Personally I think it was based on whatever big budget eye candy they could think of. I'm sorry, but most of the films on hte list do not make the cut. The films don't explore real themes, they are effects based. I was discussing this with a friend, and we are trying to pinpoint the time frame in whcih Science Fiction films go from Scoial commentary to eye candy. Star Wars wsa certainly the film that changed it all. But what film before the last really true deep explorative sf film. He went all the way back to planet of hte apes, but I put it up to Silent Running or 2001.
Well, not quite -- Day the Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds and Solyaris made the list, none of which I would call "just" eye candy. The list is a good one ... just one a great one. :)
Deeply explorative? Don't have to back that far. Even though it had problems, Spielberg's A.I. had gobs to talk about (although there was about a 60/40 chance you'd be talking about the film or the filmmaking).
And if they just wanted to go with eye candy, ID4 would be on that list. :) Fortunately, it's not.
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Disagreement
Date: 2004-08-26 04:41 pm (UTC)Re: Disagreement
Date: 2004-08-26 06:15 pm (UTC)Re: Disagreement
Date: 2004-08-26 06:35 pm (UTC)And if they just wanted to go with eye candy, ID4 would be on that list. :) Fortunately, it's not.