I can't agree...

[errantember]

...with Rotten Tomatoes that Children of Men was better than Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Matrix, 2001, Aliens, The Day the Earth Stood Still and any number of other classic movies. It came in at number 7 in their most-critically-acclaimed 100 Sci-Fi movies of all time countdown. The movie was definitely very good, and well worth seeing, but for whatever reason I never achieved the level of suspension of disbelief necessary to completely get into it. To be fair, the fact that the DVD I rented from Vulcan had a large smudge on it that caused the audio to occasionally skip, leading directly up to a completely audio breakdown right at the climax of the movie didn't help. But even if it had held together, I just can't like this movie as much as other sci-fi classics.

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[erinlefey.livejournal.com]

That list has ET as number 1. That's all that needs to be said, really.

[spottedvasa.livejournal.com]

Blade Runner? That movie was horrible! The book wasn't even that good...

I've never really caught on to the appeal of Star Wars and Aliens...they just seem "ok" to me. Give me Close Encounters, Dark City, Gattaca, The Matrix, and a bunch of others anytime...

[dancingb4diana.livejournal.com]

that is nuts. i enjoyed the movie but it wasn't classic to me by any stretch. i was really excited about it when i first heard about it (about a year before it premiered) because it sounded similar at the surface level to a book i've been sketching out but the movie turned out to be far less interesting (which was encouraging for me at the least).