20. City of Lost Children
20. Moon
19. Terminator
18. Close Encounters
17. Ghostbusters
16. Wall-E
15. Road Warrior
14. Planet of the Apes
13. Lord of The Rings
12. Jurassic Park
11. E.T
10. Metropolis
9. Brazil
8. Children of Men
7. Terminator 2
6. Back To The Future
5. Empire Strikes Back
4. Alien
3. The Matrix
2. Blade Runner
1. Star Wars
My Top 10, and why:
ReplyDeleteFirst: My not-top 10, because, for whatever reason, I just didn't like them.
1. 2001: A Space Oddyssey - I still have no idea what it's about. And if someone's only response to that is, "that's the point," then I will kill you. Great visuals, great soundtrack, but quite possibly the most frustrating experience of my life.
2. Blade Runner. It's 80s, and it's so obvious. Although I really need to see it again, and I'll make sure to keep an open mind, I just couldn't get past the overt 80's corny-ness.
3. A Clockwork Orange. The AFI listed this movie as the #4 Sci-Fi movie ever ... and I still don't think it's sci-fi. Yea, it takes place in the future. Yea, it's about new "sciences" that hypnotize you. Shoot, I thought that stuff already exists, making it "current-science-non-fiction ... that takes place in the future." Sci-fi films showcases the spirit of technological advancement; and permits techonology to become a character in the film (see Milennium Falcon.) A Clockwork Orange doesn't have this spirit, and incorporates technology as a regular advancement of the future.
4. Dark City. Just thoroughly disappointed. This was Gene Siskel's #1 film of 1998 ... and we'll never know why.
Screw the rest of the not-top-10. Let's get to goodies:
10. Young Frankenstein. "If you're blue, and don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits: *snap* *snap* ..." Classic.
9. Back to the Future. Flux Capacitors, Iranian Terrorists, and Huey Lewis. Sadly, only one of those 3 survived the 80s.
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I want to be liquid metal, just for a day.
7. Independence Day. "The Greatest Film of All Time," by 11-year-old version of Mike Sullivan
6. Jurassic Park. Been there, saw that, bought the tin lunchbox and showed it off to all my 3rd grade friends. "Dude, you not only were able to see a PG-13 movie, but you got that super-sweet lunchbox to carry your bologne sandwich in?! No way!?" (confident head-nod, "yes")
5. Alien. Remember that scene in Happy Gilmore, when Grandma says her fingers hurt? Instead of saying, "Now your back's gonna hurt, cause you just pulled landscaping duty," imagine Ben Stiller saying, "Now your stomach's gonna hurt, cause a freakin' alien is gonne jump on your face, impregnate itself in your large intestine, and pop out of your freakin' stomach in the middle of dinner!!" That would have been so much cooler...
4. The Matrix. This movie is aging quite well, and maybe one of the top 10 films of the 90s.
3. E.T. Best movie about Reeces Pieces, ever.
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Pure sci-fi. Quite possibly the best single-installment motion picture about science fiction I've ever seen.
1. Star Wars. Can't no one argue against that. Even Reed Rothchild from Boogie Nights saw that movie 4 times. Can't argue against that either.