The Guardian Newspaper (UK) rates the top sci fi films as follows:

01. [b]Blade Runner[/b] (1982) Dir: Ridley Scott
02. [b]2001[/b]: A Space Odyssey(1968) Dir: Stanley Kubrick
03. [b]Star Wars[/b] (1977)/Empire Strikes Back (1980)
04. [b]Alien[/b] (1979) Dir: Ridley Scott
05. [b]Solaris[/b] (1972) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
06. [b]Terminator[/b] (1984)/T2: Judgment day (1991) Dir: James Cameron
07. [b]The Day the Earth Stood Still[/b] (1951) Dir: Robert Wise
08. [b]War of the Worlds[/b] (1953) Dir: Byron Haskin
09. [b]The Matrix [/b](1999) Dir: Andy & Larry Wachowski
10. [b]Close Encounters of the Third Kind[/b] (1977) Dir: Steven Spielberg

Actually, as a list of the best sci fi films ever made that's not too bad! What do you think?
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