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'ello playmates,

just to tie-in with the recent posts on fave movies,
here's the list of the 'ten most influential sci-fi movies of all time' as seen by Empire magazine that was a freebie in today's Independant.

Blade Runner
Forbidden Planet
The Terminator
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Alien
Star Wars
Metropolis
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
The Matrix

The criteria was not popularity or quality, but how the films had effected the genre.

I think that the original 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' deserves credit, what else
should we add to the list?

Ghostbusters, and Short Circuit hahahaah

If it's influence, and purely influence, we're talking about, then there's nothing else to add.

Some of those choices based on 'influence' are bewildering to say the least. Totally agree with you, how can 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' be omitted? Staggering. Best film i've ever seen, and has been since i accidentally watched a taped video back in 1984, is 'Bladerunner'. To this day a description of the film's brilliance eludes me. Back when i saw it though nobody, and i stress nobody, i met felt the same.

1 film i'd like to mention although it's scant media attention denied it any chance of being influential is a film called 'Miracle Mile'. A real film buff's paradise, intelligently written and very thought provoking. Utterly superb

hmm... have to agree with many of your choices but definitely NOT the matrix - the most incredibly over-rated film of recent times, imo. one slo-mo scene does not a classic make.

i definitely go along with:

Blade Runner (the directors cut, natch)
2001: A Space Odyssey (without which there'd be no star wars)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (klaatu barada nikto, indeed)
Alien (props for not putting 'aliens' - a pale imitation by comparison)
Metropolis (deffo NOT the pointlessly tinted rerelease)

and...

terminator II (the only film james cameron has inside him but it's a good 'un!)
the day the earth caught fire (janet munro, perspiration and the end of life as we know it...)
the incredible shrinking man (and an incredibly good script. cgi? who needs it? amazing set designs)
invasion of the body snatchers (the 50's original, although the remake is mighty fine, too)
planet of the apes (beautifully shot, intelligently scripted and one of the greatest endings in movie history)

the above is open to endless revisionism, of course!

I'm glad to find a fellow fan of The Day The Earth Caught Fire.

and janet munro?

a reet stunna, imo! (blackpool born, with scottish roots)

apparently, there was a continental version that catered to the more liberal climes of abroad but whether it still exists or not, i don't know. the dvd release doesn't incorporate it.

fact: janet died at the age of 34 from choking on a cup of tea!

er, anyone heard from liz, lately?

Who says you have no sense of humour!

Was she not an alcoholic, and married to fellow alcoholic Ian Hendry---the man whose eyes were described by Michael Caine in Get carter as "like pissholes in the snow"?

Certainly, she was excellent in The Day The Earth Caught Fire.

Agree with Planet of the Apes. Hated the re-make. Why do studio's bang out remakes of brilliant originals? The Time Machine was a classic, and whilst the remake is very good, you KNOW where its all going. The effects of both the originals were groundbreaking, and the effects of the re-makes are stunning, but thats all that sells the remakes, Im sure.