P-List traffic/sci-fi flicks

[David Casseres]

Now that's a hell of a fine list.  I'm going to annotate it with my
opinions -- hope that isn't too parasitic.

On 11/7/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Top 10 (alpabetical order):
>
> 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Well duh.

> Blade Runner (Scott)
Masterpiece.

> Brazil (Gilliam)
Overrated.

> Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Speilberg)
Give me the scissors, I'll make a good movie out of this.

> The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)
Brilliant, a great classic.

> The Empire Strikes Back (Kirshner)
Good, for a StarWarsSequel.

> Last Night (McKellar)
Say what?

> Metropolis (Lang)
Gotta see it one day.

> Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
Oh please.

> Solaris (Tarkovsky)
Bloated and hokey.


> Runners up:
Here I'm skipping the ones I haven't seen.

> 1984 (Radford)
Waste of Richard Burton, read the book instead.

> 2010 (Hyams)
An embarrassment.

> Alien (Scott)
Major classic.

> Aliens (Cameron)
Olympic shark-jumping.

> A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Not really SF, but....

> Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)
Wonderful, heart-rending.

> Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
Classic.

> Gattaca (Niccol)
Very smart movie.

> Godzilla (Honda)
Yeah, but you have to join a cult.

> On the Beach (Kramer)
Not really SF.

> Silent Running (Trumbull)
True SF, very poignant.

> Sleeper (Allen)
Major Hoot!

> Soylent Green (Fleischer)
Hoo boy, does that one ever stick in your memory.

> Star Wars (Lucas)
The only Star Wars movie worthy of real admiration.

> Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Meyer)
Pretty good, for Star Trek.

> THX 1138 (Lucas)
You can tell it's some smart guy's Masters thesis.

> The Time Machine (Pal)
Not too bad.

> War of the Worlds (Haskin)
Terrific.


My additions:

Stargate (Emmerich)
Starman (Chenault & Dahlin)
Destination Moon (Pichel)
E.T. (Spielberg)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg)
Back to the Future I, II, III (Zemeckis)
Buckaroo Banzai (Weller)
Repo Man (Cox)