I loved every minute of Django; didn't feel strained or overly serious to me, but then tastes differ, and I didn't find the hospital scenes in Kill Bill 1 out either. Tarentino was slammed for being racist for making this ...
Aanyways - here are my top 5
- Blade Runner.
I like all three versions; kinda missed the commentary the first time I watched directors cut. Bissler said it muc better than I ever will.
- Star Trek Wrath of Khan.
I can't believe noone's mentioned this before here? Scifi with a point!
I loved Voyager and TNG too, even though if they'd edited Neelix and the boy out of voyager, it'd've been quite a lot better. One of these days now, I'll get my act together and watch the original series cover to cover.
I absolutely Detest the two new movies; it just feels like they're having a giant dump all over the old fans.
- Starship Troopers
Ah, good old slapstick humor with a point to make. I might not agree to the morals of it, but at least he has a point, and he's not afraid to state it. The book is pretty good too; it made my 20-some-year-old self think long and hard about the morals of our society, about jail and punishment and what it does to people.
- Cloud Atlas
Calling this epic 'sci fi' might stretch the lines a little, but at least two parts of it are. I loved every second; the period pieces are wonderful, the story rocks, the acting is great and the scenes and music are beautiful.
- Star Wars.
I loved the first 3 from the first time I saw them, back when I was 10 or so, on my friend's . I think A New Hope is the movie I've seen most times of all. Whether this is strictly scifi or fantasy set in space is a different discussion (o:
Runners up:
Enemy Mine, Alien, The Thing, Elysium, Terminator 1, the Matrix -
too bad they never actually made those sequels they were talking about.
A side note: I watched the sherlock holmes movie that came out a couple years ago, and i hated it.
Why oh why does Sherlock Holmes reach out for violence to solve his problems before using his famous mind? Also, they go so far out of their way to depict London as the most dreadful dilapidated sullen place on the planet.
It's symptomatic of a world where thought and reason is ridiculed - see Prometheus - and propaganda is accepted without question. I hate it.