Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by cfraser (A) on October 30, 2002 at 09:51:39

In Reply to: Yup! nt posted by Harmonia on October 29, 2002 at 23:20:35:

Many people call the genre kiddy-crap, and only discuss these movies in terms of their special effects.

I thought about it quite a bit, and I do think the top 3 in the list are quite possibly valid as to their influence on later movies. I do not particularly like 2001, but it is/was very influential for people of my generation. Especially if one puts it in context of the manned space exploration heyday, before the first manned moon landing. At that time, the way things were going with technology and space exploration, 2001 truly seemed very potentially imminently possible. So this made people, at the time, take it much more seriously than JUST a sci-fi movie.

Unfortunately, many of the older movies in the list I haven't seen (I even have 10 of them on DVD), so I can only guess that some of them may have deserved a higher placing. I suspect the ordering would depend a lot on the age of the person(s) who compiled the list, so that the movies could be judged more contextually with the time they came out. I would guess the people who made the list are around my age, and people in their 20's would have a different list with many of the same newer movies, but definitely with The Matrix on it.