RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 1:17 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2012 at 1:19 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
I think people need to realize something important about star wars.
It's fantasy. Technically science fantasy - swords and magic in a sci-fi universe.
It's not really strictly one or the other.
It's also a sort of old pulp flash gordon style of storytelling that empasizes an epic story and character building over the more sci-fi concepts that came during the second half of the 20th century.
Great sci-fi films include things like:
2001 Space Oddessy
Plant of the Apes (original - not the TERRIBLE Tim Burton remake)
Twillight Zone
Outer Limits (New and Old)
The first four and the sixth original star trek movies (the next gen and 5th star trek movies are all bad movies)
The Matrix
Inception
Minority Report
The Red Planet
Alien and Aliens
Predator
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Supernova
Solaris
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dr. Who
Stargate
Terminator (The first two movies and the TV series)
.... I'll think of more. If any of you like, I'll attempt to also link some trailors - I'm just listing movies off the top of my head right now.
It's fantasy. Technically science fantasy - swords and magic in a sci-fi universe.
It's not really strictly one or the other.
It's also a sort of old pulp flash gordon style of storytelling that empasizes an epic story and character building over the more sci-fi concepts that came during the second half of the 20th century.
Great sci-fi films include things like:
2001 Space Oddessy
Plant of the Apes (original - not the TERRIBLE Tim Burton remake)
Twillight Zone
Outer Limits (New and Old)
The first four and the sixth original star trek movies (the next gen and 5th star trek movies are all bad movies)
The Matrix
Inception
Minority Report
The Red Planet
Alien and Aliens
Predator
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Supernova
Solaris
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dr. Who
Stargate
Terminator (The first two movies and the TV series)
.... I'll think of more. If any of you like, I'll attempt to also link some trailors - I'm just listing movies off the top of my head right now.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
