Watched a whole lotta SF

[pjthompson]

Gotten from madrobins

This is the Science Fiction Film Canon, 50 most influential (not necessarily best or worst) films as listed by John Scalzi in his Rough Guide to Science Fiction Films. Bold those you've seen; italicize those you want to see and strike those you have no desire to see. Put an asterisk after the ones you own.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! ("Character is who you are in the dark.")
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Alphaville
Back to the Future
Blade Runner*
Brazil (and I'd like to own this one)
Bride of Frankenstein
Brother From Another Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
Contact
Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (serial)
The Fly (1985 version)
Forbidden Planet
Ghost in the Shell
Gojira/Godzilla
The Incredibles
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 version)
Jurassic Park
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
The Matrix
Metropolis*
On the Beach
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Robocop
Sleeper
Solaris (1972 version) (I tried to go see this a number of times at the art house, but never made it)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope*
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Stepford Wives
Superman
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing From Another World
Things To Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey*
La Voyage Dans la Lune (aka The Trip to the Moon)
War of the Worlds (1953 version)

Comments

[jasperh.livejournal.com]

Hey,
I guess I joined the fold. Anyhow, where is star wars? Harrison Ford was to die for in those first three films.

[pjthompson]

Well, they've gotten tricksy when they refer to it these days: it's Stars Wars Episode IV the New Hope because the three latest ones were the prequels.

[jasperh.livejournal.com]

Which is all very well if I could have followed the prequels. I spent most of the first film trying to work out when the princess was the princess and when the sub was standing in. I'v seen the darn thing four times now and I am still having a problem. Besides which, Harrison Ford isn't in it. Not that I'd want to see the vintage version, the young one was delicous, though.

[pjthompson]

I'm so out of it I haven't even bothered seeing the three new ones.

[jasperh.livejournal.com]

You haven't missed much. The writer responsible for these flicks should have been taken out and quietly shot.

[pjthompson]

And welcome to the fold!!! Bwahahahaha!