But who am I to say what is what? Sci-Fi, like beauty... 
is in the eye of the beholder--
Posted on 11/22/2013 5:50:21 PM PST by EveningStar
Wow. Some real clinkers. And missing some gems. The majority are “ok”.
STTMP is arguably the WORST ST. Where is Kahn, Star Trek and ST into Darkness? ST 3, 4, 6 and First Contact are much better that STTMP.
Back To The Future was a silly comedy with a SciFi premise. So why not Armageddon?
I could go one but iPhone thumb typing bites. Let me end this by saying I will NEVER watch the unAmerican Avatar (dances with smurfs? Pocahontas 2?)
The sequence “gattaca” is too short to be a gene, or even to be a specific DNA element.
Out of curiosity, I tried searching a DNA database for that sequence. I didn’t find anything, which tells me that the sequence is so short that it probably shows up millions (billions? trillions?) of times in the database.
As a curiosity, I once saw a (not very serious) scientific paper describing the DNA sequences seen in Jurassic Park. Those sequences in the movie are real, but they are not from dinosaurs. They are from a common piece of DNA that was developed for genetic engineering back in the 1970s.
I love “The Quiet Earth”. Not because it’s a got a great plot or great effects or great acting, while all that is good enough, the reason is that the movie captures a moment in time. It captures the essence of the fears of the unknown(Cold war, technology, etc.), as they stood in the 80s.
It also does a pretty good job of exploring what happens in a depopulated Earth in a way similar to “The Omega Man”(sans zombies).
As mitigating circumstances, I've seen 76 different Humphrey Bogart movies at least once (and Casablanca more than 75 times).
I don’t feel I am going out on a limb. The best War of the Worlds is the George Pal Gene Barry vehicle. The next best was Independence Day. Which WAS WOTW for 1996, right down to the (computer) virus.
The Cruise/speilberg vehicle just was lame and unnecessary.
But who am I to say what is what? Sci-Fi, like beauty... is in the eye of the beholder--
32. Now that I have a list, I will watch the rest.
35
I hope you mean the original BBC version. I would agree with that.
The hard part was what not to put on the list. Some other serious contenders include:
A Boy and his Dog
The Starlost (ill-fated, but could have been great)
Starcrash (so hilariously awful that it is unforgettable)
Idaho Transfer (very surreal, dir. by Peter Fonda)
Retroactive (with James Belushi)
American Astronaut (too bizarre for most audiences)
The President’s Analyst (not science fiction per se, a comedy, but so accurately predicted the future as to be eerie)
Barbarella (campy silliness, just a fun movie)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
The City of Lost Children
Bicentennial Man
Casshern (visually gorgeous)
Crack in the World
Dune (either version)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (I should have put this one in earlier, a surprising omission of a movie classic)
Eolomea (East Germany)
Fando y Lis (actually caused some riots in Mexico)
The Bed Sitting Room (extra-surrealist British post apocalypse comedy)
The Forbin Project (not very science fictiony anymore)
Wargames
The Time Machine (another classic)
I was able to watch about 30 seconds, that woman reminded me to much of Pelousy.
Chris Christie as Baron Harkonnen...
49, I need to manage my time better.
My score was 47, but I’ve seen 3 different versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 2 different Rollerballs and War of the Worlds. Do I get extra credit?
Forty....
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