The Occasional Solipsist

Came across a 'most influential science fiction films' meme going around the net today. A meme is an idea or information pattern that causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is considered memetic.The term meme as it applies to web culture is a list of something that you customize as it pertains to you, and pass it on for others to do the same. In this case, you bold the entries that you've seen and throw it out there. That's all there is to it:

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
• Akira
• Alien
• Aliens
• Alphaville
• Back to the Future
• Blade Runner
• Brazil
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Brother From Another Planet
• A Clockwork Orange
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Contact
• The Damned
• Destination Moon
• The Day The Earth Stood Still
• Delicatessen
• Escape From New York
• ET: The Extraterrestrial
• Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (serial)
• The Fly (1985 version)
• Forbidden Planet
• Ghost in the Shell
• Gojira/Godzilla
• The Incredibles
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 version)
• Jurassic Park
• Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
• The Matrix
• Metropolis
• On the Beach
• Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
• Robocop
• Sleeper
• Solaris (1972 version)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
• The Stepford Wives
• Superman
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day
• The Thing From Another World
• Things to Come
• Tron
• 12 Monkeys
• 28 Days Later
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• La Voyage Dans la Lune
• War of the Worlds (1953 version)

Funny that there are so many stinkers on this list. Funnier still that I've seen almost all of them. I don't know who comes up with these things. Glaring omissions from the above list, off the top of my head, are Logan's Run, Soylent Green, 1984, Dark City, The Fifth Element, The Thirteenth Floor, and maybe Westworld, all of which I've seen multiple times.

Labels: movies, scifi