In space, no one can hear you seethe. For our penultimate movie-wrangling exercise, we've tackled the biggest one of them all, the death star of genres: science fiction. Surely nowhere else within film fandom are opinions so strongly held, enthusiasms so passionate. It is surely no coincidence that Jedi is an officially recognised religion, while Lebowski-ism is not (though it may not be too far away).
Read the list of our top 25 films across sci-fi and fantasy and you'll find all the iconic movies of the last 40 years are represented: Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien and, in the fantasy section, Lord of the Rings. The one film that rules them all, however, is Kubrick's 2001, a more intellectual take on science fiction that never sought to spawn a franchise.
Andrew Pulver has blown the Guardian's entire special effects budget in making his case for the list on this video. This thread, meanwhile, is the place for you to take issue with the logic, our rankings, and also the selections themselves.
There's room for ET and Pan's Labyrinth, for example, but only three films that predate 1965, with no Invasion of the Body Snatchers, no Forbidden Planet and certainly no Plan 9 from Outer Space. More recent omissions include Predator or Robocop (although there is Starship Troopers), Minority Report (even though there is the outdated Alphaville) and Wall-E (though there is the Wizard of Oz). Finally, two Terminator movies have been given one slot!
There's lots to get your teeth, or, if you're an alien, Xenomorph your extendable mandibles into. Please post your comments below.
