SCI-FI! --- scfz genre poll
Just saw DOMINO by DePalma yesterday and it was so fucking great!!
Added it to my list and kicked off Darkman (1990) by Raimi. Poor Darkman!
Added it to my list and kicked off Darkman (1990) by Raimi. Poor Darkman!
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
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50 films, in 5 tiers of 10 films. Included mad scientist movies. No surprise given my viewing habits, this heavily overrepresents early cinema, fifties sci-fi/horror, and my beloved Bela.
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Melies, 1904)
The Automatic Motorist (Walter R. Booth, 1911)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932)
The Arctic Giant (Dave Fleischer, 1942)
The Man from Planet X (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1951)
Design for Dreaming (William Beaudine, 1956)
The Giant Claw (Fred F. Sears, 1957)
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (Gene Fowler Jr., 1958)
The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman, 1959)
Super Inframan (Hua Shan, 1975)
The X-Ray Fiend (George Albert Smith, 1897)
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1900)
Remote Electric Photography (Georges Melies, 1908)
The Conquest of the Pole (Georges Melies, 1912)
Chandu the Magician (William Cameron Menzies, 1932)
The Devil Bat (Jean Yarbrough, 1940)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Chuck Jones, 1953)
Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (Norman Taurog, 1965)
Flying Phantom Ship (Hiroshi Ikeda, 1969)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies, 1902)
The Hilarious Posters (Georges Melies, 1906)
The '?' Motorist (Walter R. Booth, 1906)
Onesime, Clockmaker (Jean Durand, 1912)
The Mad Doctor (David Hand, 1933)
The Tin Man (James Parrott, 1935)
Invisible Man Appears (Nobuo Adachi, 1949)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
The Alligator People (Roy Del Ruth, 1959)
Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava, 1965)
The Mechanical Butcher (Louis Lumière, 1895)
Conquering the Skies (Ferdinand Zecca, 1906)
Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (Georges Melies, 1906)
Tit-for-Tat (Gaston Velle, 1906)
The Aerial Submarine (Walter R. Booth, 1910)
Tweedledum as Aviator (Luigi Maggi, 1911)
Air Hawks (Albert S. Rogell, 1935)
Food and Magic (Jean Negulesco, 1943)
Secret Agent (Seymour Kneitel, 1943)
Day the World Ended (Roger Corman, 1955)
Rescued in Mid-Air (Percy Stow, 1906)
A Trip to Jupiter (Segundo de Chomón, 1909)
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Fred F. Sears, 1956)
The Brain from Planet Arous (Nathan H. Juran, 1957)
The Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958)
Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space! (Phil Vischer, 1997)
The Three Musketeers (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2011)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (J. A. Bayona, 2018)
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Melies, 1904)
The Automatic Motorist (Walter R. Booth, 1911)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932)
The Arctic Giant (Dave Fleischer, 1942)
The Man from Planet X (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1951)
Design for Dreaming (William Beaudine, 1956)
The Giant Claw (Fred F. Sears, 1957)
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (Gene Fowler Jr., 1958)
The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman, 1959)
Super Inframan (Hua Shan, 1975)
The X-Ray Fiend (George Albert Smith, 1897)
Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1900)
Remote Electric Photography (Georges Melies, 1908)
The Conquest of the Pole (Georges Melies, 1912)
Chandu the Magician (William Cameron Menzies, 1932)
The Devil Bat (Jean Yarbrough, 1940)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Chuck Jones, 1953)
Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (Norman Taurog, 1965)
Flying Phantom Ship (Hiroshi Ikeda, 1969)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies, 1902)
The Hilarious Posters (Georges Melies, 1906)
The '?' Motorist (Walter R. Booth, 1906)
Onesime, Clockmaker (Jean Durand, 1912)
The Mad Doctor (David Hand, 1933)
The Tin Man (James Parrott, 1935)
Invisible Man Appears (Nobuo Adachi, 1949)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
The Alligator People (Roy Del Ruth, 1959)
Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava, 1965)
The Mechanical Butcher (Louis Lumière, 1895)
Conquering the Skies (Ferdinand Zecca, 1906)
Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (Georges Melies, 1906)
Tit-for-Tat (Gaston Velle, 1906)
The Aerial Submarine (Walter R. Booth, 1910)
Tweedledum as Aviator (Luigi Maggi, 1911)
Air Hawks (Albert S. Rogell, 1935)
Food and Magic (Jean Negulesco, 1943)
Secret Agent (Seymour Kneitel, 1943)
Day the World Ended (Roger Corman, 1955)
Rescued in Mid-Air (Percy Stow, 1906)
A Trip to Jupiter (Segundo de Chomón, 1909)
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Fred F. Sears, 1956)
The Brain from Planet Arous (Nathan H. Juran, 1957)
The Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958)
Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space! (Phil Vischer, 1997)
The Three Musketeers (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2011)
Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (J. A. Bayona, 2018)
Final list
Tier 1:
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011)
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 2012)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)
Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
Tier 2:
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
Paul (Greg Mottola, 2011)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)
The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015)
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017)
The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2014)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2017)
Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Tier 3:
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)
I Origins (Mike Cahill, 2014)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski, 2013)
The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997)
Predestination (Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, 2014)
Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)
Universal Soldier (Roland Emmerich, 1992)
Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997)
Predator (John McTiernan, 1987)
Tier 4:
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)
Frequency (Gregory Hoblit, 2000)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010)
Predators (Nimród Antal, 2010)
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
The Final Cut (Omar Naim, 2004)
Knowing (Alex Proyas, 2009)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, 2013)
Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973)
2010: The Year We Make Contact (Peter Hyams, 1984)
K-PAX (Iain Softley, 2001)
The Island (Michael Bay, 2005)
The X Files (Rob Bowman, 1998)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent, 1970)
The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise, 1971)
Tier 1:
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011)
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 2012)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)
Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
Source Code (Duncan Jones, 2011)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
Tier 2:
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
Paul (Greg Mottola, 2011)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
Ad Astra (James Gray, 2019)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)
The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015)
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017)
The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2014)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2017)
Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Tier 3:
10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg, 2016)
I Origins (Mike Cahill, 2014)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski, 2013)
The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro, 2013)
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997)
Predestination (Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, 2014)
Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)
Universal Soldier (Roland Emmerich, 1992)
Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997)
Predator (John McTiernan, 1987)
Tier 4:
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)
Frequency (Gregory Hoblit, 2000)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012)
Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010)
Predators (Nimród Antal, 2010)
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
The Final Cut (Omar Naim, 2004)
Knowing (Alex Proyas, 2009)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, 2013)
Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973)
2010: The Year We Make Contact (Peter Hyams, 1984)
K-PAX (Iain Softley, 2001)
The Island (Michael Bay, 2005)
The X Files (Rob Bowman, 1998)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent, 1970)
The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise, 1971)
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But what’s sci-fi about it?
It takes place in the future. I think the date mentioned in the beginning of the film is something something 2020
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
I've also added Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). How could I have forgotten that one!!!
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
it occurs to me... we might also need to do a best of the 2010s poll soon?
We definitely should!crypt trotsky wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:06 pm it occurs to me... we might also need to do a best of the 2010s poll soon?
okay i give up, i'm can't enthuse myself enough about sci-fi to watch any more by the imagined deadline. i don't even know why i'm not that enthusiastic, even ignoring the american sad penis hero movies discussed previously
guys at work have spent all day talking about star wars and here it hardly even got mentioned
guys at work have spent all day talking about star wars and here it hardly even got mentioned
the least-watched, less favorite genre...
only include what IMDB saying it's sci-fi (and some animation)
La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
Starman (John Carpenter, 1984)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Logan (James Mangold, 2017)
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (Don Hertzfeldt, 2017)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)
Melancholia (Lavs Von Trier, 2011)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, 2018)
only include what IMDB saying it's sci-fi (and some animation)
La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
Starman (John Carpenter, 1984)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Logan (James Mangold, 2017)
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts (Don Hertzfeldt, 2017)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)
Melancholia (Lavs Von Trier, 2011)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, 2018)
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Five tiers of ten titles each:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson, 1976)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011)
The Time Machine (George Pal, 1960)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
- Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (John Carpenter, 1992)
Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973)
Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
- A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011)
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
The Cabbage Soup (Jean Girault, 1981)
The Host (Andrew Niccol, 2013)
The Fly (Kurt Neumann, 1958)
- Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968)
Fantastic Voyage (Richard Fleischer, 1968)
Invaders from Mars (William Cameron Menzies, 1953)
Monkey Business (Howard Hawks, 1952)
Morgan (Luke Scott, 2016)
Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 2009)
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (Jean Girault, 1979)
The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt, 1925)
The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks, 1951)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1952)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming, 1941)
Flatliners (Joel Schumacher, 1990)
Sphere (Barry Levinson, 1998)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
The Cell (Tarsem Singh, 2000)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosoda, 2006)
The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951)
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)
The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, 1995)
I'll adjust the rankings maybe later, probably not.
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
August in the Water (Gakuryuu Ishii, 1995)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
Starman (John Carpenter, 1984)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 1995)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, 2000)
Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (Alain Resnais, 1968)
The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975)
Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957)
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno, 2016)
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (Pierre Clémenti, 1986)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954)
The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
The inhuman woman (Marcel L'Herbier, 1924)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1932)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, 2006)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, 2011)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
Signs (M. Night Shyamalan, 2002)
Small Soldiers (Joe Dante, 1998)
Déjà Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954)
The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby, 1951)
The Matrix (Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 1999)
Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman, 2014)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018)
Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016)
Monsters (Gareth Edwards, 2010)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)
The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
Coherence (James Ward Byrkit, 2013)
Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005)
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
Dark Star (John Carpenter, 1974)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)
Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)
Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara, 1993)
The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Chuck Jones, 1953)
The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007)
Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1996)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
August in the Water (Gakuryuu Ishii, 1995)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
Starman (John Carpenter, 1984)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 1995)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, 2000)
Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (Alain Resnais, 1968)
The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975)
Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957)
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno, 2016)
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (Pierre Clémenti, 1986)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)
The Host (Bong Joon-ho, 2006)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954)
The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
The inhuman woman (Marcel L'Herbier, 1924)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1932)
Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, 2006)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, 2011)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
Signs (M. Night Shyamalan, 2002)
Small Soldiers (Joe Dante, 1998)
Déjà Vu (Tony Scott, 2006)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954)
The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby, 1951)
The Matrix (Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 1999)
Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman, 2014)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018)
Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols, 2016)
Monsters (Gareth Edwards, 2010)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)
The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
Coherence (James Ward Byrkit, 2013)
Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005)
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
Dark Star (John Carpenter, 1974)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)
Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)
Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara, 1993)
The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Chuck Jones, 1953)
The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007)
Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1996)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
solaris (andrei tarkovsky) more like tarslogsky, amiright? nah jk. i liked it! per usual with andy, it's an always mesmerizing, often indecipherable, sometimes insufferable affair. fortunately, the inscrutability isn't overwhelming ala the mirror. i'm starting to realize that andy is really an expressionist at heart, albeit a much slower one, who doesn't much care for cuts or edits. should easily make my final ballot. p.s. who knew that carp's the thing was actually the second remake of the thing from another world!?
This poll should be a perfect oppurtunity for me to finally rewatch 2001 and The Terminator, haven't seen them since my pre-cinephilia days.
So far I've seen two films for the poll that'll make my final list, The Brother From Another Planet (another great Sayles scipt) and Starman (Karen Allen's soulful performance won me over).
So far I've seen two films for the poll that'll make my final list, The Brother From Another Planet (another great Sayles scipt) and Starman (Karen Allen's soulful performance won me over).
first men in the moon (nathan juran) you hire ray harryhausen, and give the guy only like five min of screentime!? seriously!?!? wtf!?!?!? would make a good double bill with chitty chitty bang bang, but won't make my final list ::lioneljeffriessadface::
Love this film! Lionel Jeffries is sooo good in it!!
Sadly, it didn't make my list either.
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
i'm thinking about tallying this poll up soon - is there anyone who still wants to post or edit a ballot and hasn't had a chance yet? if i don't hear from anyone, i'll probably start the tally on monday or tuesday.
Updated my list to a final version.
80 films in four tiers.
Watched for this poll:
The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise, 1971) 8/10 (made the list)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent, 1970) 7/10 (made the list)
Anon (Andre Niccol, 2018) 6/10
Species (Roger Donaldson, 1995) 6/10
Mimic (Guillermo del Toro, 1997) 6/10
The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez, 1998) 5/10
THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971) 4/10
The Island of Dr. Moreau (John Frankenheimer, 1996) 3/10
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter, 2001) 2/10
80 films in four tiers.
Watched for this poll:
The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise, 1971) 8/10 (made the list)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent, 1970) 7/10 (made the list)
Anon (Andre Niccol, 2018) 6/10
Species (Roger Donaldson, 1995) 6/10
Mimic (Guillermo del Toro, 1997) 6/10
The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez, 1998) 5/10
THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971) 4/10
The Island of Dr. Moreau (John Frankenheimer, 1996) 3/10
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter, 2001) 2/10
Oh, I'll have to make a final list I was waiting 'til close to the end to do so. I'll try and get it done tonight.
i can sneak in at least one more scifi extravaganza before a tues deadline
the wasp woman (roger corman) spied this on evelyn's list, and had a copy recorded from tcm, so why not watch it, right? and i'm glad i did! it's pure pulpy corman goodness. cool commentaries on the cultural perceptions of (feminine) beauty. and maybe a commentary on (intravenous) drug use, perhaps...? logged it on boxd, and was kinda sorta surprised about the mediocre reception, but also (sadly) kinda sorta not surprised, i guess. in particular, i luv the peeps who complain 'wahhh da monstah don't show up until da last tird of da movie.' it's like lulz. you peeps better never watch the leopard man, or most other tourneurs, cuz you'd fuxkin hate it. also, special nod to barboura morris, who's so stilted and wooden, bresson himself woulda found a forever muse had he ever cast her. should def make my list, which i'll finalize today, so flip can start tabulating
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yay! more wasp woman love! it's my favourite early corman, i'm surprised it's not better loved by fifties sci-fi/horror fans, like, isn't a portentous build-up to cheap lively human-insect monstrosity exactly what you're looking for when you hit 'play' on one of these B (or, rather, bee) creature features? ah well. just the other day i learned there's a 1990s remake, which i'm sure will be actually awful but which i'll nonetheless prioritize for next halloween viewing.
Wasp Woman is good, but I'm a little more taken by the Leech Woman, which is cynical, bitter, and nihilistic (in the pop sense of the word) a movie category I'm drawn to. I'm always down for a good the world is bad and everybody is awful kinda flick.
I'm hoping to get my list done today, but it may be later tonight before I can finish. I'm having a tough time deciding what I want to count as sci-fi, like the brillant A Letter to Uncle Boonmee doesn't read as sci-fi at all, but it has a "spaceship" at the end, which isn't really identified as a spaceship exactly, other than in notes about the movie, so you aren't really sure what it is while watching it. Or some movies like Orlando, which has the live forever thing but with no real cause given for it, Non-Stop New York, which is basically only considered science fiction on Letterboxd because the Transatlantic Airplane in the movie is a weird speculative thing with an interior like some mix of zeppelin and train., with private rooms and even a outdoor observation deck people can go hang out on during the flight, or Hugo Santiago's Invasion, or Being John Malkovich, or maybe even Werckmeister Harmonies and so on and take a reallly broad view of the genre or go with a tight one that demands some actual scientific element and/or treatment of events that doesn't come from fantasy, no Star Wars or superhero soft sci-fi or time travel movies where its just an excuse for hijinks in the past and so on. Lots to ponder.
Are single episode TV shows allowed? I'd love to add John Brahm's ZZZZZ, from the Outer Limits, an episode where, speaking of Wasp Women, a scientist turns a queen bee into a woman and, unsurprisingly, complications ensue.
I'm hoping to get my list done today, but it may be later tonight before I can finish. I'm having a tough time deciding what I want to count as sci-fi, like the brillant A Letter to Uncle Boonmee doesn't read as sci-fi at all, but it has a "spaceship" at the end, which isn't really identified as a spaceship exactly, other than in notes about the movie, so you aren't really sure what it is while watching it. Or some movies like Orlando, which has the live forever thing but with no real cause given for it, Non-Stop New York, which is basically only considered science fiction on Letterboxd because the Transatlantic Airplane in the movie is a weird speculative thing with an interior like some mix of zeppelin and train., with private rooms and even a outdoor observation deck people can go hang out on during the flight, or Hugo Santiago's Invasion, or Being John Malkovich, or maybe even Werckmeister Harmonies and so on and take a reallly broad view of the genre or go with a tight one that demands some actual scientific element and/or treatment of events that doesn't come from fantasy, no Star Wars or superhero soft sci-fi or time travel movies where its just an excuse for hijinks in the past and so on. Lots to ponder.
Are single episode TV shows allowed? I'd love to add John Brahm's ZZZZZ, from the Outer Limits, an episode where, speaking of Wasp Women, a scientist turns a queen bee into a woman and, unsurprisingly, complications ensue.
Yes, definitely allowed! At least for anthology series, I don't think I'd count a vote for season 3 episode 2 of Lost or something like that.
Great! Though now that means I've cot to cut some other choices...
you probably saw this but the max is 100 films, not 50 as in our other polls, so hopefully the cuts aren't too painful to make!
i'd like to post...had an unreasonably long "to watch" list for this but with holidays this week i probably won't get to anything extra. Will try to have something up by Monday or Tuesday though.