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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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There are some good ones among the dreck - but cartoons? Godzilla? Sheesh!
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Ah, yes ... Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. A profoundly prophetic film about 43rd wave feminism and the rise of the girl bosses.
When I was a kid — in the era of early tv — a local independent station used to get a copy of one of the monster movies of the day ... and show the same movie every day for a week at about the time kids were getting home from school. All of the 1950’s classics were in the rotation. This is how we learned that radiation causes gigantism. Educational tv at its best.
Did you watch the Flash Gordon series with Buster Crabbe?
An actual classic, that one.
Both good. Just watched ‘Horror Express’ which was an unofficial movie based on the same novella. They just didn’t have the money to credit the author, so they changed enough to avoid a lawsuit. Was also good if you like Hammer Horror style movies.
Nice Signs reference in your tagline, yes?
Saw it at the theater. Excellent movie. The destruction of the plant ships was reused on Battlestar Gallactica.
2001! Excellent Special Effects! Beautiful Color! But DULL! I almost did the same and fall asleep in the huge screen theater I was in.
I was thinking of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I read the books and saw the series. I don’t know if I saw the movie. I thought it was fun and enjoyable. It certainly is not “hard science” science fiction.
I think everything from Michael Crichton qualifies as science fiction. Many were made into movies, however not State of Fear (criticized AGW).
48 for me.
I’m glad to see that Her made the list, which otherwise doesn’t lean much into soft sci fi. I would add After Yang and I’m Your Man, which I would suggest as a pair as they very subtly come down on opposite sides of a great divide. I think. Both are also movies with no villains; they are concerned with higher order questions.
Shape of Water is 26? That’s possibly the worst movie ever made!
It’s a movie about a woman that has sex with a fish man.
Is that the one where the AI running the empty heroes’ ship, when told to surrender by the villian, replies, “I’ll surrender, you sorry son of a mutant” before self-destructing?
“Jules Verne stuff”
For historical purposes, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells should be considered. If they are good movies, so much the better. I enjoyed Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth and Wells’ The Time Machine.
One of my favorites! Ruined on Mystery Science 3000 when they cut out the best part of the movie. Now got the original on DVD!
Many of these I still can’t stand to watch today, but others are A-OK!
62. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Never been able to set through this. Too faggy for me.
90. Dark City. One of my favorites.
WHAT! No Ray Harryhausen movies!
No Beast from 20 Thousand Fathoms?
No Earth vs the Flying Saucers?
No 20 Million miles to earth?
No original INVADERS FROM MARS(1953)
No One Million B.C.(1940)
No One Million Years B.C.? I only watch it for the dinosaurs. Wore out a VCR tape rewinding and rewinding and rewinding....Honest!
DUMP the cartoons shows! Give us THESE!
I don’t remember that line, but yeah, that the kind of quality dialog.
For color and beauty, I’d rather watch the della Robbia sculptors. Have loved their work forever. THAT isn’t dull.
Fine Arts - della Robbia - Monteverdi - Thomas Campion - Palestrina
https://youtu.be/odQZfXUXLPo
Saw those out of order on Saturday mornings back in the 60’s.
For the longest time I thought Princess Aura was Flash’s girlfriend. He spends more time with her.
“where’s Fantastic Voyage?”
Good question. Take out the cartoons and put in Fantastic Voyage.
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