Top Ten SciFi Movies
Posted on April 4, 2007
The British SciFi magazine SFX reports the top three SciFi movies as follows: Serenity, Star Wars, and Blade Runner. While I certainly treasure each of those and also feel that Serenity was woefully under appreciated at the box-office, I would never dream of putting such a recent release at the top. Given that Firefly and Serenity have a rather rapid and internet-centric fanbase, I’m not really surprised to see this kind of achievement in what was likely an on-line poll. Anyway, in the interest of balance, below is my top 10 list. Every SciFi-loving blogger reading these words would be shirking his blogger-duties by passing up this meme. You have been put on notice!
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Kubrick & Clarke, monoliths, space Hilton, HAL 9000, a man named Heywood. Enough said.
2. Tron – This movie seduced me into making software and a better appreciation for a Divine Creator. For real.
3. Blade Runner – Phil K. Dick via Ridley Scott, a youthful Edward James Olmos, replicants, tears in the rain.
4. Logan’s Run – Michael York in his best role before Austin Powers. Dial-a-hookup transporters, T.S. Eliot spouted by a crazy cat man who lives in the husk of the US Congress!
5. Dark City – proto-Matrix movie with reality-tuning aliens, false memories, and a freaky Kiefer Sutherland.
6. THX 1138 – I love Star Wars, but George Lucas’ first film was a more distinctly SciFi experience. With its exploration of the dangers of consumerism, psychopharmaceuticals, and cultural conformance, this movie has been scarily prescient on some aspects of our time.
7. Star Wars – I did rather enjoy all 6 films, though The Phantom Menace seemed too pandering to children.
8. The Time Machine – the original, though the music from the remake was lovely. Wells and his little story paved the way for so much to follow.
9. Alien – Ridley Scott really should make more SciFi films. His only two rank in the top ten of so many lists.
10. Pitch Black – More like Cameron’s Aliens, this original film impressed me with its original take on possible life out there. The ending shocked the hell out of me, too. I was disappointed in the relative failure of its follow-up The Chronicles of Riddick, though I did enjoy it thoroughly.
2. Tron – This movie seduced me into making software and a better appreciation for a Divine Creator. For real.
3. Blade Runner – Phil K. Dick via Ridley Scott, a youthful Edward James Olmos, replicants, tears in the rain.
4. Logan’s Run – Michael York in his best role before Austin Powers. Dial-a-hookup transporters, T.S. Eliot spouted by a crazy cat man who lives in the husk of the US Congress!
5. Dark City – proto-Matrix movie with reality-tuning aliens, false memories, and a freaky Kiefer Sutherland.
6. THX 1138 – I love Star Wars, but George Lucas’ first film was a more distinctly SciFi experience. With its exploration of the dangers of consumerism, psychopharmaceuticals, and cultural conformance, this movie has been scarily prescient on some aspects of our time.
7. Star Wars – I did rather enjoy all 6 films, though The Phantom Menace seemed too pandering to children.
8. The Time Machine – the original, though the music from the remake was lovely. Wells and his little story paved the way for so much to follow.
9. Alien – Ridley Scott really should make more SciFi films. His only two rank in the top ten of so many lists.
10. Pitch Black – More like Cameron’s Aliens, this original film impressed me with its original take on possible life out there. The ending shocked the hell out of me, too. I was disappointed in the relative failure of its follow-up The Chronicles of Riddick, though I did enjoy it thoroughly.
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You want me to pick my favorite 10? I’ll have to do some serious thinking on that.
04.04.2007 11:57