Here’s another Netflix list from Friend of the Snarkmatrix Matt Penniman! —RS
As a supplement to Tim’s list, I thought I might offer the following. It attempts to catalog the history of science fiction in film. More specifically: it features films that take a scientific possibility or question as their central premise.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
deep sea life
Metropolis (1927)
robotics, dehumanization
Gojira (1954)
mutation
The Fly (1958)
hybridization
La jetée (1961)
time travel
Planet of the Apes (1968)
evolution
Solaris (1972)
alien intelligence
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
alien intelligence
Mad Max (1979)
post-apocalypse society
Blade Runner (1982)
robotics
Aliens (1986)
biological weapons
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
robotics, time travel
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (1995)
robotics, networked information
Bonus selections:
Robot Stories (2004)
Moon (2009)
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This is totally awesome. But you need to assign guests a different color, especially if they’re also named Matt. I’m easily confused. 🙂