Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction FilmsUniversity of Texas Press, 30 oct 2015 - 440 páginas Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this phenomenon new. Sci-fi filmmakers and audiences have been exploring fantastic planets, forbidden zones, and lost continents ever since George Méliès’ 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. In this highly entertaining and knowledgeable book, film historian and pop culture expert Douglas Brode picks the one hundred greatest sci-fi films of all time. Brode’s list ranges from today’s blockbusters to forgotten gems, with surprises for even the most informed fans and scholars. He presents the movies in chronological order, which effectively makes this book a concise history of the sci-fi film genre. A striking (and in many cases rare) photograph accompanies each entry, for which Brode provides a numerical rating, key credits and cast members, brief plot summary, background on the film’s creation, elements of the moviemaking process, analysis of the major theme(s), and trivia. He also includes fun outtakes, including his top ten lists of Fifties sci-fi movies, cult sci-fi, least necessary movie remakes, and “so bad they’re great” classics—as well as the ten worst sci-fi movies (“those highly ambitious films that promised much and delivered nil”). So climb aboard spaceship Brode and journey to strange new worlds from Metropolis (1927) to Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). |
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Just Imagine 1930 | |
Island of Lost Souls 1932 | |
Things to Come 1936 | |
Dr Cyclops 1940 | |
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 | |
The War of the Worlds 1953 | |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 | |
Escape from New York 1981 | |
The Thing 1982 | |
Blade Runner 1982 | |
Back to the Future 1985 | |
Predator 1987 | |
Total Recall 1990 | |
Twelve Monkeys 1995 | |
Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 | |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 | |
Godzilla King of the Monsters 1956 | |
The World the Flesh and the Devil 1959 On the Beach 1959 and | |
Village of the Damned 1960 and The Day of the Triffids 1963 | |
The Birds 1963 | |
The Satan Bug 1965 | |
1966 | |
Barbarella 1968 | |
The Forbin Project 1970 | |
1971 | |
Westworld 1973 and Futureworld 1976 | |
Men in Black 1997 | |
The Phantom Menace 1999 Star Wars Episode | |
Artificial Intelligence 2001 and Minority Report 2002 | |
for Vendetta 2005 | |
WALLE 2008 | |
2009 | |
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 | |
Man of Steel 2013 | |
Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 | |
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