The 150 best science fiction movies of all time
As an annual event, Rolling Stone, an American biweekly magazine that mainly covers youth culture such as music and movies, releases its own rankings such as the `
The 150 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-sci-fi-movies-1234893930/tank-girl-1995-2-1234928496/
Rolling Stone said of science fiction movies, ``How boring movies would be if science fiction didn't exist, if science evolved only as research and didn't spill over into entertainment. Thoughtful and imaginative stories set in the possible future of our own society satisfy our desire to see a variety of films, and these films offer visions and insight into a variety of scientific and social issues. 'It gives us an opportunity to ask deep questions and think.'
According to Rolling Stone, they initially tried to create a ``Best 100 Science Fiction Movies,'' but as the debate became more complicated, they were unable to keep it to 100, so they added 50 movies to make the top 150. In addition, in this ranking, ``superhero movies'' are not considered science fiction movies, with some exceptions.
Rolling Stone's rankings are as follows.
◆1st place: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rolling Stone lists Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's ``2001: A Space Odyssey'' as the number one science fiction movie of all time. Even 50 years later, Kubrick's images still give viewers an idea that can be considered a benchmark for science fiction films. Rolling Stone said, ``Kubrick brings new conventions for science fiction films and the power to make viewers think about science fiction, all in a popular art form that resonates with an audience hungry for provocative material.'' 'The fact that it's still cutting-edge and resonates even now, decades later, is nothing short of divine,' he says passionately.
◆2nd place:
A science fiction film produced in 1979 by Andrei Tarkovsky, a film director in the Soviet Union, following `` Planet Solaris ''. Unlike ``Planet Solaris'', which has contact with a planet that seems to have life and will, ``Stalker'' has almost no science fiction fantasy depiction or production, but ``Stalker'' is a time when the science fiction genre is rapidly evolving in a fun direction. According to Rolling Stone, 'Tarkovsky pursued science fiction with heavy and outdated ideas, and his deep exploration skills left a strong influence on his later works.'
◆3rd place: Encounter with the unknown (1977)
Rolling Stone ranked Steven Spielberg's first science fiction film, ``Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' in third place on their list of the 150 best science fiction movies of all time. In this work, which depicts the first contact between humans and aliens, the music used for communication has an important meaning. In addition to winning first place for Best Cinematography at the time, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Music.
◆4th place: Blade Runner (1982)
◆5th place: Alien (1979)
◆6th place: Under the Skin Seed Predation (2013)
◆7th place: Tomorrow World (2006)
◆8th place: Metropolis (1927)
◆9th place: Star Wars Episode 4/A New Hope (1977)
◆10th place: Matrix (1999)
◆11th place: Starship Troopers (1997)
◆12th place: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
◆13th place: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
◆14th place: Message (2016)
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◆15th place: All You Need Is Kill (2014)
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◆16th place: Terminator 2 (1991)
◆17th place: Eternal Sunshine (2004)
◆18th place: SF/Body Snatcher (1978)
◆19th place: Planet of the Apes (1968)
◆20th place: Planet Solaris (1972)
◆21st place: Object X from the planet (1982)
◆22nd place: Star Wars Episode 5/The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
◆23rd place: Snowpiercer (2013)
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◆24th place: Minority Report (2002)
◆25th place: Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
◆26th place: The Fly (1986)
◆27th place: Alphaville (1965)
◆28th place: Future Century Brazil (1985)
◆29th place: Ex Machina (2014)
◆30th place: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
◆31st place: La Jetée (1962)
◆32nd place: AKIRA (1988)
◆33rd place: Body Snatcher/City of Fear (1956)
◆34th place: Alien 2 (1986)
◆35th place: her/One and only girlfriend in the world (2013)
◆36th place: Forbidden Planet (1956)
◆37th place:
The first work in the well-known 'Godzilla' series. 'This is a film that proves just how great original monster movies can be,' Rolling Stone praised.
◆38th place:
◆39th place: Wally (2008)
◆40th place: Terminator (1984)
◆41st place: Videodrome (1983)
◆42nd place: Back to the Future (1985)
◆43rd place: They Live (1988)
◆44th place: Zero Gravity (2013)
◆45th place: Travel to the Moon (1902)
'Le Voyage dans la Lune' is a 1902 French film, and Rolling Stone says, 'There may be no other film as influential or pioneering as this one.' Since 'Travel to the Moon' is a silent film and the copyright has expired, a YouTube channel called Billi Brass Quintet has released a remade version of the music.
Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) - Georges Méliès - (HQ) - Music by David Short - Billi Brass Quintet - YouTube
◆46th place: Brother from Another Planet (1984)
◆47th place: LOOPER (2012)
◆48th place: Mad Max 2 (1981)
◆49th place: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
◆50th place: Odyssey (2015)
◆51st place: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
◆52nd place: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
◆53rd place: DUNE/Dune Sand Planet (2021)
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◆54th place: War of the Worlds (2005)
◆55th place: Seconds (1966)
◆56th place: Primer (2004)
◆57th place: The Man Trapped in the Moon (2009)
◆58th place: RoboCop (1987)
◆59th place: Scanner Darkly (2006)
◆60th place: ET (1982)
◆61st place: 12 Monkeys (1995)
◆62nd place: Contact (1997)
◆63rd place: Avatar (2009)
◆64th place: Interstellar (2014)
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◆65th place: Annihilation - Annihilation Area - (2018)
◆66th place: Liquid Sky (1982)
◆67th place: Fantastic Planet (1973)
◆68th place: Andromeda... (1971)
◆69th place: Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Ray Bradbury 's science fiction novel ' Fahrenheit 451 ,' which begins with the opening line, 'Four hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit -- at this temperature the paper of a book ignites and burns,' was set in an era when all literature was prohibited. The main character is a fireman whose job is to discover and burn forbidden books. ``Fahrenheit 451,'' a film adaptation of this book by French director François Truffaut, depicts Bradbury's vision by adding a love story between the protagonist and a female revolutionary who fights alongside him.
◆70th place:
◆71st place: Journey to the future 2300 years (1976)
◆72nd place: GHOST IN THE SHELL/Ghost in the Shell (1995)
The first film directed by Mamoru Oshii based on the manga `` Ghost in the Shell '' by Masamune Shirow. In 2017, it was remade in Hollywood as ` `Ghost in the Shell .''
◆73rd place: Total Recall (1990)
◆74th place: AI (2001)
◆75th place: Gwemul - Monster of the Han River - (2006)
◆76th place: Donnie Darko (2001)
◆77th place: High Life (2018)
Trailer released for director Claire Denis's first sci-fi movie ``High Life'' that mixes thrill and eroticism - GIGAZINE
◆78th place:
◆79th place: Galaxy Quest (1999)
◆80th place: Tetsuo (1989)
The definitive Japanese cyberpunk film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto , depicting a battle against metal that corrodes the body. Rolling Stone called it 'an explosion of pure energy, combining special effects-style cinematography with the horror of the transhumanist movement, which seeks to improve human abilities through science and technology.'
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◆81st place: Humanity SOS! Triffid Day (1963)
◆82nd place: Strange Days (1995)
◆83rd place: THX1138 (1971)
◆84th place: Paprika (2006)
An animated film directed by Satoshi Kon based on the novel ' Paprika ' by Yasutaka Tsutsui . ``Paprika'', a dream detective who treats mental illness by entering patients' ``dreams'', goes on a chase over technology that allows her to enter dreams, and as the nightmares invade reality, the world becomes distorted. I'll see what happens next. The novel's confusing twists and turns at the end of the novel are made into eye-opening visuals with outlandish imagination and imagery. It's a fantastic journey.''
◆85th place:
◆86th place: Star Trek IV: Voyage Home (1986)
◆87th place: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
◆88th place: Scanners (1981)
◆89th place: Mystery of the Century: Flying saucers attack Earth (1956)
◆90th place: Cloverfield (2008)
◆91st place: Dark Star (1974)
◆92nd place: Shrinking Man (1957)
◆93rd place: Star Wars/The Last Jedi (2017)
◆94th place: Iron Giant (1999)
An animated film based on English children's literature. A boy meets a mysterious, kind-hearted robot and becomes friends with it, but as the robot's true identity gradually becomes clear, the boy and the robot become embroiled in intrigue and war.
◆95th place:
◆96th place: Another Planet (2011)
◆97th place: Soylent Green (1973)
◆98th place: Rollerball (1975)
This work has a particularly dangerous atmosphere, even though it was made in the mid-1970s, when dystopian science fiction with a dark atmosphere was particularly popular. The theme is 'Rollerball,' a futuristic game similar to hockey, and the focus is on the American system around 2018, based on what I thought back then.
◆99th place:
◆100th place: Starman (1984)
◆101st place: Westworld (1973)
◆102nd place: Space Hydrogen Bomb Battle (1955)
◆103rd place: Sun Ra's Space is the Place (1974)
◆104th place: Conquest of the Moon World (1950)
The story is about America forming a team to explore space and reach the moon at a time when it was in a space race with Russia. Although it has the feel of a young boy's adventure with a simple story and comical characters, this movie was an early attempt by Hollywood to bring ``serious science fiction'' to the screen, and it featured the aliens and aliens typical of space movies. The focus is on the technical problems and practical challenges of space exploration, rather than the thrills of space exploration.
◆105th place:
◆106th place: Jurassic Park (1993)
◆107th place: Earth Bombing Operation (1970)
◆108th place: Planetary Adventure Space Monster Attack! (1953)
◆109th place: Barbarella (1968)
◆110th place: Existens (1999)
◆111th place: Serenity (2005)
◆112th place: Gattaca (1997)
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◆113th place: Death Race 2000 (1975)
◆114th place: Radioactivity X (1954)
◆115th place: Rogue One/Star Wars Story (2016)
◆116th place: Vast of Night (2019)
◆117th place: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Marvel's hero movies are filled with sci-fi gadgets, from scientific supersuits to gamma-ray experiment monsters. Still, Rolling Stone declared that ``MARVEL hero movies will not be counted as science fiction movies this time'', but ``Guardians of the Galaxy'' is the only Marvel Cinematic Universe work that It is ranked as ``It's a straight science fiction work.''
◆118th place: Atomic monster appears (1953)
A special effects monster movie based on Ray Bradbury's short story 'The Foghorn', which was made before Godzilla was born. It is said to be the first film in movie history to feature a monster affected by nuclear testing. The image of giant monsters has had a great influence on other works, including Godzilla, and Roland Emmerich's 1999 film `` GODZILLA '' was originally intended to be a remake of ``The Atomic Monster Appears,'' but... The producer revealed , ``That wouldn't make any money, so we borrowed Godzilla's name.''
◆119th place:
This movie is based on the novel `` The Time Machine '' by H.G. Wells , in which a scientist travels through time to the year 802,701 and witnesses a new human race that has created a frightening class society. The film won an Academy Award for Special Effects for its depiction of the Eloi, a race with pink skin and string-like hair, and the Morlocks, a monster that feeds on Eloi.
◆120th place:
◆121st place: Pie (1998)
◆122nd place: Bandit Q (1981)
◆123rd place: Phase IV Horror! Insect Panic (1974)
◆124th place: Attack the Block (2011)
◆125th place: The World to Come (1936)
◆126th place: Daemon Devil's Fertilized Egg (1976)
◆127th place: World on a Wire (1979)
◆128th place: Time After Time (1979)
◆129th place: Don't let me go (2010)
◆130th place: The Fifth Element (1997)
◆131st place: Ad Astra (2019)
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◆132nd place: 2046 (2004)
◆133rd place: District 9 (2009)
◆134th place: BORN IN FLAMES (1983)
◆135th place: Repo Man (1984)
◆136th place: Tron (1982)
◆137th place: Future planet Zardos (1974)
◆138th place: Bill and Ted's Great Adventure (1989)
◆139th place: Independence Day (1996)
◆140th place: Dune/Sand Planet (1984)
◆141st place: 26th Century Youth (2006)
The original title is 'Idiocracy', which is a coined word that combines 'Idiot' and 'Cracy'. The synopsis is: ``In a world full of idiots, people give sports drinks to crops just because they think they're nutritious, and movies that just show close-ups of butts are very popular, and 500 years later, due to a cold sleep. A military man awakens in the future and attempts to revive society as the only intellectual.' Although the futuristic world of science fiction is often depicted as a highly technologically advanced world, this work depicts a world where the level of knowledge has declined.
◆142nd place:
◆143rd place: Men in Black (1997)
◆144th place: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
◆145th place: Star Fighter (1984)
◆146th place: Battle Runner (1987)
◆147th place: Species Origin of Species (1995)
◆148th place: Demolition Man (1993)
◆149th place: Omega Man, the last man on earth (1971)
A movie about Neville, who is almost the only healthy survivor in a world where most of humanity has perished due to a bacterial war between nations. Rolling Stone said: 'An all-too-prescient pandemic nightmare, it was a must-see film during lockdown.'
◆150th place: Tank Girl (1995)
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