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tommyrot - Aug 25, 2010 10:22:56 am PDT #10937 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

From io9:

25 classic science fiction movies that everybody must watch

Methodology: We looked at a few different criteria, including overall cinematic excellence. We wanted to include films that were important to the development of the genre, and which had helped to raise the overall level of awesomeness in science fiction films. We also wanted to represent as many different types of films as possible. And we looked for films that had an original concept, or which were the first of their kind in some way.

But most of all, we looked for films that would represent science fiction well to a new audience and totally rock a neophyte's brain.

I've seen 22 of the 25.

Dana - Aug 25, 2010 10:24:49 am PDT #10938 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

23, baby!

tommyrot - Aug 25, 2010 10:26:54 am PDT #10939 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Curses!

Frankenbuddha - Aug 25, 2010 10:26:58 am PDT #10940 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I've seen 21. Missing Ghost in the Shell, Primer, District 9 and Moon. Of those, I have two on DVD and I think I DVRed Primer and burned it to disc.

Jessica - Aug 25, 2010 10:28:32 am PDT #10941 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

23!

I haven't seen Alien or District 9 (yet).

le nubian - Aug 25, 2010 10:31:52 am PDT #10942 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have seen 20. I'm pretty surprised. I usually only see half of "list" movies.

Does io9 have some kind of list biweekly or something?

§ ita § - Aug 25, 2010 10:33:57 am PDT #10943 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

21. Have yet to see:

  • Primer
  • Moon
  • District 9
  • Forbidden Planet

Don't plan on seeing Forbidden Planet. Roll my eyes at Eternal Sunshine. Don't remember Tron.

sumi - Aug 25, 2010 10:35:55 am PDT #10944 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

I lose - I've only seen 10.

tommyrot - Aug 25, 2010 10:36:02 am PDT #10945 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Does io9 have some kind of list biweekly or something?

They do a lot of lists. Currently they're doing a series of "Introduction to SciFi" posts, and this is part of that.

Jessica - Aug 25, 2010 10:36:44 am PDT #10946 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Forbidden Planet is awesome, though! MONSTERS FROM THE ID!

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