Posted on 05/03/2014 2:17:42 PM PDT by EveningStar
But they included farces like Space Balls and cartoons.....Stepford Wives is part of the list yet you classify it as technology.....
The list is arbitrary at best.
Yeah. I agree. They were ( and are) classics
An Inconvenient Truth.
Because if there ever truly was a work of science “Fiction”, that was it.
Most of them
Why?
I watched 'Aliens' with my then girlfriend and her roommate, and it scared her roommate so much she didn't want to spend the night by herself.
So we brought her back to my place and let her sleep on the sofa, with the guard Pekingese watching over her.
WE had a real movie theatre in my grandmother`s hotel & they showed all the earlier movies again in the 1940`s.
My Indonesian friend from Jakarta-her mother also owned a movie theatre there and she saw all those early movies in her movie theatre. Anyone one can get those canned reels from a local distributor for showing in a real theatre or a hotel theatre etc. I used to go with my relatives to the distributor 40 miles away over the mountains to pick up the boxes of reels.
Lol
Talk about a b-movie
I’m at 129...but the instructions were to check those you’ve watched the whole way through. There were a goodly number I started watching but lost interest in...
/johnny
I would have seen more, but I have a bit of an obstinate streak. If people tell me that I, “have to see..,” or, “must see...” something, that’s a pretty surefire way of ensuring my non-participation. It’s for that reason I’ve never seen ET or any of the Back to the Futures...
Ed
The first two I saw were INVADERS FROM MARS and THE BEAST FROM 20000 FATHOMS at a drive in in Denver Colorado back in 1953.
Scared the hell out of me! I never watched another si-fi movie till I had TV and the first SHOCK THEATER programs were on.
/johnny
I too saw “Invaders From Mars” around 1953 at the Bay Theater, Panama City, Florida. I had the same reaction to Invaders that you did.
I did not see it again until the 90s and had built it up in my mind as the greatest thing I had ever seen. Of course I was disappointed and some of my memories were slightly off.
I then saw it a third time a few years later and realized it really was a good movie, I had just built it up to an impossible standard.
I scored 120 out of three hundred. I saw lots of early si-fi and noticed I began to not watch many of the newer ones as they are so stupid.
Some I have watched I wish I could get back the two hours spent on them, others I would watch again.
Not enough Ray Harryhausen movies listed. No original King Kong. No SON OF KONG. Not enough Lon Chaney Jr movies like MAN MADE MONSTER.
These are movies I saw at the theater, HBO, DTV, and late night shows.
I QUALIFY as a mad scientist with 163 including Plan 9 and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I had fewer of the newer movies.
While Sci-Fi, the combat scenes are pretty realistic with regards to contemporary weaponry and small unit tactics, and while primarily a USMC film, the makers saw fit to give a little hat tip to all the services.
I believe that makes me a "sci-fi" fan...
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