Cult Lab's Ultimate Sci-Fi List

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I've just listed my top 50 already, not in order i might add.

It might be a struggle to do a top 100.

I might end up adding things to make up numbers.

Wow - that was quick!

I have a feeling I may struggle to get a Top 100 I'm happy with... after all, it took me three years to complete my Top 666 horror film list.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Wow - that was quick!

I have a feeling I may struggle to get a Top 100 I'm happy with... after all, it took me three years to complete my Top 666 horror film.

I can see all my sci-fi movies from where i sit at my PC.

Where do things like Harry Potter, Krull and LOTR fit in?

Are they sci-fi? Is fantasy like that allowed?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I can see all my sci-fi movies from where i sit at my PC.

Where do things like Harry Potter, Krull and LOTR fit in?

Are they sci-fi? Is fantasy like that allowed?

Potter. LOTR is not classed as sci-fi. Krull however is.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I can see all my sci-fi movies from where i sit at my PC.

Where do things like Harry Potter, Krull and LOTR fit in?

Are they sci-fi? Is fantasy like that allowed?

I think we may have to take the approach as we did in the horror list and leave it to the individual to decide. If you think a film is borderline then it's up to you whether you want to include it, but if no-one else sees it as 'Sci-Fi' then it might not make the overall list.

I don't really want to dictate to people what they can/can't include, as genre is open to interpretation to an extent, which we've already seen in the horror list with the likes of Silence of the Lambs, Seven, King Kong etc.

[Nordicdusk]

Just checking IMDb to see what qualifies there are so many films I would never regard as Sci-Fi this may be harder than I taught.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nordicdusk

Just checking IMDb to see what qualifies there are so many films I would never regard as Sci-Fi this may be harder than I taught.

It was just a suggestion - follow your heart Nordy!

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

It was just a suggestion - follow your heart Nordy!

Oh no I didn't mean anything by It I just never realised how much ground was covered by the term Sci-Fi I'm still a novice of horror let alone other genres

[sjconstable]

I think we should make it top 50.

[Buboven]

Would Day of the Dead (1985) or Frankenstein films (Universal and Hammer) be science-fiction. I think they could be classified as such as they deal with science after all.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by sjconstable

I think we should make it top 50.

I second this.

B_e can always double the points as if it were a hundred.