2001 being made before we even landed on the moon is frankly brain boggling - a truly timeless classic with effects that stand up 50 years later

The great thing about sci-fi is, it's so endlessly interesting it works in all genres - you could do the top ten sci-fi comedies (eg. Galaxy Quest and Ghostbusters); sci-fi war movies (Edge of Tomorrow), sci-fi romances (Starman), sci-fi thrillers (Predestination) ... it never ends! I enjoyed your list, glad you included Contact and Spotless Mind - great pics. And agree, 2001 still hasn't been beaten.

"Stalker" is really stunning. Tarkovsky is a visual poet. My all time fav is Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" though.

Star Trek 2, Predator, Alien, Blade runner, Blade, Star Wars...all time great entertaining movies

Wow. This is legitimately the most drama that I've ever seen in the comments of a cinefix list. Fascinating.

I loved "Her" but I'd still have to go with Blade Runner in that category as no film has ever perfectly exemplified the Uncanny Valley hypothesis.

Great list. I might have added 'Predestination' for the time travel part that should be included in a list like this.

I recently saw Contact, what a great movie, it never gets old

you know its gonna be a good day when cinefix uploads something like this

I've seen 8/10. I'm surprised you decided to put Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on number 4. Bold choice as always.

Metropolis - the most classic of classic sci if.

Ahh, Contact, my favourite all time movie. Every time I get to the scene with John Hurt, "They still want an American to go. Wanna take a ride?". That gets me, brings a tear to my eye and makes me feel an adrenaline rush like no other.

Somehow The Mirror will be #1 in this list.

Matrix and Interstellar were iconic science fiction pieces, eyes openers. I'm glad Contact is included, it marked my childhood.

Nice one. Put well together. Thank you. Subscribed.

My first viewing of a CineFix. Excellent! Lists are always subjective but fine selections, interesting to hear what struck them about each of those films, and especially liked how for each 'type' of SciFi theme, they showed several other contending films. Quite clever and I got to see some of my Faves that did not make the list (Dark City, A Clockwork Orange). And loved: "For the Top Pick, we're shocking all of nobody...." Great Line!

I am the grandson of Michael Rennie from The Day The Earth Stood Still, the lead in the greatest and first proper sci-fi movie of all time.

Original "Day The Earth Stood Still" is a masterpiece and relevant to this day.

The Arrival is my most recent sci-fi favourite.

10. Snowpiercer (2013) 9. Children of Men (2006) 8. Contact (1997) 7. Her (2013) 6. Planet of the Apes (1968) 5. Prestige (2006) 4. Metropolis (1927) 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 2. Stalker (1979) 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The prestige is such a good movie that when I ask people, almost no one has seen it and it’s surprising. Such a great movie with a great payoff

The first ALIEN movie should have made the list in my opinion !!

I'm really glad you take Stalker as one of them all

Had this video on my 'Watch Later' for years, finally watched it today, great compillation!

Children of men was insanely powerful, memorable and heartbreaking film! Beautifully done !

District 9 was an exceptional Sci-fi movie one of my personal favorites.

#2 on list, 'Stalker' (1979) is a beautiful film. Very simple to nearly no FX, and it's mesmerizing!

Well written. Surprising choices. This was probably the most insightful list video I've ever watched

Must have been difficult to settle on just 10 categories. There are so, so many others in the sci-fi genre that this could be a multiple part series. There's Steam Punk sci-fi (Prestige, 20000 leagues, and Frankenstein fit here), Travel sci-fi (Journey to the Center of the Earth and Fantastic Voyage), Time Travel (Looper, Primer, BttF). Near future, far future, alternate history, alien world. Seriously, it can go on.

And not a single frame of CGI in 2001. All done with mirrors, incredible props, and god like camera techniques.

This made my day to see Contact being picked for the alien movie. One of my favorite movies of all time and one I have and still quote to this day.

Great video! Thanks for the recommendations 👌👌

Who else is watching in 2054?

Why people don't understand how this list works? It's not really top 10 sci fi movies and more top 10 TYPES of sci fi movies. Every movie that is even mentioned in the video is worth watching and the ones that get the place on the list aren't necessarily the best, rather they are the best in one specific aspect. I personaly prefer this type of list because instead of hearing about 10 movies that I probably already know, I get 50+ great movies with some reasoning why they are great.

The original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" With Keven McCarthy...

Wow! A sci-fi list that doesn’t simply go with the flash and bang. Nicely done.

Shoutout to The Man From Earth. Keeps you intrigued for 90mins on conversation alone with about a $500 budget. P.S Star Wars?

2049 watched after the original Blade Runner is really quite a compelling beautiful frightening philosophical narrative. It's screaming out for pt.3.

Great picks and well made video. Fun to see, if I know a film by couple of seconds cut ...

Cool collection. And big thanks for putting such a demanding arthouse (and Soviet!) scifi-film as Stalker on #2 - maybe Tarkowsky's other SciFi film "Solaris" would have been adequate here. What I missed a little were comedies and satires as Idiocracy(2006), Demolition Man (1993), Sleeper (1973) - all dealing with someone from the present somehow ending up in the future.

I will never understand why Interstellar is so hated. Did it have some cheesy lines? Sure. Was there a lot of heavy-handed science talk? So much. But once you latch onto the premise of that film and go with it.... it just moves me in ways no other film has done. The emotional and logical responses I have are unmatched by other films. Sure, there are films that do either response better, but no film has hit me emotionally AND made me think about both my future and the future of my fellow humans.

Interstellar, Blade Runner and Matrix should be on the list!

Predestination (starring Ethan Hawke) was not even mentioned. Predestination is the best time travel movie I’ve ever seen (Looper was not even close) and I think I’ve seen most of them. It had good acting plus an original story line with an excellent and unexpected plot twist.

Cant believe you left off Blade Runner, and Gataca. Don't get me wrong, these films are all great in the genre. But, those are 2 of the absolute best sci fi films ever, by any standard.

50 years later and 2001 is still a stunning film.

Leaving out "Blade Runner" was basically criminal. Ditto for "Alien."

I found it wonderful to see "Metropolis" on your list. A great film way before it's time.

What the hell was wrong with Interstellar? Was one of the best sci-fi's I've seen in recent times, along with 'Oblivion'.

Gattaca and Edge of Tomorrow.. Brilliant Sci Fi!

Two movies really grabbed me in my youth; The Thing and Forbidden Planet, one of the many sci-fi books I had read prior to the movie. These two would be on my list. I think I read Soylent Green but it was called "Make Room, Make Room"

Excellent review - thank you!!

thank you for including eternal sunshine. that is my favorite film and one you cant just recommend to anyone

Blade Runner as an afterthought? I can't think of a science-fiction film that endures better. Existentialism, extraordinary imagery and a world familiar and yet beyond reach. Ah well, just my opinion...

Her over Blade Runner? Seems a bit like you're overreaching for an original viewpoint. Her is good, but in the end, it does not touch BR for originality and vision.

Unexpectedly excellent commentary! Your intelligence shines thru not only in your picks, but in your insightful analysis. Bravo!

Nice list; all good films. It was thoughtfully constructed, and explains well its reasoning. Of course, there are so many good choices, reasonable people can - and will - disagree, but that is inevitable whichever films you pick for your 10. Good effort.

District 9 is one of my favorite films. Sharlto Copley is amazing

One of the best and most intelligent lists I've seen in UKposts. Thanks for the list. Subscribing with hope there are similar quality videos.

No one ever talks about Tilda Swinton's incredible performance in Snowpiercer. She truly embodies the phrase "the banality of evil".

I love all the references in between. Nice list.

I can't believe that 2001: A Space Odyssey, was made in 1968. It's perhaps one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. The visuals are mind-blowing and always will be. One of the greatest movies ever made period.

They Live

I LOVE Her, this makes me so happy

1:59 why didn't you recommend interstellar?

I didn’t expect to see Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind in this list and even at the top 3. I really love that movie and its ending made me cry so bad.

I think Children of Men is one of the most underrated films of all time. True masterpiece.

This was way much better than any other top ten list anyone has ever done on the internet.

Children of Men is one of my faves. Thank you for including this film. It’s good sci-fi because it’s totally plausible. We are headed to a dystopian future without doubt.

BLADE RUNNER?!?!?!?!?!?!

I've never heard you guys insult shit like transformers. So I don't think that comment on interstellar was necessary. I don't get why people don't like that film.

I know this is a crazy CRAZY big task, but I need this channel to make a “just 10 (maybe 20-30) movies you should watch if you just love movies” I adore this channel. I’ve found so many great movies from this channel. I’ve won trivia points because of this channel. And in terms of production I appreciate its depth yet tangibility. But every single list gives me, in the gods honest truth, anywhere between 1-10 movies I want to watch, and of all the channels I follow THIS is the one I need a starters list. And it’s not like you won’t have PLENTY of options left, many who’d be left in the comments.

Cloud Atlas is a must watch for fans of the genre. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Jackman, et al adapted the book into a brilliant big budget movie (and score), but couldn’t make a trailer to sell it.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Contact was one of the most enlightening movies I've ever experienced.... The end was.... well... incredible.

Logan's run was such an epic movie, glad you mentionend it! Childhood memories.

I'm glad he included 'boring' in the adjectives describing 2001 A Space Odyssey. A lot of it was.

Some of these, I haven’t watched it & now I want to watch all the films you’ve shown in this video, whether they were on the Top 10 List or not. Can you make a List of all the films you showed?

Surprised Equilibrium wasn't mentioned. A distopian socitety where all "evil" is considered to be derived from emotion, and so they create a society without emotion by limiting the brain to not experience emotion and destroying anything that evokes emotion, like art. The action and setpieces in the movie are also fantastic and the introduction to gun kata is simply cool as heck and timeless.

When they picked Her before Bladerunner I had enough.

Well written. Very well done video. Thanks.

Not even a mention of the film that introduced the modern SF movie; Forbidden Planet

it ain't Cinefix if their lists don't have The Mirror or Children of Men

Two thumbs way way up! Thanks for showing love to Ghost in the Shell!

I think artificial intelligence by speilberg is one off the best films ever along with bladerunner and minority report.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" is the expansion of an Arthur C. Clarke short story titled "The Sentinel". Clarke himself has given full credit for the inspiration to a British philosopher, William Olaf Stapledon, who, because his thinking in the 1920s was so advanced that his colleagues had no idea what he was talking about, had to resort to writing scifi in pulp magazines to explain what he saw. What he was talking about has influenced many scifi writers who have publicly acknowledged their debt to him. Two books, "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker", in that order, will introduce you to a Universe which, at the time of his writing was 'officially' considered to be about 1.8 Billion years old, but which he considered to be much older. Albeit his writing style seems a bit archaic, you will find the seeds for much of what has become our view of the Universe relative to collective Human perception. Even today, his vision still underlies much if not most of what we call both scifi and of our perception of the Universe. A sadness here is that at a time (1920-30s) while propagandistic and questionable 'genius' was being front-paged for reasons having nothing to do with science and knowledge, true genius worked in obscurity and remains there.

"Contact" the book magnificently goes into what these people point out in this piece referring to the movie. It's really very interesting. The movie only hits certain points, as it is just a movie. Similarly, I strongly recommend reading the book "2001." I thought the movie kind of pretty but incomprehensible when I first saw it as a 14-year-old. I read the novel two years later, and now I can't get enough of the movie.

“Forbidden Planet” is my favorite.

I always found Jodie Foster's stupified " I had no idea! " in 'Contact' to be revelatory. I started my love affair with sci-fi as a child through reading Verne and Clarke and Asimov. Later on graduating to Heinlein and Herbert and Bradbury. I would agree with the #1 pick of 2001, simply because it encapsulates humanity and its goals so well. It is a visual tone poem to the past, present and future of the species. A seminal work of wonderment for all.

"They've got no bullets!" chills. Every. Time.

Good to see Children of Men, Eternal Sunshine, and Stalker get some love. Those three personify classic cinema!💯

I'm so damn happy STALKER is on this list!! ❤️

Blade Runner, Terminator, Snowfiercer, Alita and Prometheus was so far my favorite

In no particular order, here is my list: Arrival Alien Blade Runner Children of Men The Terminator Gattaca Contact The Day The Earth Stood Still (original) Jurassic Park The Andromeda Strain

Where is Blade Runner and Alien??

Ok, so this is the first time I've paused a video to comment somthing, and that is, thank you for considering 'Children of Men' in this list. I've always wondered why few people talked about this movie. Such powerful images, a lot of them feel closer to reality than to fiction, and the idea of humanity ending not because of a virus, climate disaster or alien invasion, but rather because of the incapabilty of something that we take for granted in our existence just hit me hard the first time I watched the movie One of my all-time favorites (needless to say, I'm not remotely close to being a cinephile yet)

We need a movie version of Robert A. Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress." (Hopefully a more faithful translation than Starship Troopers)

I still don't get why people didn't like interstellar. It was rather accurate in terms of physics. They actually dealt with the way a massive black hole warps space time, and their depiction of a black hole is the most accurate depiction of a black hole in all of cinema. It also had some amazing sequences like the docking one. And Tars made the movie so much better. The whole black hole bookshelf thing was a bit outlandish. But overall I thought it was a phenomenal film.

Happy to see Children Of Men and The Prestige get some recognition. Two of my recent favorites. I think Children Of Men could be like Blade Runner, largely ignored initially, but later viewed as one of the greats.

You had to see it in CInerama in 1968. A door opened you didn't know was there. All things were possible. The opening titles to Charade were the predecessor for me. I went into a kind of ecstasy watching them. Back in the theater in the 60's.

A love of fringe films. Some obvious choices are MIA: Seconds, Pi, Invasion of The Body Snatchers, the first two Terminator films, The Abyss.