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puppetmaker ([personal profile] puppetmaker) wrote2005-10-20 06:25 pm

Science Fiction Movie Meme


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!*
Akira*
Alien*
Aliens*
Alphaville
Back to the Future*
Blade Runner*
Brazil*
Bride of Frankenstein*
Brother From Another Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
Contact*
The Damned
Destination Moon
The Day The Earth Stood Still*
Delicatessen
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)
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 (The Original)
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
War of the Worlds (1953 version)*



What can I say, I use to work at a movie theater that did double features of classics and a lot of euro-trash films.