Sci-Fi Movie Poll!

Neal Romanek

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

Hugo Ferreira

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

Ken Veader

Contact stinks, Soylent Green is underrated

Angel Pagan

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.

MCL-1984

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.

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.

JayWantsACat

Agreed!

INFJ-T Tyrone

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

INFJ-T Tyrone

😆😆😆👍

INFJ-T Tyrone

When Worlds Collide👍

Tyrone Tyrone

Gattaca👍

Tyrone Tyrone

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

Turtle

one of my personal favorites

Garry L

Yes Annihilation! Incredible movie

JayWantsACat

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

Michael Soukup

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

Nicotti

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...

Neal Romanek

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

Jeremy O Dwyer

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

Mark M

Logan’s Run

Neal Romanek

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.

Toc

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

Mr. Writhms

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

Miles E Coburn

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

Portis

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

Portis

I love Minority Report & Contact!

Tic Toc Melody

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")!

Domino

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

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

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.

Ian

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

Raven Dark

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.

Aaron Barlow

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

Bob McFadden

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)

Raven Dark

Yep. It's on HBO now. :D

Aaron Barlow

It's out?!

Aaron Barlow

Hard choice between Minority report and Planet of the apes.

Allister Fiend

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.

Uncle 'Traveling' Matt

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

Eldarth

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

Arya Amirsoleimani

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

bosho11

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)

Raven Dark

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

Garry L

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

Lee

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

Sean McDonough

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