Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

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...the baby boom encompassed a loooooong generation; that they got twenty years when all the others got fifteen has more to do with their parents' shared post-war economy, lifestyle, and media landscape than any common cultural identity shared between kids who came-of-age in the fifties and kids who came-of-age in the seventies...

...regardless, i like the decades spanning 45-54 et al as a cultural marker; that seems to work pretty well right through the present, good suggestion...

 

[Cadence]

It does, but cultural experiences trump demographic generalizations.

Using cultural things seems more useful to me too.

I'm 1/3rd of the way through Gen-X (1970), but my end-of-X sister a decade later was too young to really be hit by the Atari 2600, Star Wars figures, B/X, 1e, Commodore 64, episodes iv-vi, and Ghostbusters that hit me squarely in middle childhood through early adolescence.

 

[Parmandur]

It does, but cultural experiences trump demographic generalizations.

I have no memory of the Challenger disaster (I was alive, but bust being a nursing infant at the time), but I vividly remember 9/11.

 

[The Soloist]

'63 here and seems like that just barely makes me a Boomer.

Tail end of Boomers are sometimes called the Generation Jones, or Jonesers: Generation Jones - Wikipedia

 

[Ahzad]

In no particular order.
Blade Runner - my first introduction to the cyberpunk genre that I can remember. I'm one of the strange ones that really loved the narration that was taken out of the later cuts.
Star Wars - while Trek on the small screen came first, SW in the cinema forever changed my 8 year old self, and it would be decades before Trek would once again take the top spot.
Alien - Horror sci-fi again changed how I looked at things.
Logans Run - for reasons listed up thread
And finally a newer one
From 2007 The Man From Earth a movie that I just can't keep myself from thinking about ever since a saw it for the first time 10 years or so ago. No crazy effects just a group of folks sitting in a cabin and somehow it ends up being one of the sci-fi movies I've ever seen.

 

[payn]

Blade Runner - my first introduction to the cyberpunk genre that I can remember. I'm one of the strange ones that really loved the narration that was taken out of the later cuts.

I had issues out of the gate with it. Mai9nly it broke the ambiance like an unwelcome visitor. Later, I learned that folks felt the movie was too hard to understand so they went back and added the voice over narration. That annoyed me even more. However, folks have explained a bit why they liked the voice over and it seems like it makes BR feel like a film noir cycberpunk edition and I can kinda see that. So, my stinkface about the voice over has softened over the years.