By ReelzChannel.com Staff
A good science fiction flick incorporates bold what-ifs and imagines what might happen if the fantastic occured. The best of sci-fi brings it all together with the intrigue of extraordinary technology or locations, outrageous but just plausible enough science, and a plotline that keeps you thinking long after the movie has ended.
Science fiction fans tend to be particularly devoted and so, not without some controversy, we re-present the American Film Institute's Top 10 Science Fiction Movies, now with trailers.
1
Year: 1968
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
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Supercomputer HAL 9000 guides astronauts (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester) on a trip to find the origins of humans.
2
Year: 1977
Directed by: George Lucas
Robots and other allies help a youth (Mark Hamill) and a space jockey (Harrison Ford) rescue a rebel princess (Carrie Fisher) and battle dark forces bent on intergalactic rule.
3
Year: 1982
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
A boy's close encounter with an alien stranded on Earth leads to a unique friendship in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film.
4
Year: 1971
Young Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his droogs commit barbaric acts in a near-future, dehumanizing society.
5
Year: 1951
Directed by: Robert Wise
Klaatu (Michael Rennie) and his guardian robot, Gort, come from afar to warn Earth about nuclear war.
6
Directed by: Ridley Scott
A specialized detective (Harrison Ford) in 2019 Los Angeles receives an order to terminate obsolete android slaves (Rutger Hauer, Sean Young).
7
Year: 1979
After answering an SOS, a crew (Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt) encounters a merciless, horrifying creature aboard a space tanker.
8
Year: 1991
Directed by: James Cameron
Two cyborgs from the future battle over the life of a teen (Edward Furlong) who will become the rescuer of Earth's humans.
9
Year: 1956
Directed by: Don Siegel
A couple (Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter) discover that plant-life pods from space are replacing ordinary citizens.
10
Year: 1985
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
A teen (Michael J. Fox) takes a crackpot's (Christopher Lloyd) DeLorean time machine to 1955 and sees his parents in high school.
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