Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Listing from All the Lists

Jaquandor has reacted to John Scalzi's list of the 100 canonical science fiction films (as compiled in Scalzi's just-released book, The Rough Guide to Science Fiction) by indicating which he's seen. So, of course, must I, in yet another attempt to bare to the blogosphere my shockingly limited cultural IQ. (Films I've seen are italicized).

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Across the 8th Dimension!
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Like many, but certainly not all, I prefer the second to the first, being more of an action film fan than a horror fan.

Alphaville
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
I'll join Jaquandor in reacting to this as being somewhat overrated.

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
I saw this once in a dorm room with a bunch of others in college and don't remember much--especially what made it science fiction. I do remember the brilliant percussive sex scene.

Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Rewatched this recently, and it holds up very well, not really reading as "dated" at all. Bodes well for its long-term life.

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
Sure, but have any sequels ever lived farther down to expectations?

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
Superman
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing From Another World
Things to Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
Saw this once, remember loving it, but can't recall hardly anything of the plot. On it goes to the re-watch list.

28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
Boring. Yeah, I said it. Want to fight about it?

La Voyage Dans la Lune
War of the Worlds (1953 version)

Until Whenever

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