The Chrons guide to the greatest sci-fi films of all time apart from 1970 onwards because WIRED doesn't know what "all time" means

[-K2-]

Here's one many don't know, a musical at that! From 1930 looking forward to the distant future of 1980; Just Imagine:

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[Dave]

Here's one many don't know, a musical at that! From 1930 looking forward to the distant future of 1980; Just Imagine:

I only watched a little. They predicted "Hoodies", but not the fall in the popularity of marriage. The door bell seems ostentatious. I stopped when he got out the guitar and was going to sing.

 

[Danny McG]

I only watched a little. They predicted "Hoodies", but not the fall in the popularity of marriage. The door bell seems ostentatious. I stopped when he got out the guitar and was going to sing.

Were Hoodies a 'thing' in 1980 Dave?
I can't remember them back then, it was all like New Romance stuff wasn't it?

 

[Dave]

No, they weren't around in 1980. David Cameron's "Hug a Hoodie" speech was made in 2006. They were still a "new thing" then.

 

[Harpo]

I had a hoodie in 1981. I don't remember how long I'd had it, but certainly it was not called a hoodie, even though it certainly was one.

 

[-K2-]

Hoodie? In the first few minutes there is an electric hand dryer (1921 patented, yet not popular until '48), security cameras, video-phones, re-animation or perhaps cloning... It's the future!

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[Victoria Silverwolf]

I've seen Just Imagine. It's pretty much Metropolis: The Musical Comedy. Weird film, with some dazzling visual imagination and a lot of goofiness.

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Just Imagine. They got the long shirt collar tips right. Nurses wearing hotpants missed the mark, while the hemlines got shorter, they were replaced by pants before they got that short.

Since the rules are always changing, a new category for cult films could be old black and white movies and silent films that relatively few are watching now but did really good at the box office when first released.

1925 - The Lost Continent

1933 - King Kong

I never get tired of watching the original King Kong, it just doesn't age for me. The dark black and white sets make the whole movie seamlessly fit together.

 

[Droflet]

No one's mentioned Them. Talk about ants in your pants.

 

[BAYLOR]

Here's one many don't know, a musical at that! From 1930 looking forward to the distant future of 1980; Just Imagine:

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A very painful film to watch.

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Here's one many don't know, a musical at that! From 1930 looking forward to the distant future of 1980; Just Imagine:

I seen half hour of it, going back to finish it. The hoodies just covered the head and shoulders for flying in an open cockpit, probably was already a real article of clothing. Sometimes the props open up more doors than the dialogs.

 

[Narkalui]

Nosferatu? Or is that fantasy?

 

[Robert Zwilling]

It should be science fiction and fantasy movies.

Just Imagine the movie, the songs are terrible, the flight to Mars so far unmemorable. The guy they resurrected is a comic relief version of Dracula's servant, Renfield.

 

[Harpo]

It should be science fiction and fantasy movies.

Just Imagine the movie, the songs are terrible, the flight to Mars so far unmemorable. The guy they resurrected is a comic relief version of Dracula's servant, Renfield.

Yes it should. This thread was originally in response to a list elsewhere which was all science fiction.
Now I think we can revive the thread and include fantasy as well.

Firstly, I am looking at Rotten Tomatoes list of the 86 best fantasy films, and these are the only ones pre-1970

(1924) The Thief Of Bagdad
(1939) The Wizard Of Oz
(1940) The Thief Of Bagdad
(1946) Beauty And The Beast
(1953) Ugetsu
(1957) The Seventh Seal
(1963) Jason And The Argonauts
(1964) Mary Poppins

 

[paranoid marvin]

1960s really has to be 2001

1950s there are LOADS, including War of the Worlds, Them!, Quatermass, This Island Earth, Forbidden Plsnet, Body Snatchers, The Thing, The Fly, Journey to the Centre of the Earth. In fact, I would say that the 50s was the greatest, most imaginative decade for science fiction movies.

My choice would go to When Worlds Collide, which is fantastic movie that still holds up today.

1940s was best remembered for the serials that were shown before the main feature. Flash Gordon was often the star of these with great looking spaceships and costumes.

 

[BAYLOR]

Things to Come 1936
When Worlds Collide 1951
Donovan's Brain 1953
Godzilla 1954
20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1954
The.Mysterains 1957
The Colossus of New York 1958
Battle in Outer Space 1959
The Mysterious Island 1961
Master of The World 1961
X The Man With X Ray Eyes 1963
Mantango Attack Of the Mushroom People 1963
Ikaria X B 1 Voyage Across The Universe 1963
Robinson Caruso On Mars 1964
The First Men in the Moon 1964
Planet of the Vampires 1965
Barbarella 1968
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun 1969

 

[reiver33]

I’ll throw in Kiss Me Deadly (1955) if only for the ending (available on YouTube).

 

[Robert Zwilling]

The Black Scorpion 1957
The Giant Gila Monster 1959
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 1962

 

[Astro Pen]

1955 Tarantula

Absolute classic of a trailer!

 

[BAYLOR]

1955 Tarantula

Absolute classic of a trailer!

Clint Eastwood is in that film , uncredited . He papers at the very end of the film.