Like Movie Lists? Here are Four to Scrutinize
Summer 2009, Best of the Brits and Sci-Fi all-timers
Do you like lists? Well, how about these options?
Wired's Favorite Sci-Fi Flicks of All Time – Pre-Star Wars
- A Trip to the Moon (1902)
- The Thing From Another World (1951)
- The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
- Them! (1954)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
- The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- Fantastic Voyage (1966)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Solaris (1972)
- Silent Running (1972)
- Soylent Green (1973)
- Day of the Dolphin (1973)
- Zardoz (1974)
- A Boy and His Dog (1975)
- Logan's Run (1976)
- Lassie Come Home (1943)
Richard Roeper's Top Five of Summer 2009
- (500) Days of Summer
- Inglourious Basterds
- Up
- The Hurt Locker
- District 9
…and his worst…
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra
- Land of the Lost
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- The Ugly Truth
He has more, click here for the rest.
Totalscifionline.com's Results of the Best Sci-Fi Film of All-Time
- Blade Runner (1982)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Alien (1979)
- Metropolis (1927)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- E.T. (1982)
- Solaris (1972)
The Observer Film Quarterly's best British films of the last 25 Years
- Trainspotting (1996)
- Withnail and I (1987)
- Secrets and Lies (1996)
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
- Nil By Mouth (1997)
- Sexy Beast (2000)
- Ratcatcher (1999)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
- Touching The Void (2003)
- Hope and Glory (1987)
- Control (2007)
- Naked (1993)
- Under The Skin (1997)
- Hunger (2008)
- This Is England (2006)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
- Red Road (2006)
- Riff-Raff (1981)
- Man On Wire (2008)
- My Summer of Love (2004)
- 24 Hour Party People (2002)
- The English Patient (1996)
You can get the list with explanations right here, but even better is the explanation of how the list was put together including top tens put together by such names as Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi), Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz), Kevin MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland) and many others right here.
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Totalscifionline.com's list of "Best Sci-Fi Film of All-Time" is a great list. Outstanding films, all of them.
I saw the "Top 25 British" list a few days ago, and I still say that Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels are both painfully missing. I also would have loved to see 28 Days Later. Nice to see Trainspotting, Shaun of the Dead and Sexy Beast getting some love, though.
I almost wholeheartedly agree (not necessarily with the order) with Richard Roeper's Top 5 of the summer, though I would replace Up with Star Trek, and put Up at #6. And I actually enjoyed a couple on his worst list. Not Transformers 2. Other than a few cool robot fights, that was a disappointment.
The Best Sci-Fi Pre-Star Wars list is pretty cool. I've seen a few of 'em, but I definitely have more classic movies to add to my Netflix queue.
I'm going to have to agree with Mr. Roeper, except I would flip Inglourious Basterds and The Hurt Locker.
For once I agree with Richard Roeper.
Any list with Zardoz on it is silly. Also, any list without Guy Ritchie is a well informed list.
1. (500) Days of Summer
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Up
5. Public Enemies
Even is 28 Days Later isn't on the British 25, at least Danny Boyle has two other movies on there (Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire).
The British list may be missing a few of the better titles in the last 25 years, and many of the movies are still very good, but it is an interesting reminder of the lack of influential British movies.
Of course this isn't a "most influential list" but I would expect them to be somewhat related, and I just don't see many movies that I would consider influential.
Anyone have a couple good candidates for a "Most Influential British Movies" from the last 25 years?
"Any list with Zardoz on it is silly"
Well, they did say 'favourite', not 'best'…how else could you explain the inclusion of the sluggish, zero-budget stage play 'Creation of the Humanoids', which was Andy Warhol's favourite Sci-fi film? (tho I think he said the same thing about Barbarella).