best fantasy/scifi/adventure movies

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what fantasy/scifi/adventure movies would you rank in the top 10 of the genre?:confused:
 
Well it's a bit of a wide range....

Well I'd say Star Wars would clearly be in the top 10, as would Lord of the Rings.
 
Oh most definitely. Star Wars and Lord of the Rings...And I'm gonna throw in there the Indiana Jones series (not sure if that fits the genre), the Alien series, The Princess Bride, and the Star Trek movies. Come to think of it though, there just really is nothing out there like star wars and lord of the rings. Eragon had great potential but it didn't fall in the right hands. I'm not saying it wasn't a good movie. I just think it could have been Star Wars/Lord of the Rings good.
 
I'd say some of the Star Trek films are pretty good, but the majority aren't - maybe Wrath of Khan, Voyage Home and First Contact.
 
I am assuming (as the rest of you are?) that the question is asking about movies with sequels - well, here are mine:

1. LOTR Movies (by a very wide margin)
2. Star Wars Movies
3. Alien Movies
4. The Matrix Movies
5. Star Trek Movies
6. Terminator Movies
7. Jurassic Park Movies
8. Back To The Future Movies
9. Highlander Movies
10. Conan Movies

Stand alone movies would be a completely different list:

1. LOTR: The Return Of The King
2. LOTR: The Fellowship Of The Ring
3. Star Wars
4. LOTR: The Two Towers
5. The Matrix
6. Aliens
8. Alien
9. Terminator II: Judgment Day
10. Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan
 
Err.. plenty of awesome SF movies out there that haven't been mentioned yet: Blade Runner, Gattaca, Children of Men. Minority Report isn't bad, and there are the classics: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes. I would echo the Star Wars movies, especially The Empire Strikes Back and A New Hope, as well as the first two Alien movies. the first Matrix was great.

Amongst fantasy, the pickings are slimmer. The Lord of the Rings trilogy stands head and shoulders above the rest, but the first Conan bears mentioning, as does The Princess Bride.
 
I seriously considered Blade Runner but could not justify putting it into my top 10. It was hard not to include Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi as well, but ample respect has been given to the original Star Wars.

Want I really want is for Jackson to helm 'The Hobbit' and take it to the number one spot.

Of course when 'Avatar' comes out in 2009, I expect that to shoot WAY up in the top 3. James Cameron is due and with a $200m budget and a digital, 3D 66% CGI movie, he WILL deliver an awesome spectacle to be sure.
 
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1.Star Wars (all movies)
2.Alien (all movies)
3.Blade Runner
4.Lord of the Rings (all movies)
5.Aliens (all movies)
6.Planet of the Apes (all movies)
7.Star Trek (all television and movies)
8.Terminator (all movies and now tv series)
9.Frankenstein (all movies and television)
10.Dracula (all tv and movie series featuring vampires)
 
Ok I am just trowing these out they are not in order!

1. The Fifth Element
2. Aeon Flux
3. Pirates of the Caribben Movies
4. Dark City.
5. Bram Stokers Dracula
6. Hogfather
7. Labyrinth
8. Mirrormask
9. Peter Pan (the new one with Jason Isaacs)
10. The Harry Potter Movies
11. Legend
12. The Company of Wolves
13. The Mists of Avalon
14. Earthsea (not if you want it like the book but as a film seprate from the book it is good, I watched it before reading the series)
15. Queen of the Damned
16. The Studio Ghibli Fantasy Films
17. Underworld
18. The Lost Boys (feel free to openly mock me, everyone else does) :cool:
 
we must go WAY back for some...

the day the earth stood still
the war of the worlds (original)
forbidden planet
id4
alien
indiana jones
lotr
star wars
stargate series
firefly series

dj
 
This isn't easy...

LotR EE, Star Wars OT + ROTS, PiratesOTC and The Abyss director's cut are certainly among them, but I couldn't possibly put them in order!
 
off topic

This is a little off topic here. Is it just me, or would the magician series of fantasy novels by feist make excellent film adaptations, even possibly enough to rival lotr?
 
Mixing sci-fi and fantasy is like comparing apples to oranges. Also mixing hard sci-fi movies with 'contrived universe' (think Star Trek/Dune) stuff is difficult.

I'll just do the straight hard sci-fi films. The ten I would HAVE to own above all others.

No particular order:

'The Day The Earth Stood Still' The original hard sci-fi flick.

'Robinson Crusoe on Mars' File under 'how'd dey do dat back in '64?'

'2001' Clarke is a genius. Case closed.

'Blade Runner' It was made 25 years ago. If it were released TODAY it would still fly at the box office.

'Gattica' This is coming someday. Unfortunately...

'Red Planet' Flawed, but okay.

'Forbidden Planet' A bit corny, but ahead of its time.

'Minority Report' Would have been better without Cruise in the lead role.

'Dark City' 'Shut it down...shut it down FOREVER!' You gotta love it...

'Alien' One of the first slickly-produced, good-science flicks. It ushered in an entire genre of films.
 
hate me if you want but Star Trek isn't even close to being on my list.

Actually, now that it's staring me in the face I'm not sure if I want a list. I just know that Star Trek won't be on it when (if ) I sort through this.

You know whoever mentioned Indiana Jones is totally valid, topic starter did have a /adventure thing going on.

What the hell I gotta say that the Macross Plus movie doesn't get nearly the love it deserves. One of the best and most moving love triangle stories I've seen in a movie along with a city-smashing Veritech grudge match for a climax, you gotta love that action. one of the best dedications ever in a movie too IMO: "Dedicated to all pioneers'

While I'm on the anime wagon too I must mention Akira. Call me a mark for anime if you want to but the fact is they truly HAVE made some of the best sci-fi/ fantasy movies over there.

I gotta give props to Shehzad for remembering some of the better I dunno alternative (?) sci-fi movies.

The Matrix was definitely great but they just went in such a bad direction with the sequels.

Of the Lotr movies Fellowship is my favourite I think, it had the least glaring dickery with the source material and although being very dark, showed more of the glory and beauty of middle-earth than the other two films did. Plus in Fellowship Legolas hadn't become "Exxxtreme!!!!" yet. And if you watch the extended version the clowning of Gimli was more balanced, merciful and grounded.

I feel it's worth mentioning Groundhog Day. No way is that not a fantastic premise, and it was a great movie.

I tell you guys what though, if you aren't listening to the Riley Martin show on Sirius Howard 101 then you're missing some of the most entertaining sci-fi from the most bizarre talespinner ever.
 
Saintjon said:

"The Matrix was definitely great but they just went in such a bad direction with the sequels."
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I have to agree on this one. Even the first Matrix was overrated, I think.
 
Well, depends on who you talk to, some people still put a huge amount of stock in it and some are too soured, either after some time or after watching the sequels that they resent liking it in the first place.

Based on how the sequels panned out it seems hard to believe the Warchowskis truly understood what made the Matrix great to begin with. as that movie ended Neo's progression into awareness, knowledge and then power was well on it's way, only to have him kind of backslide through the next two movies. I really hate that agent Smith came back. It was such a meaningful thing when Neo overcame him, and the poof there he is again ready for more kung fu battles Neo, according to the promise of the first movie, should have more or less transcended by now against an enemy he already beat! Whatever, wish things could have been better.
 
I agree with a lot that were already mentioned, but here's my list:

(in no particular order)

Hogfather
The One (starring Jet Li - like the matrix only with an actual martial artist equiped with superpowers)
Earthsea
Lord of the Rings
Equilibrium
Planet of the Apes (originals were a good idea, remake looked amazing and was pretty good)
Star Trek (The Next Generation ones are my favourites)
The Secret of N.I.M.H. (animated, animals, dark, I had it when I was little kid)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - (its a classic, when it was reissued on video, my dad got one of the first 100 copies so we got a huge free poster)
Men in Black
Alien
Soylent Green
Omega Man
Superman
Total Recall
Jurassic Park
The Wizard of Oz (suprising it was made in 1939, one of the first films I ever saw)
Jason and the Argonauts (all these old movies I saw on tv at my grandads house, or with my dad at home. There's too many to list.)
Sinbad - I saw a few of these
Jumanji
Willy Wonka and the Chocalate Factory
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Ireland isn't really like this)
Robocop
Terminator

I'm leaving tons out. And the remake of I Am Legend with Will Smith may be good.

Contrary to the above evidence and the fact I've read loads of books, I did actually go outside as a child, it just rained a lot. I'm still squeezing in an education, being "artistic" and playing instruments/listening to music... It just seems more time consuming written down.
 
Equilibrium was a good movie, came out around the same time of the Matrix so it was overlooked.
 
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