100 best reviewed Sci-Fi films on Rotten Tomatoes

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-06-18 07:14pm

Eternal Sunshine has a sci-fi element as a major plot point, but the movie itself I would not classify as sci-fi.

It is a good movie, though.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-06-18 07:21pm

The Dark wrote:And how Empire Strikes Back scored higher than Star Wars I can't figure out. ESB is, in my opinion, the weakest of the original trilogy, because it is the bridge film.

The general opinion of the critics and populace is that ESB is the strongest film. This opinion has become stronger with time because it was an ESB scene that has become the defining moment of Star Wars, it is that moment that always gets quoted, parodied, and referenced.

Plekhanov · Post by **Plekhanov** » 2007-06-19 04:27am

The Dark wrote:Children of Men - wha? this might make my 100 Most Overhyped Films list, but that's about it. If it made top 100 at all, it'd be down in the 90s

Children of Men is wonderful and if anything was under promoted.

And how Empire Strikes Back scored higher than Star Wars I can't figure out. ESB is, in my opinion, the weakest of the original trilogy, because it is the bridge film.

What so the 2nd film in a trilogy is automatically the worst, even if the 3rd film in has fucking Ewocks in it? That makes no sense.

Ar-Adunakhor · Post by **Ar-Adunakhor** » 2007-06-19 05:15am

How is Forbidden Planet lower than Minority Report again?

Plekhanov · Post by **Plekhanov** » 2007-06-19 05:29am

Ar-Adunakhor wrote:How is Forbidden Planet lower than Minority Report again?

It's not supposed to be an authoritative list (not that you can really have such a thing anyway) it's simply list of films RT have classified as 'Sci-Fi' ranked according to their average review score.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2007-06-19 05:46am

I loved 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spottless Mind' and yet I wouldn't classify it as 'Sci-Fi'-ish for me (yeah, I'm a bit of a snob, if it doesn't have space ships it doesn't really count).

Not impressed with where the Star Wars films are in relation to First Contact for fucks sake, but ESB>ANH>RotJ I agree with (sorry the Ewoks were stupid). Just not their relative ranks.

My 2 pence.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-06-19 10:52am

Heck, I'm not impressed with where First Contact is relative to some of the other Trek films on that list.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-06-19 11:23am

The Dark wrote:Movies I have seen that I don't feel belong on a top 100 list:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence - maybe if it had been 15 minutes shorter, it would deserve a spot.

Star Trek: First Contact - it was better than anything else since Generations. That's about all I can say good about this movie.

None of the TNG movies can really hold a torch to any of the original series films.

Plekhanov · Post by **Plekhanov** » 2007-06-19 12:36pm

General Zod wrote:
The Dark wrote:Movies I have seen that I don't feel belong on a top 100 list:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence - maybe if it had been 15 minutes shorter, it would deserve a spot.

Star Trek: First Contact - it was better than anything else since Generations. That's about all I can say good about this movie.
None of the TNG movies can really hold a torch to any of the original series films.

Oh please 3 and 5 in particular are terrible whereas First Contact is at least a reasonably diverting sci-fi action film.

phred · Post by **phred** » 2007-06-19 12:49pm

First Contact could hold a torch to 5 because 5 sucked. Still it doesnt belong higher than any of the other TOS films

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-06-19 12:49pm

I'm going to cut out the banter and simply say this list offends me in a fundamental way.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2007-06-19 08:25pm

Plekhanov wrote:
The Dark wrote:Children of Men - wha? this might make my 100 Most Overhyped Films list, but that's about it. If it made top 100 at all, it'd be down in the 90s
Children of Men is wonderful and if anything was under promoted.

I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree with tht one. It was moderately heavily advertised on this side of the pond (one step down from a Shrek or Pirates level of advertising with an ad every break, but above the second-tier films that get maybe one advert per day on a station), and I felt it was a horrid film. The acting was decent, although Owen seemed more cadaverous in temperament than usual and the other actors were forgettable in their roles. The plot moved at about the pace of a paraplegic sloth, with the most anticlimatic and predictable meaningless "ending" in modern film. Special effects were solid, although with nothing innovative or original. At best, the film was a C+, in my opinion.