17/25
As far as fantasy films go, can I take
Reds? Or any drama with George Clooney?
One sci-fi movie not mentioned, and maybe not a great one, but one I enjoyed:
Outland, with Sean Connery. But then, I can't think of a Sean Connery movie I didn't like; I may not have loved it, but I didn't hate it.
I now find the original
The Andromeda Strain to be dated. I watched it again recently, and I was bored to tears.
I have always hated the final cut of
2001: A Space Odyssey (or as a MAD magazine satire at the time called it,
201 Minutes of Space Idiocy [the stupid things one remembers from being a kid]). I thought roughly the first half was great; the monkeys and the stele, not so much.
They Live has one of
the greatest lines in movie history, not just sci-fi: "I came here to kick @ss and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum." Poetry. Pure poetry. Right up there with Rhett Butler's GWTW closing line, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
One sci-fi guilty pleasure is
The Last Starfighter, which also happened to be Robert Preston's last theatrical film (two tv movies followed). He died three years after release.
Another excellent sci-fi film unmentioned is
The Hidden. A real gem.
An underrated, and almost unkown, sci-fi film is
Trancers, which has to have one of the best lead character names of all time, Trooper Jack Deth.
And who can forget that Don Johnson sci-fi classic,
A Boy And His Dog?
I'll close with another unmentioned sci-fi movie, a comedy, Mel Brooks'
Spaceballs. May not have been up to
Blazing Saddles and
Young Frankenstein standards, but I laughed -- a lot -- at that movie.
