That's a very pissweak poll on Space.com's behalf. Why even bother calling it a poll of 'space' films when it was just another top-ten of Sci-Fi films?
Parts of Star Wars happen to take place in the cold expanses of space, but they're barely sci-fi (they're sci-fi in setting, and setting alone), let alone 'space' movies. The technologies used in the galaxy are never discussed in Star Wars, and the most powerful force in the universe is more magical than scientific.
A science-fiction film should, in some part, be about the relationship between the human race and technology (that's where the 'science' part comes from, kids). Star Trek may be full of technobabble and pseudoscience, but Gene Roddenberry used the march of technology to portray a very different world from that of the 1960s.
Granted, the top two movies (Apollo 13, 2001: A Space Odyssey) are bang-on the top two I'd have chosen, but the rest of that list is garbage if you want an actual list of movies where 'space' is intrinsic to the story being told in the film.
Obligatory section with my own top ten in no particular order:
* 2001 * 2010 * Apollo 13 * Silent Running (yes, it's bad, but the theme is perfect, and I'll choose this over the stink-heap that was Lost in Space any day) * Event Horizon * Solaris * Contact (sub-plot being our means to defeat the 'tyrrany of distance')...ergh...um...okay, I see why there were movies in that list that don't really fit the bill.
Ah, Slashdot... first post and already a blatant spelling mistake.
It's bad enough the Scots had to endure Christopher Lambert pretending to be one of them, but we could at least try to spell the word "Highlander" with all the letters it's supposed to have.
It's not surprising that workers in America waste away so many hours, given the barbaric state of paid holiday leave in North America.
I left Canada four years ago, where I was luckily in the only Province to get three weeks paid holiday. I've moved to Australia, where the minimum paid holidays per year is four weeks, and goes up to six depending on profession. I'll never settle for less than four weeks leave per year again.
It's no wonder you're all shooting each other over traffic incidents - I know I'd go mental with only two weeks holiday a year.
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That's a very pissweak poll on Space.com's behalf. Why even bother calling it a poll of 'space' films when it was just another top-ten of Sci-Fi films?
...ergh ...um ...okay, I see why there were movies in that list that don't really fit the bill.
Parts of Star Wars happen to take place in the cold expanses of space, but they're barely sci-fi (they're sci-fi in setting, and setting alone), let alone 'space' movies. The technologies used in the galaxy are never discussed in Star Wars, and the most powerful force in the universe is more magical than scientific.
A science-fiction film should, in some part, be about the relationship between the human race and technology (that's where the 'science' part comes from, kids). Star Trek may be full of technobabble and pseudoscience, but Gene Roddenberry used the march of technology to portray a very different world from that of the 1960s.
Granted, the top two movies (Apollo 13, 2001: A Space Odyssey) are bang-on the top two I'd have chosen, but the rest of that list is garbage if you want an actual list of movies where 'space' is intrinsic to the story being told in the film.
Obligatory section with my own top ten in no particular order:
* 2001
* 2010
* Apollo 13
* Silent Running (yes, it's bad, but the theme is perfect, and I'll choose this over the stink-heap that was Lost in Space any day)
* Event Horizon
* Solaris
* Contact (sub-plot being our means to defeat the 'tyrrany of distance')
Ah, Slashdot... first post and already a blatant spelling mistake.
It's bad enough the Scots had to endure Christopher Lambert pretending to be one of them, but we could at least try to spell the word "Highlander" with all the letters it's supposed to have.
It's not surprising that workers in America waste away so many hours, given the barbaric state of paid holiday leave in North America. I left Canada four years ago, where I was luckily in the only Province to get three weeks paid holiday. I've moved to Australia, where the minimum paid holidays per year is four weeks, and goes up to six depending on profession. I'll never settle for less than four weeks leave per year again. It's no wonder you're all shooting each other over traffic incidents - I know I'd go mental with only two weeks holiday a year.