Artist, cartoonist, and
friend, Chuck Kim, provides us our second list of Tuesday, in the Reader Top
tally of “ten greatest science fiction films of the 1970s.”
Chuck’s list:
10. Logan's
Run
09. The
Brood
08. Close
Encounters of the Third Kind
07. Mad
Max
06. The
Boys from Brazil
05. Invasion
of the Body Snatchers
04. Superman
03. Star
Wars
02. A
Clockwork Orange
01. Alien
Chuck: You’ve got some great
titles on the list. I cover The
Brood in my book on SF cinema of the 1970s because even though it
features strong horror elements, there’s also the sci-fi aspect of mad science
(though in this case, the science in question is psychology.)
I also love that another “mad science” film
of the decade made your list: The Boys of Brazil, a 1978 film
about the plot to create 94 Hitler clones, and a splendid depiction of the
whole nature vs. nurture debate.
In fact, 1978 is
well-represented on your list with Capricorn One, The Boys from Brazil, Superman,
and Invasion
of the Body Snatchers. Those are
all classic titles, to be sure.
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