tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post348327052660996902..comments2024-03-29T04:57:26.162-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Ask JKM a Question: Top Ten Science Fiction Films of All Time?John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-43755459551664083092013-05-28T12:20:15.130-04:002013-05-28T12:20:15.130-04:00Love these kinds of questions for the answers they...Love these kinds of questions for the answers they bring. They always stir something in the longtime fans of SF. Well done, John! Proud to have reblogged your post and list this, too ;-). le0pard13https://www.blogger.com/profile/09421175808461787862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-38860108801329195382013-05-28T07:32:03.084-04:002013-05-28T07:32:03.084-04:00Thank you for putting Blade Runner among the also-...Thank you for putting Blade Runner among the also-rans. I still think it's a great setting for an SF movie, not a great SF movie. The nice thing about it is that Ridley Scott veered so far from the PKD novel that somebody could do a straight version without any loss of impact.<br /><br />I was going to dispute putting Planet of the Apes above 2001, but it would be hard to imagine a mass-market film with a bleaker, more bitter twist. (A shame the ending will never have the same impact it did in 1968.) I'd forgotten that two such conceptually audacious movies came out in the same year.<br /><br />My view of The Matrix is soured by the Wachowskis' extensive, uncredited pillaging of William Gibson's novel Neuromancer. An old story in Hollywood, I know, but still.<br /><br />If the 1982 Thing is horror, why not Alien? Once the xenomorph aerates John Hurt's chest, the story drops all SF trappings and turns into a balls-to-the-wall ooga booga monster story. <br /><br />Glad to see Primer on the list. I have yet to figure the thing out, but that's my problem, not the film's. Steven Harthttp://www.stevenhartsite.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-26422409106591699782013-05-27T18:01:39.420-04:002013-05-27T18:01:39.420-04:00I find this far more difficult with horror than wi...I find this far more difficult with horror than with sci-fi. Horror as a genre has far more exceptional movies in my opinion, which is a shame. In no order:<br /><br />Planet Of The Apes<br />Forbidden Planet<br />Moon<br />Dune<br />The Matrix<br />Blade Runner<br />A.I. (especially if you ignore the last 15 minutes or so...)<br />Brazil<br />2001<br />Solaris 1972<br /><br />Close but no cigar:<br />Them!<br />They Live!<br />Escape From New York<br />Fantastic Planet<br />Dark City<br />Empire Strikes Back<br />Total Recall<br />Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes<br />Threads<br />The Quatermass Experiment<br /><br />Just a note - I'm classing the Alien movies along with The Thing/Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and a few others as horror, so no place for them here.Jeznoreply@blogger.com