What’s interesting, from a certain point of view, is that neither the top 10 – or the below top 20 – contain a single Star Trek movie with only four of our writers voting for the seminal franchise. For the record, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan came in at #21.
So, here’s the 10 movies that just missed out on the cut…
11. Inception (2012, dir. Christopher Nolan)
12. The Thing (1982, dir. John Carpenter)
13. Planet of the Apes (1968, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
14. Jurassic Park (1993, dir. Steven Spielberg)
15. District 9 (2009, dir. Neill Blomkamp)
16. Predator (1987, dir. John McTiernan)
17. RoboCop (1987, dir. Paul Verhoeven)
18. Sunshine (2007, dir. Danny Boyle)
19. Ghostbusters (1984, dir. Ivan Reitman)
20. Moon (2009, dir. Duncan Jones)
And here are the personal number one choices, as voted by our writers and editorial staff:
Ozzy Armstrong – Stargate
Tom Jolliffe – Blade Runner
Jessie Robertson – Star Wars
Matt Skeen – Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Kris Wall – Aliens
Anthony Stokes – Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Luke Owen – Blade Runner
Amy Richau – Alien
Alice Rush – Alien
J-P Wooding – Star Wars
Scott Davis – Blade Runner
Chris Cooper – Jurassic Park
Oliver Davis – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Villordsutch – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Simon Columb – Alien
Rohan Morbey – Blade Runner
Gary Collinson – Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Robert Kojder – A Clockwork Orange
Paul Risker – Blade Runner
James Garcia – Star Wars
Ray Willmott – Blade Runner
Gavin Logan – Inception
Do you agree with Flickering Myth’s Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies of All-Time? Let us know in the comments section below and let us know what your pick would have been!
Originally published August 5, 2014. Updated April 15, 2018.
