA it is the start of a long franchise which means lots of waiting over the months to finish the rest of them so for this poll I pick the extraordinary Contact.

Agreed!

JayWantsACat

Planet of the Apes (1968) 2. Contact 3. Soylent Green 4. Gattaca 5. Rollerball (1975)

INFJ-T Tyrone

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INFJ-T Tyrone

When Worlds Collide👍

INFJ-T Tyrone

Gattaca👍

Tyrone Tyrone

Rollerball😲💯👏 Jonathan E. I think James Cann said it was his favorite role.

Tyrone Tyrone

one of my personal favorites

Turtle

Yes Annihilation! Incredible movie

Garry L

Gattaca and Dark City are so underrated and under- reacted to. I hope you two are able to get to them some day.

JayWantsACat

I’d add two by Alex Garland: “Ex-Machina” and “Annihilation”.

Michael Soukup

Yay! My long time suggestion of 'Dark City' has finally made it to the poll! Too bad it'll probably lose to one of these other heavy hitters. Maybe next month...

Nicotti

Wait, wait. We're just all assuming you've seen Interstellar. You've seen Interstellar, right?

Neal Romanek

I'm glad Contact is doing well but I hope Gattaca gets another chance down the line because it's so good.

Jeremy O Dwyer

Logan’s Run

Mark M

A romance/love story category would be great!

Neal Romanek

I love Soylent Green more than I can say. Some other great 70's dystopia classics - Logan's Run, Rollerball, THX-1138 (George Lucas's first film - do the original cut), Westworld, The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Neal Romanek

Great list.

Neal Romanek

For Cronenberg month please.

Neal Romanek

City Of Lost Children is really strange and interesting.

Neal Romanek

PS, Portis: I don't want to oversell it either, it's a major classic movie that is definitely worth seeing. A great 1950s sci-fi movie. It's not "2001", it's not "Close Encounters"......it's "Forbidden Planet"! It's it's own thing. I don't know your tastes so.....

Toc

Yup. Great movie, and super groundbreaking . Stars Leslie Nielsen, this is what he was known for before "Airplane" and "Naked Gun". Gorgeous visual effects and spectacular set design. Dazzling color. Great story. Definitely the greatest sci-fi movie of the 50s, a decade which had some strong contenders. I feel like watching it now, just typing about it! :D

Toc

People are sleeping on "Dark City"-- a sci-fi GEM.

Mr. Writhms

I chose "Planet of the Apes" (1968)(the one that started the franchise). "Contact" (1977) and "Soylent Green" ( 1973) would be my second or third choice. Because Science Fiction has so many eras and sub-genres, might I suggest a separate poll for early Science Fiction BEFORE "Star Wars", and AFTER "Star Wars"? Other suggestions (PRE "Star Wars"): "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951), Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal "The Thing From Another World" (1951), Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness "Forbidden Planet" (1956), Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon "When Worlds Collide" (1951), Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Larry Keating "Logan's Run" (1976), Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan "Metropolis" (1927)(silent) - Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich

Miles E Coburn

Forbidden Planet from 1956? (i don't know it, just looked it up on imdb..)

Portis

I love Minority Report & Contact!

Portis

Good to see "Planet Of The Apes" doing so well, I've seen two reaction videos for that that are fantastic. Such a great movie. I'm adding "FORBIDDEN PLANET" as a suggestion, to complete what I consider the holy trinity of ground breaking, dazzling special effects in a profound, one-of-a-kind sci-fi movie (the other two being "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Close Encounters")!

Tic Toc Melody

HER needs to go back into that poll! Or maybe do a romance category, or a romance sci-fi, then it will win! Maybe. 😅

Domino

All are pretty awesome, I had to vote Gattaca because it's rare I even hear someone mention this movie and it's such a small but great story.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

I voted for Contact, which is excellent, but my heart says Dark City.

Ian

LMAO. A few reactors have already reacted to it. It's so damned good. The movie is only about half of the book, though. The idea is that the sequel is supposed to be the other half. A lot of people have appreciated knowing that, and one reactor who didn't said the story felt too incomplete until they found that out. I think it would be a great movie for these two to react to.

Raven Dark

Damn it is! Downloading as we speak :) er....I mean......watching on HBO.....not bittorrent....

Aaron Barlow

Sci-fi films worthy of consideration for the next poll: Fantastic Voyage (1966) — The War of the Worlds (1953) — The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

Bob McFadden

Yep. It's on HBO now. :D

Raven Dark

It's out?!

Aaron Barlow

Hard choice between Minority report and Planet of the apes.

Aaron Barlow

This is a great list with every movie being good. I hope you get to all of these and not wait for them to win a poll.

Allister Fiend

Suggestions for future polls: District 9 (2009), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), The Martian (2015).

Uncle 'Traveling' Matt

WTH? Where's "Soldier - Kurt Russel" and "Enemy Mine - Dennis Quaid" ?? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120157/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089092/

Eldarth

For the future I’d recommend adding Videodrome and Existenz.

Arya Amirsoleimani

You should consider reacting to Delicatessen and City of Lost Children. I'm not sure how widely known they are, so they may not win many polls, but they're both great! And then you can do Amelie after (all three by the same director, first two have two directors)

bosho11

I'd like to also suggest Dune. The remake that just came out a few days ago. It's amazing.

Raven Dark

Vast Of Night on Amazon Prime. Throwback to the 50’s sci fil movies with some amazing filmmaking tricks thrown in. Completely riveting.

Garry L

A suggestion for future polls is E.T., that’s if you haven’t already seen it.

Lee

Oof. Hard choice between Dark City, Soylent Green and Planet of the Apes.

Sean McDonough