#4069557 - 01/26/15 03:46 PM
50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s
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According to Rolling Stone, anyway. 50 over 10 years would be an average of 5 per year, which I think is a fairly high number, and may not leave many out. That may explain why movies like "Starcrash" made the list. I haven't seen all of them, and might change the order on some that I have seen, but an interesting (and nostalgic) list, I thought: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/50-best-sci-fi-movies-of-the-1970s-20150114
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#4069603 - 01/26/15 05:21 PM
Re: 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s
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They're including tv movies and pilots too. Buck Rogers was obviously a series and they're counting the pilot at the start of the list there. I think Damnation Alley was a tv movie too, but I could be wrong. They have Star Wars at #5, behind The Man Who Fell to Earth and the original Solaris. WTF? If not #1, it should at least be #2 with Alien. I love Clockwork Orange, but no way I could put it before the movie that's so iconic for at least a generation.
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#4069621 - 01/26/15 05:56 PM
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I don't remember that, but I do remember the pilots on tv. Can't account for what big city folk do though.
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#4069641 - 01/26/15 06:13 PM
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I don't remember that, but I do remember the pilots on tv. Can't account for what big city folk do though. I distinctly remember seeing both 2 hour pilots in the movie theatre when I was a kid and I was already living in Miami so I guess that made me a big city folk. : D
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#4069663 - 01/26/15 06:42 PM
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Yeah, that qualifies. LOL
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#4069775 - 01/26/15 09:27 PM
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They have Star Wars at #5, behind The Man Who Fell to Earth and the original Solaris. WTF? If not #1, it should at least be #2 with Alien. I agree and I would not argue too much with someone who wanted to put Aliens at #1 over Star Wars but c'mon man . . .#5! Going off on a Damnation Alley tangent, I remember loving Damnation Alley and hesitate to re-watch it in case it does not hold up but the vehicle was def awesome, then and now Landmaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmaster
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#4069805 - 01/26/15 09:54 PM
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That's right, I now remember the worst thing about Damnation Alley...Jan Michael Vincent. As for Miami in the late 70s, it was nothing like it is today. It was actually a place I liked living in then. By 1995 it wasn't. The Jedi Master
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#4069840 - 01/26/15 10:58 PM
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I was surprised to see that "Zardoz" was not on the list. It's at number 6 Panzer
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#4069869 - 01/27/15 12:03 AM
Re: 50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s
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Six. SIX. SIX????!!! What should #6 be? Star Trek the Motion Picture?...nah, that's 26. Give 'em ZARDOZ. The Black Hole is worth a lot more than 32 IMO. It was a very original movie and well done. Damnation Alley isn't too bad to go back and watch. It still comes on sometimes. Peppard is fairly cringeworthy with his hideous Southern accent, but you can get through it without ruining your memories.
Ever see Fantastic Planet? That was a pretty cool one. I think there's a story behind how it came to be, some kind of international effort. I wouldn't mind seeing that again. It was a little bit Battlefield Earth IIRC, but not in a bad way.
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#4069893 - 01/27/15 01:11 AM
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I remember loving Damnation Alley and hesitate to re-watch it in case it does not hold up I did. Is doesn't. At all.
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#4070003 - 01/27/15 07:13 AM
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The Black Hole is worth a lot more than 32 IMO. It was a very original movie and well done. Urrggh. On a best 50 list, it shouldn't be any higher than #250, even if there aren't any more than 55 altogether, including anything Ed Wood might have made (did he survive to the 70s?).
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#4070062 - 01/27/15 01:51 PM
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The Black Hole had an amazing score by John Barry. I've not seen the film literally in decades now and I still remember it. I saw the CD online, I've thought about picking it up.
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#4070137 - 01/27/15 05:01 PM
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The source of the list is irrelevant. It is a list and therefore must be debated and corrected! LOL I thought The Black Hole was pretty cool. It was also very dark for a Disney movie, especially at that time. I remember that Maximilian robot scared the crap outta me when you saw the eyes in it at the end. It was creepy to begin with, doing the phone book trick through that dude early on. The movie had a great cast, even if it wasn't the performance of their lives.
I was about to mention Saturn 3, but turns out that missed the cut coming out in 1980. That one should be immortalized for getting Farrah topless.
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#4070169 - 01/27/15 06:13 PM
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I thought The Black Hole was awful - some interesting designs and decent special effects, but the action of running and flying along outside the space ship, and those stupid clown-like robots, completely destroyed it. That's on top of the horrid dialog, stiff acting and direction, etc.
And now I'll put on my Mr. Pedantic hat. Technically, 1980 IS part of the 1970s - it would go from 1971 through 1980. If someone is giving you $20 and is counting it out in $1 bills, they don't start counting the second $10 until after they've given you the tenth dollar. So it's 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10, then 11-12, etc., so the '70s would technically be 71-72-73-74-75-76-77-78-79-80.
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