Viewed today – the only version available is Lucas and co-writer Walter Murch’s digitally spruced-up 2004 ‘Director’s Cut’ – its shaven headed-cast, chillingly benign language intoning state propaganda and oppressive widescreen palette of glacial whites make for genuinely unnerving viewing. The studio hated the result and the subsequent box-office debacle almost killed both their careers.
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George Lucas and his pal Francis Ford Coppola persuaded Warner Brothers to take a flyer on expanding George’s earlier student short into this Orwell and Huxley-influenced fable about free love and free will versus all-powerful totalitarianism. Want more brilliant film recommendations? Check out our lists for the best horror movies, best space movies and the best thrillers ever made.Ĭast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie Written by Alex Plim, Tom Huddleston, Geoff Andrew, Catherine Bray, Dave Calhoun, Cath Clarke, Alex Dudok de Wit, Eddy Frankel, Trevor Johnston, Alim Kheraj, Joshua Rothkopf, Phil de Semlyen, Anna Smith & Keith Uhlich It’s such a good list, you’ll want to clone it. The result is a list as expansive as the universe a definitive selection housing all-time classics like Blade Runner to leftfield entries such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. We then threw in a few Time Out writers just for good measure. In order to choose the 100 best sci-fi movies, then, we decided that it was only right to enlist the assistance of a team of turbocharged experts, including Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, film director Guillermo del Toro, and the mind behind Game of Thrones, George RR Martin. that threatens to end life on Earth as we know it? Well, depending on who you ask, that one might have already happened. And what about a malignant and jealous A.I. How about an algorithm that can predict murders? Perhaps not as far-fetched as it initially seemed. Want killer space robots hellbent on destroying the galaxy? Go for it. But sci-fi films also offer a chance for filmmakers to delve deeper movies like Ex-Machina and WALL-E interrogate our humanity’s ethics and our propensity for destruction, while Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey provide poetic meditations on grief, ambition and evolution.Īs Butler said, nothing is off the cards when it comes to science-fiction.
While some are an opportunity to show off how cool it would be to have a laser sword, the eye-popping size of spaceships and alien civilisations, others act as an opportunity to explore what it means to be human in society today.Īmong the great space movies, Star Wars, of course, has kept us entertained for nearly 45 years and helped shape cinema as we know it. As the writer Octavia E Butler once said, ‘ Science-fiction frees you to go any place and examine anything.’ That is certainly true for the films on our list of the 100 best science-fiction movies of all time.