For my dad, Jared, Mike, Quinn and all the other geeks in my life:
Entertainment Weekly compiled the top 25 best sci-fi movies/tv from the past 25 years. This is what they came up with....
1. The Matrix
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Blade Runner. "Adapted from a noted writer and nutcase Philip K. Dick, the film, particularly in its Director's Cut incarnation, asks big questions-namely, 'Are you really who you think you are?' And it does so against the backdrop of a stunningly designed near-future worldscape whose many nods to globalization make it seem more prescient with every passing day."
4. The X-Files
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. "The parallels between Montalban's leathery-pec'd Khan and Moby Dick's maniacal Ahab elevate what could've been just a bloated Trek episode. Khan is the benchmark against which all Trek films are measured."
6. Brazil
7. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
8. Star Trek: The Next Generation. "...The masterstroke was casting Patrick Stewart. As Capt. Jean-luc Picard, the Royal Shakespeare Company veteran gave The Next Generation a gravitas-laden foundation to build on. As time went on, the writers and producers erected a sci-fi gold standard tackling subjects as varied as homosexuality, euthanasia, and slavery-all while flitting around the cosmos doing battle with Romulans, Klingons, and the Borg."
9. Aliens
10. The Thing. 'Rob Bottin's trailblazing gross-out effects work is still the holy grail for monster-makeup geeks everywhere. But the best bit [is] Wilford Brimley's crochety Blair going loco when he's quarantined. You'll never look at a bowl of Quaker Oats the same way again."
11. Lost
12. Back to the Future
13. The Terminator/Terminator 2
14. Children of Men
15. Firefly/Serenity. "The TV series tracked the misadventures of the morally ambiguous crew as they tried to make an occasionally honest living by hauling cargo, stealing stuff, and accidentally helping their fellow man. The show was smart, funny, and wonderfully human... Pray that someday, some studio exec will have the guts to make more."
16. Total Recall
17. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
18. Heroes
19. Starship Troopers
20. Star Wars: Clone Wars. (Because they could not use Star Wars: A New Hope, or The Empire Strikes Back, EW settled on Clone Wars to add to their list, which apparently gives key details to the movies and leads you right into Episode III: Revenge of the Sith).
21. Futurama
22. Quantum Leap
23. Doctor Who
24. Galaxy Quest
25. V: The Miniseries
4 comments:
I loved watching Quantum Leap! That was a great show. Although it was always weird when he was a woman...
Well, it was obviously NOT a true geek that compiled this list, as conspicuously absent is Babylon 5, considered by most true Sci-Fi hardcore as one of the very best SF shows done for TV.
And Firefly/Serenity would always be listed before Battlestar Galactica in any real Geek's universe!
And I confess that Alien (the first) trumps Aliens as one of the best horror films of all time. Scared the living crap out of me.
*Cough* Brazil (#6) was just plain weird.
Number 10 should be moved up into the top 5.
Otherwise, fun list. ;o)
By far my favorites on the list are Star Trek: TNG and Quantum Leap. Both made insightful social commentary about many issues that I was starting to confront and think through when I was a teenager (when both were first airing). I have to admit that both had a serious influence on me, if only because I was able to see concrete examples of how some of these complicated issues actually work in the "real" world.
Btw, why on earth couldn't they include movies from the original Star Wars trilogy? I don't think that the second/first trilogy can even hold a candle to Episodes IV, V, and VI, even with "better" special effects.
I remember watching Quantum Leap when I would go to AZ to visit my mom. I loved it! But I must agree w/your friend Heidi and say that it was definitely weird when he was a woman. I also love Star Trek TNG...also thanks to my mom. She was a big Star Trek TNG lover. And (in my opinion) Back to the Future is a classic, (even though he went to the past, haha).
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