Lists of Bests: Phobos Entertainment's "50 Science Fiction Films You Just Have to See"

Send to Printer Phobos Entertainment's "50 Science Fiction Films You Just Have to See" If you’re trying to understand the good, bad and ugly of science fiction films, you might want to start with Phobos’ “List of SF Films You Have To See.” No matter what its pedigree–or its quality–each film below is loaded with ideas, images or themes that have helped elevate cinematic SF to the heights it enjoys today. Picked by Keith Olexa. (found at: http://www.phobosweb.com/features/50films/index.php)
	1.		Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition) by George Lucas
	2.		Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) by Fritz Lang
	3.		Forbidden Planet by Fred M. Wilcox
	4.		Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Don Siegel
	5.		The Fly (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
	6.		The Thing From Another World by Christian Nyby
	7.		The Thing - Collector's Edition
	8.	?	The Empire Strikes Back
	9.		The Matrix by Larry Wachowski
	10.	?	Godzilla King of the Monsters by Terry O. Morse
	11.		The Time Machine by George Pal
	12.		The War of the Worlds by Byron Haskin
	13.		Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) by Nicholas Meyer
	14.		Planet of the Apes by Franklin J. Schaffner
	15.		The Andromeda Strain by Robert Wise
	16.		This Island Earth by Jack Arnold
	17.		Them! by Gordon Douglas
	18.	?	Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth) by
	19.		2001 - A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick
	20.		The Terminator by James Cameron
	21.		Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) by Ridley Scott
	22.		Altered States by Ken Russell
	23.		H.G. Wells - Things to Come by William Cameron Menzies
	24.		Alien by Ridley Scott
	25.		Aliens (Special Edition) by James Cameron
	26.		The Day the Earth Stood Still by Robert Wise
	27.	?	The Incredible Shrinking Man by Jack Arnold
	28.		The Day After by Nicholas Meyer
	29.		Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy by Roger Vadim
	30.		A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
	31.		Sleeper
	32.		Zardoz
	33.		Logan's Run by Michael Anderson
	34.		Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
	35.		Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition) by Steven Lisberger
	36.		1984 by Michael Radford
	37.		Akira (Special Edition) by Katsuhiro Ôtomo
	38.		Total Recall (Special Limited Edition) by Paul Verhoeven
	39.		Independence Day (Single Disc Widescreen Edition) by Roland Emmerich
	40.		Galaxy Quest
	41.		Fantastic Planet by René Laloux
	42.		Earth vs. the Flying Saucers by Fred F. Sears
	43.		The Rocky Horror Picture Show (25th Anniversary Edition) by Jim Sharman
	44.		The Bride of Frankenstein by James Whale
	45.		Plan 9 from Outer Space
	46.		The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition) by Quentin Lawrence
	47.		Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition) by Stanley Kubrick
	48.		The Road Warrior by George Miller (II)
	49.		When Worlds Collide by Rudolph Maté
	50.		Strange Days by Kathryn Bigelow
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