17.10.05

Destination Nerdout

I don’t know bloggers, so nobody asks me to participate in blogmemes. That’s okay. I’m going to make one up myself and I can play with my own damn toys damnit. No, I’m not quite sure why I haven’t posted in however long it’s been. Anyways: (via BoingBoing) a new book is out that has a list entitled “The Canon: The 50 most notable science fiction films in the history of cinema.” It was my guess that, as a nerd, I’d probably seen a lot of them. I was not incorrect – here they are alphabetically, the films I’ve seen in bold. Why should you care? I dunno, for some reason you’re reading this in the first place.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Alphaville
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Brother From Another Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
The Damned
Destination Moon
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Delicatessen
Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (serial)
The Fly (1985 version)
Forbidden Planet
Ghost in the Shell
Gojira/Godzilla
The Incredibles
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 version)
Jurassic Park
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
The Matrix
Metropolis
On the Beach
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Robocop
Sleeper
Solaris (1972 version)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Stepford Wives
Superman
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing From Another World
Things to Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Voyage Dans la Lune
War of the Worlds (1953 version)

So, 35 out of 50. Not bad. Yes, it’s weird that I’ve never seen “Close Encounters.”

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contact? c'mon…

i got 30 of 49 (not counting contact. i mean, really).
 
"Contact." One of the total of three times in my life I have actually severely regretted spending $6.50 on a movie. I might have killed someone at today's $12.00

Where is "Dune"?
Where is "Army of Darkness"?

What exactly about "Delicatessen" is sci-fi? I mean, it's awesome and all, but...
 
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