1. Creature With the Atom Brain (Edward L. Cahn, 1955)
2. The Mole People (Virgil W. Vogel, 1956)
3. One Million B.C. (Hal Roach/Hal Roach Jr, 1940)
4. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (Uwe Boll, 2007)
5. Aquaman (Committee put together by giant multinational corporation to further stock performance in the 4th quarter, 2018)
6. It Came From Beneath The Sea (Robert Gordon, 1955)
7. Gorgo (Eugène Lourié, 1961)
8. Radar Men From the Moon (Fred C. Bannon, 1952)
9. Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, 1976) (re-watch)
10. From Hell It Came (Dan MIlner, 1957)
11. The Black Hole (Tibor Takács, 2006)
12. Capricorn One (Peter Hyams, 1978) (re-watch)
13. The X-Files - Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aubrey (Rob Bowman, 1995)
14. The X-Files - Season 2 - Episode 13 - Irresistable (David Nutter, 1995)
15. Android (Aaron Lipstadt, 1983)
16. The Brother From Another Planet (John Sayles, 1984)
17. Aladdin and His Lamp (Lew Landers, 1952)
18. The Terminal Man (Mike Hodges, 1974)
19. Aerograd (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1935)
20. Conan the Barbarian (Marcus Nispel, 2011)
21. Earth vs the Spider (Bert I. Gordon, 1958)
22. Space Master X-7 (Edward Bernds, 1958)
23. The Tunnel (Maurice Elvey, 1935)
24. Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008)
25. Ercole sfida Sansone / Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (Pietro Francisci, 1963)
26. Goliath e la schiava ribelle / Goliath the Glorious Avenger / The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules (Mario Caiano, 1963)
27. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018)
28. Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella / The Space Voyage / Cosmic Journey (Vasily Zhuravlyov, 1935)
29. Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu / Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Leonid Gaidai, 1973)
30. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti/Peter Ramsey/Rodney Rothman, 2018)
31. Der Schweigende Stern / The Silent Star (Kurt Maetzig, 1960)
32. Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
33. Gorod Zero / City Zero (Karen Shakhnarazov, 1988)
34. Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)
35. Vinyl (Andy Warhol, 1965)
36.
Gibel sensatsii / Loss of Feeling / Robot of Jim Ripple (Aleksandr Andriyevsky, 1935)
I had no idea when starting this that it was based on Karel Čapek's play
R.U.R , which I read a long, long time ago - reading the synopsis on Wiki it looks like this doesn't have much at all to do with the original work (yes kids, it's not just Hollywood that changes writers' works until they are unrecognizable) which was certainly not a piece of Communist propaganda, as this ends up being. It's somewhat dull in it's first half, with the main drama being the conflict between two brothers, Jim and Jack Ripple - Jim is an inventor who thinks that his robots will ultimately benefit mankind, even if initially they will take away labor jobs - Jack is the head of the labor union. Lots of arguing and fighting, the robots ultimately get built and, this being a Soviet film of the 30s, you can guess which brother ends up being right. The robots are fairly impressive, 3 meters tall or so, and the effects and production design are quality for this period for sure, but on the whole this is a little too didactic and less interesting than most of the other serious SF films from the decade that I've seen from this or other countries.
37.
Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere (Spencer Gordon Bennett/Walter Grissell, 1951)
15-part Columbia serial running just shy of 5 hours, based on the popular TV series - the only serial ever based on a TV series, the second of the company's three sci-fi serials and the only sci-fi serial from the 50s that I've seen that's any good at all - though picking a "good" serial over a "bad" one, particularly in the later era of it's popularity, is in some ways akin to comparing a "so-bad-it's-good" film over one that's merely bad. All serials (all American studio examples that is) are repetitive, juvenile, and cheap, and this certainly shares all those features with the likes of the following year's
Radar Men From the Moon which I watched earlier this month. But the acting is just
slightly less meretricious, the new inventions that they showcase in every episode are totally silly, some of the ways in which they contrive their ways out of the cliffhangers are nuts, and it's all played dead serious, which makes it all the funnier. And there's a little more variety overall in the chases and action than in some of the worst examples, though I think almost every cliffhanger ends in an explosion. The storyline is essentially the same as
Radar Men and half a dozen other SF serials - bad guys from another planet (which you can get to in about 5 minutes apparently) want to conquer earth, with the aid of a traitor scientist (who is OBVIOUSLY a traitor to anyone watching, but who the "brilliant" Captain Video can't believe is a sellout until around episode 10). The main character is only referred to as "Captain VIdeo" and his sidekick as "Ranger" - though there are a bunch of other "video rangers" as well. Deliriously wonderful in it's way, if you can get into serials. Given that mine is only the 2nd check and that most serials I've seen have only a handful of checks, I guess most people find these a bridge too far - and of course very few of them are Official, the final kiss of death.
38.
Moon Zero Two (Roy Ward Baker, 1969)
Kind of a loss to explain why this film has such poor ratings - no, it's not any great shakes, but it's a fun and very colorful late 60s adventure much in the same vein as
The Green Slime or some of Antonio Margheriti's films like the Gamma Quadrilogy. Oh wait, those aren't that highly regarded either. Oh well, me I just enjoy this kind of thing - space salvage guy James Olson is hired to move an asteroid full of sapphires to the Moon by a super-rich guy - all pretty shady - meanwhile romancing/helping out Catherine Schell, whose brother has been working a mining claim on the far side of the Moon that just so happens to... well you can guess. Cool music and sets, decent if pretty broad acting all around, and a cool animated opening title. It probably ain't art but I thought it was groovy, man.
That's it for me, thanks for hosting max.