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Poll Suggestion: Best First Sci-Fi Movie from Sci-Fi Director

Science fiction has long been considered by some experts to be a lesser genre than traditional dramas and character studies. Because it lends itself so easily to exploitation, science fiction isn’t always given the respect it deserves. Sure, it tends to be a box office winner, but some still consider science fiction something not to be taken seriously.

One thing for sure, nothing as creative as sci-fi movie directors. They are experts in visual storytelling. Regardless of how crazy and seemingly improbable it is to realize a sci-fi story onto the big screen. From human clones to alien invasions, ideas have no limits when science collides with the great minds of filmmaking.

Some of these directors first feature movie is sci-fi but not all them are exclusively as sci-fi movie directors in a long run because they're also are acclaimed directors in various genres, but some of their works stand out as one of the most acclaimed sci-fi movies ever made. Their first work in sci-fi movie, which one do you think is the best?

"I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny." Ridley Scott 

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls098666141/


Rules:
- Must be feature movie
- The director must have at least 3 sci-fi movies, the genre appear on IMDb list
- Rates at least 5




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To be super honest this was Cameron's first movie which has sci-fi among genres. But it was more like 0,5th feature film of his considering other director took over halfway through. 

Another correction: Cronenberg's first sci-fi is Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) (1969)

FYC:
The Matrix (1999) (The Wachoswkis: Lilly and Lana
Either Re-Animator (1985) or From Beyond (1986) (both being sci-fi horror with latter gravitating more twoards latter; Stuart Gordon has a lot of pure sci-fi on his resume and should be mentioned more especially now that he passed away, unfortunately)

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Piranha was Cameron's first feature movie credit, but it doesn't have sci-fi among the 3 genres, so I picked Terminator instead.

Corrected Cronenberg's first sci-fi, The Matrix is already on the list and added Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) thanks.

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Piranha II has Sci-Fi listed if you look at the full listing of five genres.

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Yeah, but the problem is that it won't be visible on the list.

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Only counting the genre if it is one of the first three genres listed doesn't really make sense.

The genres are in a predetermined order, mostly alphabetical, so many other genres will precede Sci-Fi.

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6 years ago

Silitonga,

Please change the title of your list from:
Best First Sci-Fi Movie from Sci-Fi Director

To:
Best First Sci-FI Movie From a Sci-FI Director

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Corrected

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5 years ago

Alien (1979)

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Good poll! My vote: Brazil, with Alien coming in second. 

May I suggest a few edits to the intro? (It's a great intro, by the way, and very well written! There are just a few places that improve with small edits, especially in the cases in which English has such strange rules and even stranger exceptions to those rules, lol. Oh and the first paragraph seems perfect to me.)

One thing for sure, there's no one as creative as sci-fi movie directors. They are experts in visual storytelling, regardless of how crazy and seemingly improbable it is to realize a sci-fi story onto the big screen. From human clones to alien invasions, ideas have no limits when science collides with the great minds of filmmaking.

Some of these directors' first films are sci-fi but not all them are exclusively sci-fi movie directors in the long run because they're also acclaimed directors in various genres. Some of their works stand out as among the most acclaimed sci-fi movies ever made. Among these first works in sci-fi movies, which one do you think is the best?

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FYC:
Sam Raimi Darkman (1990) - He also directed the Spider-Man trilogy all with sci-fi genre.
Neil Blomkamp District 9 - Also directed Elysium and Chappie
Luc Besson Le Dernier Combat (1983) - Also The Fifth Element, Valerian, Lucy.
Paul Verhoeven Robocop (1987) - Also Starship Troopers, Hollow Man and Total Recall
Alex Proyas Spirtis of the Air, gremlins of the clouds (1987) - Also I, Robot, Knowing and Dark City
Roland Emerich The Noah's Ark Principle (1984) - Also, Universal Soldier, Independence Day, Godzilla among others.
Paul W.S. Anderson Mortal Kombat (1995) - Also Soldier, Event Horizon, Resident Evil among others.

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Pencho15, GS spam filter was triggered by this comment, fished it out. Great FYC's, btw! Practically all of those are great. 

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Thanks Nikolay

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Also FYC:

Joe Dante: First film Piranha (1978), he has 7 sci-fi movies.
Andrew Niccol: First film Gattaca (1997), he has 5 sci-fi titles
Byron Haskin: First film The War of the Worlds (1953)
Ishirô Honda: First film Gojira (1954) he has 44 directed titles!
Jack Arnold: First film It Came from Outer Space (1953) he has 8 titles.

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I second these! These would add a very strong historical diversity of sci-fi directors to the list.

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5 years ago

Bump.

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Any chance of considering the suggestions Silitonga?

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5 years ago

Two that occur to me: 

 

The Host (2006) dir. Bong Joon-ho | Also: Snowpiercer (2014), Okja (2017)

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve | Also: Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Dune (2020)

 

Not sure if people consider them primarily sci-fi directors or not, but they both have 3 sci-fi feature films. 

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