Alasdair is truly one of the greatest;
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ever read fiasco ? its most likely my favorite of his;
Fiasco (Polish: Fiasko) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. The book, published in Poland the following year and translated into English by Michael Kandel in the same year, is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (the main theme of the novel) is more likely cultural disparity rather than spatial distance. It was nominated for the Arthur...
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Pretty solid list - I’ve watched all of these movies and like most of them - but I’d drop God Told Me To and add Time Crimes
I just read it right now; fury road after the hammer-quatermass at 30? what wicked insanity is this? but nice to see snowpiercer , despite being way more parable than really sf. oh? starship troopers at 11? nice but questionable.
e/ ohman, phase IV does not deserve to be that low down the list, should be at least in the first 50.
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didnt watched it so far cause I didnt cared much for primer , but I guess I have to give it now a try, yes?
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I’d say Edge of Tomorrow really is underrated. But putting it at #15 is certainly overrating it.
Anyway, I’ve seen 80 of these. So I have some SFnal goals now!
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now Im trough, think saw all of them except maybe 10? but no dredd listed? thats very disappointing.
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I’ve read some sci-fi that focused on women making significant changes to societies by having only girls. I wonder if Children of Women would do better at the box office?
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Click bait articles like this are so effective. At least they were fairly transparent about the criteria: things they like and things they think needed more of a shout-out. Much of the list is stuff on my to-see list and more will be added to that list.
The assumed makeup of the body of people has already been discussed here. What gets me us that I always want to see a broad body of works from various perspectives all around the world. And then I see that, somehow, 90% or more of these greatest sci-fi films originate in America or Europe.
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… “Logan’s Run,” “Silent Running,” “Westworld”
maybe “THX-1138” or “Network”
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Didn’t even bother to look at the list.
I know what I like in my SciFi escapism, and I don’t need anyone else to agree with me.
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I love how well that movie shows how much Spielberg can tell in one camera angle.
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my next entry of whats missing;
The film’s theatrical run was apparently not commented on in the mainstream press… After its 1964 television debut, references to more than its title began to appear. In 1965, Susan Sontag briefly mentioned some story details in her essay on science fiction films entitled The Imagination of Disaster
The Creation of the Humanoids is a 1962 American science fiction film release, directed by Wesley Barry and starring Don Megowan, Erica Elliot, Frances McCann, Don Doolittle, and Dudley Manlove. The film is not based on the plot of Jack Williamson's novel The Humanoids, to which it bears little resemblance, but on an original story and screenplay written by Jay Simms.
In a post-nuclear-war society, blue-skinned, silver-eyed human-like robots have become a common sight as the surviving population...
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full version (best available version online, german/cc, eng/subs can be found at opensubtitles dot org);
Ecology, Ethics, Utopia, Anti-Utopia. A Soviet film by Richard Viktorov, whose two-parter from 1973-74 is remembered because of the music (→ music list (No.70) in the channel info), while here it is mainly the 2nd part that has been right to this day...
Per Aspera Ad Astra (Russian: Через тернии к звёздам, USA screen name - Through the Thorns to the Stars;[a] Humanoid Woman) is a 1981 Soviet science fiction film directed by Richard Viktorov and based on a novel by Kir Bulychov.
In the 23rd century, the starship Pushkin discovers a derelict alien spaceship of unknown origin. The alien craft's crew are identical humanoids created by an advanced cloning process. Most are dead, but one woman is found in a catatonic state. The leader of the mission,...
and some more from the east (full version, restored, english subs. this is definitly the best version out there.);
Der schweigende Stern (Westdeutscher Titel: Raumschiff Venus antwortet nicht) ist der erste Science-Fiction-Film des DEFA-Studios für Spielfilme (Gruppe „Roter Kreis“) aus dem Jahr 1960, der in Co-Produktion zwischen der DDR und Polen entstand. Gleichzeitig war es der erste polnische Science-Fiction-Film.
Der Spielfilm kam am 26. Februar 1960 in die Kinos der DDR. In die Lichtspielhäuser der Bundesrepublik Deutschland kam der Film am 9. September 1960 im Verleih der Constantin Film unter dem Tit...
Milcząca Gwiazda (German: Der schweigende Stern), literal English translation The Silent Star, is a 1960 East German/Polish color science fiction film based on the 1951 science fiction novel The Astronauts by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem. It was directed by Kurt Maetzig, and stars Günther Simon, Julius Ongewe and Yoko Tani. The film was first released by Progress Film in East Germany, running 93 min. Variously dubbed and cut versions were also released in English under other tit
DasKleineTeilchen:
whats missing
*whispers softly
Nothing is “missing.”
Like whatever you like, and let others do the same.
Make your own lists.
Melizmatic:
Make your own lists
started with that 30 minutes ago
Good for you, Glenn Coco.
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