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"Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, Georges Méliès never sends a bunch of
folks on a trip to the moon. The adventures of space explorers and time
travelers, androids and alien races don’t thrill a generation of kids chomping
popcorn at Saturday matinees. The name Luke Skywalker means nothing to anyone;
neither does Marty McFly, “Mad” Max Rockatansky, or Godzilla. Giant prehistoric
monsters aren’t awakened from centuries-long slumbers and don’t wreck a single
metropolis. E.T. never makes it to Earth, so he never has to go home. Thomas
“Neo” Anderson is just another computer programmer. HAL 9000 is just a
calculator.
How boring the movies would be — and how robbed we audiences would be — if
science fiction never existed, or never made it past the
that’s-just-for-academics stage of evolution. Ever since that bullet-like
rocket gave the Moon a black eye in 1902 and added an element of fantasy into a
very young art form, those speculative and imaginative stories set in the far
reaches of space and/or on our own scorched earth have been an integral part of
a well-balanced cinematic diet. These films have given us visions of utopias
and dystopias, asked deep questions about the human experience and the pros and
cons of artificial intelligence, thrilled us and made us think. Once upon a
time, sci-fi was considered nothing more than a niche for nerds. Now it’s a
genre wide enough to encompass everything from
Ad Astra to
Zardoz.
So when it came time to rank the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, we
couldn’t stop at 100. Instead, we went bigger and bulked it up with an extra 50
entries, all the better to pay lip service to more of the pulpy, the poppy and
the perverse entries — not to mention some of our personal favorites — that
don’t normally get shout-outs in these kinds of lists. There were more than a
few arguments when it came to the picks. (It was also decided early on that
superhero movies as a whole usually fall out the parameters of science fiction,
so you won’t [see] the MCU, et al., canon on this list — with one very notable
exception.) Here are our picks for the best the genre has to offer. Live long
and prosper. May the force be with you."
Via Joyce Donahue.
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
