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sure, but they both rock.
It blazed a lot of trails in it's own right and generally set a precedent for how to scare the hell out of people.
science fiction of a bygone era, and it returns the favor of influencing new films to come
decades later.
depicting the future seems to steal its vision in part or sometimes directly from Scott's
Blade Runner. But Blade Runner still manages to be the best.
1) Pretty much everyone can agree it is high cinematic art
2) It's legit *science* fiction, with a futurist interest in science
2) Did you SEE "Eagle Eye" and "Wall-E"? "2001" is constantly ripped off and parodied, these two major 2008 films being only the most recent examples. "Star Wars" also fits this criteria, but with all the supernature, it's as much fantasy as science fiction, no?
discussing real social issues
The influences touch almost every other quality Sci-Fi since. Dystopian society, machines controlling (or substantially influencing) humans, class war. Blade Runner, 2001, Matrix, etc. all deal in these themes. Heck, even Star Wars was about a "class war"... and C3-P0 was modeled after Maria
about any contemporary sci-fi flick- 2001: A Space!! Odyssey!!
in the sci-fi genre. maybe i'm missing out on some other and maybe some older
films, but those 3 stick out
This movie is certainly one of the greatest films ever made. It is a story told in a steady pace, told mostly not by words but by cinematic means of expression. Perfect blend of spectacular special effects and classical music bring to life creations of human imagination in both realistic and poetical way. The story itself is quite simple at a first glance. As the title implies, there is an archetypal journey, a motive repeated for thousands of years. This motive was always used not only to depict a trip in space and time, and beyond, but also had rich philosophic meaning. The film is a poetical contemplation of most exciting eternal questions. It is not just an odyssey of a person; it is an odyssey of our species. The film is great by itself, yet, in my case, the impression from it will always be mingled with that from the book. I've read it at the age of 10, really not thinking about problems like 'what is the relationship between evolution of humankind and development of human morality'. But the impression was great enough to make me fall for entire genre of science fiction.
And like almost every great sci fi film, it's sequels ended up becoming progressively more terrible.
Helped us to learn we all need to work together or we are a gone earth.
I've seen many people on here say Star Wars, 2001, Alien(s), Metropolis, etc. Those are all fine films, I suppose. But they don't hold water when compared to one visionary director's masterful strokes of artistic destruction that STILL speak volumes about our turbulent times. Am I talking about Blade Runner? No. Perhaps...Stargate with it's scorching pre 9/11 critique of the middle east? Closer but still no. I am of course talking about one and only auteur, Michael Bay and his timeless classic "Transformers". Now I know what you may be thinking: Yes, The Island came first and was also an incredible scifi journey but Transformers is THE ULTIMATE INFLUENTIAL SCIFI FILM OF ALL TIME! Let's do some comparisons with the "top" sci fi films shall we?
Let's start with 2001. Hal 9000, great bad guy robot. Everyone can agree on that. But remind me how many hot ladies skirts he lifted while chasing them comically? And how many houses has he comically ruined while looking for something? Oh yeah, that's right: none on either count because he's just a bitch ass space computer. NEXT.
Metropolis? Takes place in a robotic city or some crap right? Psh, obviously trying to rip off Transformers. How you ask? I'd like to remind you of a character yet to be tapped by Michael Bay (SPOILER?) I like to call METROPLEX. The autobot city. NEXT.
Star Wars? This is easy. How many droids have stabbed through a tank robot with a sword and ripped it's eye out? ZERO. Don't try to tell me that IG-88 could because as far as I can see, he just stands there with Boba Fett like an asshole. And maybe you think Luke Skywalker was pretty cool with his landspeeder? Well how about riding in a sassy yellow Camero that can change it's appearance, piss off Bernie Mac (RIP), pee gasoline on John Turturro AND ALSO BE A BATTLING ROBOT?! TAKE THAT BACK TO TASHI STATION IN YOUR T16 SKY HOPPER AND SUCK IT LUKE. NEXT.
Finally we have Alien(s). The only robots they have in those movies are tard ass androids who bleed what looks like cum. Even with their ability to do cool and dangerous knife tricks they still can't even get through a movie without being cut in half and bloodcumming all over the place. Bubblebee killed some Decepticons with NO LEGS all while NOT BLOODCUMMING. Even that Black Robot in Transformers put up a better fight against Megatron while getting torn in half than Bishop "stabbed the back" android bitch vs the Queen in Aliens.
In Conclusion, Michael Bay changed the face of sci fi from some dark and serious social commentary-smomentary to kick ass orgy of robots and screw ball comedy. Need I say more? Transformers: the most influential scifi film of all time. Case closed.
and the best sci fi movie i have seen in recent memory is....i don't even know. I'll just go
with star wars, no movie of any kind has meant more to a genre or created more fans than
star wars.
Actually, I would offer up the original King Kong. It was the first SF/Horror blockbuster (To my knolwedge at least?) and changed the rules for horror films. Would we have had the Universal classics (Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein, the Invisible Man and the Wolf Man) among others without King Kong?
from that and can be seen in other movies. Like the idea of technology going against us
(HAL) in the TERMINATOR movies, or even just a small scene like where Dave shoots
himself from the pod to get back into the ship which I'm pretty sure is fair to say that
SUNSHINE stole. Without that movie there wouldn't even be the Spielberg that we have
today because he has even claimed how much that movie inspired him.
God bless our troops