Posted on 12/23/2024 12:46:02 PM PST by Red Badger
In the words of one great work of science fiction, "The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity, and the ways our differences combine to create meaning and beauty." Sci-fi itself is a genre that contains multitudes — space opera, time travel, dystopia, cyberpunk, apocalypse and post-apocalypse, just to name a few. Sci-fi has been the domain of Hollywood blockbusters and independent art films, presented as comedy and drama, used to paint bright futures or portents of doom.
On this list, you'll find permutations of every sort, spread across a variety of decades, countries, and languages. While entries on our list date back as far as 1927, we must confess a preference for the new — nearly half of the entries on our list were made in this century, as digital filmmaking and effects have lowered the barrier for producing quality sci-fi and allowed more storytellers to project their bold imaginings.
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I can only guess my definition of sci-fi is off base because I don’t consider alot of that list as sci-fi. I did see a bunch of flicks I liked but I didn’t see “Lucy”, which I thought was great.
Eclectic list at best and does not give credit to the real pioneering Sci-Fi pictures that came very early on. I did not see Metropolis on there at all or The Man Who Could Work Miracles, lots of good pictures left off and some so so pictures on the list.
I like the 1950’s version of The Thing with the great Kenneth Tobey.
To Heinlein's surprise,[71] Starship Troopers won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960.[72] It has been acknowledged as one of the best-known and most influential works of science fiction.[2][21] The novel is considered a landmark for the genre, having been described by a 1960 review as one of the ten best genre books of 1959,[73] in a 2009 review as a key science fiction novel of the 1950s,[14] and as the best-known example of military science fiction.[74] The novel has been described as marking Heinlein's transition from writing juvenile fiction to a "more mature phase" as an author.[3] Reviewing the book with others written for children, Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction wrote in 1960 that "Heinlein has penned a juvenile that really is not. This is a new and bitter and disillusioned Heinlein". Rating it 2.5 stars out of five for children, 4.5 stars for adults, and "?" for civilians, he believed that the novel would be "of exceptional interest to veterans with battle experience ... but youngsters will find it melancholy and verbose".[75] Conversely, Michael Moorcock described it as Heinlein's last "straight" science fiction, before he turned to more serious writing such as Stranger in a Strange Land.[76]Robert A. Heinlein's nickname was "The Midshipman" in the Science Fiction realm.
In 1929, he graduated from the Naval Academy with the equivalent of a bachelor of arts in engineering. Lieutenant Heinlein was medically discharged from the Navy in 1934, owing to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Yeah where is that film? or Innerspace ?
Yeah, the movie was complete crap. I’ve worn out several paperback copies of the book though.
I read Starship Troopers and the book was more serious and a pretty critique on society and what was to come. That could have been a very well done TV Mini Series with the right people doing it.
I didn’t see Invaders From Mars on that list!
One did.......
“Flash Gordon series with Buster Crabbe?”
I saw “Flesh Gordon”
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I saw that! Not a bad movie at all!
Starship Troopers! I read the book! The last line is great!
What the movie lacked was......DDT. That would have taken care of the BUGS.
Blade Runner (the first one), Close Encounters.
Terminator 2, the best movie of any kind made in the 21st Century.
Everything all at once? Give me a break, it was not worth a look. My daughter brought it over to watch and I intentionally went to sleep. STOOOOOOOOO PID
Invaders from Mars in 1953, was excellent.
That movie was excellent.
"Where ever you go, there you are"
What's the watermelon for?"
John Parker fell on his head, and now he's dead"
Bucky Goldstein"
Perfect Tommy.
Best film of the 80's.
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