P-List traffic/sci-fi flicks

[Dave Monroe]

Top 10 (alpabetical order):

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Blade Runner (Scott)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Speilberg)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kirshner)
Last Night (McKellar)
Metropolis (Lang)
Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
Solaris (Tarkovsky)

Runners up:

1984 (Radford)
2010 (Hyams)
Aelita: Queen of Mars (Protazanov)
Akira (Otomo)
Alien (Scott)
Aliens (Cameron)
Alphaville (Godard)
A Boy and His Dog (Jones)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
The End of Evangelion (Anno)
Enemy Mine (Longyear)
Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
Gattaca (Niccol)
Godzilla (Honda)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman)
Japan Sinks (Moritani)
La Jetée (Marker)
The Navigator (Ward)
On the Beach (Kramer)
The Quartermass and the Pit (Cartier)
The Road Warrior (Miller)
RoboCop (Verhoeven)
Seconds (Frankenheimer)
Silent Running (Trumbull)
Sleeper (Allen)
Soylent Green (Fleischer)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Star Wars (Lucas)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Meyer)
Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)
Testament (Littman)
THX 1138 (Lucas)
The Time Machine (Pal)
Things to Come (Korda)
Videodrome (Cronenberg)
Voyage to the Moon (Melies)
War of the Worlds (Haskin)
When the Wind Blows (Murakami)

While I can sympathize with your request for genre
specificity, a la McLuhan on emergent media, the
content of a new genre is other genres, and I notice
you didn't preclude, say, Blade Runner for being film
noir, so ... so considered "art" films as well ...

Keep in mind, much of yr best SF is hardly strict
genre fiction by strictly genre authors, so ...

On the other hand, I didn't know what to do with, say,
Dr. Strangelove or Fail Safe.  Or Frankenstein (not to
mention The Bride of ...).  Or King Kong.  Or ...

--- kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Elsewhere on the internet, I'm embroiled in an
> argument about the greatest sci-fi movies.  My take
> is that there aren't many great sci-fi movies.  2001
> is the obvious top of the list.  Action (Road
> Warrior), western (Star Wars) and horror (Alien)
> movies disguised as sci-fi don't count.  Anyone want
> to post their greatest sci-fi flick lists?



 
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