The 28 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies

As a kind of antidote to the horrible Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I decided to make myself feel better with this slapdash, homemade list of the greatest (i.e. my favorite) sci-fi movies. I'm sticking to my one-per-director rule, otherwise, the list would be dominated by David Cronenberg. I also decided to draw the line, in certain cases, on hybrids. If something seemed a bit more like a comedy, such as in the case of The Nutty Professor or Spaceballs, then out it went. The same went for horror hybrids, romance hybrids, etc. My list, my rules. Did I forget anything? Enjoy!

1. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
3. The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg) 
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
5. Repo Man (1984, Alex Cox)
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, Philip Kaufman)
7. The Thing from Another World (1951, Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks)
8. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner/George Lucas)
9. Dark City (1998, Alex Proyas)
10. Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam) 
11. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
12. Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly)
13. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron)
14. Planet of the Vampires (1965, Mario Bava)
15. The Road Warrior (1981, George Miller)
16. Starman (1984, John Carpenter)
17. Innerspace (1987, Joe Dante)
18. Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
19. La Jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
20. Face/Off (1997, John Woo)
21. Gattaca (1997, Andrew Niccol)
22. Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis) 
23. The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)
24. Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
25. Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992, Craig Baldwin)
26. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982, Nicholas Meyer)
27. A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater)
28. Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959, Edward D. Wood, Jr.)