Ollie 859 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 http://totalscifionline.com/features/3809-the-100-greatest-sci-fi-moviesA few observations:Return Of The Jedi does not belong.No War Of The Worlds (1953)No Time Machine (1960)No Frankenstein (1931)No King Kong (1933) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 5 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Shame The Matrix is so high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 317 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Return Of The Jedi definitely doesn't belong on that list and the fact that it was rated slightly higher than Back To The Future is just wrong on so many levels. Back To The Future was a much better film than Return Of The Jedi by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 152 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 BTTF definitely deserves to be much higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 2,924 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Blade Runner doesn't belong in the top 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 Also noticed Ghostbusters isn't on the list.I would remove Event Horizon from the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 5 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Blade Runner doesn't belong in the top 20Lex Luthor face, etc etc etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,095 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Overall it has some pretty good ones, a lot that need to be higher: A Clockwork Orange, The Fifth Element, Children Of Men, etc. Also a lot of these I wouldn't consider science fiction, like Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,017 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 This is not a list I can really "digest", because I have probably seen ten of the listed films at the most, but...I am glad that Alien is rated as high as it is.I think Close Encounters of the Third Kind is more profound, significant, and better than The Terminator can ever hope to be (not that I am implying that was James Cameron tried to do so)I like that Tron made the list.I thought Robert Wise's Andromeda Strain was incredibly dull(much like the book, I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,765 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I'm pissed King Kong vs. Godzilla didn't make the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 Well at least they had sense to add Gojira. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,765 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 But of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego 21 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 eh... the term sci-fi is used too liberally these days. I don't think Star Wars is sci-fi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I would remove Event Horizon from the list.I've never understood the critical love for it. I saw it in the theaters and spend the next couple of days trying to figure out what the hell I had just watched.Nice to see Serenity and Galaxy Quest make the cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Blade Runner better than 2001?.....uh, no.Tim, pleasantly surprised that Primer made the list, a movie he loved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC1 3,565 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Thanks for the list! I totally agree with Blade Runner and 2001 being the best sci-fi films ever made. I'm also glad to see Tarkovsky's Solaris made it into the top 10.Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 195 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 T2, ID4 and Predator should be higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 49 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Ugh... I can't believe I still haven't seen 2001, Alien or Blade Runner. What's wrong with me? These films sound so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,765 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I can't understand the love for Serenity. The show was okay, but it must be some groupthink mentality that sends people all euphoric over this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 195 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Ugh... I can't believe I still haven't seen 2001, Alien or Blade Runner. What's wrong with me? These films sound so good.Indeed, I thought there were no such people on these forums! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Fairly good list. Where the position of the films are in the list, doesn't matter really as they probably end up that way for all manner of reasons. Good to see ones like Dark Star,Logan's Run,Altered States,Westworld and Barbarella in there.No Capricorn One? Isn't the story meant to be suggesting a major science 'Fiction'? Others on the page point out ommisions like Starman and .How about Kiddy films like and ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 317 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Ugh... I can't believe I still haven't seen 2001, Alien or Blade Runner. What's wrong with me? These films sound so good.Don't feel bad, I haven't seen Blade Runner or 2001 either but Alien I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 195 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 How about Kiddy films like and ?Hell yeah, FotN is a classic! Also has a lovely score, I used to whistle the main theme all the time as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,064 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Space Oddyseeeee?The most boring film ever invented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob 0 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 How about Kiddy films like and ?Hell yeah, FotN is a classic! Also has a lovely score, I used to whistle the main theme all the time as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted August 6, 2009 Author Share Posted August 6, 2009 Space Oddyseeeee?The most boring film ever invented.Everyone needs to watch it at least twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,765 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 According to our databanks, we have. Thrice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I can't understand the love for Serenity. The show was okay, but it must be some groupthink mentality that sends people all euphoric over this one.Admitedly the movie is only a shadow of the TV show's genius, but that doesn't mean it's not more than worthy on its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 5,520 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Return Of The Jedi does not belong.More so than Jurassic Park.No King Kong (1933)I wouldn't label that science fiction.Overall it has some pretty good ones, a lot that need to be higher: A Clockwork Orange, The Fifth Element, Children Of Men, etc.Yes, I wouldn't agree with every last detail, but overall this seems to be a fairly good list.Also a lot of these I wouldn't consider science fiction, like Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.I probably wouldn't think of it if I were listing scifi movies, but I can agree with the label. It is based around fictional technology, after all. I believe they were ranking the movies by their qualities as scifi movies; if not - if they were ranking them by their overall qualities as movies - I believe Eternal Sunshine should be higher. It's one of my absolute favourites and one I find fascinating and engaging every time I watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 9 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Acceptible list...no A.I., but I'm hardly surprised. I'm probably alone on this, but I think there are too many films one there that might technically be sci-fi, but are really far more related to other genres (Star Wars and fantasy, Alien and horror E.T. and...I dunno, something other than sci-fi, Wrath of Khan and adventure Eternal Sunshine and three or four other genres). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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