Please name 3-5 movies/TV series (SciFi) since 1950 which you believe contained significant portion

[Quix]

My own nominees are:

1. Day the Earth Stood Still
2. War of the worlds
3. Start Trek
4. Star Wars
5. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind


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Addendum:

Rationalization?

I'm not a great movie person. I don't keep a lot of movie titles in my head. I rarely watch movies. I  do like Sci Fi but I'm very picky. There's a lot of trash in the genre.

Though I do fondly remember the TV series LOST IN SPACE & MY FAVORITE MARTIAN.

 I don't think I ever did watch that one about the bloke alone on Mars.

I did like the one about the huge artificial enclosed environment above the earth. Elysium?

I enjoyed some of Edgar R Burroughs' 'Mars books.'

And STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

And, ENDER'S GAME series

I vaguely recall that there's a bunch of dystopian society movies--a few of which I watched. I find them usually pretty dreary. Not a favorite use of my time.

Anyway--that's about all that's off the top of my head currently.

[Joe Wooten]

None

[Ghost Bear]

Yeah, I tend to think that most movies/TV series that touch on these ideas contain misdirections... plausible-sounding ideas that actually point down the wrong path, or direct people away from the "right" path.   

[Wingnut]

Warning From Space. 

Starfish-like aliens disguised as humans travel to Earth to warn of the imminent collision of a rogue planet and Earth. As the planet rapidly accelerates toward Earth, a nuclear device is created at the last minute and destroys the approaching world.

Those Starfish dudes are still hereon earth.

[Joe Wooten]

Warning From Space. 

Starfish-like aliens disguised as humans travel to Earth to warn of the imminent collision of a rogue planet and Earth. As the planet rapidly accelerates toward Earth, a nuclear device is created at the last minute and destroys the approaching world.

Those Starfish dudes are still hereon earth.

In 1962?????   

[andy58-in-nh]

[mikezpen]

Possibly the greatest movie of all time.

[Hoodat]

Contact
Arrival
Fire in the Sky
Bladerunner
District 9

[dfwgator]

Idiocracy

[bigheadfred]

H. G. Wells

[catfish1957]

Idiocracy

(nailed it)

[catfish1957]

Scully...  Can you believe that Quix left us off his list?

[Texas Yellow Rose]

Scully...  Can you believe that Quix left us off his list?

[DCPatriot]

@Quix

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.   The only 'fact' Hollywood changed was the location.  It happened at an Air Force Base...not a desert.

THREE TIMES! 

President Eisenhower met with them, and the result was a signed 'Treaty'.

(William Shatner meets with Ancient Aliens - broadcast February 12, 2021)   

[Elderberry]

[Quix]

@Quix

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.   The only 'fact' Hollywood changed was the location.  It happened at an Air Force Base...not a desert.

THREE TIMES! 

President Eisenhower met with them, and the result was a signed 'Treaty'.

(William Shatner meets with Ancient Aliens - broadcast February 12, 2021)   

THANKS.

Will be interesting to eventually see what's accurate & what's disinformation.

[Quix]

Scully...  Can you believe that Quix left us off his list?

LOLOLOL.

THANKS. Though, actually, I wasn't thinking with my best memory when I made that post. At 74, I'm learning that the research on memory & aging is really true. LOL. But I didn't really try very hard on that post, either. Just gave a quick response off the top of my head. Though I doubt I'd have recalled their movie if I HAD of tried harder. LOL.

AND--the OP assigned task was to list 3-5 movies. I did manage that.
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I added this onto that post listing the movies I thought of at the time:


Addendum:

Rationalization?

I'm not a great movie person. I don't keep a lot of movie titles in my head. I rarely watch movies. I  do like Sci Fi but I'm very picky. There's a lot of trash in the genre.

Though I do fondly remember the TV series LOST IN SPACE & MY FAVORITE MARTIAN.

 I don't think I ever did watch that one about the bloke alone on Mars.

I did like the one about the huge artificial enclosed environment above the earth. Elysium?

I enjoyed some of Edgar R Burroughs' 'Mars books.'

And STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

And, ENDER'S GAME series

I vaguely recall that there's a bunch of dystopian society movies--a few of which I watched. I find them usually pretty dreary. Not a favorite use of my time.

Anyway--that's about all that's off the top of my head currently.

[Gefn]

Idiocracy

Yes, yes, yes!

Maybe also Soylent Green?

[DefiantMassRINO]

The Boys from Brazil (1978)