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- mkriss5681, on 11/06/2009, -0/+16I find it unbelievable Blade Runner was a flop critically and at the box office. One of my top 5 favorite sci-fi movies.
- summersam, on 11/06/2009, -0/+8I saw Metropolis a few weeks ago at a screening of classic movies, can't believe that thing was made over 80 years ago! Makes even Avatar pale in comparison.
- doctechnical, on 11/06/2009, -0/+5"Forbidden Planet" should have been on this list. One of the few films of it's day that didn't have a plot that could be summed up in 25 words or less. Plus the special effects were killer for it's time.
"Star Wars"? Please. Take away the wiz-bang SFX and you've got a plot that predates Greek mythology. It was a great fun movie, sure, but I wouldn't say it was ahead of it's time. - LimeParrot, on 11/06/2009, -0/+4Great list. I think Gattaca is going to be especially relevant in the next 10 to 20 years as the role of genetics in medicine profoundly increases and ethically questionable situations will begin to arise (e.g. privacy of your genetic information, insurance companies not insuring someone based on their genetic profile etc.).
p.s. Terminator 2 is great as well. - Falldog, on 11/06/2009, -1/+4If you're making a sci-fi movie that isn't 'ahead of it's time' you're probably doing something wrong.
- summersam, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2That doesn't mean anything... even if you have the biggest supercomputer, you still need to program/code AI -- that's the difficult stuff. We've had the computing power for years, but not the ability to code the stuff we need.
What is needed is a new, revolutionary coding language. - charlied16, on 11/06/2009, -1/+1Terminator and Blade Runner is near reality.
A world-renowned expert in supercomputing spoke recently on when computers are predicted to surpass the human brain's processing power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JROE-SFfShQ - EatingPie, on 11/06/2009, -1/+1I wonder what the criteria was for being "ahead of its time." No matter how you slice it, Solaris does not belong on that list, for sure... 2001: A Space Odyssey should have filled that spot.
2001 is still the most accurate science "science fiction" movie I've seen. Space is deadly. It's silent. Spin generates "gravity." Etc. Even the imagery of Jupiter was surprisingly similar to what Voyager returned almost 10 years later.
In terms of influence, Metropolis takes the prize. Many images and themes in modern science fiction films *still* reflect those of Lang's masterpiece. And in modern times, Terminator opened the door for the Science Fiction Action Blockbuster that has been the mainstay of summer movie going for years since.
-Pie
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