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.

 

[Ryujin]

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

That would explain... a lot.

 

[Ahzad]

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.

Being a big fan of film noir, that was the reason I liked it. Most of my friends who aren't into film noir prefer it without, and I can watch either, but something about that narration tickles that part of my brain.

 

[Parmandur]

Being a big fan of film noir, that was the reason I liked it. Most of my friends who aren't into film noir prefer it without, and I can watch either, but something about that narration tickles that part of my brain.

It is generically appropriate, so as far as studio meddling goes it actually works well as it's own artistic take. It is clear after watching ot without that the film was designed to be more eerie and subtle by Scott, but agreed that I can watch either version.