P-List traffic/sci-fi flicks

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Johnny Mnemonic 
wish someone would do the Neuromancer trilogy, Pattern Recognition & Virtual Light, would have loved to see young Keanu as Bobby Newmark...
"I'm not using, I just have this massive drug deficiency"
dunno if Gibson was happy with JM but I would have been were I he...I have watched that movie a lot
Just starting to get hooked on Metropolis and Alphaville too, lately...didn't know somebody made a movie of 1984...
(tangentially, does anybody else like "Ready to Wear"?)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Monroe [mailto:monropolitan at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2006 08:51 PM
> To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: P-List traffic/sci-fi flicks
> 
> 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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