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In Reply to: 20 Most Influential SF Movies Of All Time (In Order). posted by AudioHead on October 28, 2002 at 07:40:53:
... and I would place it at number ONE since, arguably, it influenced all serious SF which came after it.BTW, I wouldn't consider any of the Mad Max movies for a Top Twenty spot on a critical SF film list; even though I like both and they are technically post-apocalyptic science fiction, they seem a bit more deeply rooted in the heroic adventure film genre than SF. Also, I would place the first Flash Gordon serial, as terribly campy as it must look to our more discriminating 21st cetury tastes, somewhere on that Top 20 list and well ahead of Star Wars! My rationale is that Star Wars, while quite entertaining, is still very derivative. Not only does Star Wars and it's sequels borrow heavily from other genres (i.e., the western, the slapstick comedy, the teen angst film, the patriotic war film, Oriental philosophy, etc.), but it's painfully obvious at times just how much of George Lucus' "vision" owes to Flash Gordon and other serials. So, if we're talking about "influential movies" ...! :o)
Those minor caveats aside, you posted an excellent list, IMHO. There are several films I would in all liklihood substitute if I wanted to get nit-picky (i.e., dropping the 2nd Terminator film and Aliens only because they're sequels albeit arguably better than the originals preceeding them), but everyone has personal favorites. That being the case, my suggestions would perhaps include films such as A Clockwork Orange and AI-Artificial intelligence. And if the list were extended I would probably add the Abyss and possibly one or two others you may have overlooked.
Finally, I think that John Carpenter's version of the Thing is somewhat truer to the original story on which both films are based; I find the 50's version less shocking as SF (i.e., in retrospect the original movie is more of an allegorical tale reflecting McCarthyism and the Red scare paranoia of the times).
Cheers,
AuPh
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