From Pharyngula, a science-fiction movie meme, and how am I supposed to resist something like that?
John Scalzi has published a new book, The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, including a list of The 50 SF Films You Must See Before You Die. I might have some words to say about the particular choice of films on this list, but that’s for another post. Right now, the rules say that I have to bold every film that I’ve seen, and I’m adding one: an asterisk for every film that I own on DVD.
–12 Monkeys*
–28 Days Later
–2001: A Space Odyssey*
–20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*
-The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
-Akira
–Alien*
–Aliens*
–Alphaville*
–Back to the Future
–Blade Runner
–Brazil*
–Bride of Frankenstein*
-Brother From Another Planet
–A Clockwork Orange*
–Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
–Contact*
-The Damned
-Destination Moon
–The Day The Earth Stood Still*
-Delicatessen
–E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial*
–The Empire Strikes Back
–Escape From New York
-Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (serial)
–The Fly (1985)
–Forbidden Planet
-Ghost in the Shell
–Gojira [Godzilla]* (seen the original and the US redub with Raymond Burr)
–The Incredibles*
–Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
–Jurassic Park*
–Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
–The Matrix
–Metropolis*
-On the Beach
–Planet of the Apes (1968)
–Robocop
–Sleeper*
–Solaris (1972)*
–Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*
–Star Wars
–The Stepford Wives*
–Superman
–Terminator 2: Judgement Day
–The Thing From Another World
-Things to Come
-Tron
–La Voyage Dans la Lune
-War of the Worlds (1953)
By and large, nothing that I think I need to be ashamed of, although I’m sure legions of Tron lovers are lining up to tell me that I’m wrong. That said, there’s no real justification for having missed those twelve, save perhaps that I was unaware of Destination Moon and Things to Come. Nor have I ever heard of The Damned, which I assume refers to this film, and not this one.