I'm really into these kinds of movies. My favorite so far is contact. I've seen Invasion with Nicole Kidman, Martian Child (I think it's called martian child) It's not really about aliens, it's about some crazy kid who thinks he's from mars. What are your favorites??? Any that you feel are genuinely good movies, like contact???

close encounters of the third kind easily

Alien (the original) Outlander. Original Planet of the Apes. Close Encounters. 2001. Them. The Day the Earth Stood Still. Wall-e. The one with Farrah fawcet on Saturn(?).

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Event Horizon was uber kewl

Originally posted by robertnesta
close encounters of the third kind easily

Ditto-Still my favorite ET-themed movie ever. Others I have dug on:

ET
Contact
Fire in The Sky
Communion
They Live

Hmmmm
Ill say I actually liked a movie from the 80s called Enemy mine.
Maybe not exactly what this thread is about but I enjoyed none the less.
However I also liked Contact but the book was far better.
Close encounters of the 3rd kind was not bad, but I think they should do a remake. Steven spielberg just annoys me with his signature films.

Silent Running with those three helper robots. Huey, Dewey, and Loui.
I loved that movie. For a B flick I thought it was great.

1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Fire In The Sky
4. Close Encounters
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Communion
8. Predator
9. Mars Attacks

The list goes on... Xanadu? Not much of a movie but the soundtrack by E.L.O. is a masterpiece. And E.L.O had a giant spaceship in their live show, so...

sorry, my compute lagged and i double posted . . . please delete this if you can.



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WAVELENGTH(1983)

This was a really creepy film with an awesome conclusion in the Mojave Desert. Does anyone remember this film? It was about this couple who discover through noises in their head that children are being experimented on at an underground base. They find out audio they were hearing were actually cries of help from stranded aliens...

I can't believe 2 people list "Fire in the sky" as one of their fave SF movies I thought it was awful!

My faves:
Aliens (I didn't like any of the others in the series).
Indepence Day
MIB (I love Will Smith )
Starman
The last starfighter
Contact
Kay-pax
Starkid
Evolution (all my friends hate this movie After this movie I was removed from the selection panel for movies )

I also loved Martian Child with John and Joan Cusack.

EDIT to add The Abyss to my fave list and to say that I checked John Cusack's bio on IMDB and guess what movie he's working on to be released in 2009? 2012!

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Event Horizon
most of the Aliens movies
most of the Star Trek movies

Some of my favorites that haven’t been mentioned yet would be; stargate (the original), the Andromeda chain (I think it counts), Solaris and the old school classic "the thing".

HA!!!!!!!!! I cant believe someone remebers that movie!
Yeah I remember that.

Wasn't Andromeda Chain a tv mini-series? Man, I forgot all about that. If my memory serves, it was quite entertaining. I can't remember why I stopped watching it. I think it was weird scheduling or something.

I have one though Im not sure if it qualifies.
It was a really wierd cartoon about some giant blue aliens that looked at humans as pests and some were kept as pets.
I think it was called fantastic planet.. Not to be confused with forbiddon planet, which I also love!

Originally posted by MrGrieves
Wasn't Andromeda Chain a tv mini-series? Man, I forgot all about that. If my memory serves, it was quite entertaining. I can't remember why I stopped watching it. I think it was weird scheduling or something.

Ya, it only had two one hour episodes. I consider it a movie, because if you just put the two epies together and watch them back to back it is just like a feature length film. Why they split it in two is what I have been wondering.