Ryujin
Legend
You have to consider that the Godzilla concept was born out of a post war Japan that had just been devastated by two atomic bombs. Godzilla is the physical embodiment of that fear. For me, he's solidly SciFi.
Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Sure, but he is a reaction in the form of myth, even of the magic has a thin veneer of "radiation", not scientific speculation. Fantasy film.
Note that I am not opposed o Fantasy, in fact I prefer it. But myth and fairy tale are a different matter from a speculative fiction thought experiment, even if there are lasers or radiation as set dressing.
The Soloist
Hero
On a tangent, best B-movies. They always found a way to pull me in despite their flaws:
- Barbarella
- Death Race 2000
- Escape from New York
- Flash Gordon
- Rollerball.
There’s too many already listed in this thread that would be contenders on my list, and some I’ve not seen mentioned.
Sooooo I’m…not gonna even try.
Sooooo I’m…not gonna even try.
Ryujin
Legend
Solid list there. I recently rewatched "Rollerball"; the James Caan original, not the recent remake. I needed the original as a palate cleanser, after seeing the remake.
The Soloist
Hero
A-List I always enjoy rewatching:
- Blade Runner
- The Matrix
- Dune I & II (it's one movie)
- 12 Monkeys
- Terminator II.
Re: Godzilla
Since the people who made the film explicitly stated that Gojira was an ancient creature mutated by radiation, prodded to rampage by the hydrogen bomb’s effects, and directly referenced real world events like the radioactive poisoning of the fishing boat Lucky Dragon #5 (shortly before the movie’s completion), I’m going with classifying it as sci-fi or science-fantasy.
Since the people who made the film explicitly stated that Gojira was an ancient creature mutated by radiation, prodded to rampage by the hydrogen bomb’s effects, and directly referenced real world events like the radioactive poisoning of the fishing boat Lucky Dragon #5 (shortly before the movie’s completion), I’m going with classifying it as sci-fi or science-fantasy.
In college, a group of us invented the "Rollerball Scale" of rating bad movies, based on the remake. The concept was pretty simple: how much alcohol is required to enjoy watching this movie? The scale is named after Rollerball because it's the limit. No amount of alcohol made that movie enjoyable. We tried. And failed.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
It has a flimsy sci-fi set dressing, like Star Wars or Spiderman.
Sci-fi can be nothing but set dressing.
If your definition of food can be used to show that a hot dog is a taco and a Big Mac is a cake, the take away should not be that you are a clever chef. It's that your definition is wrong. A joke. Fun pedantry for the internet, but not copacetic with any meaningful, real world definition.
If your definition of sci-fi is that a movie about aliens in space ships using lasers to blow up a giant space station isn't sci-fi...
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