@@Unpotted the original is great, i understand the original one was a commentary on the red peril and the characters were made to be more sympathetic. The remake was more in the realm of scifi horror
@@andrewturley9295 Just the opposite of the red peril, if anything. Don Siegel spoke of an existing allegorical subtext but didn’t commit to it being the full purpose of the film. He said, “I felt that this was a very important story. I think that the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them. I think so many people have no feeling about cultural things, no feeling of pain, of sorrow… The political reference to Senator McCarthy and totalitarianism was inescapable but I tried not to emphasize it because I feel that motion pictures are primarily to entertain and I did not want to preach.”
A great list, I love all the movies you mentioned. Planet of the Apes (1968), and John Carpenter's The Thing hit my sweet spot. I would only add Alien (1979), but your list is superb.
You know, I keep waiting for the inevitable prequel "Rational Max." Maybe some day. I also wonder if there's a connection between the placement of Planet of the Apes and your recent sponsorship by Dr. Zaius.
Yup. Without a doubt Michael, your list is better but shame on you, you didn't include Forbidden Planet. If I were to make a list that would certainly be included!
That was a glaring omission for me as well. But I'm glad MKV put The Day the Earth Stood Still on his list. " Klaatu barada nikto." I think both were fantastic and seminal films. The film that would be my number two or three didn't make it to Grammaticus or MKV's list is Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. That and Blade Runner are IMO the best dystopian SF films ever, with a big shout out to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Edit: But then again Planet of the Apes, both versions, are dystopian, masterpieces too. So, I'll shut up now. 🙃
Great list. A little weighted towards the older classics, but then again it is your list 😜. Contact and Moon have to be on any best sci-fi list of mine.
The first movie I thought of that was missing was the original Godzilla movie, Gojira. That is the one with the story intact and without Raymond Burr edited in, for US audiences. I have only ever seen it in Japanese, so there may not be a version dubbed into english. It is a surprisingly good movie that happens to have a gigantic monster in it.
Love your list! I've seen them all. I remember when AMC used to have an Apes Marathon from time to time. They'd show all the original movies in order and the making of documentary. I never missed watching it. Too bad no one does that sort of thing today.
I watched The Incredible Shrinking Man on Svengoolie’s Saturday night show a few years ago and loved it! So excited to see it here on your list. Planet of the Apes ( the original ) is the one movie I can watch over and over again since I first watched it during Planet of the Apes week during the 4:30 movie! I must have been 9 or 10 years old.
This video has the potential to go viral and start thousands of arguments in the comments. I agree that _2001: A Space Odyssey_ should be in the top three. Honorable mention for _Fahrenheit 451_ (1966).
Another highly entertaining video emanating from the stateliest manor. Much more stately than that other one. Loved the list. Loved Blade Runner the most. Try the original Thing from 1951. Very snappy dialog. One great campy movie from the ‘50s is “It The Terror From Beyond Space”. You may see where Alien came from.
Great list! I seriously enjoyed Westworld, lots of tension and thrills in that one. If The Incredible Shrinking man is as good as the book then I will definitely be keen to watch it. The Thing is indeed a masterpiece. 2001: A Space Odyssey is quite the trip. I really enjoyed it, despite the length.
This is a very fine list with some of my favourite classics, and a couple I'm not yet familiar with I will be checking out. I would also add Alien, the original King Kong and Bride of Frankenstein, and for more modern films I would add Cube, Ex Machina and the recent Dune adaptation.
A top ten is so hard to narrow down. Other candidates could also include Soylent Green, Silent Running, 12 Monkeys, Starship Troopers, Brazil, Quartermass & the Pit, Edge of Tomorrow, Fifth Element, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (50s or 70s).... So so many to chose from.
I have watched Planet of the Apes and Time After Time at least 100 times each. Oh, and I still have my Planet of the Apes tv series cards that came in bubble gum packages! I was a huge James Naughton fan. ❤ Great list!
This Island Earth, Forbidden Planet, Rocket Ship X-M, The Time Machine (with Rod Taylor), When Worlds Collide..... so many more. That's the problem with "Best Of" lists, there's rarely 100% agreement. "This isn't Rational Max, it's Mad Max": great line. I've taught Blade Runner to High School senior English students and it's wonderful to see how receptive they are to it: regardless of generation, it still connects with viewers because Scott taps into something essentially human and the actors are able to convey this so well. West World the series is excellent. Planet Of The Apes the series had very modest storylines while viewers were expecting more of the big-name stars, grand conflicts and spectacles of the movies (I know I was).
Another great video, Michael. You need to expand beyond just books, and you are very well equiped and situated to do so. Film, TV, Stage adaptations, and continuations, or reintrepretations. I was going to write you to do this privately, but this is such a nice opportunity to do so publicly. Because of your interests in pulp fiction you are very familiar with Cover Artsits and Illustrators. It would be nice if you would do a video from time to time discussing them. I discovered Frank Frazetta and Fank Miller thanks to you, and they are wonderful artists. But you know the field far better than I ever will, so I'd be pleassed to have you as a guide, as I am sure, others who follow your channel would as well. So tell Roger to get to work and stop just sitting there like he was dead or something.
No Star Wars, no Star Trek. No Metropolis. Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Liquid Sky? The X-Files movie? Zardoz? Plan 9 from Outer Space? Jurassic Park? Soylent Green? The Omega Man? The Terminator? Alien?
This reminds me of an issue of The Comics Journel from the 80's. It had a review of both The Thing and Blade Runner. And iirc it was not very kind to either film. It had a Berni Wrightson Captain Stern cover. I found it digging thru a bunch of boxes at Miles High Comics in Denver when I used to live there.
I know that Dune from 1984 is not usually listed on anyone's favorite list, but it is still my favorite sci-fi movie. Hint: If you stopped watching the same movie a million times, you would have time to watch the newest version of Blade Runner. 😁 Thanks!
David lynch's Dune remains one of my favourite films, I watched it not long after it's release & loved it, it also made me rush to pick the book up, I still prefer it over the recent Denis Villeneuve version
@@gerarddonohoe5806 From reading the book years ago, I already had a mental picture of Paul. Timothy Chalamet does not fit the picture; Kyle McLachlan did. And Patrick Stewart as Gurney, Sting as Feyd were perfect choices to me.
Agreed..the new film version is so bland & dull, Timothée Chalamet has zero screen presence(at least for me) & despite Kyle MacLachlan being too old for the part he brought depth rather than looks to the part & not forgetting francesca Annis,sian Phillips & countless others..
I was surprised only two Apes movies made the top 10! I would add the original "The Thing" by one of my favorite directors, Howard Hawks.But I don't know which of the others I would ditch. I, for one, would love to see your top 10 list for 50's science fiction movies!
Good list. My list would overlap greatly. Off the top of my head, my list would include.a few not on yours: The Andromeda Strain, Alien, Alien II, and Silent Running, and maybe the Jeff Goldblum version of The Fly.
Totally agree with your choices for 1 and 2. The inclusion of the Road Warrior might make this the best list, although West World is obviously a joke inclusion 🤭🤭 I haven't seen quite a few on this list though (Time after Time, Shrinking Man, Man who fell to earth, The Thing). As for Bored Runner, I suppose it's gotta be there but I find it boring. Btw I met that dude bro film club at a MAGA event recently. 😉
Aside from the new PLANET OF THE APES prequel trilogy, I've seen all the movies on your list and enjoyed them for the most part, though I'm not a Kubrick fan. I did like THE SHINING, and 2001 is good. I watched that for research for an article about the 2001 comic book Marvel published. We have some of the films you mentioned in our collection, including limited editions of BLADE RUNNER and the original PLANET OF THE APES films. BLADE RUNNER is in a briefcase with an origami and all versions of the film. The original APES movies are in a case shaped like Roddy McDowell's character's head, and includes all the Roddy McDowell movies, the TV series and animated series. My wife and I enjoyed BLADE RUNNER 2, though it can't compare to the original. It's still a good film. I'll get around to the new APES films when I have fewer writing deadlines. What did you think of FORBIDDEN PLANET? I enjoyed that one a bunch. All The Best, James Heath Lantz Freelance Writer Staff Writer for Back Issue magazine 2021 Eisner Award nominee, 2019 winner, "Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism"
You never asked me, just sayin'. Gotta love the Incredible Shrinking Man, except for the end, because well, SPOILER ALERT, he didn't need to kill the spider because, well, it was too late and FYI, spiders don't eat cake. The THING was a 'thing' at my house when I was growing up. My brother ran it every time it came up. It scared me every time but not as badly as (1953's) INVADERS FROM MARS. How did you miss that one? It scared the daylights out of me every time I watched it from the time I was 6. (What a HENsome tie!)
Oh, good...the Tim Burton Apes movie is not on the list. That alone makes it good. This list gets my approval. Not that my approval means anything. Carry on.
My top ten: 10. Ex Machina 9. Serenity 8. Star Gate (1994) 7. Revenge of the Sith 6. Akira 5. Inception 4. Blade Runner 2049 3. Arrival 2. Ghost in the Shell (1995) 1. Empire Strikes Back
I do love Serenity and Star Wars! I didn’t realize until recently there’s actually books in the Serenity universe, but I haven’t had any luck getting my hands on one yet. $16 for a quick read paperback is just a bit to rich for my blood.
I don't have time to make a video of my own, but I can't help wondering if any of you dude-bros has ever seen a non-American movie. I guess Gramaticus squeaked in Godzilla: Minus One (great, by the way), but where's Andrei Tarkovsky on any of these lists? Solaris? Stalker? Good grief, I'm clearly going to need to make my own video! 😖
I realize a list like this is quite subjective. However, I'm a bit surprised that "Forbidden Planet" failed to make the grade. Perhaps you need a second list of honorable mentions?
Good after Mr Clock and of course Sir Michael and Roger Oh my gosh, Mr Clock No The Time Machine!!!! Can you believe it. I will say it again can you believe it But most of the other choices were spot on, I watched 2001 a Space Odyssey on the big screen in a Middle of Nowhere town in Australia not long after it came out, I was about 16 and I could see This film is a master class in all that is brilliant. And I agree with you with Planet of the Apes, I saw this on the big screen as well, and it was a great beast of a movie, speaking of which. King Kong deserves a place as well. It is not a monster movie As does Forbidden plane. The 1950 could indeed have it own top ten list Cheers All Al The Godkeyfourcolorkidownunda
As someone who actually studied film at university (I did my BA honours thesis on Kubrick) and co-hosted a film program on radio for several years, I can indeed confirm that your list is OK, and it may well be great but I don't know for sure cos there's a few I've never seen on here. Oddly, I have seen Futureworld more than once but never Westworld. Think I prefer the original Mad Max to its sequels (except perhaps for Fury Road) and have always considered Blade Runner overrated. On the subject of apes, I'm reading Mr Burroughs' original Tarzan story. About halfway through, enjoying it a lot so far.
Not a single James Cameron or Ridley Scott Flick? No Avatar, Alien, Terminator or Abyss????? What the heck Michael????!!!! I do like all the movies in your list though. :)
Haha..well when I saw 2001 at number 2 i kinda thought you would have planet of the apes at the top spot. Excellent choice, glad the awful remake of the day the earth stood still has(hopefully) been forgotten along with the even more god awful tim Burton planet of the apes disaster.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the invaluable input from the Dude Bro Cinema Club, so my top 10 list had to go Ape-less... 10. Godzilla 9. Forbidden Planet 8. Brazil 7. The Fly 6. Alphaville 5. Time After Time 4. Dark City 3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 2. Metropolis 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey And almost forgot -- honorable mention to The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Make it a top 20 and add the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Blob, with Steve McQueen, Aliens, and The Mist. I also love the campiness of Alien: Resurrection and Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman. I would like to do a list of the best worst science fiction movies, but I don’t have a channel. 😝 I love very bad science fiction movies, like Plan 9 From Outer Space. They’re just so much fun. Enjoy your weekend! 😺✌️
Oh, yeah, definitely add Arrival , probably one of the most intelligent scifi movies, based on language science. When a person becomes fluent and begins thinking in a new language, their brain changes in measurable ways. Very cool concept piece. 😺✌️
All of those… seconds…Gattaca…. Suture (no one seems to know this one)…. Stalker…arty..but a trip for those who have a lot of patience…probably the greatest, oddest of them all… Logan’s run…. 1984…silent running…Dern should have got an Oscar…. District 9… but none of them beat an episode of Blake 7 or pre Capaldi Dr Who.
Just for fun.....😊 1. Metropolis - original full reconstructed cut 2. The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 3. War of the Worlds 1953 4. The Matrix 1999 5. Quatermass and The Pit 1967 6. Soylent Green 1973 7. Things to Come 1933 8. Judge Dredd 1995 9. Snow Piecer 2013 10. Oblivion 2013 (Honourable mention because it's a TV series/movies and not a cinema movie - Babylon 5)
@@Morfeusm Always happily to encounter another Babylon 5 addict! ☺️ Even if it's just an honourable mention, no sci-fi list is complete without it. I love Metropolis......it is everything a good sci-fi movie should be and it set that benchmark nearly 100 years ago. It's an incredible work of art. 👍
You’re good. You know, it just could be that a much younger version. Oops. I like andromeda strain, Solaris, forbidden planet, phase 4, colossus the forbin project, 1984, the quiet earth, dune 84, alien, dark star, when worlds collide, and all of yours
THINGS TO COME (1936), George Pal's WAR OF THE WORLDS, WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE - THIS ISLAND EARTH, FORBIDDEN PLANET, 20, 000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, recommend books KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES! 21st Century Edition, by Bill Warren, SCIENCE FICTION IN THE CINEMA by John Baxter
I am not as cultured I have stuff like Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Flash Gordon, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Logan's Run, and Alien
A little too slow? 2001: A Space Odyssey absolutely bored me and it's one of the worst movies I've ever watched. The Planet of the Apes movies, Blade Runner, and Westworld are solid picks.
Pretty decent list, however I prefer ‘The Thing from Another World’ (1951) to the remake. And ‘Godzilla’(1954) should on the list, the original Japanese version, not the Raymond Burr version I grew up with. 👍
2001 Stalker A.I. Blade Runner Solaris (Tarkovsky) A Clockwork Orange Blade Runner La Jetee Face of Another THX 1138 Alphaville Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut) Bubblegum Crisis 2032-2033 (OVA) Tron Legacy Close Encounters The Thing Laputa Castle in the Sky Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Terminator Alien Robocop Remake
Pretty close, Mr. Michael K. Vaughan. It actually goes more like this - no particular order, series get a representative: Metropolis The Matrix Blade Runner Invasion of the Body Snatchers Dune The Thing Planet of the Apes Alien 2001 Star Wars
Any list that does not include the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a joke. Have you been taken over by the pod people? Please get help immediately! I would have on my list Tarkovsky's Stalker and The Amphibian Man, a Russian sci fi that at its time was the biggest grossing Russian film ever. It's on TH-cam with English subs.
Great list and planet of the apes is a classic. But I dont understand why they land on earth? Nasa spends zillions of dollars to go to Alpha centauri, but then they end up on earth🤔. And its not explained😡
It was the PLANET OF THE APES TV show that had ANSA astronauts going to Alpha Centauri, only to run into "radioactive turbulence" which prompted Col. Virdon to order Jones to activate their ship's 'Emergency Homing Device', which -- after they fast-forwarded from 8-19-1980 to the date 6-14-3085 in a "time-warp" -- zipped them back to Earth AND backwards through Time, to the date 3-21-3085. The ANSA astronauts in the original movie were sent out to an Earth-like planet (with a Sun-like star in its sky) located 320 lightyears from Earth in the constellation Orion. How did THEY end up back on Earth? Although they never did explain this in the film (or its sequels), my hunch is that they arrived at their Destination in spacetime on the date 11-25-3978 (as Taylor sees on the EARTH-TIME clock before the ship sinks) . . . but they had actually had their own 'Emergency Homing Device' activated, too, and they also not only zipped back to Earth -- a distance of 320 lightyears -- but they ALSO ended up back in Time, on or around the date 9-28-3955, some 8,460 Earth-Time days earlier -- just as Virdon's ship went back in Time some 85 Earth-Time days while doing a 'jump' across 4.367 lightyears from Alpha Centauri. For some reason, the clock on Taylor's ship DIDN'T register this change from '3978' to '3955' . . . but the ships we see in BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES and ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES did register this change, since Brent tells his 'Skipper' that he took an Earth-Time reading before re-entry of "Three-niner-five-five" -- and the 3-seater ship which Milo found parked on the seashore (i.e. he didn't dredge up the 4-seater ship from the bottom of Dead Lake) also had '3955' on its clock; in fact, the Blu-ray edition of PLANET OF THE APES includes a screen-shot from the Prologue scene edited out of ESCAPE, in which the three 'Ape-onauts' are seen inside the cockpit, and the date of Doomsday is visible: "11-23-3955" . . .
You, Grammiticus & Donohoe all need to watch some movies NOT made in the US. You at least had an Australian movie on your list. Grammiticus had 1 German film on his original list.I haven't seen his latest yet, but I will go over there and dump all over it when I'm finished here. The Soviets, the French, the British, and even the antipodes (The Quiet Earth is a great "last man on earth" movie from NZ) have all made great SF films. You and your ape buddies have apparently seen none of them. As for time travel movies, in recent years, there have been a slew of films and TV shows with mind-bending bootstrap and other paradoxes. Primer (US), Predestination (Aust), Dark (Germany) & Bodies (UK) come to mind. All demonstrably better on every single level than Time after Time, a tawdry movie with no actual SF content at all. And again, like those other "monkeys", you didn't have Frankenstein on your list. Unforgivable! It has wonderful lead performances, it's own lighting design, social commentary hidden in the subtext and invents a bunch of tropes still used in both horror and SF films to this day (almost a century later). I would be willing to wager considerable sums that you have seen it more times than the movies you actually picked. Watch the two Tarkovsky masterpieces (Stalker & Solaris) and tell me that the ones you picked are better movies. I love bad movies, but I don't pretend they're better than actual cinema. It's possible you can enjoy trashy commercial films but you don't get any more out of them than entertainment. I prefer to be challenged and engaged, which I see as the purpose of both cinema and SF.
I really like Westworld, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Road Warrior, 2001 a space odyssey, planet of the apes (original) but Blade Runner and the Thing would both be in my top three along with Alien. 🦧
Fun fact about "Planet of the Apes": The novel was written by Pierre Boulle who also wrote "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1952).
“They’re good, but all wrong!” I love it 😂 I dunno how you kept a mostly straight face for so long!
9:40 - It's impossible to not love a movie that contains the line "The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!"
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Forbidden Planet (1956) on this list.
Hurray for remembering the TV show! I loved it. They worked intelligently within their constraints and made fun, often thoughtful, episodes.
Not a bad list, one sci-fi movie which is great and i think gets overlooked is "invasion of the body snatchers" starring Donald Sutherland
I prefer the black and white version from the fifties. The actors seemed like more innocent people.
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That would be my #1!
@@Unpotted the original is great, i understand the original one was a commentary on the red peril and the characters were made to be more sympathetic. The remake was more in the realm of scifi horror
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@@andrewturley9295 Just the opposite of the red peril, if anything.
Don Siegel spoke of an existing allegorical subtext but didn’t commit to it being the full purpose of the film. He said, “I felt that this was a very important story. I think that the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them. I think so many people have no feeling about cultural things, no feeling of pain, of sorrow… The political reference to Senator McCarthy and totalitarianism was inescapable but I tried not to emphasize it because I feel that motion pictures are primarily to entertain and I did not want to preach.”
10:20 - "This isn't Rational Max, it's Mad Max." I'll be using that whenever this movie comes up in conversation.
Oh boy, it's a Donnybrook now! "This isn't 'Rational Max'. It's 'Mad Max'" ~ Lol, I do love Mad Max. Great picks MKV....well most of them anyway!
A great list, I love all the movies you mentioned. Planet of the Apes (1968), and John Carpenter's The Thing hit my sweet spot. I would only add Alien (1979), but your list is superb.
One word: Robocop.
That’s three words Olly.
No wonder you managed to read 900 books last year! 😝
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You know, I keep waiting for the inevitable prequel "Rational Max." Maybe some day. I also wonder if there's a connection between the placement of Planet of the Apes and your recent sponsorship by Dr. Zaius.
"Rational Max". I love that.👍
Yup. Without a doubt Michael, your list is better but shame on you, you didn't include Forbidden Planet. If I were to make a list that would certainly be included!
That was a glaring omission for me as well. But I'm glad MKV put The Day the Earth Stood Still on his list. " Klaatu barada nikto." I think both were fantastic and seminal films. The film that would be my number two or three didn't make it to Grammaticus or MKV's list is Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. That and Blade Runner are IMO the best dystopian SF films ever, with a big shout out to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Edit: But then again Planet of the Apes, both versions, are dystopian, masterpieces too. So, I'll shut up now. 🙃
@@buckocean7616I'm glad you agree. For me, Day The Earth Stood Still would come directly after FP.
I'm glad The Day the Earth Stood Still made your list.
Yes indeed, your list is the best. Do a horror movie list pretty please 🙏.
Great list. A little weighted towards the older classics, but then again it is your list 😜. Contact and Moon have to be on any best sci-fi list of mine.
Moon is great!
@@sgriffin9960 Right? One of my all time faves!
Nice list. I would have included A Clockwork Orange.
Fine list, Michael! A new Sci Fi movie I like is _Godzilla Minus One._ I'm not dismayed it didn't make the list, your list is real good.
The first movie I thought of that was missing was the original Godzilla movie, Gojira. That is the one with the story intact and without Raymond Burr edited in, for US audiences. I have only ever seen it in Japanese, so there may not be a version dubbed into english. It is a surprisingly good movie that happens to have a gigantic monster in it.
Excellent list though it suffers from a lack of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Either version would suffice.
Love your list! I've seen them all. I remember when AMC used to have an Apes Marathon from time to time. They'd show all the original movies in order and the making of documentary. I never missed watching it. Too bad no one does that sort of thing today.
I watched The Incredible Shrinking Man on Svengoolie’s Saturday night show a few years ago and loved it! So excited to see it here on your list. Planet of the Apes ( the original ) is the one movie I can watch over and over again since I first watched it during Planet of the Apes week during the 4:30 movie! I must have been 9 or 10 years old.
Lily Tomlin did a parody movie called The Incredible Shrinking Woman in the early 80s. I saw it a few years ago and it was fun.
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This video has the potential to go viral and start thousands of arguments in the comments.
I agree that _2001: A Space Odyssey_ should be in the top three. Honorable mention for _Fahrenheit 451_ (1966).
Very nice list Michael! I wouldn't mind seeing one on your favorite movies of all time period!
HAL 9000 was created at my alma mater, university of Illinois
This is the superior list by far. Those other channels should cower in shame.
Another highly entertaining video emanating from the stateliest manor. Much more stately than that other one. Loved the list. Loved Blade Runner the most. Try the original Thing from 1951. Very snappy dialog. One great campy movie from the ‘50s is “It The Terror From Beyond Space”. You may see where Alien came from.
Great list, this one is the best! I'd like to hear Mr Donahue's view on that though lol!'
Great list! I seriously enjoyed Westworld, lots of tension and thrills in that one. If The Incredible Shrinking man is as good as the book then I will definitely be keen to watch it. The Thing is indeed a masterpiece. 2001: A Space Odyssey is quite the trip. I really enjoyed it, despite the length.
Your list is so you! Excellent picks.
This is a very fine list with some of my favourite classics, and a couple I'm not yet familiar with I will be checking out. I would also add Alien, the original King Kong and Bride of Frankenstein, and for more modern films I would add Cube, Ex Machina and the recent Dune adaptation.
There is an understated elegance to your chicken tie.
I am intrigued.
Great list! We have similar tastes in films Mike. How many of these would feature on my livestream Desert Island Flicks if you did it? :)
A top ten is so hard to narrow down. Other candidates could also include Soylent Green, Silent Running, 12 Monkeys, Starship Troopers, Brazil, Quartermass & the Pit, Edge of Tomorrow, Fifth Element, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (50s or 70s).... So so many to chose from.
I have watched Planet of the Apes and Time After Time at least 100 times each. Oh, and I still have my Planet of the Apes tv series cards that came in bubble gum packages! I was a huge James Naughton fan. ❤ Great list!
This Island Earth, Forbidden Planet, Rocket Ship X-M, The Time Machine (with Rod Taylor), When Worlds Collide..... so many more. That's the problem with "Best Of" lists, there's rarely 100% agreement.
"This isn't Rational Max, it's Mad Max": great line.
I've taught Blade Runner to High School senior English students and it's wonderful to see how receptive they are to it: regardless of generation, it still connects with viewers because Scott taps into something essentially human and the actors are able to convey this so well.
West World the series is excellent.
Planet Of The Apes the series had very modest storylines while viewers were expecting more of the big-name stars, grand conflicts and spectacles of the movies (I know I was).
Another great video, Michael. You need to expand beyond just books, and you are very well equiped and situated to do so. Film, TV, Stage adaptations, and continuations, or reintrepretations. I was going to write you to do this privately, but this is such a nice opportunity to do so publicly. Because of your interests in pulp fiction you are very familiar with Cover Artsits and Illustrators. It would be nice if you would do a video from time to time discussing them. I discovered Frank Frazetta and Fank Miller thanks to you, and they are wonderful artists. But you know the field far better than I ever will, so I'd be pleassed to have you as a guide, as I am sure, others who follow your channel would as well. So tell Roger to get to work and stop just sitting there like he was dead or something.
No Star Wars, no Star Trek. No Metropolis. Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Liquid Sky? The X-Files movie? Zardoz? Plan 9 from Outer Space? Jurassic Park? Soylent Green? The Omega Man? The Terminator? Alien?
This is an outstanding - and objectively correct - list MKV!
(Sorry GB!)
This reminds me of an issue of The Comics Journel from the 80's. It had a review of both The Thing and Blade Runner. And iirc it was not very kind to either film. It had a Berni Wrightson Captain Stern cover. I found it digging thru a bunch of boxes at Miles High Comics in Denver when I used to live there.
I know that Dune from 1984 is not usually listed on anyone's favorite list, but it is still my favorite sci-fi movie. Hint: If you stopped watching the same movie a million times, you would have time to watch the newest version of Blade Runner. 😁 Thanks!
David lynch's Dune remains one of my favourite films, I watched it not long after it's release & loved it, it also made me rush to pick the book up, I still prefer it over the recent Denis Villeneuve version
@@gerarddonohoe5806 From reading the book years ago, I already had a mental picture of Paul. Timothy Chalamet does not fit the picture; Kyle McLachlan did. And Patrick Stewart as Gurney, Sting as Feyd were perfect choices to me.
Agreed..the new film version is so bland & dull, Timothée Chalamet has zero screen presence(at least for me) & despite Kyle MacLachlan being too old for the part he brought depth rather than looks to the part & not forgetting francesca Annis,sian Phillips & countless others..
Awesome list! Though I would've added Alien :)
I was surprised only two Apes movies made the top 10! I would add the original "The Thing" by one of my favorite directors, Howard Hawks.But I don't know which of the others I would ditch.
I, for one, would love to see your top 10 list for 50's science fiction movies!
Whoa. We’re doing movies now. I’m in.
I met the Director of the day. The Earth stood still. It was after that film was canon in my family Klaatu barada nikto.
Good list. My list would overlap greatly. Off the top of my head, my list would include.a few not on yours: The Andromeda Strain, Alien, Alien II, and Silent Running, and maybe the Jeff Goldblum version of The Fly.
Totally agree with your choices for 1 and 2. The inclusion of the Road Warrior might make this the best list, although West World is obviously a joke inclusion 🤭🤭 I haven't seen quite a few on this list though (Time after Time, Shrinking Man, Man who fell to earth, The Thing). As for Bored Runner, I suppose it's gotta be there but I find it boring. Btw I met that dude bro film club at a MAGA event recently. 😉
Well Done!
Aside from the new PLANET OF THE APES prequel trilogy, I've seen all the movies on your list and enjoyed them for the most part, though I'm not a Kubrick fan. I did like THE SHINING, and 2001 is good. I watched that for research for an article about the 2001 comic book Marvel published. We have some of the films you mentioned in our collection, including limited editions of BLADE RUNNER and the original PLANET OF THE APES films. BLADE RUNNER is in a briefcase with an origami and all versions of the film. The original APES movies are in a case shaped like Roddy McDowell's character's head, and includes all the Roddy McDowell movies, the TV series and animated series. My wife and I enjoyed BLADE RUNNER 2, though it can't compare to the original. It's still a good film. I'll get around to the new APES films when I have fewer writing deadlines. What did you think of FORBIDDEN PLANET? I enjoyed that one a bunch.
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You never asked me, just sayin'.
Gotta love the Incredible Shrinking Man, except for the end, because well, SPOILER ALERT, he didn't need to kill the spider because, well, it was too late and FYI, spiders don't eat cake.
The THING was a 'thing' at my house when I was growing up. My brother ran it every time it came up. It scared me every time but not as badly as (1953's) INVADERS FROM MARS. How did you miss that one? It scared the daylights out of me every time I watched it from the time I was 6.
(What a HENsome tie!)
Oh, good...the Tim Burton Apes movie is not on the list. That alone makes it good. This list gets my approval. Not that my approval means anything. Carry on.
My top ten:
10. Ex Machina
9. Serenity
8. Star Gate (1994)
7. Revenge of the Sith
6. Akira
5. Inception
4. Blade Runner 2049
3. Arrival
2. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
1. Empire Strikes Back
I do love Serenity and Star Wars! I didn’t realize until recently there’s actually books in the Serenity universe, but I haven’t had any luck getting my hands on one yet. $16 for a quick read paperback is just a bit to rich for my blood.
SERENITY!! OMG YESSS! ❤❤❤
,, Ceasar is home''... Oh man i just LOVE Rise of planet of the apes ❤
I'll mention a movie that nobody else has listed in the comments: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
I don't have time to make a video of my own, but I can't help wondering if any of you dude-bros has ever seen a non-American movie. I guess Gramaticus squeaked in Godzilla: Minus One (great, by the way), but where's Andrei Tarkovsky on any of these lists? Solaris? Stalker? Good grief, I'm clearly going to need to make my own video! 😖
I am surprised Alien isn't on the list
Blade Runner 2049 is my favorite movie of all time. You've gotta watch it.
That’s not a bad pick! Very underrated movie. I would say it’s even better than original. And more faithful adaptation.
Interesting list. A lot of classic sci fi. I would include some more recent choices as well, lIke Contact, Arrival, and Interstellar.
I agree with #1
I realize a list like this is quite subjective. However, I'm a bit surprised that "Forbidden Planet" failed to make the grade. Perhaps you need a second list of honorable mentions?
Good after Mr Clock and of course Sir Michael and Roger
Oh my gosh, Mr Clock No The Time Machine!!!! Can you believe it. I will say it again can you believe it But most of the other choices were spot on, I watched 2001 a Space Odyssey on the big screen in a Middle of Nowhere town in Australia not long after it came out, I was about 16 and I could see This film is a master class in all that is brilliant. And I agree with you with Planet of the Apes, I saw this on the big screen as well, and it was a great beast of a movie, speaking of which. King Kong deserves a place as well. It is not a monster movie As does Forbidden plane. The 1950 could indeed have it own top ten list
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As someone who actually studied film at university (I did my BA honours thesis on Kubrick) and co-hosted a film program on radio for several years, I can indeed confirm that your list is OK, and it may well be great but I don't know for sure cos there's a few I've never seen on here. Oddly, I have seen Futureworld more than once but never Westworld. Think I prefer the original Mad Max to its sequels (except perhaps for Fury Road) and have always considered Blade Runner overrated.
On the subject of apes, I'm reading Mr Burroughs' original Tarzan story. About halfway through, enjoying it a lot so far.
Not a single James Cameron or Ridley Scott Flick? No Avatar, Alien, Terminator or Abyss????? What the heck Michael????!!!! I do like all the movies in your list though. :)
What about Silent Running? A masterpiece among lesser films.
Agree
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Silent running 2001 star wars close encounters planet of the apes original alien forbidden planet time machine original blade runner
Haha..well when I saw 2001 at number 2 i kinda thought you would have planet of the apes at the top spot.
Excellent choice, glad the awful remake of the day the earth stood still has(hopefully) been forgotten along with the even more god awful tim Burton planet of the apes disaster.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the invaluable input from the Dude Bro Cinema Club, so my top 10 list had to go Ape-less...
10. Godzilla
9. Forbidden Planet
8. Brazil
7. The Fly
6. Alphaville
5. Time After Time
4. Dark City
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
2. Metropolis
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
And almost forgot -- honorable mention to The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Silent running 😊
Make it a top 20 and add the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Blob, with Steve McQueen, Aliens, and The Mist.
I also love the campiness of Alien: Resurrection and Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman.
I would like to do a list of the best worst science fiction movies, but I don’t have a channel. 😝 I love very bad science fiction movies, like Plan 9 From Outer Space. They’re just so much fun.
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Oh, yeah, definitely add Arrival , probably one of the most intelligent scifi movies, based on language science.
When a person becomes fluent and begins thinking in a new language, their brain changes in measurable ways. Very cool concept piece.
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And District 9, for its originality.
Blade runner 2049 is pretty immaculate too.
All of those… seconds…Gattaca…. Suture (no one seems to know this one)…. Stalker…arty..but a trip for those who have a lot of patience…probably the greatest, oddest of them all… Logan’s run…. 1984…silent running…Dern should have got an Oscar…. District 9… but none of them beat an episode of Blake 7 or pre Capaldi Dr Who.
Great video you should vary content towards movies also books obviously but great content anyway
Forbidden Planet and Aliens should be on that list. But even if you had a top 100 some people would add more or replace some.
WEll that video was more fun than a barrel of monkeys. All I can say is Michael barada nicto.
So, simian cinema celebrities advised you.
Just for fun.....😊
1. Metropolis - original full reconstructed cut
2. The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
3. War of the Worlds 1953
4. The Matrix 1999
5. Quatermass and The Pit 1967
6. Soylent Green 1973
7. Things to Come 1933
8. Judge Dredd 1995
9. Snow Piecer 2013
10. Oblivion 2013
(Honourable mention because it's a TV series/movies and not a cinema movie - Babylon 5)
Good thing you mentioned Babylon 5 it made my evening better! Also number 1 on your list is objectively great movie!
@@Morfeusm Always happily to encounter another Babylon 5 addict! ☺️ Even if it's just an honourable mention, no sci-fi list is complete without it. I love Metropolis......it is everything a good sci-fi movie should be and it set that benchmark nearly 100 years ago. It's an incredible work of art. 👍
You’re good. You know, it just could be that a much younger version. Oops. I like andromeda strain, Solaris, forbidden planet, phase 4, colossus the forbin project, 1984, the quiet earth, dune 84, alien, dark star, when worlds collide, and all of yours
Great list, but wait... what about "Dark Star"?
Matt Reeves. There is a new Apes movie coming out soon. So it's number 4.❤❤❤
THINGS TO COME (1936), George Pal's WAR OF THE WORLDS, WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE - THIS ISLAND EARTH, FORBIDDEN PLANET, 20, 000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, recommend books KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES! 21st Century Edition, by Bill Warren, SCIENCE FICTION IN THE CINEMA by John Baxter
The Thing is the only movie on this list that I've seen 😬
I am not as cultured I have stuff like Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Flash Gordon, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Logan's Run, and Alien
A little too slow? 2001: A Space Odyssey absolutely bored me and it's one of the worst movies I've ever watched.
The Planet of the Apes movies, Blade Runner, and Westworld are solid picks.
The 10 best science fiction films haven't been made yet. And the current crop of filmmakers are not going to make them.
Pretty decent list, however I prefer ‘The Thing from Another World’ (1951) to the remake. And ‘Godzilla’(1954) should on the list, the original Japanese version, not the Raymond Burr version I grew up with. 👍
2001
Stalker
A.I.
Blade Runner
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
A Clockwork Orange
Blade Runner
La Jetee
Face of Another
THX 1138
Alphaville
Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut)
Bubblegum Crisis 2032-2033 (OVA)
Tron Legacy
Close Encounters
The Thing
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Terminator
Alien
Robocop Remake
Great list, but where is Queen of Outer Space???
Pretty close, Mr. Michael K. Vaughan. It actually goes more like this - no particular order, series get a representative:
Metropolis
The Matrix
Blade Runner
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Dune
The Thing
Planet of the Apes
Alien
2001
Star Wars
Time After Time .. ok, is this a prank list, I feel like this is entrapment, did someone tell you I liked this film? Roger? hrm..
Any list that does not include the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a joke. Have you been taken over by the pod people? Please get help immediately! I would have on my list Tarkovsky's Stalker and The Amphibian Man, a Russian sci fi that at its time was the biggest grossing Russian film ever. It's on TH-cam with English subs.
Great list and planet of the apes is a classic. But I dont understand why they land on earth? Nasa spends zillions of dollars to go to Alpha centauri, but then they end up on earth🤔. And its not explained😡
It was the PLANET OF THE APES TV show that had ANSA astronauts going to Alpha Centauri, only to run into "radioactive turbulence" which prompted Col. Virdon to order Jones to activate their ship's 'Emergency Homing Device', which -- after they fast-forwarded from 8-19-1980 to the date 6-14-3085 in a "time-warp" -- zipped them back to Earth AND backwards through Time, to the date 3-21-3085.
The ANSA astronauts in the original movie were sent out to an Earth-like planet (with a Sun-like star in its sky) located 320 lightyears from Earth in the constellation Orion. How did THEY end up back on Earth? Although they never did explain this in the film (or its sequels), my hunch is that they arrived at their Destination in spacetime on the date 11-25-3978 (as Taylor sees on the EARTH-TIME clock before the ship sinks) . . . but they had actually had their own 'Emergency Homing Device' activated, too, and they also not only zipped back to Earth -- a distance of 320 lightyears -- but they ALSO ended up back in Time, on or around the date 9-28-3955, some 8,460 Earth-Time days earlier -- just as Virdon's ship went back in Time some 85 Earth-Time days while doing a 'jump' across 4.367 lightyears from Alpha Centauri.
For some reason, the clock on Taylor's ship DIDN'T register this change from '3978' to '3955' . . . but the ships we see in BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES and ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES did register this change, since Brent tells his 'Skipper' that he took an Earth-Time reading before re-entry of "Three-niner-five-five" -- and the 3-seater ship which Milo found parked on the seashore (i.e. he didn't dredge up the 4-seater ship from the bottom of Dead Lake) also had '3955' on its clock; in fact, the Blu-ray edition of PLANET OF THE APES includes a screen-shot from the Prologue scene edited out of ESCAPE, in which the three 'Ape-onauts' are seen inside the cockpit, and the date of Doomsday is visible: "11-23-3955" . . .
You, Grammiticus & Donohoe all need to watch some movies NOT made in the US. You at least had an Australian movie on your list. Grammiticus had 1 German film on his original list.I haven't seen his latest yet, but I will go over there and dump all over it when I'm finished here. The Soviets, the French, the British, and even the antipodes (The Quiet Earth is a great "last man on earth" movie from NZ) have all made great SF films. You and your ape buddies have apparently seen none of them.
As for time travel movies, in recent years, there have been a slew of films and TV shows with mind-bending bootstrap and other paradoxes. Primer (US), Predestination (Aust), Dark (Germany) & Bodies (UK) come to mind. All demonstrably better on every single level than Time after Time, a tawdry movie with no actual SF content at all.
And again, like those other "monkeys", you didn't have Frankenstein on your list. Unforgivable! It has wonderful lead performances, it's own lighting design, social commentary hidden in the subtext and invents a bunch of tropes still used in both horror and SF films to this day (almost a century later). I would be willing to wager considerable sums that you have seen it more times than the movies you actually picked.
Watch the two Tarkovsky masterpieces (Stalker & Solaris) and tell me that the ones you picked are better movies. I love bad movies, but I don't pretend they're better than actual cinema. It's possible you can enjoy trashy commercial films but you don't get any more out of them than entertainment. I prefer to be challenged and engaged, which I see as the purpose of both cinema and SF.
I wasted ten bucks on Rational Max when it came out in 89 man what a boring movie it's just Max sitting around thinking about stuff 😴
I really like Westworld, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Road Warrior, 2001 a space odyssey, planet of the apes (original) but Blade Runner and the Thing would both be in my top three along with Alien.
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