"Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths." -- Lois Wyse

Arthur C. Clarke's Best Science Fiction Films

This is a list of the best science fiction movies, as according to Arthur C. Clarke. Apparently the story goes that he was asked during the making of 2010 for the top ten and this is the list of twelve he gave. They are in order as he gave them, therefore the first listed being the best. Those I have seen are marked with a * and those Moira has seen are marked with a *.

Metropolis (1927)
Things To Come (1936)
Frankenstein (1931)
King Kong (1933) *
Forbidden Planet (1956) *
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) *
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Star Wars (1977) *
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1980)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)

"Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder ... the working class who fight all the the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish their corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace ... They are continually talking about their patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches."
-- Eugene Debs