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![]() TJĬast: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies Young Lucas evidently believed in heroic individualism, fast cars and the possibility of escape, yet it’s the visualisation of an entire society shaped by universal surveillance, government-supplied sedatives and android police carrying very big sticks which rings darker and truer than the director’s subsequent, significantly more populist output. Viewed today – the only version available is Lucas and co-writer Walter Murch’s digitally spruced-up 2004 ‘Director’s Cut’ – its shaven headed-cast, chillingly benign language intoning state propaganda and oppressive widescreen palette of glacial whites make for genuinely unnerving viewing. The studio hated the result and the subsequent box-office debacle almost killed both their careers. George Lucas and his pal Francis Ford Coppola persuaded Warner Brothers to take a flyer on expanding George’s earlier student short into this Orwell and Huxley-influenced fable about free love and free will versus all-powerful totalitarianism. □ The 101 best action movies of all-timeĬast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie □ The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time □ The best sci-fi shows streaming on Netflix It’s also illustrated by the list itself, one that zigzags from Tatooine to Arrakis, Metropolis to Los Angeles circa, uh, 2019. That includes Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse to Oscar-winning film director Guillermo del Toro, to Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin, along with frequent Time Out writers. Sci-fi’s reach is reflected in the wide-ranging panel of experts we conscripted to rank the greatest sci-fi films ever made. ![]() Even if they’re taking place on other planets, truly great sci-fi speaks to the issues concerning the planet we actually live on – they just happen to be communicated through fantastical beasts and alien technology. The best sci-fi aren’t just about mythology and multiverses. The truth, however, is that the audience for science fiction was never so limited. It is, perhaps, the dominant genre in all of pop-culture. Now, nerds run the entertainment industry, and sci-fi isn’t just popular. It’s hard to imagine now, given the geek insurrection of the last two decades. Not that long ago, in a galaxy not terribly far away, science fiction was thought of as a niche interest – nerdery of the highest order.
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