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- Nintendesert, on 05/15/2009, -2/+38***** list SUCKS. Pissing all over The 5th Element? Is anyone actually reading what these douches are saying about these movies?
- sportbikepilot, on 05/16/2009, -1/+28this list is complete *****... Howard the duck? Where is Blade runner, Dark City, Twelve Monkeys, Brazil...
- oblivionatm, on 05/15/2009, -3/+28Buried for not including Dark City
- zukuss, on 05/16/2009, -2/+19This is one of the most condescending lists I've ever read. Basically "You have to watch these movies. They suck, but nerds like them. We all know how popular nerds are now. So seriously, hold your nose, partially obscure your eyes, and watch this crap so that you know what you're talking about when you can pretend to be a nerd, too."
Good list of films, but horrible commentary on them. - TheMachine1, on 05/15/2009, -2/+161 second of "The 5th Element" > than the author of the article entire life.
- kalvinb, on 05/15/2009, -0/+14Apparently all the Star Trek films are essential but only one Star Wars film (the second one). And who actually thinks that "Mars Attacks!" is Tim Burton's best film? Maybe his best sci-fi film of two he made. Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, etc.
This looks like someone took a list of random sci fi films and tried to put a list together. The author even admits The Fountain is terrible and yet still calls it essential. These aren't vitamins and minerals. They're just films and if they suck then they're not essential.
Dark City. Cube. Tron. Logan's Run. Inner Space.
I really hope "essential" doesn't replace "top 10" in the quest for fame on lists made for Digg. - Yage2006, on 05/16/2009, -0/+13Correction. List of 50 random scifi movies I pulled out of my ass.
- daftbrain, on 05/16/2009, -1/+13Dark City came out a year before The Matrix. The Matrix was in fact filmed in the same studios as Dark City and reused some of Dark City's sets.
- D3koy, on 05/15/2009, -0/+11I thought I'd get to be all nerd-king and say "46/50", but I've not seen over half of them...What am I doing with my life?
- tusseyd, on 05/15/2009, -2/+12Pretty decent list. Happy to see a few of my favorite outliers on there -- Zardoz, This Island Earth, Forbidden Planet. Although I could argue with several -- Howard the Duck? The Black Hole? Critters? -- these aren't even SciFi movies; they're just fantasy shows. I might have included "Jacob's Ladder".
- bci84, on 05/15/2009, -3/+13Glad to see Starship Troopers on there, but wheres Terminator?
- SolipsismX, on 05/15/2009, -0/+9Buried for calling The Man Who Fell to Earth too arty, for claiming that the remake of Solaris was better than the original and for completely ignoring Herzog's Lessons of Darkness and The Wild Blue Yonder.
I guess this is an everyman's kinda list... - warmtrooper, on 05/16/2009, -0/+9Any list that excludes Blade Runner but includes Howard the Duck...I dunno.
And where is Cube? That was innovative and interesting. - skaldicpoet9, on 05/16/2009, -0/+8Howard the Duck essential? Hardly. This list is crap. A lot of these movies the writers even admit are stupid, horrible or just plain bad. Buried.
- kalvinb, on 05/15/2009, -0/+8Watching good movies?
- onionoino, on 05/16/2009, -0/+7The Fifth Element is one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time. It is incredibly entertaining. This guy is a douche.
"I know this music, lets change the beat" - inactive, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6I don't view Starship Troopers as actual sci-fi. Other than the fact it takes place in space.
It's entirely metaphorical, and a comment on militarism. The good guys are at war with literal insects, rather than humans they treat as insects (as in a real war). The sci-fi environment is just there to make an excuse for having the giant literal insects. - peters1023, on 05/16/2009, -2/+8Seriously no Blade Runner? And for the more recent films where the hell is Equilibrium?
- fragomatik, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6Choosing such a high number of "essential" movies is such a cop out. The smarmy "reviews" are mostly shallow, opinionated, pop-culture dreck. IMO he got some right, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) for example, but some of those others (Critters? Howard The Duck?)...oh boy they were stinkers! The author is trying to please everyone with his choices by pointing out so many "special" movies, and as we all know, when everything is special, nothing is.
- thelastknowngod, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5i may be alone on this but i thought the fountain was amazing. Aronofsky is incredible.
- Sulaco25, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5Difficult to consider ALIEN strictly sci-fi. You really have to call it sci-fi/horror. I mean come on, when this film came out in '79, people were so scared sh!tless that they were getting up and leaving the theater!
- Rell812, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5Space Odyssey needs to be much higher up on that list, and Repo Man probably doesn't belong on there at all, even though it's a fantastic movie.
- Foenetik, on 05/15/2009, -2/+7howard the duck was from outer space yo. also, the movie has duck *****. DUCK. *****.
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...duck *****. - mrawl, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5Agreed, idiotic list, but he got it right on Starship Troopers.
- staffa, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5Oh wow, how could I not notice blade runner missing, damn, thats like a top 5 essential.
- marmotjmarmot, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5I was trying to figure out a pattern. But it looks like just a random selection, like you just pulled good stuff and crap into your netflix queue. I have to wonder; HOWARD THE DUCK? WTF.
- burningrobot, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5The disclaimer at the beginning said it wouldn't include dystopian future films like Blade Runner, for some reason. And Brazil falls into that category.
Doesn't really make sense to me, as Blade Runner is one of the best sci-fi films of all time. - skaldicpoet9, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5Exactly. I want to know why the writers called this list "essential".
- inactive, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4yeah, but what the hell do you call Soylent Green and Planet of the Apes? Or hell, even Metropolis.
- falstaff, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4http://www.onlygoodmovies.com/blog/thoughts-on-fil ...
More complete list. - jamescarl, on 05/15/2009, -1/+5The Black Hole reminded me of another black hole...
- topcat5, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4"2001 A Space Odyssey" on the last page!!? That movie defined modern SciFi and it holds up today 40+ years after it was released. I would add "This Island Earth" and "Forbidden Planet". Well at least this site didn't require 50 clicks to see all of it.
- littlenomad, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4Buried for the lameness of so many of the films deemed "essential." Timeout.com should print a retraction and apologize profusely.
- zukuss, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4Waiting for the "Top 10 Essential" lists.
- TBITS, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4Contact is one of the worst movies ever.
Oh and WTF is with bashing Serenity? How exactly is Whedon Old-fashioned, has this dude actually seen any of his work?
There are some great movies on this list, too bad the author is an ass. - regeya, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4Aw, c'mon, the movie adaptation of Starship Troopers is so over the top, it's comedy. :-D
- looongfellow, on 05/16/2009, -2/+5Blade runner is nowhere to be found. Good list though, nicely rounded but it looks like there can't be a top 50, gonna have to go to a 100 that's all.
- onionoino, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Ah.... Blade Runner? 12 Monkeys? Brazil? Dark City? They Live? Akira? Johny Mnemonic?
He had some good picks here but for every good film on that list there was a Howard the Duck, entertaining but hardly essential sci-fi. Why did he have to pick apart every film he placed on a list of so called essential sci-fi? This may be just my opinion but some of these picks were way off. - fragomatik, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3You agree with "Black Hole" being on the list, but "Contact" was silly? Really? Are you sure? Oh well, you are entitled to that opinion of course, but IMHO "Contact" is one of the most intelligent and reasoned sci-fi movies of the last 20 years. Sagan's book was better, but Zemeckis' adaptation was very, very good.
- dinglebutt, on 05/15/2009, -1/+4Thank god for filesharing
- canada42, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Good list but I can't really take a top 50 list seriously when half of the entries are "and something else." Its not really 50 essential movies if there are 75 movies on it.
- kingofnexus, on 05/18/2009, -0/+3Sci fi movies worthey of an essential list in no particular order: Fifth Element, Total Recall, Terminator 2, Blade Runner, Serenity, Star wars (original trinity), Star Trek (2009), Tron, Alien.
- Spacejack, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Not only is Blade Runner near the top of essential screen SF, it is not just a dystopia--in fact the dystopia is only the background, it's a damn robot story!
- burningrobot, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3You didn't read the intro. They say they aren't going to include any dystopian-future films. They listed Blade Runner as one of them but that doesn't really make sense. But Equilibrium fits into that category.
- inactive, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Sphere? Event Horizon? Black Hole? You must be ***** kidding me! Buried.
- xxyglx, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Galaxy Quest, is on my list because it was definitely Sci-Fi, but it was also funny as hell. Swap out the silly duck and put this in and I'm more in tune.
- Darksoul, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3I totally agree and to this day it still remains one of the best sci/fi horrors if not the best. You know a movie was done well when you can watch it thirty years later, in the dark and it still gives you the creeps like something is standing right behind you.
- DarkShroud, on 05/16/2009, -1/+4Hmm, I've seen about 44 of the 50. There are a decent amount of good ones and quite a few movies that are missing. Tron & Blade Runner just to name a select few missing.
- pezoamo, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3how the ***** can a number on a list include more than one movie?
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