The 1960's Science Fiction Movie Poll

the story's far more well-known than the movie afaik

was in one of my high school english textbooks in fact

fun results

shoutout to the agent who voted for Creation of the Humanoids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678GYWtlONA

who knows their Finnish techno dystopias? A Time of Roses

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3319?locale=en

see also

http://worldscinema.org/2012/06/risto-jarva-ruusujen-aika-aka-a-time-of-roses-1969/1346882232000/

Probably would have voted for The Day the Earth Caught Fire. SEE THIS MOVIE!

this one's next up for me:

http://teleport-city.com/2013/02/26/ikarie-xb-1/

Ikarie XB-1 is based on the writings of Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem, in this case his 1955 novel The Magellanic Cloud. The movie tells the story of the Ikaria’s two-and-a-half year expedition to look for life on the planets of Alpha Centauri.

I’ve read some reviews of Ikarie XB-1 that allude, with varying degrees of certainty, to the possibility that Stanley Kubrick was influenced by the film in his making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, though none that I can find provide any kind of facts that would back that up... At the same time, there are similarities that are hard to ignore; especially in terms of Zazvorka’s set designs, and especially when considering the interior of Ikarie‘s spaceship versus that of the Jupiter probe featured in 2001‘s second half.

entire film with subtitles is on youtube

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:23 PM

screening in NYC tonight, opening a Lem On Film series

https://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2015/07/ikarie-xb-1-jindrich-polak-1963.html

Rewatched The Day the Earth Caught Fire last night. Only sci fi/doomsday film to center on a newsroom?

well

https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/the-100-best-science-fiction-films-of-all-time/

(there was never an all-time poll here?)

I could've sworn Carpenter's The Thing won both a sci-fi poll and a horror poll (or was it the Shining that won the Horror poll? argh)

huh actually I guess I am thinking of the action poll, where it also placed really high

we should def do a sci fi poll, how come this hasn't happened yet

83. Dead Man’s Letters (Konstantin Lopushansky, 1989)
Even in a subgenre as noted for its gloom and severity as the post-apocalyptic film, Konstantin Lopushansky’s Dead Man’s Letters stands out for its complete and utter grimness.

Want to see!
Sci-fi poll sounds like a fine idea, other than the endless, inevitable bickering over what constitutes the boundaries of the genre.

well, I don't want to run it...

Thanks for that link, Morbs. Solid list, comprised mostly of stuff I've seen (for a change) and stuff I've never heard of. Glad to see Incredible Shrinking Man place so high; Day the Earth Stood Still is (challops) overrated.

I've been thinking for a while of filling the '50s gaps in the year-by-year horror polls with sci-fi/horror hybrids (given that horror kinda took an extended smoke break that decade). It's an era I'm mildly obsessed with but I don't know if anyone else really GAF.

the ILX poll would replicate 80-90% of the Slant list, hence let's not bother

As much as I usually like polls, I agree.

http://worldscinema.org/2018/07/risto-jarva-ruusujen-aika-aka-a-time-of-roses-1969/

thanks for recommending, Morbs! some good parts, especially the opening's official government 1962-2012 historyfilm.

Slant list downplays 70's dystopias and there's way too much blockbuster fluff in it, but enough surprises / unknown placements to shut me up. Happy On The Silver Globe placed high.