the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Ultimate Sci-Fi Collection’
You’ll love what someone considers as constituting the “ultimate” collection of science fiction movies:
Escape From New York, Mad Max, Rollerball (the original, I’m assuming), The Abyss, Alien, Aliens, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Fantastic Voyage, The Fly (not sure which one), Independence Day, Journey to Center of the Earth, The Neptune Factor, Planet of the Apes, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
And that’s it. Regardless of what you might think of any of these movies individually, for good or ill, we now know that together, they comprise the only science fiction flicks you ever need to see.
Twenty discs of definitive sciffy. Our overlords have spoken.
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[buy at Amazon (Region 1)]
see everything else tagged:
Abyss
| Alien
| Aliens
| Day the Earth Stood Still
| Escape From New York
| Fantastic Voyage
| Fly
| Independence Day
| Journey to Center of the Earth
| Mad Max
| Neptune Factor
| Planet of the Apes
| Rollerball
| Ultimate Sci-Fi Collection
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
(links here are good for finding recent posts, but will not be fully functional till I finish tagging 11 years worth of reviews and blog entries; I'll post a notice when tagging is done)
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comments
posted by Rykker (Tue May 12 09, 2:39PM)
Wow, they produced it with a typo on the box...
That's supposed to be "Syfy," innit? "Lite" Sci-Fi for the mainstream folk?
posted by bill (Tue May 12 09, 3:12PM)
ahhh...a good question of the day would be 'what 10 or 15 movies belong in the ultimate scifi collection?'
posted by Winged (Tue May 12 09, 3:19PM)
Hey! Where's Serenity? Independence Day should not be included in any respectable collection of the "best" Sci-Fi.
I'd mention Star Trek and Star Wars being missing, but I guess they're considered famous enough not to be Sci-Fi...or something like that.
*snuggles up to Stargate, Star Trek, and Star Wars DVDs*
posted by C. David Dent (Tue May 12 09, 3:56PM)
I almost feel as if this needs a subtitle:
"Ultimate Sci-Fi Collection: That we could afford to package together."
Brought to you by the folks that make "Now That's What I Call Music #42"
Films this collection could have afforded to include but didn't for whatever reason:
* Forbidden Planet
* Disney's The Black Hole
* Frankenstein
* From the Earth to the Moon
* Robinson Caruso on Mars
* The Island of Dr. Moreau
* The Incredible Shrinking Man
* The Twilight Zone (movie)
I think Ultimate falls well short of the mark if these classics are excluded.
/Sarcasm
posted by Dave C (Tue May 12 09, 4:43PM)
It's the "Ultimate Overstock Collection"!
posted by Newbs (Tue May 12 09, 4:57PM)
What, no Santa Claus Conquers the Martians?
posted by PaulW (Tue May 12 09, 10:23PM)
I take it was too expensive to get 2001, Star Wars IV V and VI (the prequels never happened), Wrath of Khan, both the 1951 and 1982 versions of The Thing, They Live, Quartermass and the Pit, Blade Runner, Metropolis, Naussica, Ghost in the Shell, and Plan 9 From Outer Space. Tsk.
posted by Tonio Kruger (Wed May 13 09, 2:53AM)
Oops!
When I first saw the title of this post, I thought you meant this.
posted by Victor Plenty (Wed May 13 09, 5:24AM)
Zardoz. This collection is useless without Zardoz.