What's Galaxiki?Galaxiki is a science fiction galaxy created, maintained and owned by its Community. Membership is free - sign up now to become a "Galaxician" and start editing stars, planets and moons, or get your own personal solar system.
Your own solar systemYou may name and edit as many community stars and solar systems as you like. Would you like to get your own solar system that only you will be able to edit?
Solar system widget
 Use a solar system widget to display any Galaxiki solar system on your website or blog!
|
 |
Galaxiki Community BlogSubscribe via RSS The Best Science Fiction Movies Ever MadeJanuary 23, 2008by joskirps Today I'd like to present a list of the best Science Fiction movies ever made. It's my personal selection, and it only includes space and alien related movies (that's why you won't find movies like Bladerunner or The Matrix and this list). Ready? So here we go (from oldest to newest): 1953: War of the Worlds by Byron Haskin. Dr. Clayton Forrester, a world renowned physicist, is on a fishing vacation in the small town of Pine Summit when a giant meteorite lands in the hills above the town. Along with the townsfolk, he goes to investigate, but finds the meteorite too hot to examine immediately. Later, after most people have gone home, the meteorite unscrews and opens, disgorging a Heat-Ray device from Mars. 1956: Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Don Siegel. Dr. Miles Bennell, a local doctor, finds a rash of patients accusing their loved ones of being impostors. Bennell soon discovers that the townspeople are in fact being replaced by simulations grown from plantlike pods; perfect physical duplicates who kill and dispose of their human victims. 1968: Planet of the Apes by Franklin J. Schaffner. Loosely based on the Planet of the Apes novel by Pierre Boulle, the film was ground breaking for its make-up techniques by artist John Chambers. Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge are in deep hibernation when their spaceship crash-lands in a lake on an unknown planet in A. D. 3978. 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. The film deals with themes of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, and provocatively ambiguous imagery and sound in place of traditional narrative techniques. Despite receiving mixed reviews upon release, 2001: A Space Odyssey is today recognized by critics as one of the greatest films ever made. 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg. It portraits UFO occupants as benign, even kind, which was a sharp departure from the "evil monster" style of most earlier films. It popularized a number of UFO motifs, many of which had earlier been reported in conjunction with UFO sightings, such as alien abduction, small and thin aliens, and UFOs covered in lights rather than the disc shapes popular in the 1950s and 1960s. 1977 - 1983: The original Star Wars trilogy by George Lucas, consisting of "A New Hope", "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return Of The Jedi". It tells the story of Luke Skywalker, a farmer boy who learns the ways of the Jedi and becomes an important figure in the Rebel Alliance, leading the struggle against the Galactic Empire and the evil Darth Vader, who is in fact his father. 1979: Alien by Ridley Scott. Reluctantly following a distress beacon in deep space, a crew member of the space-faring towing vehicle Nostromo encounters a young Alien that attacks and infects him. The creature soon comes aboard the ship, wreaking havoc and threatening the entire crew. 1982: The Thing by John Carpenter, basically a remake of the 1951 Howard Hawks film "The Thing from Another World". An American Antarctic research station is infiltrated by an alien creature with the ability to perfectly imitate any organic life-form that it physically contacts. The crew of the station come to distrust each other as they cannot discern who is human and who is not. One by one they are killed, either by being transformed into the creature or by each other. 1982: E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial by Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of Elliott, a lonely boy who befriends a friendly alien, dubbed E. T., who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the alien return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government. 1984: Dune by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel. Paul Atreides, a young man who dreams prophetic visions of his purpose, is foretold in a prophecy to be the "Kwisatz Haderach" who will protect the titular desert planet from the malevolent House Harkonnen and save the universe from evil. 1997: Starship Troopers by Paul Verhoeven. Loosely based on the novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers tells the story of an interplanetary war between Earth and colonies of large insect-like aliens in the twenty-third century. It focuses on the experiences of Juan "Johnny" Rico, one of three friends who sign up to the military one year before Earth declares war on the aliens. One movie that didn't fit into a "serious" list but is still worth to be noted is Mars Attacks by Tim Burton, and of course I'd also like to mention the Star Trek series of movies that didn't make it into the list as I think the directing is not that terrible here (but that's a personal opinion of course). Want to create your own solar system in our online galaxy?
Bookmark This            permalink | 2 comments Databit said, on January 24, 2008: Starship Troopers? Really? Not saying that because of the boobies in the shower are you? We were all excited to go see it after watching all the previews. What disappointed us the most was that the song from the commercials was not anywhere in the movie. Mike said, on March 19, 2008: What's notable missing from this list? How about Blade Runner? The Day the Earth Stood Still? Forbidden Planet?953: War of the Worlds by Byron Haskin. - OK.1956: Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Don Siegel. - Yes.1968: Planet of the Apes by Franklin J. Schaffner. - Yes1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. - The best science fiction movie ever. But it's a Frankenstein flick. Does man create his own future, or does god?1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg. - Really?1977 - 1983: The original Star Wars trilogy by George Lucas - I suppose so.1979: Alien by Ridley Scott. - OK, really nicely made, but still it's just a scare flick. Scott is a consummate director.1982: The Thing by John Carpenter - Better than the original, but still not really a great film.1982: E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial by Steven Spielberg. - Oh please.1984: Dune by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel. - Really, the movie doesn't stand on its own and can only be appreciated by someone who's read the book, and then, only as a shadow of the book. 1997: Starship Troopers by Paul Verhoeven. - Huh? Zulu redone with a nod to Heinlein? |
 |
Happening right now
Sponsored LinksStatisticsMembers: 2955 Stars: > 1.1*106 Registered stars: 4717 Black Holes: > 5500 Pulsars: > 1400 Neutron stars: > 8100 Forum messages: 6413 Movies and books: 251 Unique movies and books: 199 Community BlogWant to post news in our Community Blog? Simply login (or sign up) and write about solar system(s), science fiction, movies, books, science, astronomy or anything else related to this site! Recent Posts Last comments Categories Archives
|
