The Top 25 Sci Fi of the last 25 years.

[Shippou-Sensei]

There wasn't any anime stuff in there at all, was there? Absurd, frankly.

akira is like the token anime... when you need an anime in a list but you realise you don't know any

however it's slowly being taken over by studio ghibli


personally though i'd put eva in there....

 

[Reno]

But that does not make it sci-fi

Not only does it take place in the future, it also speculates about the science of that future, so if Children of Men isn't science fiction then I don't know what is. Not all, but most stories about dystopian societies also happen to be sci-fi.

 

[Dubversion]

although I've never been able to see what was good about serenity.

nor me. It's fine to string together a bunch of cliches if there's something else - a great script or some humour or some style.

It had none of these things.

 

[Dubversion]

Apparently it was recently named best Sci-Fi movie in SFX magazine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm

yeh, and THEY'D be reliable judges.

 

[Dubversion]

uh, right

How on earth did you find that incoherent?

to be fair, it's not incoherent - because you know exactly what's going to happen at every point. I've never seen a film with less suspense. You know who's going to die, who's going to win, what's going to happen at every single point.

 

[ICB]

akira is like the token anime... when you need an anime in a list but you realise you don't know any

however it's slowly being taken over by studio ghibli


personally though i'd put eva in there....

yeah but you would say that

Akira's still quite good tho

Can't be arsed reading the link if it's one to a page and covered in ads. besides, I was hoping this was about books so I'd have some new stuff to read.

 

[Orang Utan]

But that does not make it sci-fi

Yes it does!

 

[Dubversion]

But that does not make it sci-fi

firky, it's sci-fi, get over it

 

[Orang Utan]

Not only does it take place in the future, it also speculates about the science of that future, so if Children of Men isn't science fiction then I don't know what is. Not all, but most stories about dystopian societies also happen to be sci-fi.

Surely all dystopian writing involves speculation about how the society came to be dystopian - that's sci-fi innit?

 

[Termite Man]

I can't believe they didn't have Time Cop in that list

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

What about Red Dwarf FFS

I was about to trawl through to see if it was in there. You've saved me the trouble.

Idiots.

 

[wishface]

wasn't star wars made in the last 25 years?

 

[Dubversion]

the original is 30 years old

 

[Orang Utan]

wasn't star wars made in the last 25 years?

It came out in 1977 - 30 years ago

 

[Reno]

Surely all dystopian writing involves speculation about how the society came to be dystopian - that's sci-fi innit?

Something like Kafka's The Trial is about a dystopian society without being science fiction, but I was generally agreeing with you that most of it falls within science fiction and Children of Men certainly is sci-fi.