Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.past-films Subject: Re: Wired.com: 16 Sci-Fi Movies You Need to Watch Before You Die Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 10:32:29 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 00:32:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0ec276ea7cd922e6cf5b60c285a0a11c"; logging-data="1413220"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ryaoIcP+VEciLntfGCXS6epnWxKy/HEY=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0LXxJIBLr32HXyDk6WLtVapMTvM= Bytes: 2197 On 2024-05-29 22:00:35 +0000, TomBenton@agent.com said: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 12:05:35 +1300, Your Name > wrote: >> >> According to Wired.com, the 16 Sci-Fi Movies You Need to Watch Before You Die: >> >> - Dune and Dune: Part Two >> - Arrival >> - RoboCop >> - Inception >> - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back >> - The Matrix >> - The Terminator >> - Terminator 2: Judgement Day >> - Escape From New York >> - Ex Machina >> - Back to the Future >> - Alien >> - Close Encounters of the Third Kind >> - 2001: A Space Odyssey >> - Blade Runner >> >> >> >> >> As usual with such lists, only about two or three are actually worth >> watching, the rest are over-hyped garbage and boring drivel. > > I'd add the first "War of the Worlds" and "Aniara" I've got a book called "101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die" which stars with "Voyage to the Moon" (1902) through to "Children of Men" (2006) ... although it's a 2009 publication, so of course misses out any newer movies. You'd be very lucky if there's even a dozen movies in there worth watching though.