July 28, 2023

What are your favorite Sci-Fi Movies

What are your favorite Sci-Fi Movies

I was asked to pick my top ten favorite Science Fiction Movies of all time. I tried. But I couldn't. I kept thinking of others that needed to be on the list. When I reached 25 is decided that I needed to group them by category, but the categories reminded me other still other movies.

Anyway, here is my list (far more than 10). Please peruse it and let me know if there are any you also enjoy ... and let me know if I forgot any.

Old (B&W)
                Metropolis
               A Trip to the Moon
                The Invisible Man
                Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
                Frankenstein
                Flash Gordon
                Buck Rogers
Classic
                Forbidden planet
                The Day the Earth stood still
                The Time Machine
                War of the worlds
                When worlds collide
Series (some overhyped)
                Star Wars
                Star Trek
                The Matrix
                The Terminator
                Aliens
                Predator
                Juriassic park
                Planet of the Apes
                Back to the Future
                Men in Black
                Avatar
                The Six Million Dollar Man (TV series)
                MadMax

Golden age
                Day of the Triffids
                The Thing
                Invasion of the Body Snatchers
                Enemy Mine
                RoboCop
                The Blob
                Fantastic Voyage
                The Fly
                Silent Running
                Colossus

Early Modern
                Andromeda Strain
                Terminal Man
                2001 Space Odyssey
                V
                Independence Day
                Babylon 5 (TV series)
                Brazil
                Dune
                Gattaca
                Close Encounters of the Third Kind
                Westworld

Modern
                Stargate (the original)
                Bladerunner
                Minority report
                AI
                Contact
                Cocoon
                Enders Game
                The Arrival
                The Edge of Tomorrow
                The Time Traveler’s Wife
                Twelve Monkeys
                The Martian
                Cloud Atlas
                The Golden Compass
Funny
                The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai
                Mars Attacks
                Dr Strangelove
                Wall-E (animated)
                Galaxy Quest
                Fifth Element
Sleepers
                Source Code
                Looper
                Robinson Crusoe on Mars
                Tales from the Loop (streaming series)

Which are YOUR favorites?

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Jeffrey A Robinson is the co-creator and chief writer of the Untold Tales podcast, a collection of short stories of the highest caliber based on the first in a set of three published science fiction anthologies. Jeff is a retired technologist, who grew up loving to read science fiction. After serving as a Naval Flight Officer, who flew F-4 Phantom jets, and an Air Traffic Controller, in the Marine Corps, he became a device physicist in a semiconductor-manufacturing facility and an expert in Manufacturing Execution Systems, computer automation, integration & cybersecurity. He has a B.A. in Physics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems. He also has postgraduate certificates in Computer Forensics, and a PMP, and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, as well.

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