{"id":689,"date":"2007-05-04T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolanpro.com\/wordpress\/?p=348"},"modified":"2007-05-04T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T22:36:00","slug":"return-of-the-list-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/2007\/05\/04\/return-of-the-list-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the list"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read about this on FilmJunk<\/span><\/a>, apparently Entertainment Weekly <\/a>made this list of the best sci-fi<\/span> movies made in the last 25 years. It has a few good ones and a few bad ones.<\/p>\n

Frankly comparing a television show with a movie doesn’t<\/span> work for me; as one develops over a longer period of time. A quick look at this list shows the variety of overriding genres that have sci-fi<\/span> elements. Futurama<\/span> is a comedy, Quantum Leap was a drama (very little sci-fi<\/span>). Clone Wars (which is awesome!) is an action cartoon. I don’t know about The Matrix being the best sci-fi<\/span> in the last 25 years (I’ve added my opinions in parentheses<\/span>). I myself am partial to Bladerunner<\/span> which deals with much of the same issues with AI, etc. but does so with a fantastic neo<\/span>–noir<\/span><\/a> complexity that trumps the freshmen level philosophy<\/span> and visual effects of The Matrix. It should be noted that Edward James Olmos<\/span> plays a critical role in both the number 2 and number 3 picks on the list, once again proving that EJO<\/span> is freakin<\/span>‘ awesome!
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25. V: The Mini-series (in the 80’s there were great shows like V but then there was also crap like V, staring the Beastmaster<\/span> himself Mark Singer)
24. Galaxy Quest (meh<\/span>)
23. Doctor Who
22. Quantum Leap
21. Futurama<\/span>
20. Star Wars: Clone Wars
19. Starship<\/span> Troopers (whaaaa<\/span>? the book was alright)
18. Heroes (we’ll see)
17. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. Total Recall
15. Firefly\/Serenity
14. Children of Men (very good)
13. The Terminator\/Terminator 2 (meh<\/span>)
12. Back To The Future
11. Lost \"\"<\/a>
10. The Thing
9. Aliens (game over man but I think Alien is a better movie)
8. Star Trek: TNG<\/span> (Christ<\/span> this show was boring DS<\/span>9 had a freakin<\/span>‘ war that’s drama and action, this show was all rehash of the first series and boring diplomatic intrigue)
7. E.T.
6. Brazil (gotta love the natural blending of Kafkaesque<\/span> and Pythonesque<\/span>)
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (James Horner’s<\/span> score rules)
4. The X-Files (it was great until it went on too long and got lame around season 7)
3. Blade Runner
2. Battlestar<\/span> Galactica<\/span> (this show is the only good thing Sci-fi<\/span> Channel has done since they aired Akira<\/span> and Robot Carnival <\/a>in the early 90’s this list also lacks anime like Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell)
1. The Matrix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read about this on FilmJunk, apparently Entertainment Weekly made this list of the best sci-fi movies made in the last 25 years. It has a few good ones and a few bad ones. Frankly comparing a television show with a movie doesn’t work for me; as one develops over a longer period of time. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.granateseed.com\/futilepodcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}