Posted on 11/22/2013 5:50:21 PM PST by EveningStar
There are so many amazing science fiction movies that it's hard to include all the greats in a list of 50. It may not be the same 50 you'd pick, but I hope you enjoy this list of must-sees.
How many have you seen? Click items to mark as completed.
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You can label it as non-fiction now.
Easily top five Jason Patric and Jamie Gertz flick...
The 1953 and 2005 ones
Oops, not Barbarossa, Barbarella. What’s not to love about a psychedelic sixties scifi flick, directed by Dino De Laurentiis, adapted from a French novel, loaded with French actors including Marcel Marceau, and a genuine naked spacegirl, the only role Jane Fonda played that is worth watching since it was pre-Vietnam idiocy on her part, and it played to her only strength which would be the body she had the cosmic good luck of inhabiting at the time.
Here’s the opening credits (brief partial nudity) and it only gets crazier from there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw6WMdrzbJw
38 God I need a life. Some of them I read the book. Lord help me!
28, which surprised me a little, as I consider myself a sci-fi fan of sorts. Then again a different list might have had me at 20 or 40. Plus when I was young, I had no money or time to go see movies, now it’s more a time / family obligations problem. At least on Sat. nights I sometimes have time to watch Star Trek, TOS with my young daughter. She loves it, and I try to teach her — easy because she asks lots of questions. In a few years I’ll “graduate” her to Babylon 5.
Good point about Harlan Ellison, too. I always preferred “hard science” fiction or speculative fiction to the stuff that was more like science fantasy or just cowboys in space.
It’s too bad none of the Babylon 5 movies ever reached the level of some of the better episodes, or, if they had, made it to the theaters.
40
There were three 2005 ones, Steven Speilberg, Pendragon Pictures, and The Asylum...
For those who acquired a justifiable distaste, here’s Jane Fonda Being nearly eaten alive by killer dolls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKFzYUe5_p4
Some artistic merit there, lol.
Ok movie but I LOVE Bruce Dern.
Where is “Rodan” on that list?
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/rodan/
A giant pterydactyl is hatched out of a coalmine and wreaks havoc all over Japan [and American television screens].
Missing: The Day the Earth Stood Still (original version), Target Earth (classic 50s “B” movie), The War of the Worlds (either version), and The Time Machine (1950s).
There were a couple I’m not sure if I saw or not, so my score is somewhere between 40 and 42.
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Bruce Dern is one of those actors who just look twisted to me.
Sort of like what you think a serial killer would look. One day a few weeks ago I was watching old TV series and I think they had 3 in a row with Bruce Dern as the villain.
The one with Gene Berry is GREAT the one with Cruise not so much.
Alien was listed, but I didn’t see Aliens on the list. An equally good movie to the original.
He’s one of these guys (gals) when they are on the screen you can’t take your eyes off them.
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