![]() Viewed today – the only version available is Lucas and co-writer Walter Murch’s digitally spruced-up 2004 ‘Director’s Cut’ – its shaven headed-cast, chillingly benign language intoning state propaganda and oppressive widescreen palette of glacial whites make for genuinely unnerving viewing. The studio hated the result and the subsequent box-office debacle almost killed both their careers. George Lucas and his pal Francis Ford Coppola persuaded Warner Brothers to take a flyer on expanding George’s earlier student short into this Orwell and Huxley-influenced fable about free love and free will versus all-powerful totalitarianism. □ The 101 best action movies of all-timeĬast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie □ The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time □ The best sci-fi shows streaming on Netflix As a result, it’s a list that crisscrosses the sci-fi universe, from Tatooine to Arrakis, Metropolis to Los Angeles circa, uh, 2019. To that end, in order to put together our list of the 100 best sci-fi movies ever made, we asked a wide-ranging panel of experts, from Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, to Oscar-decorated film director Guillermo del Toro, to Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin, along with a few regular old Time Out writers. They deal with relatable issues and themes, not just the geeks writing novel-length theoretical treatises on fan forums. Science-fiction films might frequently create entirely new worlds, but the best of them do what any good movie should do and tell us about the world we actually live in. ![]() But the reality is that sci-fi was never meant to appeal only to a small niche. ![]() In fact, that’s been true long enough that for a certain generation, it probably seems bizarre that the genre wasn’t always so popular. Science fiction isn’t just for nerds anymore. ![]()
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