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The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech Print - The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech... http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/the-100-best-sci-f... http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies- of-all-time The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time Cinema exists to project our dreams. Science-fiction cinema exists to project our most creative dreams—time-travel, alternate worlds, expanded consciousness, and more. That's why we're science-fiction maniacs and why we gathered up our top 100 movies. And if your favorite isn't on here, we want to hear about it. (Warning: Here be spoilers.) BY JORDAN HOFFMAN 100. Escape From New York (1981) A cheery blend of anti-government paranoia, haywire sociology, and good old-fashioned grindhouse sleaze, Escape From New York takes the famous New York Daily News headline, "[President ] Ford to City: Drop Dead," and goes crazy with it. The year is 1997 and crime is so rampant that the island of Manhattan has been declared a federal prison. Recidivism rates are low considering the philosophy is taken straight from the Roach Motel: Prisoners go in but they don't come out. When a band of terrorists hijack the president's plane and the president winds up trapped in the walled-off 212 area code, only Kurt Russell's eye-patched Snake Plissken can save him. Past the initial premise and some cool-for-its-day opening computer graphics, Escape From New York is a film that's actually better in your memory than in reality—though nothing can take away from the chandeliers fixed to the hood of Isaac Hayes's car. 1 of 58 12/12/4 3:25 PM Print - The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech... http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/the-100-best-sci-f... 99. Splice (2009) Does scientific research have boundaries? When is it moral to play God? And under what circumstances is it okay to have sex with your adoptive killer cross-species mutant child? (I can't answer the first two, but I think I have a pretty good answer for number three.) If only all bioethics debates were this gruesome and perverse. 98. Attack the Block (2011) Joe Cornish's funny, poignant, and slick film about killer blue things from outer space dropping in on the wrong British housing project goes to some unexpected places. It is secure enough in its own storytelling to introduce its heroes in an unflattering light, knowing that you will come to grow and love them by the movie's climax. And just when Attack the Block is in danger of getting too poignant for its own good, Cornish introduces slow-motion shots of dudes blasting away at sharp-toothed creatures. If you happen to be from somewhere other than the U.K., Attack the Block has the added benefit of introducing you to an entirely new form of verbal communication. Trust, bruv. 2 of 58 12/12/4 3:25 PM Print - The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech... http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/the-100-best-sci-f... 97. City of Lost Children (1995) Jean-Pierre Jeunet's second feature collaboration with Marc Caro was, in many ways, what brought the steampunk aesthetic into the mainstream—as much as any film in which Ron Perlman battles a kidnapping mad scientist, mechanical Cyclopes, and a brain in a vat can be considered mainstream. The villain can achieve immortality, but has lost his ability to dream, which is essential for staying young. He must therefore steal the dreams of children but since they are all scared, they provide him only with nightmares. Despite the clear good-versus-evil nature of the story, this movie is extremely French, so the kids are a little more sinister than the usual movie moppets, and the baddies are a tad seductive. 3 of 58 12/12/4 3:25 PM Print - The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech... http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/the-100-best-sci-f... 96. Westworld (1973) If you thought that the episode of The Simpsons in which the robots of Itchy and Scratchy Land go on a killing spree was ripped from the TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom, I'm afraid you were incorrect. It was ripped from the surprisingly good Richard Benjamin vehicle Westworld. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, Westworld recognizes that its own premise is a little goofy, but it still has some legitimately frightening moments. At the "adult" Disneyland, vacationers can live out their Roman, Medieval, or Old West fantasies with none of the risk—until a malfunction sends a cyber Yul Brenner on a relentless path of destruction. Westworld offers up a mixture of early ‚Äò70s pop psychology and a jaundiced view of unchecked technology. Between this film and The Stepford Wives, it's surprising that the animatronics industry didn't go under. 4 of 58 12/12/4 3:25 PM Print - The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech... http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/the-100-best-sci-f... 95. Serenity (2005) Joss Whedon's wonderful coda to the cult show Firefly probably wouldn't exist if that show hadn't been prematurely canceled—a layer of irony that seems to fit the always jocular but never sarcastic tone of the film. The movie works for those new to the franchise, though, succinctly introducing all the major characters and themes in a tour-de-force opening. Whedon's futuristic wild West of space pirates and psychic ing√©nues shows how an ostensibly benevolent government can transform into an evil empire. Despite the will of the entire Internet, there will never, ever be a sequel, even though Orson Scott Card has called this the best science-fiction film ever. 94. The Black Hole (1979) A difficult film that still rides waves of backlash and reverse-backlash, The Black Hole was Disney's costly attempt to make its own Star Wars. But back then Disney had no idea how to make live-action movies, and the result is a strange hodge-podge of kid-friendly robots, awesome special effects, 2001-esque psychedelic freak-out (see video above) and Ernest Borgnine in zero gravity. Those of us who are old enough to have seen this in the theater may recall an afternoon of equal parts joy, boredom, and terror—and an annoying feeling when later reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and realizing that it's missing a giant red robot named Maximilian. 5 of 58 12/12/4 3:25 PM Print - The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech... http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/the-100-best-sci-f... 93. Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971) You'd think that blowing up the entire planet at the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes would mark the conclusion of the series—but never underestimate the power of a money-making franchise. Without question the most droll of the Apes cycle (perhaps the most droll in this entire list), Escape yanks two of our favorite ape characters (Kim Hunter's Dr. Zira and Roddy McDowell's Dr. Cornelius) and a new one played by Sal Mineo and shoots them back to our time. Here they take the concept of the original Planet of the Apes and spin it on its head, and inadvertently set the whole series in motion. In between all the time paradoxes and social commentary, there's also plenty of room for fun, like a montage including a very ‚Äò70s shopping spree and Zira's introduction to "grape juice plus." 6 of 58 12/12/4 3:25 PM Print - The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech... http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/the-100-best-sci-f... 92. Silent Running (1972) A cri de coeur for environmentalists, this take on interstellar preservation manages to be both whiz-bang fun and an early appearance of what would become sci-fi tropes. While protecting the last surviving plant life, Bruce Dern scoots around a giant spacecraft and plays cards with fun helper robots. Silent Running's adorable bots came years before Star Wars, and the massive "last chance for humanity" ships predate Battlestar Galactica. The film was co-written by Michael Cimino, who would later make The Deer Hunter, and Steven Bochco, who'd later make, among other things, Hill Street Blues. The director, Douglas Trumbull, is one of the most respected special-effects wizards out there, getting his start with short films for the 1964 World's Fair and still working on projects such as Tree of Life. I mention all this so you'll keep your mind off the dreadful Joan Baez song that nearly ruins the entire film. 91. They Live (1988) John Carpenter's They Live may seem like science fiction, but many of us know it to be documentary truth: Advertising is actually the work of belligerent space aliens intent on subduing and exploiting the populace. Oops! I've said too much. If we were ranking the top sunglasses-related, never- ending fight scenes, we'd list this film much, much higher. 7 of 58 12/12/4 3:25 PM Print - The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mech... http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/the-100-best-sci-f... 90. War of the Worlds (1953) H.G. Wells's 1898 novel is perfect source material for a paranoid 1950s technicolor adventure.
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