Posted on 11/16/2010 9:57:34 AM PST by EveningStar
The original TEMORS with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward...best ever!!!
Well that goes without saying PLM. In fact I would say Tremors transcends a list like this.
Best movies of all time:
1. Gone with the Wind
2. Tremors
Running Man: Great Stephen King novella, run-of-the-mill movie. As a novella it wasn’t even really sci-fi, just had a future setting.
2001: A Space Odyssey makes more sense if you have read the book. By itself, it is a bit remote.
Starship Troopers is a terrific satire.
Same folks did The Truman Show (man is more than his environment) and this classic (man is more than his heredity).
LOL! I guess that if Independence Day or Starship Troopers can make the list, there's always room for The Core (which is based on a laughable premise, but I'll still sit down and watch it if I come across it on TV).
I'd include Contact on a greats list because it's a rare instance of a hard-SF movie. It has its weaknesses - as did Carl Sagan's novel on which it is based - but at least it makes a valiant attempt to be a realistic movie about alien first contact, and Roger Zemeckis has a real talent to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump are two other examples of fine films Zemeckis adapted from mediocre novels.)
I especially love the philosophical theme, though: the atheistic, materialist astronomer who believes only in what she can observe, suddenly faced with having to prove to her skeptics that a monumental experience for which there is no empirical evidence, actually happened to her. (Unfortunately, the movie then reveals that there was one piece of supporting data, thus spoiling a perfectly good ambiguous ending.)
Was “I Robot” really worth watching? I never bothered as I couldn’t see how the short stories I’d read matched up with the trailers I saw. I was kinda bummed because I wanted to see a Caves of Steel movie with the awesome rolling roads.
Your #201 was one of the LOL funniest posts I’ve read this year. Good job!
It was originally started as "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine" by people who had never heard of the book, but then partway through they got rights to it. Verhoeven never finished reading the book. They just slapped a few themes from the book onto their bug-hunt movie and that was it.
The only good thing about the movie was Michael Ironsides, but it was silly to see a supposedly good leader send his troops charging needlessly to their deaths. It makes me wish I were a billionaire who could finance a faithful adaptation of the novel. Anybody got a spare $100 mil lying around?
No Superman I or II? He IS from another planet...
There are some stupid-ass movies on this list.
Mars Attacks? Seriously? Lamest movie ever... and that’s even considering it was TRYING To be lame. How do spend $100 million making fun of a $10,000 movie? For a mockery of Sci-Fi, “Galaxy Quest” was far funnier. (Not as funny as “Dune,” though. HHOK!) OK, The Thing was kinda funny.
Star Wars is #20? (Either it’s #1, or it’s not really sci-fi; but #20?) Independennce Day beats it?
Umm... Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
On the subject of remiss: Outbreak? 12 Monkeys? The Abyss? Avatar? 2010: The Year We Make Contact? (I haven’t seen Inception, yet) And, uh, E.T.?
Ah, that’s the really OLD version of repo man where they are repossessing cars, but find the alien spaceship. You know, I forgot about the sci-fi aspect of that movie.
I guess I would put that in the genre of science fiction that includes “The Manhattan Project”, things that happen on the real earth but involve science-fictiony elements.
But that reminds me of another sci-fi movies that I don’t think anybody has mentioned, but actually might belong in this top 50 list; FreeJack.
Also because it was the first movie to heavily use CGI.
I didn’t want to like Minority Report, but I do think it was actually a good movie with a good plot
Credit the good plot to it being an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel.
“Starship Troopers is a terrific satire.”
Agreed Borges...but I haven’t read the book so I didn’t have expectations when I saw the movie. I watch it every year or so when I’m going through the collection. I call it “going back to P” :-)
if we include that, do we include Barb Wire?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Road Warrior or Mad Max yet.
50: The Quartermass Quatermass Xperiment
2: 2001: A Space Oddyssey Odyssey
Rudy wasn’t fiction.
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