Best SciFi Movie of 2000s - Nominations

[Sarevok]

How could I have forgotten about Avatar ? It's practically Aliens for a new generation of scifi fans.

[Lex]

I nominate RotS

[koputusx]

Oh, RotS is my nomination by the way. If only for the kind of cultural impact the franchise on a whole has had (though AotC sucked too much to get the nomination ).

I second RotS.

[AndroAsc]

Star Wars III: ROTS. As much as it is flawed in certain aspects, I think George finally got it right in the final part of his prequels.

IMO, real science fiction (as per my definition) which is about equivalent to Space Opera is few in number. Movies include SW and ST series. Nothing has come close to this 2 franchise in recent years. At least nothing impressionable. I don't consider superhero films (Iron Man, X-Men), near future films (Terminator IV) as science fiction actually. It's still too close to modern day if you ask me.

I'm still waiting for a Warhammer 40k movie. That would make a great wish for the next decade!

[Prannon]

Seeing that Children of Men has already been seconded, I'll second Sunshine.

[Balrog]

We might do comic book movies in a separate thread, but as I've said in the other forum it's not that different than other movies based on a separate source material. For now just be concerned with whether it's science fiction-y or not. So yeah, I would consider Iron Man scifi, since it's about a guy kicking ass through the use of Science!

And try to make clear which one movie you want to nominate and/or second, I've had to guess with a couple of these

Current List of Nominees
Children of Men
Moon*
District 9
Wall-E
Iron Man
Revenge of the Sith
Sunshine
Serenity*
Avatar
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Watchmen*

*Not Seconded

[Shroom Man 777]

I really can't second Serenity. I don't know how good it is to the uninitiated non-Firefly fans, and even as a brownshirt I still don't think Serenity was super-hot-shit. I say even Star Trek beats it at space-adventuring and a whole bunch of other sci-fi works make me wet my swimming panties more than Serenity. Sorry.

[Havok]

OK, I officially nominate Donnie Darko.

[Manus Celer Dei]

I really can't second Serenity. I don't know how good it is to the uninitiated non-Firefly fans, and even as a brownshirt I still don't think Serenity was super-hot-shit. I say even Star Trek beats it at space-adventuring and a whole bunch of other sci-fi works make me wet my swimming panties more than Serenity. Sorry.

I saw Serenity before I got round to watching any Firefly, and I found it pretty great fun. Certainly not "best of the decade" material though.

Also I had totally forgotten that Cowboy Bebop: The Movie was released in the last decade. Admittedly thinking aobut when I first watched it makes me feel oooold, but those were good times.

So was Escaflowne, surprisingly, though that's not really sci-fi.

[sirocco]

I second District 9

[RedImperator]

I really can't second Serenity. I don't know how good it is to the uninitiated non-Firefly fans, and even as a brownshirt I still don't think Serenity was super-hot-shit. I say even Star Trek beats it at space-adventuring and a whole bunch of other sci-fi works make me wet my swimming panties more than Serenity. Sorry.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I like Serenity a lot, but best of the decade? Star Trek had more pew-pew space fun, WALL-E was better written, ROTS had better FX, Children of Men had better performances and was a much deeper movie. Those are just ones I've seen. Somehow, I managed to miss Moon, Eternal Sunshine..., Avatar, and District 9.

Frankly, I don't think Serenity is even the best Firefly story. I would rank the episodes "Out of Gas", "War Stories", and "Objects in Space" ahead of it.

[Atlan]

Moon is my favorite. I mean, LOTS of wonderful movies this decade, but it was a long time ago that I'd seen a sci fi movie devoid of action scenes which relied almost entirely upon it's story and the fucking awesome acting of the lead man, Sam Rockwell.

[Batman]

What SciFi movies HAVE there been anyway?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sc ... lms:_2000s
I'm sure there are more, but that is a pretty good "get started" list.

Bugger. I didn't realize Titan A.E. was actually 21st century. Thanks for the list. And I suspect a good bit of that would fall under 'Fantasy' here
Titan A.E. it is then, with Iron Man as followup.

[Drooling Iguana]

Since District 9 has already been nominated and seconded, I'll nominate Equilibrium.

[TimothyC]

I nominate Star Trek. It may not have been the best, but it deserves a chance to go head to head with the rest of the movies on this list.

[Rye]

I'll second most of the suggestions (Children of Men is probably my favourite film that isn't Ghostbusters) and also put forth 28 Days Later and The Dark Knight.

[Spekio]

OK, I officially nominate Donnie Darko.

Oh yeah. Seconded. Hard.

[The Romulan Republic]

I'll second most of the suggestions (Children of Men is probably my favourite film that isn't Ghostbusters) and also put forth 28 Days Later and The Dark Knight.

I'll second The Dark Knight.

[Darth Paxis]

I'll second Star Trek. I also nominate I, Robot.

[Spekio]

I'll second most of the suggestions (Children of Men is probably my favourite film that isn't Ghostbusters) and also put forth 28 Days Later and The Dark Knight.

I just saw this. I'm a big fan of dystopias, really, but CoM was just boring. The pacing was a major turn off.

[Minischoles]

I'll second Moon if no-one else has yet, really loved that movie.

[Patrick Degan]

Minority Report.

[adam_grif]

I can't decide between Watchmen, Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I must leave this thread before my mind tears itself apart.

[Darth Wong]

A list of sci-fi films which came out this decade and which I actually watched (yes, it includes childrens' films, but people are seriously including films like "The Dark Knight", so it might as well):
- Alien vs Predator
- The Animatrix
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Avatar
- Batman Begins
- The Chronicles of Riddick
- The Dark Knight
- Death Race
- Doom
- Fantastic Four
- Fantastic Four 2
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- G.I. Joe
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
- Godzilla vs Megaguirus
- Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
- Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
- Godzilla Final Wars
- The Hulk
- I, Robot
- The Incredibles
- Iron Man
- Jurassic Park III
- Lilo & Stitch
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Matrix Revolutions
- Men in Black II
- Minority Report
- Monsters vs Aliens
- The One
- Outlander
- Pitch Black
- Race to Witch Mountain
- Robots
- Serenity
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Solaris
- Speed Racer
- Star Trek
- Star Trek Nemesis
- Star Wars Episode 2
- Star Wars Episode 3
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Terminator 3
- The Time machine
- Titan A.E.
- Transformers
- Transformers 2
- Treasure Planet
- Up
- Wall-E
- Watchmen
- X-Men
- X-Men 2
- X-Men 3
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Of those, I think my favourite would be Star Wars Episode 3. Admittedly, I haven't seen some of the films others have nominated here, so I can only go by what I have seen. And yes, I know, it's a fanboy choice.

[RedImperator]

I'd forgotten about some of those. There's none on that list I've seen that I'd nominate that hasn't already been, though. I was disappointed by I, Robot, The Maxtrix Revolutions was bad, Transformers was awful, and The Time Machine was a pile of shit. Pitch Black was pretty cool, but not best of the decade.

Speaking of Will Smith and H.G. Welles, have I Am Legend or The War of the Worlds been mentioned in this thread yet? They must have been. I don't think either of them are the best, but they deserve consideration.