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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 21:58:46 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1360
Posted: Fri Feb 22 21:58:46 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 05:00:48 EST
Organization: U.Texas Physics Department; Austin, Texas
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From: FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA
> We have had some fun discussing the worst SF films, but the challenge
> still stands, to name the best SF films. I find that a hard challenge,
> and would like to take a little time to explain why . . . . . The
> result (according to one biased observer):
> 
> 	Fritz Lang : Metropolis (1926)
> 
> 	Frank Capra : Lost Horizon (1937)
> 
> 	Rudolph Mate' : When Worlds Collide (1951)  -- (for the 40's)
> 
> 	Fred McLeod Wilcox : Forbidden Planet (1956)
> 
> 	Roger Vadim : Barbarella (1967)
> 
> Here I stop, being able neither to ignore "2001"
> nor to accept it.
> 
> Robert Firth

Ok, I agree with Metropolis and Forbidden Planet, and maybe When Worlds
Collide (having only read the book), but to leave out 2001, The Day the
Earth Stood Still, and to include Barbarella?  Even leaving out
considerations of quality, Barbarella was more a fantasy than science
fiction.
-- 

                                           John L. Templer
                                     University of Texas at Austin

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