What is the greatest sci-fi movie?

[babycart]

How?

It was late to the game itself IMO?

Late? It was the ancestor of military mecha shows, commonly known as "real robots." Combining modern military scale models with sci-fi models was the gig back then (usually with the gundams trampling over the other hardware). It made animated shows graduate from kid stuff to adolescent/young adult audiences in Japan. It inspired Macross, which in turn gave western viewers a glimpse of another side of robot cartoons (Transformers, Voltron, Saber Rider, etc.) in the form of RoboTech.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Minority Report

Loved this movie.

 

[Prex32]

sw5 / total recall / aliens

 

[90 50]

Late? It was the ancestor of military mecha shows, commonly known as "real robots." Combining modern military scale models with sci-fi models was the gig back then (usually with the gundams trampling over the other hardware). It made animated shows graduate from kid stuff to adolescent/young adult audiences in Japan. It inspired Macross, which in turn gave western viewers a glimpse of another side of robot cartoons (Transformers, Voltron, Saber Rider, etc.) in the form of RoboTech.

Didn’t Gundam flop, and then Came Robotech/Macross etc THEN the Gundam Movie trilogy came out and people got on board with Gundam?

 

[minute bull]

Minority Report

Preeeettttty sure I call that Tom Cruise's best film. At least in MINORITY REPORT he's the best we've seen of him.

 

[babycart]

Didn’t Gundam flop, and then Came Robotech/Macross etc THEN the Gundam Movie trilogy came out and people got on board with Gundam?

Nope, Gundam supposedly flopped (determined by bad toy sales) back in '79 due to catering to the wrong demographic, but recovered in its last quarter. First movie of the trilogy was released in '81. Macross debuted in '82.



BTW, Itano Ichiro, who worked in Gundam, was a key animator of Macross, especially its missile sequences:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacrossMissileMassacre

 

[Stoic1]

Fifth Element

 

[90 50]

Nope, Gundam supposedly flop (determined by bad toy sales) back in '79 due to catering to the wrong demographic, but recovered in its last quarter. First movie of the trilogy was released in '81. Macross debuted in '82.



BTW, Itano Ichiro, who worked in Gundam, was a key animator of Macross, especially its missile sequences:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacrossMissileMassacre

After some googling I realize the difference in our opinions here.

The Gundam movies trilogy did come out AFTER Robotech IN THE US.

That’s what had me skewed, I wasn’t aware Gundam came out before in overseas markets, since it was after Robotech here in English.

And I never was a Gundam fan, since it was released after Robotech here I always assumed it was the copy

 

[Tone C]

Close Encounters of the third kind

 

[DaleBoca]

Not one of you stated BTTF?

Shame on you, Maybros..

 

[babycart]

After some googling I realize the difference in our opinions here.

The Gundam movies trilogy did come out AFTER Robotech IN THE US.

That’s what had me skewed, I wasn’t aware Gundam game out before in overseas markets, since it was after Robotech here in English.

Yup, I know that as well. In fact, I knew of Robotech well before I knew of Gundam. Gundam got screwed over by 9/11 in the US. Only Gundam Wing made it real big (and for good reason). Gundam influenced a whole shitload of anime after it was screened. That's why I was torn between Star Wars and Gundam, both were trendsetters. Unless Starship Troopers had a faithful movie adaptation before '79, which it can use to claim primacy over Gundam.

 

[minute bull]

Not one of you stated BTTF?

Shame on you, Maybros..

Thread called for best sci-fi movie, not best fucking movie of all fucking time, bro.

 

[SamSchmidt]

Tie between Aliens, Predator and Event Horizon.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Went with Blade Runner. Debated that with Gattaca and the Thing though.

for Star Trek movies, I actually thought First Contact was the best one

 

[minute bull]

for Star Trek movies, I actually thought First Contact was the best one

It's WRATH OF KHAN.

 

[Blayt7hh]

It's WRATH OF KHAN.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[n...not crazy]

If Aliens is on any good movie list, I'm picking it. Let the Movie Classification Nazis come at me, bro

 

[minute bull]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

That IS the sexiest of all the STAR TREK lines. Picard's macho manliness made me all:

 

[Gambit MMA]

Judgment day or terminator 1

 

[K-Bag]

Edge of Tomorrow was litty.